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[tephra]

You create the new CSI LiveJournal Username Where is the new CSI set? Playing the stern, self-controlled team leader ginger_fetish Is mainly eye-candy jirris_midvale Plays the lab geek toshirodragon Plays the morbid forensic doctor storm_dragon Plays the weapon-obsessed martial artist ballistics expert dewhitton Plays the real cop who is always out with the CSI team joisbishmyoga Number of seasons on the air 6 Percentage of main actors who go on to have big movie careers 76% This Fun Quiz created by Jacob Klünder at BlogQuiz.Net

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So, think I should pitch the idea of CSI: Atlantis at CBS? (I actually think it would be sort of cool, if done right. Of course they'd have to actually work out the rules of their advanced science/magic beforehand....)

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[toshirodragon.livejournal.com]

MWAHAHAHAHA! I LOVE lab geeking! The only part of archaeology I enjoyed! Do I get a kool coat with lost of pockets?

[tephra]

I was thinking of getting Naono Bohra to design the coats. ;>

*thinks about Storm dressed up like one of Naono-sensei's boys....*

*thinks about Jirris dressed in Naono fashion...*

Damn, no wonder they get six seasons out of it. ;>

('scuse me, need to mop up the drool.)

I'm rather lab-geeky myself. I liked working in the lab more than the field as a geologist (and working in the field more than writing the papers.)

[toshirodragon.livejournal.com]

OMG! A Naono sesei designed lab coat! *faints*

I'll look through my manga tomorrow and see if she has one....

[tephra]

You know, if she has one, and the guy has glasses, you just might kill me (and if he also has long hair you will kill me.)

But what a way to go. ;>

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

GUNS! SWORDS! WOO HOO!

[tephra]

HIGHLY ARMED BATS! WHEE!

*huggles* :)

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

NINJA BATS! WOO HOO!

[tephra]

*image of ninja bat pops into head*

ARGH! I just finished a bat girl not that long ago. *pout*

And how would they hold their weapons? Never mind the perennial problem of dressing bats... obviously this will have to be a naked bat ninja.

[joisbishmyoga.livejournal.com]

If you're doing a regular bat, or an anthromorphic bat with wings that attach all the way down their sides and legs, you could have a garment that clinches at the neck and ankles, and is open at the sides. Which, IMHO, looks stupid. If you have an anthro-bat with wings attached along their sides down to their hips, an open-sided flap tunic that attaches at the neck and waist would work, with pants or a skirt. With a more traditional angel-type, bat wings at the shoulderblades, anything T-backed or halter-topped would work.

As for weapons, perhaps they don't hold weapons. Maybe they have a bladed framework that slips over their wings -- I am not explaining this very well. Bat wings are mostly elongated, webbed fingers, with a tiny hook-finger at the wrist joint. Perhaps they have thin blades that hook over that small finger and stretch along the outermost finger to fit over the tip? It could have a hollow tube piece to fit over the bone, with a long slit to accomodate the webbed skin, and stay attached and at the right angle for the blade to stick outwards and be used. You couldn't sheathe it, though.

[tephra]

So far I've done four bats (one of which was in someone's sketchbook at a con back in January and I still don't have a scan of it, you reading this athelind?) Three of them I brought the wing membrane down to the hip, one basically wore a belted surcoat, one was topless, and one had what amounted to "clip on" clothing. The clip on idea was interesting, using boiled leather or steamed wood for molded pieces in the edge of his sideless tunic. his breeches fastened to his tunic so I could bring the membrane a bit lower as well. The last bat (the first one I drew) had membrane much lower and basically just wore a poncho when she was walking around.

Personally I doubt furries would really wear much clothing, just based on my experience with hairy legs. I can't imagine having "real" fur and wearing most of the human style clothing you generally see furries wearing (mine included). Whenever I think about an anthro-bat society I decide that they pretty much go topless, nude of the wing membrane goes lower than the hipbones.

Wing blades are about all I could come up with myself, even with my tendency to give my bats a thumb and finger (using three fingers to form the wing). Ninja with only one type of weapon don't seem very ninja-ish to me though. I'll let the idea stew for a while and see what turns up. :)

[joisbishmyoga.livejournal.com]

Poison darts? A concentrated laser-like screech in harmonics that burst eardrums or kill? Steel-trap bonecruncher jaw? Super infiltrator hearing for espionage?

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Stan Sakai did some lovely, lovely bat-ninjas in USAGI YOJIMBO. In the early appearances, only the thumb was visible; in later versions, they had three long, dextrous-looking fingers at the wrist, with a couple more fingers swooping out to form the wing. That's always been how I've pictured Bat-morphs in my head; when I saw Sakai's version, it was perfect.

Both versions of Sakai's Bat-Ninjas had long, sharp sword-blades attached somehow to the leading edge of their wings, though just how they're attached remains a mystery.

I could have sworn that I'd scanned that pic from AC already, but it's not in any of my directories. I haven't hooked up the scanner since the move; give me a chance to do so, and I'll get it to you.

I tend to agree on furries and human-style clothing. I tend to assume that Renaissance-garbed folks in Ironclaw are wearing much lighter linen versions of the heavy woolen garments like humans of the period wore. (Chafing, mange, andheat issues aside, where would they get wool? The Chevernaise don't take kindly to being shorn...)

My personal preferences to anthropomorphic clothing (above and beyond a simple loincloth) lean toward loose, open, draped clothing, much like a Roman toga. I have no problem seeing an anthro bat (especially a decadent diplomat like Lord Nik) in such an outfit -- even one with a proper finger-to-toe patagium.

In IRONCLAW, Lord Nik carries a pair of Main Gauches (would the one in his right hand be a Main Droit?)... and a wheellock carbine. He doesn't use ANY of'em in the air. In the current rules, Ironclaw Bats can only use one-handed weapons while flying, and only if they can stay above their Stall Speed. The can also use weapons in their Prehensile Feet, but they take a penalty.

[niktopolion.livejournal.com]

Mmm, lush drapes of rich fabric...

Hey, what do you mean "decadent"?