How do you RP necrophage lithoids?

[Farbros]

I like to play Lithoid-Necrophages with Lithoids being born as “Magmas” and later they elevate to “Obsidians” living on Dormant Inferno. I think the visual part is self explained on the screenshot.

 

[bdolishny]

Fun fact- the self-replicating non-living molecules that cause Mad Cow, prions, actually function by 'crystallising' brain tissue. Granted, such crystals are generally something you need an electron microscope for, but a lot of technobabble is based on extrapolating things like this. Why not have your Lithoids be living prions, forming a crystalline structure within the brains of their unfortunate hosts, eventually outgrowing them and assimilating external minerals into their superstructure?

That's a really cool idea, especially for a necrophage criminal megacorp. I'd like to imagine that the effect is so subtle that the pops don't even know what happening to them, they just go into a doctor's office (chamber of elevation) and come back out in a month or so of "hard treatment".

 

[Dementor4]

Kidney stones. Sentient, malevolent kidney stones.

 

[HFY]

I like to play Lithoid-Necrophages with Lithoids being born as “Magmas” and later they elevate to “Obsidians” living on Dormant Inferno. I think the visual part is self explained on the screenshot. View attachment 832097

But only subterranean civilizations can be "magmas", once they reach the surface they have grown into their "laval" stage.

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[Farbros]

But only subterranean civilizations can be "magmas", once they reach the surface they have grown into their "laval" stage.

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Yeah, I just had a feeling that “magmas” sounds cooler than “lavas”, so I gave them that name. But you are right, the lava would be a more correct name for them.

 

[HFY]

Yeah, I just had a feeling that “magmas” sounds cooler than “lavas”, so I gave them that name. But you are right, the lava would be a more correct name for them.

"Magma" does sound good, I'm just making a joke about pedantics.