Post by brynbrenainn on Oct 4, 2006 7:10:54 GMT -5
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Flora:
Fauna:
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Flora:
- Blooberri bush: A bush giving nutritious berries that can also be used to dye feathers and cloth a rich purple.
- Bluberries: Small berries grown on low heather-like vegetation. A popular food source.
- Dressgrass: When soften up this grass is used as clothing on almost all of the Pirueti.
- Huffshrub: This little bush has really large flowers that have the most amazing perfume. A cross between cooking biscuit dough and honey, it really is quite enticing and strong. They aslo come in a wide variety of colors and shades. The female pygmies quite often pick a flower to put in their hair. The male pygmies consider it very sissy but still pay attention to the girls with the bigger flowers. Unknown to all is that most predatory animals can't stand the scent and will avoid it if possible. This is why the women are rarely bothered while scavenging for food.
Huffshrub berries are edible, but there are very few around pygmy tribes because the flowers are picked before they can develop. - Pawpaw Tree: A very rare tree that is a treat whenever it is found, the fruits are very good as food and the skin of the fruit gives a bright yellow dye. The Pawpaw is dying out, and a grove of them could even be a reason for conflict.
- Wooziefruit: A fruit rich on sugar, that is easily fermented.
The Bonerattlers makes a strange drink out of the Wooziefruit called 'Wooziedrink' to enter the spiritworld. However when other pygmies get a hold of it they get all woozie as the name implies. Usually the young warriors revel the night away. However after a night with wooziedrink they usually can not even leave their huts the following day... - Yumyum root: Vegetation that is more underground that over it. It is hard to find, but worth the try. Many Yumyum roots grow quite big and when the soft insides is scooped out and eaten the shell can be used as bottles.
Fauna:
- Biggob: This dark feathered bird is most noted for its large bright multicolored beak. They tend to stay out of the way of Pygmies by staying towards the tops of the trees, however they have an interesting call which the pygmies can mimic easily. If a biggob is around then you can be certain there is no danger nearby.
- Fish: Staple food source for the Washafishy Pygmies, also known as 'The Water Pygmies' by their plains kindred.
- Glitterbugs: Small beetles that give a bright, eerie light quite able to shine up a not so small area if they bunch together. The pygmies use to catch them and cage them in cages made by semi transperent leaves. They live almost everywhere.
- Goat: Some tribes of Pygmies have herds of goats. The goats are a good source of milk and rough wool. But no Pygmy ever eats a goat, because they have another use too...
Goats are sometimes used as 'bribes' when a great constrictor snake, the Kaathon, comes to close to the village. So if a Pygmy eats a goat, the village is that much more vulnerable. - Gorrat: A large rodent, about the size of a big bunny, with big sharp teeth and round wide eyes, they look like plump bundles of fur, but don't think they are cute! These vindictive little ferals will bite a chunk out of each pawpaw in a store pile, just to be nasty! They are swift and particularly vicious if cornered. Although they don’t eat meat, they still will take a bite out of ostrich steaks or suck eggs empty. Surprisingly they are really good to eat, with a sweet tasting meat.
- Grunter: This pygmy sized scavenger is one of the fastest and slipperiest animals on the plain. It looks really nasty with two big tusks and hairy crest, but runs from danger like a baby. However if cornered it can do damage as it tries to escape. They can also be dangerous if part of a large stampeding herd.
- Kaathon: Intelligent, talking constrictor snakes. Big enough to be quite a threat to a Pygmy. They usually are solitary. But they have a society of sorts, so they can be seen in groups with a defined social structure too.
- Longneck: The Pirueti name for Giraffe. Used as 'Observation Tower'. A Fruitmuncher sits in a basket up near the Giraffes head. Longnecks can be eaten too, but that is an expensive way to get meat...
- Mantaray: Riding animal for a crazy bunch of Water pygmies called the Mantariders. (D'uh)
- Ostrich: Both a source for food and a riding animal on the plains of Pirueti.