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Yay, thanks, guys! I'm glad you like it!

[quote=Lasis via KeyGuyPerson]Iron is one of the essential elements that our body needs for survival![/quote]

Oh, wow, I hadn't thought of that. [hider=I wonder how Fay work?] Maybe their blood is green, because they don't use hemoglobin. A simple explanation might be that tiny amounts of radium counter the iron in their bodies. Then again, I did specify cold iron as being problematic. Body-temperature iron might be fine. Possibly the tiny amounts of iron in food just isn't enough to bother them? Or maybe just "magic". [/hider]
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I'd just say that there simply isn't enough iron to be problem. After all, we're talking molecular size here. Lasis, being raised in a society that up until now thought that fat was unique to non-sentient species, wouldn't have the slightest idea as to how much iron is actually harmful. She's just overly concerned because getting an alien killed would look [i]extremely[/i] bad.

But it would be really nice to see something interesting done with it, that's just the simplest way out. Not using hemoglobin seems like the most interesting to me, but it really doesn't have a major impact beyond forcing Penelope to eat specialized food without iron, which would likely take the form of the Abh equivalent of rock candy because I just have to make references to obscure events in the distant past of this roleplay.

For everyone that doesn't know, that being everyone, the Terran colonies were saved from starving by a primitive species that had managed to grow brittle crystals to produce certain nutrients (No, this definitely couldn't happen, but it's sci-fi so I can do it). These crystals grew extremely fast in every environment, and soon the entirety of humanity was subsisting on flavored water where the flavor packet contained ludicrous amounts of nutrients. The Abh just happen to eat these brittle crystals whole as a candy, because if it even gets brought up, it would be funnier to have Penelope eating a bunch of candy for all her meals instead of nutrient paste.

(As a side note, am I right to assume that this:

"Long trails of it appeared momentarily in real space, lighting up the void with faint translucent rainbows, like a soap bubble."

Means that the event is highly visible to the galaxy? Considering how large the Path would appear in realspace, I guessed it would , but I want to confirm that before having the Abh decide it's a sign from the gods or anything.)