Posted by Jacquelope 14 years ago Report

"Just chillin'" - Yula. ? Hmmmm... not sure if that fits in with a "fey" setting. That's about all I could find odd with the story. I just wanted to point out that you do a good job with creating the proper relationship between humanoids and their vorish predators than... other vore universes. This species is designed from the ground up to accept this relationship, at least in this case. That and a flower that eats by making larger prey addicted to its nectar until it gets to a flower big enough to eat them... where do you come up with that? You're good at surprises, I gotta give you that.

Posted by Bitter 14 years ago Report

Oh, the fey get vernacular as hell at times. Carilliny's culture is, as mentioned, a very sheltered one which is not, like most of the other societies of the Mystic Wilds, routinely knocked down by destabilizing forces and therefore not necessarily locked in a tribal, medieval, or renaissance era like most others. So, they act at lot like modern American suburbanites-- they wear jeans, they go to a boring day job, and they say things like "Just chillin'."

The Mystic Wilds is nothing if not wildly inconsistent.

Posted by Bitter 14 years ago Report

As for the question you actually asked... the overall design (many versions of the same thing in different sizes, all connected to the same organism) is a configuration I've been using for tentacle monsters for quite a while (though never in a published story). The notion of the tiered addiction grew organically out of that, given the way Carilliny's set up. "Okay, so it has a big feeder flower and a bunch of small ones, why is that? ... well, because it can't very well eat fey quickly, or they'd destroy it, so it would have to do it so slowly that they didn't notice or didn't care."

Posted by Jacquelope 14 years ago Report

You could also have the nectar leech into the water supply, giving everyone a disposition against killing the thing once they realize what it does. There is a real life basis for this, in that certain parasites get into mice and make them less fearful of cats. Wow. I could expand on this a lot. The fey eat older weaker plants, the healthy adult plants eat them, the nectar only builds up to sufficient amounts to inspire a "feed myself to the plant" instinct when they get old or really sick... oh snap. Dude, you inspired me again! :D

Posted by Entirely_Logical 14 years ago Report

Why, oh why, do I have Megadeth's, "Use the Man," running through my head? Oh, right, because of the "darker theme" that you claim to not have realized you were writing. Another song that comes to mind is Neil Young's, "The Needle and the Damage Done."