Player: Joysweeper Character: Julien Reason for Echo: Snake statue encounter with Lyall Type and tier: Physical change. This might count as Tier 2. What is returned: Birdlike bones and a bursa of fabricius. His skeleton keeps its shape and configuration, but much of it is pneumatized, hollow and reinforced with struts. The air sacs coming off of his lungs fill some and invade most of the rest. Bones are more calcified, harder but also more brittle.
The bursa of fabricius is an internal organ that produces blood cells. His remaining bone marrow isn't quite up to maintaining the supply. Of course, what it produces are pigeon red and white blood cells. ...We'll say that the heart change back in the mines came with the ability to handle those.
Air sacs stretch out into the provided spaces, which brings him up to four times the air capacity that he had as a human and reduces his weight by several pounds. ...retroactively he's also been losing more water as vapor with each exhalation than any human, still lacks bird systems for reclaiming that water, and this will make that worse. I hate learning bird things late. And over a couple of months human blood cells will all be replaced with bird ones, which are significantly more efficient; he'll breathe and have his heart beat more slowly, will be able to survive far greater amounts of blood loss, and have a stronger immune system.
no subject
Character: Julien
Reason for Echo: Snake statue encounter with Lyall
Type and tier: Physical change. This might count as Tier 2.
What is returned: Birdlike bones and a bursa of fabricius. His skeleton keeps its shape and configuration, but much of it is pneumatized, hollow and reinforced with struts. The air sacs coming off of his lungs fill some and invade most of the rest. Bones are more calcified, harder but also more brittle.
The bursa of fabricius is an internal organ that produces blood cells. His remaining bone marrow isn't quite up to maintaining the supply. Of course, what it produces are pigeon red and white blood cells. ...We'll say that the heart change back in the mines came with the ability to handle those.
Air sacs stretch out into the provided spaces, which brings him up to four times the air capacity that he had as a human and reduces his weight by several pounds. ...retroactively he's also been losing more water as vapor with each exhalation than any human, still lacks bird systems for reclaiming that water, and this will make that worse. I hate learning bird things late. And over a couple of months human blood cells will all be replaced with bird ones, which are significantly more efficient; he'll breathe and have his heart beat more slowly, will be able to survive far greater amounts of blood loss, and have a stronger immune system.