The abstract suggests that happiness is a statistical anomaly, and in its final lines they suggest that “One possible objection to this proposal remains–that happiness is not negatively valued. However, this objection is dismissed as scientifically irrelevant.”

Valid. I checked again, and:

Known risks to the protocol include:

• Carriers being attacked by birds of prey. RFC2549: “Unintentional encapsulation in hawks has been known to occur, with decapsulation being messy and the packets mangled.”

So I guess that’s what’s happening here

Another example of such an attack

CW: animals being eaten

Nerds making joke standards is nothing unique.

See also: IETF RFC 1149 and IPoAC

I had a joke about gravity, but I think it’ll let you down.

I realise that we also had some Aaracockra in our party for a while. Shame our last player wasn’t playing a tiefling, or we’d’ve had 'em all!

I’m part of a Western Reaches campaign where I’ve got an entire party worth of characters to pick from. In here are two with the Fey Touched feat, this being a warlock and a paladin. While the former would use that to get out of hairy situations, the latter would use it to get into them.

So basically I also have an option for a sudden, in-your-face paladin.

That’s gotta be uncomfy as hecc. Any Squirrel Person worth their salt would probably have some furgonomics applied to their clothes to let that tail swing free.

Isn’t that basically how 40k Orcs do it?

Me, a tabaxi player, and the artificer from that group, whom we know OOC to be a changeling: