Ahhh the Necrobain, a species ancient in form but (relatively) recent in intelligence! Having just recently claimed a small portion of space as their own, the Necrobain would like to make themselves known.

Biology
The Necrobain are a race of small skittering parasites; their natural forms possess eight spidercrab-like legs, a lobster-like tail and a thin fin shaped body with three round eyes. It's tough to describe, I know; I have a picture but the scanner is busted. If anyone wants to take a crack at drawing them, I could post some MS Paint mockups.

The normal Necrobain only lives about 72 hours. That is, without a host. You see, the Necrobain, being parasites, need a host body to survive having no way to carry out chemical exchange naturally. The major difference between the Necrobain and normal parasites, however, is that their host most be dead! While able to "hitch a ride" on the respiratory systems of living beings, they cannot overpower the mind. They have thus adapted to "reanimate" necrotic flesh through a series of nervous tentacles dispensed through their natural mouth.

There are just three Necrobain organs; the brain, stomach, and controller. The brain, obviously, does the thinking. It is located behind the eyes and above the mouth. The stomach is directly attached to the mouth, digesting and then dispersing nutrients throughout the Necrobain. The controller is a special organ in the tail, which is essentially a coil of nervous tentacles. These go through a small opening in the stomach and out through the mouth so as to burrow into the host and take control. Males have four tentacles, females three (the extra tentacles is for sparring, and is capable of delivering powerful electric jolts capable of dislodging a rival from his host; females lack this capability).

The host's necrotic flesh is slowly digested from the inside out by the Necrobain, and so must occasionally be replaced. This is a natural process thought to encourage genetic variation, as the Necrobain pass on bits of their hosts' DNA during mating. Mating is accomplished by the female releasing eggs into a special cavity in the tail, which inhales a small cloud of sperm ejected in a gaseous form by the male. The female lays her eggs inside the host, and then attaches herself to a new host; this allows both parent and child to eat.

In summary:
-Cannot live more than 72 hours without a host, living or otherwise.
-Can only control dead hosts; the living can support the Necrobain, but not controlled. Attaching to a living being is painful for both.
-Cannot attach to plants or plant-like beings; needs a respiratory system in host.
-Hosts are slowly digested over time.
-Males can send powerful jolts of electricity through a whip-like tentacle.

Society
There was once a time where Necrobain society consisted of many forms of undead "life" but developments in genetic engineering have produced a two caste system; the Citizenry, normal Necrobain who are given a standard form (explained below) and the Leaders, given a special form made for their extravagant lifestyle.

Due to cultural taboo, however, Leaders are rarely seen by other species. Each Necrobain-ruled world has one elected dictator Leader, and they may never leave. Leaders may be impeached at any time through a majority vote by the populace, and any Leader impeached is immediately put to death. Leaders serve an everlasting term, only ending with impeachment.

'Aight, I've been tasked with the awesome responsibility of creating a made-up beast from different pictures in Image Editing class.

Problem is, I can't find too many pictures. I'm going for flat out ridiculously beastly awesome pwnage here.

Some examples of my high standards of beastosity include (but are not limited to):




I don't know how to resize them, but I don't know if I would; they're raw pwnage is exhilarating.

Halp me? Gewd. Happy hunting.

I can't access the cheat panel anymore! I have a new creature, Smisk, and I really wanna just go ahead an play space with it in preparation for Galactic Adventures (anybody know when it's coming out?), so I figured I'd just shift+ctrl+c and use evoadvantage then play to space.

Anybody know a way to fix this? A more efficient way to jump directly to space? And what's the code to set your consequence traits again?

TIA

I have a dual-core system, running Vista Premium, and it seems like Core 2 is never used. So I got the bright idea to move my games over there and let everything else run on Core 1. I'm a little unsure if this will help, however. I also want to try altering resource priority, but whenever I'm about to, Windows pops an error about this causing system instability. What should I do? Will this help at all? The main game I'm looking at is WoW, but if it's possible with Spore that'd be nice.

Not like I really play much Spore anymore. I waited four years for it, but all I do is create creatures. The game's lack of depth really turned me off. Let the games begin. >=}

The yellow sticker means it gets a 40% discount.

As demonstrated by the following, enlightening video, Spore's restrictive, invasive, and frustrating DRM system exists for the good of the human race and our continued technological progression as a species.

If it were not for this system, which has prevented all attempts at piracy thus far, and is so immaculate that it in fact stops many attempts at legitimate usage, the computer age would end.

Please view the following video in order to properly understand the importance of DRM:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xfqkdh5Js4&feature=related

(I swear this is not a rick roll.)

So I got bored recently and was falling into depression, so I decided to pull out the big guns of fun: Warcraft III (and Frozen Throne). Thing is, all this medieval tomfoolery, combined with my recent discovery of Unforgotten Realms, has me hankering for a good D&D style adventure. Anybody know of one?