Life in Pylea

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=140 BGCOLOR="#33CC33" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <IMG SRC="088208c0.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=115 BGCOLOR="#33CC33" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mad Cow"><U>Home</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Updates"><U>Updates</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Fanfiction"><U>Fanfiction</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Dimension"><U>Scenery</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Populace"><U>Populace</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Language"><U>Language</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Government"><U>Government</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Life in Pylea"><U>Daily Life</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Challenges"><U>Challenges</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:tania@fangedfour.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:tania@fangedfour.com"><U>Contact</U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=340 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <B>Daily Life in Pylea</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Beasts one might encounter:</B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Bleaucha - Live in the Scum Pits of Ur, nest. Easy to track, hard to kill.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Burrbeasts - When engorged they will couple with anything.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Drokken - Live in the Drokken Gully, can only be killed using a weapon dipped in Thromite or a mighty blow. Their bite is venomous and deadly to members of the Deathwok clan, although there is an antidote. They feed on humans. Drokkens also leave a wave of hostility behind them when they hunt, those trained in the ways of the warrior can sense this aura and use it to track the drokken.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Flame Beasts</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Mogfan - Live in the Scum Pits of Ur.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Foods one might eat:</B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Kalla Berries</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Crug-grain</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Thistles</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Hefroot, bartered by the packet</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Queeks</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Flib Liquor, bartered by the pint or bottle</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Pigs</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Cows (Humans)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Viper's Milk, more valuable than a cow</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Mochna, a soothing brew of mud and plock weed</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Plock Weed</div> <bR> <div> <B>Clans one might meet:</B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The Deathwok Clan, a green-skinned, two-horned people with red eyes and orange or brown hair.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The Gathwok Clan, a tan-skinned people with skin on top of their heads resembling a turkey's wobble.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The Covenant of Trombli, a purple-skinned people with tattoos forming a second set of eyes on their foreheads.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Events one might attend:</B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">A Bach-nal, at which the sacrifice and swinger of the Crebbil are carried around the beheading block before the actual sacrifice.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">A Challenge of the Groosalugg, where the Groosalugg is called out for mortal combat once a Challenge Torch has been lit. As champion of the Realm the Groosalugg cannot refuse a challenge.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">A forfeiting of a life in the Sacrificial Canyons of Trelinsk.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">A joust where matters of good and evil are fought out. Just don't look for the neutral seating, there is none.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Dances one might witness:</B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Joy</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Honor</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Shame</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Revolution</div> <bR> <div> <B>Other tidbits:</B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Pylea has two suns.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">There is no art, singing, or music, in fact singing hurts the ears of Pyleans.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Pyleans sometimes eat their young, this practice may only involve sons.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Pyleans can't get drunk.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The collars worn by slaves can zap a slave or completely behead them. They are controlled by a remote or by one device, held by the Covenant, that has the ability to 'smite' every cow in the realm.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">A human cow is worth one cow and a pint of flib liquor.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Most crimes are punishable by death.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Members of the Deathwok Clan cannot be killed by beheading, their bodies must be mutilated.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Heroes get five cheers.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dcffffff00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The Propoxil Codex is a valuable description of the Klarpath conquest by the Great Wizard Urd.</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>