We've talked about this before, and have run into the reality vs. fantasy wall on it. If it's a kitten when you buy it, how does it stay a kitten? Do you have a fountain of youth in your home that she drinks from, or do we just suspend that part of our pseudo-reality? Are you constantly trading in kittens when the kitten becomes a cat so you always have a kitten, and if so, what happens to the poor cats who used to have a loving home and are now kicked to the curb?

One thing that might be interesting (but I have no idea how feasible it would be code-wise) would be buying a pet as its young version and watching it grow - but that would open up the possibility of coming home one day and finding Fluffy dead of old age and needing replacement.. and different lifespans - You'd need a new cricket every month, while a dog or cat might last 18 years... And what do you DO with your dead pet, anyway? Give it to the necromancer's guild as a payoff so they don't do bad things to you? (I've got this horrid song from Dr. Demento running through my head now: "Dead puppies aren't much fun!")

So the answer is, at this time, we don't have any sort of concrete plan to do kittens or puppies, but it is an interesting thing to ponder for sometime in the future (definitely not something current code would support).

Hope that helps a little!

Iocanthe

<<We've talked about this before, and have run into the reality vs. fantasy wall on it. If it's a kitten when you buy it, how does it stay a kitten? Do you have a fountain of youth in your home that she drinks from, or do we just suspend that part of our pseudo-reality?>>

In this situation, I'd rather go with pseudo-reality and have the option to buy a kitten as a pet if I were to choose that. There's a ton of things in DR that are not real,but more pseudo-real. For instance, we as characters cannot die IG. Should we make it real and be able to die via this manner? No, it's crossing the line of fun and game functions. Although you can still play the game without a pet, I still think that type of scenario can be used to justify opening up the ideas for what pet is allowable.

Hopefully, the idea to expand certain pets will be more open during around DR 2.

Just my opinion, at the moment.

Ruffles Scourge of the Seas

It's a fantasy land, and everybody wants a perpetual kitten. I say we have them. Magic, right? Somebody think of something! Maybe they had a youth spell cast on them, they could even be thousands of years old. Or perhaps they are dwarf or hafling kitties...

That, and catnip should be foragable.

Yay! Magic kittens! Is that how the one in the Strand Communal Center stays a kitten?


http://www.gameroom.com/gamesecrets/home.html

>It's a fantasy land, and everybody wants a perpetual kitten. I say we have them. Magic, right? Somebody think of something! Maybe they had a youth spell cast on them, they could even be thousands of years old. Or perhaps they are dwarf or hafling kitties...

The solution is simple. Geneticly engineered perma-kittens. Doomed to be 6 weeks old for the rest of their lives.


-Kitrinx & Riaka

<<Do you have a fountain of youth in your home that she drinks from, or do we just suspend that part of our pseudo-reality? Are you constantly trading in kittens when the kitten becomes a cat so you always have a kitten, and if so, what happens to the poor cats who used to have a loving home and are now kicked to the curb?>>

No! I would merely use the same thing the people in the Crossing Estate Holder Veranda use to keep their kitten a kitten every year! <ducks and runs away>

-A.Z.

umm, how about this... they're elven kittens, that even at 10 years of age, are still considered kittens when you consider the lifespan of the full grown cat? heh :)

~Bre


"Let them hate, so long as they fear"
Lucius Accius (170 BC- 86 BC)

>umm, how about this... they're elven kittens, that even at 10 years of age, are still considered kittens when you consider the lifespan of the full grown cat? heh :)

Makes sense that the elves would want long lived pets. That one gets my vote!


-Kitrinx & Riaka

Ok, throwing myself into the fire. I'm not good at writing this stuff, or knowledgable about lifesculpting and elvish history and such (as it applies to the realms), but at least I think I have an imagination. My time scale could be way off too... {blithers}

Elven Kitten

This kitten is from a breed of cats, who where close companions of some of the mountain elves, and formed very close bonds with them. But the elves invariably outlived them, and on account of their sorrow, they desired that the cats would live long lives as they did. In their grief on witnessing numerous passings, and due to the close bonds they formed, they unwittingly began to change the cats over time, as if lifesulpted. They began to take somewhat elven features, most notably ears which where more elvish than cat-like, and a much increased lifespan. Kittens remain as such for nearly 30(?) years before they are no longer kittens, and remain as playful as any kitten throughout.


Another idea here, is that you can also buy an elven cat, which could be 100 years old or more. (and really expensive, I bet). Who knows what characteristics it would posess after that time.

Anyway, there's your justification!

> polijen kitten (slow kitten)
> uzacen sari kitten (long life kitten)
> meindegun kitten (day-after-tommarow kitten)
> shonchac kitten (limitless kitten)
> camilen kitten (perfect kitten)


Oooh, somebody who actually knows what they're talking about! Now we are getting somewhere.

-M (who does read those library books,but never remembers anything from them)

And can we have some dirty ugly unkept pets please?

Thank ye

~Brilona

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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless- Jean Jacques Rousseau

Well seein that these same three cats have been in the premie caves for three months or so, i think you kitten heads should have to wait a year before another cat gets put there. In the mean time, roll out the puppies, or wolf pups! id hate to think you were all kitten-centric and i am confident you all would support the release of young animals first, since its the idea you all want right?

Imp


"I know you folks post about it because it is an issue that you are passionate about, but repeating yourselves over and over doesn't advance your case." - Godrich

you want Tweety? i think i saw a puddy cat! i did! i did!


~Weak of arm,crazy roar;
terrible aim,awful health;
broken fingers,no real stealth;
leave em dead,stabbed some more;
lost your coins,on the floor;
greetings!now you're out the door~
>

How come my firewall says there is nudity...? <glances at Meindzai>


--Raydell

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"Well folks, you know what that means... now I'll do a dance."

Silly firewalls. I do not know! Honest!

Rocks are ok, but you can get scratched up if you try to snuggle with them.

>How come my firewall says there is nudity...? <glances at Meindzai>

Because there are people at elfwood that draw boobies.

Steel.

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YOU HAVE <insert ability here>!! YOU ARE OVERPOWERED!! DIE GUILD DIE!!!

It has a dragonrealms section so I can spam it! Go me!
http://www.angelfire.com/dragon/steelflash

As long as she realizes that it will be the absolutely most adorable thing in the entire realms...