Priorities as a community

[Synthesis]

Assuming you butchered it properly, you mostly won't get sick from eating raw meat in real life.  You almost certainly won't get sick -immediately-, because the types of organisms that cause acute or subacute food poisoning don't just hang out in muscle tissue (unless you're eating a blatantly necrotic/abscessed piece of meat).

You shouldn't eat ground meat raw, because the equipment used to grind up the meat tends to harbor organisms that can subsequently reproduce within the ground meat, which can make you acutely ill.  Solid cuts of meat tend not to have this problem, unless a) you're butchering a large quantity of meat regularly in the same work area, which has been contaminated or hasn't been properly cleaned and b) the meat has afterward been sitting around long enough for enough microbial reproduction cycles to reach a minimum infectious dose (both of which vary based on organism and conditions).

However, there are a number of parasites that form cysts in muscle tissue, and those can make you quite sick over a longer term.  So...anyway...yeah.  Acutely getting sick from meat you just hunted...doesn't really make sense, unless there's some peculiar Zalanthan justification for it.

[Revenant]

I think it would be interesting if Zalanthas acquired a tilt to its axis and thus, seasons... and maybe rain one or two days a year, with lightning storms.

[Marauder Moe]

It already has an axial tilt.

Months in the Year (3) 
              Descending Sun
              Low Sun
              Ascending Sun

[nauta]

I think it would be interesting if Zalanthas acquired a tilt to its axis and thus, seasons... and maybe rain one or two days a year, with lightning storms.

I've been assuming the sandstorms have lightning displays.

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/418236/how-sandstorms-generate-spectacular-lightning-displays/

I forget if there are stars, however.

[bcw81]

I think it would be interesting if Zalanthas acquired a tilt to its axis and thus, seasons... and maybe rain one or two days a year, with lightning storms.

I've been assuming the sandstorms have lightning displays.

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/418236/how-sandstorms-generate-spectacular-lightning-displays/

I forget if there are stars, however.

Stars                                                                   (Sky)

   There are some few visible stars in the night sky of Zalanthas.  However,
they are often obscured by a haze of dust or silt, and are more often than
not drowned out by the brightness of Jihae or Lirathu.
See also:
   Moons, Jihae, Lirathu, Time

[RogueGunslinger]

Lightning and thunder in a sand storm

[Talia]

Upbeat, the lirathu-tressed bard sings, in wilderness-accented sirihish:
     "The stars at night
      Ain't real big and bright..."

Clapping four times enthusiastically before, the lirathu-tressed bard sings, in wilderness-accented sirihish:
     "Deep in the heart of Zalanthas!"

[Revenant]

It already has an axial tilt.

Months in the Year (3) 
              Descending Sun
              Low Sun
              Ascending Sun

Yes, and one season, HOT!

[nauta]

Why do I feel like a derail happened, somewhere.

[BadSkeelz]

There actually are (or are supposed to be) seasons in relation to growing certain crops.

I would kind of like there to be a slightly more realistic environment myself, with 1 or 2 days of rain. It could add a period of other harsh muddiness to break up the times of harsh grittiness. Rooms could turn muddy and boggy, flash floods could occur. New challenges with new opportunities.

[Eyeball]

There actually are (or are supposed to be) seasons in relation to growing certain crops.

I would kind of like there to be a slightly more realistic environment myself, with 1 or 2 days of rain. It could add a period of other harsh muddiness to break up the times of harsh grittiness. Rooms could turn muddy and boggy, flash floods could occur. New challenges with new opportunities.

It should rain somewhere, even if it's in the remote mountains. Something has to replenish the ground water.

[chuci]

It should rain somewhere, even if it's in the remote mountains. Something has to replenish the ground water.

Magic. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[valeria]

I'd rather see dew form after cold nights than see actual rain.  Most deserts don't get rain.  Most deserts do get dew.

[RogueGunslinger]

Most deserts get rain eventually. Even if it's just once in 3-4 years in the most dry areas. But Zalanthas isn't Earth, so comparisons aren't very easy.

We have a huge forest though, and that needs to get water from somewhere, unless it feeds off of the blood of noobie hunters.

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

I surmise that it rains outside the Known, and trickles into the Known via underground rivers, from whence our spring gs and oasis replenish.

[The Silence of the Erdlus]

My body is ready for the southern clay pits!

[Revenant]

I think the occassional shower would be cool, it's a foreboding, ominous occurance, the sky grows dark as a low rumble of distant thunder echoes through the land, a cool wind hits you, tingling your senses with the slightest moisture...

Oh no, not again!

And on these days, a small, but surviving race of mythical humanoid beasts crawl out of deep caverns and ruins, spreading misery and mayhem wherever they travel, until, the rain ceases, at which point, they slip back into their holes.

[RogueGunslinger]

I think the occassional shower would be cool, it's a foreboding, ominous occurance, the sky grows dark as a low rumble of distant thunder echoes through the land, a cool wind hits you, tingling your senses with the slightest moisture...

Oh no, not again!

And on these days, a small, but surviving race of mythical humanoid beasts crawl out of deep caverns and ruins, spreading misery and mayhem wherever they travel, until, the rain ceases, at which point, they slip back into their holes.

I like. Reminds me of Pitch Black.

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

That would be pretty cool, actually.

[IAmJacksOpinion]

I searched for electric sandstorm.

Electric Sandstorm

Sooo not what I had in mind...

[Alesan]

I searched for electric sandstorm.

Electric Sandstorm

Sooo not what I had in mind...

What song is that?

[Synthesis]

Darude - Sandstorm

[Jingo]

I still think the mud is in need of a name change.

Armageddon has way too much association with biblical end-times rather than desert-world stuff.

[Kismetic]

Holy shit, did it just get Darude up in here, Darude so rude

[Aruven]

I still think the mud is in need of a name change.

Armageddon has way too much association with biblical end-times rather than desert-world stuff.

Yeah we could call it:

Allanak