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If you haven't given Mothership a try, please know it comes highly recommended. Nothing better than your android accidently getting Crab-pregnant (cragnent) and disappearing into the subterranean tunnel network never to be seen again while the rest of the crew fight for our lives and try to complete the mission. Bug Hunt might be one of my fave modules I've ever played, and Gradient Descent is shaping up to be another top 5 for SURE. Anyway my marine Maggie ('Mags') had a really bad time and barely lived through two melee carc encounters (and failed literally every other roll). She's doing great.

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Flamingos can survive in low oxygen, high altitude, high temperatures, low temperatures, high alkaline, they can and will drink boiling water and they can be completely frozen at night and still get up the next morning

(animal death) this is a real undoctored photograph (*though the body was stood up for the shot) of a dead flamingo on the surface of lake natron, a lake so salty and so alkaline that it’s naturally carbonated like soda and would eat through your stomach lining if you drank from it.

When this photo went viral years ago, most people assumed this poor flamingo must have been killed by the lake.

It is actually the lake where 75% of its global population are hatched. This is a photo from the same lake:

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Flamingos can survive in high altitudes, hypersaline conditions, and caustic lakes.

Source: ‘All flamingo species have evolved to live in some of the planet’s most extreme wetlands, like caustic “soda lakes”, hypersaline lagoons or high-altitude salt flats.’

They can survive water so alkaline it burns human skin.

Source: ‘More than a million lesser flamingos breed in Tanzania’s Lake Natron, for instance, a lake fed by hot springs with water so alkaline that it can strip away human skin (one pioneering flamingo researcher named Leslie Brown spent months in Nairobi General Hospital after burning his legs wading out to observe where the birds nested).’

They can drink water at near-boiling temperatures.

Source: ‘They can drink water at near boiling point to collect freshwater from springs and geysers at lake edges. If no freshwater is available, flamingos can use glands in their head that remove salt, draining it out from their nasal cavity.’

The lakes they inhabit can freeze overnight, and the flamingos can survive once it thaws in the morning.

Source: ‘The birds may seem to epitomize the tropics, but they also live in the Andes, 15,000 feet above sea level, where they rest on lakes that freeze around them overnight.

“You’ll see them sitting there like snowballs, frozen on ice,” Dr. Arengo said. “And as the temperature warms up, they thaw out, fluff themselves up and go about their business.”’

The photo is indeed from Lake Natron, taken by photographer Nick Brandt. The content of the lake chemically preserves animal corpses that die there. You can see more photos of this here.

It is also true that 75% of Lesser Flamingos are hatches on Lake Natron.

Source: ‘The lake’s landscape is surreal and deadly—and made even more bizarre by the fact that it’s the place where nearly 75 percent of the world’s lesser flamingos are born.’

Some species of Flamingo eat cyanobacteria or algae.

you were seperated from the rest of your squad while on the run. in the fray you and your team fled into the darkness of the old ruined fort. it had no power, no resources, but maybe it could act as a maze to slow down the monsters. they were fast, beyond anything a human was capable of, they moved like the wind and rain, and they carves through swaths of guardsmen like they were made of cloth. you'd heard about them the one time you served alongside one of the Emperors red clad angels. he spoke of evils from the darkness of space, once astartes turned daemons, corrupted by chaos. you didnt believe they were real.

after becoming separated you hid inside a partially collapsed service tunnel. you thought it was remote enough, and g hen you heard the door creak, all together the massive steel door that took all your strength just to budge an inch, was hurled off its hinges and away from the door way. in its place stood the daemon, the monster marine. it spoke in a soft, almost cooing tune.

"found yoooooouuu, what an adorable effort youve made of hiding yourself, little bird. you have some information i need, unfortunately for you, so tell me my little canary, how much pain will it take to make you sing?"

i was accosted by this image in my head of a chaos Marine with large functioning eyes on his chest plate, like a butterfly's wings but they actually work.

im considering going on a hiatus, ive got some pretty bad sht going on and its been hard to keep a smile on my face lately, or any expression at all really. Just feel numb. ill give it some thought and see how i feel tomorrow, I dont want to go on hiatus as art is basically the only thing I have to look forward to rn but idk.

did this while on break. Papillon was considered pretty good looking even by the high standards of the Emperors Children, he would often be used as an ambassador to new planets, using his good looks and charming personality. he sided with fulgrim during the heresy and has now watched his own body become twisted from a symbol of charisma into a symbol of temptation. he regrets his decision to side with chaos and wants the help of Fabius Bile to to find a way out of Chaos(not possible, but Fabius is willing to indulge his desperate delusions and in return Fabius uses him as a test subject for new ideas).