The co-evolution of dragons and humans is analogous to the arms race between weapon and armor makers of various nations. Just as plate armor is invented to deflect weapons that were deadly to the users of chain hauberks, so did the genetic code of dinosaurs invent new ways to defeat their proto-hominid enemies. And vice versa. Both genus draco and genus homo evolved cognition and metacognition (i.e. magic), though the potentialities for the two lines are different. Some dragon species seems to have a greater capacity for rational thought than their human [fragment ends]I have absolutely no memory of writing this passage. Does it look familiar to any body? Maybe I cut and pasted it from somewhere else. That "And vice versa." as a separate sentence looks like something I would write, but I'm not entirely sure.
A Return to the Stars
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After a veeeeerrrryyyy long, and mostly unplanned, hiatus, Stuart and I got
together to play more Stargrave in recent days. It was good! It was also a
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Definitive proof that your drafts folder is actually a wormhole to a parallel dimension.
ReplyDeleteSorry dude. I think you lifted that from me via you meta-cognition. It's ok though, I've since evolved some finer-grained telempathic defense protocols.
ReplyDeleteI think you should make this a forgotten scroll--broken sentence fragment and all!
ReplyDeleteSounds almost but not quite like Vance's The Dragon Masters
ReplyDeleteThat screams 'Player Handout,' just as-is.
ReplyDeletePlus, it soundly beats any of the crap in my work Drafts folder. I think I want your job...