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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 3641573" data-attributes="member: 4936">Azathoth...I was just thinking...and I've no idea what all the rules ramifications are, so it may be really hard to model (in which case nevermind <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />), but what if Salix was a symbiotic plant? The real Salix is a grassy patch or mossy clump. It puts roots into the host plant, injecting it with some kind of recombinant DNA changing virus that causes the new host to develop vegetable 'musculature' and integrates an analogue of a nervous system to Salix.Salix's entire race could have the ability to modify these reconstructive retroviruses at will, in fact, so they can adapt to just about any kind of living host in time, as well as engineer new traits. The basis of their 'technology' is organic, and they're always on the lookout for more species with more interesting traits they can learn and reproduce in later hosts.The 'good' ones limit themselves to hosts that aren't intelligent...possibly not even of animal intelligence. The 'evil' ones are interested only in host lifespan and fecundity...making human beings an excellent choice! Perhaps one reason you're interested in Earth is because you want to help protect a genetically diverse species from being conquered and exploited by the nastier members of your kind...Mechanically, take a look at the Posession power, perhaps...amped up to Innate, Continuous, etc...limited perhaps by a long adaptation period or something. And you could have an array of powers you currently possess retroviruses to induce in your host. I dunno exactly how it'd work, but it just struck me as being an interesting twist...</blockquote>

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