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Offline CounterInstinct

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What would you morph?
« on: July 18, 2008, 08:29:45 AM »
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You are having the time of your life in a ship or whatever (something that is big and floats in the water), then suddenly, the ship explodes! You find out that the ship hit an oil pipe in the ocean, setting flames all around the waters in the ship. The ship is sinking in the middle of the ocean, yet surrounded by flames. You think of diving and trying your like swimming, but the ocean is vast and the water is surrounded by flames that will burn you once you dive.

All hope in you is lost.

Then suddenly, time stops. The Ellimist appears in front of you. He gives you a chance. A chance to save yourself. He will give you a morph, any one Earth Animal morph. It will determine your fate. He gives you 60 seconds to think it over.

What will you choose?
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Re: What would you morph?
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2008, 08:40:41 AM »
wait...before I answer, I want to completely understand the situation. how can you burn in the ocean?
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Re: What would you morph?
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2008, 09:00:39 AM »
Without a doubt, I would morph into a seagull. Fly away from the trouble, find another ship to follow into shore.
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Re: What would you morph?
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2008, 09:29:49 AM »
@morfowt:

Oil floats over water, then flames form in it.

@everyone:
th obvious choices would be bird morphs and sea morphs. But remember, the ship is sinking as we speak. You may not have time to morph and soar....  :)
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Re: What would you morph?
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2008, 09:52:42 AM »
roach morph. they're hard to kill. then I'd demorph, swim a little, and morph to keep from sinking.
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Re: What would you morph?
« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2008, 10:28:34 AM »
Dolphin so I could quickly swim out of there and maybe save a person or two in the process.
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Re: What would you morph?
« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2008, 11:00:53 AM »
A pelican.

If the Ellimist comes to give someone an option of morphing something to escape, then he'd also ensure there was enough time to morph almost anything a person can think of.

Pelicans fly over seas, but they can also float on the water like a duck flowats on a lake. I don't know if seagulls can do that or not.

I'd fly for a little while, then rest on the water, then fly some more.
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Re: What would you morph?
« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2008, 11:15:35 AM »
Probably either a dolphin or a shark if I wanted to go by sea - something big enough to at least have a little visibility and idea of which direction I was headed in.  Each have their pro's and cons - dolphin could echo-locate but you have to keep coming up for air; shark you wouldn't have to come up for air, but goodness help you if you find another person sinking and dying along the way, I don't know if I could live with myself if I was a shark and ate someone, and there's no sonar.

Seagulls aren't reliable, in my mind.  They're flappers - I'd be too afraid of getting tired in morph.  Pelican would be better, but, if the oil on the sea is burning, there's a chance that you could still suffocate on the black smoke oil puts off when it burns before you could get very far - you'd breathe in too much, pass out, and be a bird face-down in the water, if you made it past the burning oil spill.

I'd definitely be more comfortable going underwater than above - on would be certain death, so...I think I'd have to go with Dolphin.
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Re: What would you morph?
« Reply #8 on: July 18, 2008, 12:23:08 PM »
If I tried to morph a sea creature like a shark, I might have to dive through the oil. Burning oil would be very hard to get off.

On the other hand, I might try to ride the ship below the oil. Find a way to go through the ship, and come out a hole that's below the water. Once the ship is down, I'd be a shark breathing water until I found a way out and back to land.
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Re: What would you morph?
« Reply #9 on: July 18, 2008, 12:42:19 PM »
A dolphin, I think...small enough to try to escape the flames on top of the water. 

There's always the albatross...yeah I'm stuck on them, today ^^
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Re: What would you morph?
« Reply #10 on: July 18, 2008, 01:24:19 PM »
Shark definitely. There is no way of knowing how far the flames will spread so as a shark there is no need to come up for air. Plus with a sharks electrical sense, you could tell directions as far as north, south, east, and west, so finding a direction wouldn't be too bad. Also, the shark is a natural weapon so it's unlikely to be attacked and/or unable to defend itself.
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Re: What would you morph?
« Reply #11 on: July 18, 2008, 03:17:31 PM »
A killer whale. Bigger than dolphin, so no problem with sharks and you can take more people with you... It must be easier to control than shark, if it's the first time you morph (with the explosion and everything, there must be blood in the sea). And a whale can go very far very quickly, like dolphin or sharks, of course. But a killer whale is more dangerous than a whale ^_^ So I prefer it (for myself, not to see near me in the sea, of course :p)
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Re: What would you morph?
« Reply #12 on: July 20, 2008, 01:25:19 PM »
Albatross: it travels over 5,000 miles in a single month. It virtually never lands, except to feed its young. Its navigational skills are unparalleled, and, unlike the seagull, it doesn't need to land to eat.
Seagulls NEED a place to land. You will NEVER (except after a MAJOR hurricane or similar storm) find a seagull more than seven miles from the nearest boat or piece of land.
Albatrosses can be found in all parts of the oceanic sky, because they don't need boats or land.

Second choice is a petrel, a tern, or a shearwater. They are good for travel over water, but they still need to land occasionally. Petrels and shearwaters are good for floating, and they fly better than any other bird in a storm. Terns have the endurance to get safely to land without need to stop.
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Re: What would you morph?
« Reply #13 on: July 20, 2008, 05:23:55 PM »
so nobody votes for the ****roach except me?
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Re: What would you morph?
« Reply #14 on: July 20, 2008, 05:26:52 PM »
Sorry, Morfowt, but ****roaches AREN'T designed to survive oil fires. They burn the same as any other carbon-based life-form.
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