Phase 2:Yoush Kin'toni Clan

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The Yoush are adapted to the limestone steps, high altitudes and slot canyons of the Toras Terrace. They are laterally flattened and highly compressed of build, as to allow them to slid though even narrow fissures and cracks. This also means they are prone to crushing damage. The skin is white, translucent and devoid of melanin. This skin show even the dark vessels underneath. The skin is hypersensitive to UV radiation, with even dawn and dusk rays causing burns and blisters. The skin has a layer of long, translucent sensory hairs.

These act as a vibrating system to allow them to map out the rock shapes, even in total darkness. The hairs are delicate and long enough that they cannot wear much clothing or armor without it catching, tearing out the hair and leaving small, painful open wounds. The eyes are blind and milky white in color, as in the caves, sight is less needed. The ears are very large, funnel shaped and outward facing, adapted to locate even the smallest acoustic echoes. This hearing is easy to overwhelm, forcing them away from loud noise.

The nose has an star-shaped nasal cluster of soft tactile flesh. This acts as an biological radar system along with their hair to feel for air currents moving through rock tunnels. The teeth are long, needle sharped and inwards facing, adapted for small prey. These teeth are poor at gnawing, making even leather armor hard to deal with. The claws are long, pincer like and made of dense chitin. These claws are adapted to act as climbing pitons. The claws are poor for moving over smooth, polished rock races and walls.

The feet are low, narrow and heel less, adapted to have highly flexible, independent toes. These aid their clinbing on narrow stone ridges and stalagmites. Walking over flat, horizontal surfaces is painful due to severe skeletal strain. Inside, the blood contains specialized chemical inhibitors. These are able to slow the destruction of their modified prions if exposed to radiation. The lower spine has elongated into a long, strong and nerve filled tail. This tail allows a firth anchor point when climbing.

This tail is full of nerves and sensitive, meaning, that if it is trapped or even stepped on, it is very painful. Under the skin, there are large storage pockets adapted to trap and isolate histamines from environmental stress. Those pockets are prone to rupture from heavy enough physical impact. If this happens, this leads to an sudden rush of histamines and lethal anaphylactic shock. Inside their chests, they have an organ with mechanical baroreceptors, able to sense subtle air pressure drops.

These warn them if a storm is to come, and therefore to retreat deeper into the caves. Inside the brain is an massive cerebellum, using up part of their sinus cavities. With this, they can create an three-dimensional mental map of the tunnels. The brain is hungry though, and it requires twice as much blood as normal to sustain it. They have hepatic cell clots that isolate, crystallize, encapsulate and excrete the toxic minerals of the caves. These crystals appear in their fecal matter when they leave the body.

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