Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread

[wasp609]

Hmm chocolate as an addictive substance would be odd. What do the loroi have in the ways of entertainment. I imagine video games would be more used as simulators for loroi soldiers, and i'm well aware of cross-fire before someone mentions it.

[RedDwarfIV]

Chocolate contains theobromide, a molecule similar to caffeine. It's actually a poison, but humans have a high tolerance for it. Loroi would need to have a high tolerance for it too. If they can be affected by it at all, anyway. They are aliens.

[Hālian]

Perhaps in the (inevitably very large ) meantime before we see Crossfire (or at least the next page), there could be an Insider page or eight on it?

[Arioch]

Yes, I'll post info on Crossfire when it's available.

What do the loroi have in the ways of entertainment. I imagine video games would be more used as simulators for loroi soldiers, and i'm well aware of cross-fire before someone mentions it.

Loroi listen to or play music, engage in conversation, play games, attend live performances or athletic events, or engage in physical exercise (walking, running, sparring, hunting, competitive sports). Most Loroi literature is nonfiction, so few Loroi consider reading to be a leisure activity.

[wasp609]

So since the loroi don't have much in the way of fiction, i wonder what a loroi bookworm would do in a humans public library. Do the loroi have fast food, and if not how would they react to it. also what about internet do they have an equivalent.

[JQBogus]

So since the loroi don't have much in the way of fiction, i wonder what a loroi bookworm would do in a humans public library.

You mean the a human's House of Lies?

[GeoModder]

In short, all human literature would fall under the nomer "phantasy" for the Loroi.

[Suederwind]

In short, all human literature would fall under the nomer "phantasy" for the Loroi.

I wonder what they would say about the various human religious books...

How much can those Loroi uniforms be altered by the Loroi wearing it and are there any forms of medals or so that the Loroi do wear or are honored with?

[Arioch]

How much can those Loroi uniforms be altered by the Loroi wearing it and are there any forms of medals or so that the Loroi do wear or are honored with?

Not much. Most Loroi military awards are unit citations rather than personal decorations, and are usually not displayed on the uniform. In infantry units, such citations are usually displayed on vehicles or armor, and in the fleet they're displayed on the ships themselves.

[RedDwarfIV]

In short, all human literature would fall under the nomer "phantasy" for the Loroi.

I wonder what they would say about the various human religious books...

Loroi do have fiction, or at least myths. They'd probably be pretty understanding of human religeon, anyway.

[GeoModder]

Especially the 'smite' part?

[Suederwind]

Might sound a bit stupid that question, but: do Loroi eat meat other than those piccled squid things?
Do they have equivalents to cows, chicken or pigs and how do they look like?

[Arioch]

Might sound a bit stupid that question, but: do Loroi eat meat other than those piccled squid things?
Do they have equivalents to cows, chicken or pigs and how do they look like?

Like humans, the Loroi will eat almost anything they can catch. On Deinar, the primary meat animal is the pig-like miros, which is descended from a Soira-Liron livestock animal. Various feral versions have fur of a color that helps them blend into their local environment, but domesticated versions often have fur of blue or other exotic colors (and they are sometimes bred as pets).

Taben has a variety of marine food animals that would be analogous to fish and shellfish, and Perrein has a wide variety of wildlife in general (though much of it is poisonous and requires some processing to eat).

[Hālian]

Since the most common animal that goes into a loroi's belly is PIG, do they have an equivalent to barbecue?

Also, what games are popular other than Crossfire? Any card games or similar?

[Arioch]

Since the most common animal that goes into a loroi's belly is PIG, do they have an equivalent to barbecue?

Any stone-age culture that learns to cook using fire has barbecue. So yes.

Also, what games are popular other than Crossfire? Any card games or similar?

Telepathic and telekinetic cheating are a significant problem for Loroi game design. Any game in which the player must conceal the identity of pieces from each the other player (as in most card games and some board games like Scrabble) is problematic. In any game, the one player must conceal her own strategy telepathically from the other, and that's considered part of the game, but it's difficult to conceal, say, a hand of cards from everyone in the room, and if even one person can see it, then effectively everyone can know it, instantly and silently. So most games must involve pieces that remain in plain sight. Further, in strategy games like Crossfire, there is usually a rule that no one can approach within a certain distance (say, 10 paces) of either player, so that they can't trying to get telepathic cues off of one or the other, and each player only needs to worry about guarding her thoughts against her opponent.

Another problem is telekinesis. While not every Loroi is telekinetic, it's common enough to be a game killer. So any game mechanism that can be altered through telekinesis (such as dice-rolling) is out. Even chess-like boardgames usually have boards with peg-holes that the pieces can fit securely into, so as to discourage telekinetic shuffling of the pieces.

So Loroi "table games" are mostly limited to strategy games like chess or checkers, and without cards or dice, it's easy to see why the Loroi penchant for gambling hasn't developed to the degree it has in most Human cultures. More casual Loroi games are telepathic "conversation" games, in the vein of I Spy or Similes or Twenty Questions or The Dozens.

[saint of m]

How much could the Loroi pick up from studying the remain''s of Captain Jardin's shipmates?

Besides any decomposition of any bacteria in their bodies, there the explotion from the ship and the shrapnel that had to produce. Beyond that, you have extreams of heat (the direction pointed at the sun) and cold (the direction pointed away from the sun) that would freeze and scorch a body at the same time; radiation; the vacuum of space tearing the juicy bits apart; and any small space debris going at high speeds that would rip the bodies a new one (all some the very real reasons astronauts have short stays outside of the ship, and small meteors and space junk is why modern space shuttles have to replace their windshields every few missions.

[Arioch]

The Bellarmine's wreck was located at the outer edge of the system of a dim M-class protostar where it's very cold. The combination of deep cold and vacuum would preserve the bodies very well. Most of the bodies were recovered from inside the forward hull section; depressurized, but protected from space debris and direct radiation. And the bodies were recovered only a few days after death. Some would be mangled from the ship damage, but they have 57 examples to choose from.

Combined with the records of the examination and treatment of the live specimen, I'd say they could learn a great deal about Human biology, given time to study the available data. Though at this moment, no Loroi outside the Tempest have any access to this data.

[GeoModder]

Are all the collected specimens an artifacts of Bellarmine's wreck onboard the Highland shuttle?

[wasp609]

I wonder what the most confusing item they found from Bellarmine the is to the loroi.

[Karst45]

So Loroi "table games" are mostly limited to strategy games like chess or checkers,

hmm reading your opponent mind would make planning too ahead of time quite useless no? Since you know how they are going to play, you can adapte

I wonder what the most confusing item they found from Bellarmine the is to the loroi.

maybe this?