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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 444902" data-attributes="member: 6929">Weremoonrats? There's a horrible idea...Here's another one. The rats are tied to the phases of the moon. So one smart fellow (in his up time) decides to change that! Here are some ideas...Moonrats begin collecting gunpowder to create a space program. Unfortunately, they tend to explode at launch. Adventurers wonder why singed rats occasionally fall out of the sky...Moonrats somehow open a gate to Krynn. Three moons? Well, now. That's awfully handy.Moonrats begin stealing mirrors all over town. Why? To build a GIANT SPACE MIRROR that shall cast the moon in eternal fullness, of course! But what happens when the rats steal a mirror of life stealing? Or some other magic mirror... there's a lot. And when the Wicked Queen hires the PCs to help find her missing wall-mounted mirror... things get strange.As an utterly insane scheme, to be plotted over centuries, moonrats try to steal moons from other planets and add them to The World's orbit so it's always at least one full moon. Of course, this will screw up planetary equilibrium and eventually destroy the world. But if the moonrats can achieve it, somehow...Finally, what happens when the moonrats get on board a spelljamming vessel? They'd probably create their very own space station orbiting slightly closer to the Sun than The World. (Physics says it would simply rotate faster once the stable orbit was established; but moonrats wouldn't live long enough to notice, and they'd be able to tow their habitat back anyway.)From a moon-enhanced state, the rats would probably seek out dominion over others or personal gain. But while they do that, would the constant lunar radiation actually continue to pump them up? I can see Super Space Rats becoming a problem for anyone involved. Faster. Stronger. Smarter than the average human. And presumably smaller, although I don't know the moonrat's parameters. Anyway, imagine that every full moon a ship full of Super Space Rats lands somewhere in the land and raids a village. It's... just disturbing.</blockquote>

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