https://shifti.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Selachii 2026-07-14T22:50:55Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.46.0-alpha https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Selachii&diff=19207&oldid=prev 2017-04-09T07:20:04Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 02:20, 9 April 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l8">Line 8:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 8:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There was nothing left to indicate that any of these huge birds were originally human - and since beaks and the vocal apparatus are not built for speech, no matter how much she tried the sounds all came out very similar, as slight variations on &#039;caw&#039;.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There was nothing left to indicate that any of these huge birds were originally human - and since beaks and the vocal apparatus are not built for speech, no matter how much she tried the sounds all came out very similar, as slight variations on &#039;caw&#039;.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the couple of weeks since the change <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">happened </del>a number of things had happened - the 'flock' had dispersed along the coast, as houses and flats were no good to huge birds. They had individually figured out that they could eat both grain and flesh, and fresh fish as well as small creatures were delicious. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">A persistent bird had sorted out a keyboard and computer, on which it </del>was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">possible to type, one letter at a time with the tip of the beak</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Karen had tried it and found it both a relief </del>to be <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">able </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">communicate, and </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">literal pain in the neck to do such fiddly movements. At </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">rate </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">about ten characters </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">minute</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this was hard going, especially as their eyes looked either side of their heads, so it was </del>an <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">act of supreme concentration to focus on the spot at the very front of the vision in both eyes to keep the keyboard and the tip of the beak in focus</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the couple of weeks since the change<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>a number of things had happened - the 'flock' had dispersed along the coast, as houses and flats were no good to huge birds. They had individually figured out that they could eat both grain and flesh, and fresh fish as well as small creatures were delicious. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The beak </ins>was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">really important</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It did not seem </ins>to be <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">suited </ins>to a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">specialist task - it was just as good at ripping into flesh as tearing open </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bag </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">popcorn stolen from </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">supermarket</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">or rooting up vegetables from </ins>an <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">allotment</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Somehow she had retained all her life memories, and also inherited the skills that the body required to fly, keep the body and feathers in good condition, and sleep on a roost with the long claws at rest wrapped hard around a branch.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Flying was an effort, and she could manage about 30 minutes before tiring - so much for living on the wing she thought, and flew at about 15 miles an hour.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">A persistent bird had sorted out a keyboard and computer, on which it was possible to type, one letter at a time with the tip of the beak. Karen had tried it and found it both a relief to be able to communicate, and a literal pain in the neck to do such fiddly movements. At a rate of about ten characters a minute, this was hard going, especially as her eyes looked either side of her head, so it was an act of supreme concentration to focus on the spot at the very front of the vision in both eyes to keep the keyboard and the tip of the beak in focus.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Somehow she had retained all her life memories, and also inherited the skills that the body required to fly, keep the body and feathers in good condition, and sleep on a roost with the long claws at rest wrapped hard around a branch<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. She could understand English, so could follow a conversation and yet not be able to contribute, except with a nod for yes and a shake for no. She had perfected the shoulder shrug for 'I don't know' but it was being misinterpreted as 'whatever' sometimes</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As soon as neighboring cells of recognisably human people realised that this area was no longer populated with people they began to move in, spreading like a tide through the neighborhoods, selecting the best places to inhabit, finding the keys to the best cars, and so on.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As soon as neighboring cells of recognisably human people realised that this area was no longer populated with people they began to move in, spreading like a tide through the neighborhoods, selecting the best places to inhabit, finding the keys to the best cars, and so on.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Karen was not bothered by the loss of her material possessions, but she was really sad that she could not find her children or husband. Life was reduced to finding food and good quality rooting places.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Karen was not bothered by the loss of her material possessions, but she was really sad that she could not find her children or husband. Life was reduced to finding food and good quality rooting places.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key shifti_wiki-shifti_:diff:1.41:old-19206:rev-19207:php=table --> </table>

Sdw https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Selachii&diff=19206&oldid=prev 2017-04-09T07:07:33Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 02:07, 9 April 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Work </del>in progress</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This is a work </ins>in progress<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, and we'll get to the sharks in a while... First, the birds...</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"Being able to fly is all well and good" thought Karen, "but I've lost so much".</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Until a few weeks ago, Karen had been a middle aged mother of two children, enjoying a job in a large corporation and when the Divergence occurred she suddenly became a one metre high, fully functioning bird. Since this also happened to all the people in the same area, many were involved in the accidents that occurred as the result, and she was not affected as fortunately at that moment she and the rest of her team were enjoying a soft drink in the sun outside. One moment human and the next avian was tremendously disorientating, and it took a while to figure out what had happened and who she now was.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">There was nothing left to indicate that any of these huge birds were originally human - and since beaks and the vocal apparatus are not built for speech, no matter how much she tried the sounds all came out very similar, as slight variations on 'caw'.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In the couple of weeks since the change happened a number of things had happened - the 'flock' had dispersed along the coast, as houses and flats were no good to huge birds. They had individually figured out that they could eat both grain and flesh, and fresh fish as well as small creatures were delicious. A persistent bird had sorted out a keyboard and computer, on which it was possible to type, one letter at a time with the tip of the beak. Karen had tried it and found it both a relief to be able to communicate, and a literal pain in the neck to do such fiddly movements. At a rate of about ten characters a minute, this was hard going, especially as their eyes looked either side of their heads, so it was an act of supreme concentration to focus on the spot at the very front of the vision in both eyes to keep the keyboard and the tip of the beak in focus.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Somehow she had retained all her life memories, and also inherited the skills that the body required to fly, keep the body and feathers in good condition, and sleep on a roost with the long claws at rest wrapped hard around a branch.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">As soon as neighboring cells of recognisably human people realised that this area was no longer populated with people they began to move in, spreading like a tide through the neighborhoods, selecting the best places to inhabit, finding the keys to the best cars, and so on.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Karen was not bothered by the loss of her material possessions, but she was really sad that she could not find her children or husband. Life was reduced to finding food and good quality rooting places.</ins></div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key shifti_wiki-shifti_:diff:1.41:old-19205:rev-19206:php=table --> </table>

Sdw https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Selachii&diff=19205&oldid=prev 2017-04-09T06:45:39Z

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