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| The dreamweaver's physical senses are dulled almost to nonexistence, causing it to rely on its psychic abilities to make sense of and navigate the world around it. | The dreamweaver's physical senses are dulled almost to nonexistence, causing it to rely on its psychic abilities to make sense of and navigate the world around it. |
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| ====== Sight ====== | ===== Sight ===== |
| Due to the near-uselessness of her four small eyes, a dreamweaver, like a blind safir, will often see via psychoecholocation, “pinging” the minds of nearby creatures to judge their size, shape, and position. A mesmerwright's vision, however, becomes, through unknown means, far more acute when spinning silk (q.v.), causing her to often use her copious thread to trap corporeal prey. | Due to the near-uselessness of her four small eyes, a dreamweaver, like a blind safir, will often see via psychoecholocation, “pinging” the minds of nearby creatures to judge their size, shape, and position. A mesmerwright's vision, however, becomes, through unknown means, far more acute when spinning silk (q.v.), causing her to often use her copious thread to trap corporeal prey. |
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| ====== Smell / Taste ====== | ===== Smell / Taste ===== |
| Dreamweavers smell and taste using two short, fleshy mouthparts called //pigazei//. Compared to safir, who can detect about 15,000 unique scents, mesmerwrights can only detect about 500. A dreamweaver's diet consists mainly of small insects and the waking minds of sapient beings, although, when needed, it can consume the silk in its body, or even other dreamweavers — this is very rare, though, as it takes almost as much energy for a mesmerwright to consume another as it will get from such an act. | Dreamweavers smell and taste using two short, fleshy mouthparts called //pigazei//. Compared to safir, who can detect about 15,000 unique scents, mesmerwrights can only detect about 500. A dreamweaver's diet consists mainly of small insects and the waking minds of sapient beings, although, when needed, it can consume the silk in its body, or even other dreamweavers — this is very rare, though, as it takes almost as much energy for a mesmerwright to consume another as it will get from such an act. |
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| ====== Touch ====== | ===== Touch ===== |
| The only part of a mesmerwright's body that is sensitive to physical touch is her spinnerets, which can be made so sensitive as to act as an organ of hearing (see ‘Hearing / Speech’, below). She often, therefore, uses these structures as fingers, putting them under and ahead of her in order to sense the terrain she is about to walk. Despite the psider's insensitivity to physical contact, she is particularly sensitive to kinesis, at least under laboratory conditions. | The only part of a mesmerwright's body that is sensitive to physical touch is her spinnerets, which can be made so sensitive as to act as an organ of hearing (see ‘Hearing / Speech’, below). She often, therefore, uses these structures as fingers, putting them under and ahead of her in order to sense the terrain she is about to walk. Despite the psider's insensitivity to physical contact, she is particularly sensitive to kinesis, at least under laboratory conditions. |
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| ====== Hearing / Speech ====== | ===== Hearing / Speech ===== |
| Dreamweavers are deaf in the conventional sense, possessing no bodily structures by which to hear sounds produced by you and I. Instead, they possess the ability to tighten the touch-sensitivity in their spinnerets to where they can sense the faintest of vibrations, or to psionically detect electromagnetic radiation from across the spectrum. These two mutually-exclusive methods of hearing form the basis of their two langauges: earth-speech, a simple, isolating language of clicks and snaps and stridulations; and dream-speech, an endlessly complex, highly polysynthetic tongue of electromagnetic pulses and waves, which, amazingly, most safir are somewhat capable of subconsciously decoding — although they cannot dream-speak as mesmerwrights can. Psiders must enter a certain kind of trance in order to use their dream-speech, and most of the species' higher classes will be permanently so entranced, as they see dream-speech as more beautiful and psyder-like than the lowly earth-speech. | Dreamweavers are deaf in the conventional sense, possessing no bodily structures by which to hear sounds produced by you and I. Instead, they possess the ability to tighten the touch-sensitivity in their spinnerets to where they can sense the faintest of vibrations, or to psionically detect electromagnetic radiation from across the spectrum. These two mutually-exclusive methods of hearing form the basis of their two langauges: earth-speech, a simple, isolating language of clicks and snaps and stridulations; and dream-speech, an endlessly complex, highly polysynthetic tongue of electromagnetic pulses and waves, which, amazingly, most safir are somewhat capable of subconsciously decoding — although they cannot dream-speak as mesmerwrights can. Psiders must enter a certain kind of trance in order to use their dream-speech, and most of the species' higher classes will be permanently so entranced, as they see dream-speech as more beautiful and psyder-like than the lowly earth-speech. |
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