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Message no. 1
From: Philip Hayward <Philip.Hayward@***.UK>
Subject: Re: DRAGONS AS
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 10:56:43 -0000
Gurth wrote:
>
>>Both Feathered Serpents and Eastern Dragons, though, are quadrapod (two
>>pairs of limbs) creatures. This means that in theory they could have evolved
>>on Earth, and could have spent the Fifth Age as some ordinary (if rare and
>>jolly large) animal.
>
> FASA seems to say they hibernated somewhere for 5000+ years. What I keep
> wondering about is where, and how did they get out? In a cave could be
> possible, but I'd imagine people wandering into those caves. And if people
> can't come in, then a dragon surely can't come out :)

Sure I can imagine people wandering into these caves, I just don't see
them wandering out again, not if they meet a dragon who is feeling just
a bit grouchy from being disturbed after 5000 years :)

There a miles of unexplored caves and it takes more to keep humans out
than a dragon in, surely?

Phil
<Philip.Hayward@***.UK>
Message no. 2
From: Eve Forward <lutra@******.COM>
Subject: Re: DRAGONS AS
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 05:15:18 -0800
>Sure I can imagine people wandering into these caves, I just don't see

Why couldn't the dragon just close the entrance up after itself? If it
entered into a deep hibernation state it wouldn't need much in the way
of fresh air, and in a few dozen years a rockslide over the entrance
you just look like part of the hill.
Various amphibians and turtles can hibernate in the mud at the
bottom of ponds, and some species can even seal themselves in a little
bag of dried mucus and live in a hole six feet below the desert for
ll months out of the year, until the rainy season. I find it hard to
belive that something like a dragon couldn't do something equally nifty.

-E

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