Fortune's Tide: Inkiri

[Trayer]

Inkiri are large flightless birds resembling a Moa or a Chocobo. They stand about 6-7 feet tall with very squat and bandy legs. Made for hugging the earth as they speed across the plains. They have 3 claws opposed by one rear claw at the bottom of their very powerful legs. Their beaks were made for tearing flesh from the bone and entrails from their prey. The Inkiri are strictly carnivores feeding on small gazelle and other plains herbivores. The beak is large and lined with many ridges of bone to help with feeding. An Inkiri raised from a hatchling is a mount bred for speed second to none in the world. The Inkiri can easily reach speeds of 60 miles per hour with a rider. (though only the trained ones can reach these speeds as they are controlling by the rider and thus don't have to think much about where they are going) Only females can be ridden as the males of the species have a very large plume of feathers coming straight back off of their heads, interfereing with a riders perceptions and control. Females are white, brown and grey with some patterning and males are irridescent green, purple or blue.

Inkiri Burner to follow with lifepaths for Noble Inkiri, Common Inkiri, and Wild Inkiri.

Noble Inkiri:

Pe: B3 Wi: B1 Ag: B7 Sp: B8 Po: B3 Fo: B4
Re: B6 He: B2 St: B5 MW: B9

Walk: speed x1 Trot: speed x5 Sprint: speed x10

Traits: Brute, Savage, Noble, Trained

Skills: Intimidate: B5, Bite: B5, Lock: B6

Tearing Claws: Pow 2 Add 2 VA 1 Slow
Beak: Pow 1 Add 1 Va - Fast


Obviously these birds are meant to be fast and frail and not particularly powerful. They are also very savage! This should not be taken lightly at any costs. Keep small pets and children away! The Sky Clan feeds criminals to their noble mounts. Human flesh is considered a delicacy to these birds. And Noble Inkiri are proud and domineering in the presence of other Inkiri they think are lower than themselves in the caste system.


More later, feedback requested.

Trayer

[luke]

these are walking, squawking death machines. To be destroyed on site from range. Exterminate with extreme prejudice!
:twisted:

Um, I think the concept is farking fantastic. I think the numbers are a bit wacky. They are tougher than wolves, faster than horses and deadlier than spiders.

I'm going to post the Mount Burner shortly, you can see what I did with horses and see if that informs your opinion of Inkiri.

[Drozdal]

Inkiri are large flightless birds resembling a Moa or a Chocobo
I have just one question - how do those big flightless birds can lock manything? With their beaks? I'm just asking, because you gave them locking of B6, and as I assume it's not only for mating purposes :)

Dro

[Drozdal]

Inkiri are large flightless birds resembling a Moa or a Chocobo
I have just one question - how do those big flightless birds can lock manything? With their beaks? I'm just asking, because you gave them locking of B6, and as I assume it's not only for mating purposes :)

Dro

[Yagathai]

abzu: I don't know about the tougher than wolves part, but they're definitely supposed to be faster than horses. They're created to be cheetah-fast -- 60MPH at top speed.

drozdal: The intent was to have them lock with a gigantic leg. You know how many birds balance on one leg to stand or sleep? Yeah, that. So they grab their prey with a leg, hold it down, and then tear with the beak.

[luke]

abzu: I don't know about the tougher than wolves part, but they're definitely supposed to be faster than horses. They're created to be cheetah-fast -- 60MPH at top speed.

Well, then they're still under the speed limit at an approximate top speed of 55mph.

In order to reach top speeds of 60-70mph a cheetah's physionomy is highly specialized.

Everything from its lungs, to its nostrils, to its spine and ribs are adapted to squeeze every once of speed from the cat.

I'm not saying the Inkiri aren't any of these things, but you don't have it reflected in their traits. Color those numbers, set conditions, give us reasons, hint at the logic behind it all. In short, trait them! Don't just dump a ludicrous lump of numbers down without telling us the whys and wherefores behind it all.

-L

[Yagathai]

I'm not saying the Inkiri aren't any of these things, but you don't have it reflected in their traits. Color those numbers, set conditions, give us reasons, hint at the logic behind it all. In short, trait them! Don't just dump a ludicrous lump of numbers down without telling us the whys and wherefores behind it all.


Ummm... yeah, Trayer! You heard the man! Hop to it!

[Trayer]

umm... it's a fantasy world? (Yeah that's a good reason)


Seriously I really need eruditus to get his paws dirty with this one as he really has the better mental image of these guys what with creating them and all. He's just being lazy and handing it off to me ;-)

I don't want to color numbers. No other mundane mounts in Fourtune's Tide are like that, not even the troll mounts: cadets. (At least I don't think they do)

And I'm sorry I don't know what to do with traits to give them. I just don't see the need to say anything more than stress how fragile these birds are. The Wild (or unridden) Inkiri don't go as fast as these birds because they have to acctually pay attention to where they are going and sort it all out. Not a particularly easy thing to do with a b3 perception and a B1 will!

Seriously if you have ideas give me some more specifics. I'll pass they on to E if he doesn't read up on this thread...


-CMC

[eruditus]

Seriously I really need eruditus to get his paws dirty with this one as he really has the better mental image of these guys what with creating them and all. He's just being lazy and handing it off to me ;-)


ah, good way to rake in the extra Artha, Trayer :wink:

Don't worry. When you get back to the country we'll sit down and work out the specifics.

I haven't seen any suggestions. I think inkiri will definately be among the first critters I burn along with the other mounts.

[Mad Hatter]

This is definitely cool. I'd like to see final stats on these, as the game I am/was running is set in a world that has mounts like this called Konta birds (and, dude, you totally stole my idea! :evil: :wink: ). They are vicious in battle, way more dangerous than a war horse.

[Manicrack]

I really like the idea, howver i agree with most others, that they need work.

Forst of al you stress how fragile they are.
In that case I would lower the mortal wound to 8 maybe even 7


Also important:
At 60 mph there is only one direction you can go: ahead. This is more for mounts in general and I hope this sin't a rule yet that I just overlooked: Mounts(and humans and everything else) should get harsh agility penalties when sprinting.(is that already in the rules, btw?)

Also nice for flavor: Describe how hard it is to tame on of those things. How valuable they are. How often they appear in the woods.
Are they a common mount or just for nobles?

All those little infos that make up a great atmosphere in a campaign.


But still, I like the idea

-Crack

[eruditus]

Forst of al you stress how fragile they are.
In that case I would lower the mortal wound to 8 maybe even 7


I think I would emulate this my a trait (Fragile) that gave them a -2 to Mortal Wound.



Also important:
At 60 mph there is only one direction you can go: ahead. This is more for mounts in general and I hope this sin't a rule yet that I just overlooked: Mounts(and humans and everything else) should get harsh agility penalties when sprinting.(is that already in the rules, btw?)


You get a hefty +4ob penalty to everything you do while running. I liked the description that Luke gave this weekend - knees to chin!


Also nice for flavor: Describe how hard it is to tame on of those things.


Actually I'd like to generate taming rules in general. I would assume it would be something akin to another trait that increases the obstacle to train.


How valuable they are? Are they a common mount or just for nobles?

One thing Trayer probably would not have a handle on would be how they fit into Sherite society.

I am glad folk are interested in some of the Fortune's Tide info. I plan on doing a mount burner and burn some critters by the time the monster burner comes out. First is my summoning rules and necromancy, the Dark Arts.