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[@Dawnscroll] Goodness grief. That is a hell of a good read you just wrote up there. Elly's going to be such a fun idealistic blank-slate kind of character to mess around with.

As for Slough Week- I think I'll opt in for some paragraphs about Slough and the Deepwood split between a few posts. I have a whole bunch of things to do creation-wise this turn, but limited time.

[@Kho] 
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Mechanics-wise, with regard to Sculpture, does the new hain instinct respond to:

-Being aware that the art has been created by a Sculptor,
-The artwork itself,
-Some kind of residue left by the Sculptor, or
-The Other polyp that resides within the artwork?

The first option is the only viable one if you don't want to immunise the hain to implantation. It's hard to like something that you instinctively hate, and both implantation and incubation relies entirely on the individual's love of what they've seen. 

Of course, if you do want to sterilise the Sculptor's ability to reproduce using hain, that's fine too, but they'll have to respond to something other than the artwork itself, because that would stunt their artistic and cultural development completely. The only two things separating Sculpture from any other strange, emotive art is the polyp that lives in it and the Sculptor that created it. The same instinct causing them to reject the artwork would trigger in the weirdest variations of their own art and stop them from experimenting with complexity or abstraction.

I'd prefer it if we did immunise at least most of the hain via the first option, because that most smoothly opens up the way for a whole new idea that I'm about to set in motion.

Similarly, as to the widespread rejection of Jvanic life, does it apply only to Other and hybrid organisms, or to anything that Jvan's edited? Right now the south and east of the Fractal Sea is teeming with life that's entirely natural in constitution but has been designed by Jvan, so the latter option will prevent hain from forming coastal communities on the Fractal Sea. The only unnatural things she's made so far are her major races and envoys; The rest is strange and detached from the Rottenbone's evolutionary tree of life, but is entirely natural.
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Two turns with a modifier based on concealment and detection, maybe?
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It was not really meant to immunise them to implantation, but, as the first option suggests, create an inherent aversion to art that has been created by a Sculptor - an instinct, like fear of death, or heights etc. which can be willfully overcome if one puts their mind to it.
The fact is they may still admire the artwork itself but destroy it anyway.

As for natural Jvanic life, as suggested in the IC, there is still an aversion to them, but nowhere as near as the aversion for Sculptors and Fibrelings/ things Other or hybrid. If the aversion for Sculptors is an instinct like fear of death, then the aversion for Jvanic creatures would be akin to fear of spiders - except that in both cases rather than fear it is aversion. So natural Jvanic life would probably be treated normally, eaten etc. but on the side they may be hunted more often for the sake of it rather than any real need.

Ants will be different though. They will go out of their way to hunt down and destroy Jvanic life within their territory, putting aside rivalries with other ants etc. but they wouldn't leave their colony's territories specifically to go out and hunt Jvanic creatures.
The only exception is The One By Immortals Altered because she is a hero xP

And regarding trails...hmm, that might be the best way of going about it. Simple and leaves no place for doubt. What does everyone else think?