Post by The Hive on Jul 13, 2009 5:30:40 GMT -6
The Hive look like big sabre-toothed cats, but with nose holes like a horse's and they're built more like hyenas, with shorter back legs. Their queen's controlled by a human, so they all have earring tags with number IDs on them (like how some cows have) and tracking collars that double as shock collars. Shock is how they're trained. Hive members are not named, they're numbered. The first digit in the number is the rank, the second is the number of the pack they're in, and the last three is what pup they were that year. In example, Hive 21359 is the leader (2) of pack one (1), and was the three hundred fifty-ninth kit born that year (359). They hunt in packs, but all the packs have a hive-mind, connected to one queen. Sorta like bees but not really. Their necks are twice as long as a normal big cat's, and their spines are extremely flexible. They can turn their heads 180 degrees in each direction. They're sentient, but extremely stupid. Their queen and their pack leaders are the most intelligent of the species. They vocalize like an eagle or a hawk, with screeches. They can talk and speak English, but it's very garbled, very simple sentences. They have heightened speed and reflexes, but with NASTY tempers. Their senses of sight and smell are MUCH better then any animal's on Earth, and they are experts at tracking. They have an opposable thumb-digits on their front paws that they can use to pick up objects. Lastly, if their tracking collar is taken off, they are disconnected from the hive mind. However, the collar is extremely thick and hard to remove. If the lights on top of it are glowing, it's working.
Members of the Hive species disconnected from the hive mind have the intelligence of the average human, but are very depressed, as they are rejected by the rest of their species. Disconnected members often attempt suicide.
You may play a member of the Hive that has been disconnected as one of your characters; I have no problem with that.
The connected species as a whole is controlled by this account. NO CONNECTED MEMBER OF THE HIVE IS NPC.
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