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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ilgatto" data-source="post: 8913183" data-attributes="member: 86051">Isn't mentioning the "chest and shoulders" thing a bit... too much in light of what follows? I've forgotten why we weren't allowed to mention that there were only males, but if we go for sowing confusion and limiting the ... getting women in a certain way ... to the Amiraspian curse it is rapidly becoming, I no longer see a reason not to mention that there's males only. Maybe we an even link the phenomenon to the mysterious Amiraspian curse?I think I started using the "Amiraspian cyclopes are always male (...)" because we were gonna avoid using "Amiraspian" mid-sentence at your suggestion.It seems to me that having the "pregnant humans (...) regular infants" in between "delivery" and "Little is known" disturbs the flow of the section on the curse. I can see why it's mentioned, but wouldn't it be better placed somewhere else? Soooo. how about this?Amiraspian cyclopes are always male. They propagate their kind by cursing pregnant human women they have captured so their offspring are sometimes born as cyclopes. This Amiraspian curse is performed after the infant is born and the infant is always male. Little else is known known of this unholy curse, but it seems certain that it requires the woman be devoured after she has given birth. It is also said that the curse does not always work and there is a chance that the newborn is either fully human (in which case it is eaten too) or a one-eyed humanoid/hybrid known as a cyclopean human, which grows up with the clan until it transpires that it is not a true cyclops and is cast out of the lair. The type of baby can be randomly determined with a d10 roll: 1-4 is a cyclops, 5-7 a human, 8-10 a hybrid.Cursed women who escape or are rescued from a cyclops lair before their child is born give birth to normal children. 1) Not fond of using the word "baby" because there's a lot of devouring people going on and..., well..., the whole NY pizza parlor thing.2) Agree that the women ecsaping/being rescued is now a bit of an afterthought but see notes above.</blockquote>

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