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| <blockquote>''Fluffy, seemingly asexual merchants.''</blockquote> | | <blockquote>''蓬松、看似无性的商人。''</blockquote> |
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| <b>Name (Singular):</b> Tove | | <b>名称（单数）：</b>托夫 |
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| | <b>性别：</b>雄性与雌性 |
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| | <b>身高：</b>2 英尺 10 英寸到 3 英尺 5 英寸。托夫与其他种族相比相当矮小，需要速度时常常改用"四足"（其实是六足）奔跑。在这种姿态下，他们很少高过 1 英尺 5 英寸。 |
| <b>Height:</b> 2' 10" to 3' 5" 2’ 10” to 3’ 5”. Toves are fairly short compared to other races, and often switch to “all fours” (really six) when the occasion calls for speed. In this position, they are rarely higher than 1’ 5”. | |
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| | <b>体重：</b>30 到 70 磅。托夫通常矮壮敦实，尾巴宽而粗。 |
| <b>Weight:</b> 30 to 70 lbs. Toves are generally short and stocky, with broad, thick tails. | |
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| | <b>羽毛：</b>托夫全身覆盖着厚实的绒羽。颜色从深绛紫到黄赭色，甚至还有绿色和蓝色。就头部覆盖物而言，雌性羽毛更长，而雄性通常顶着羽冠。如今，那些与类人种族打交道的托夫往往选择把羽毛打理成模仿哺乳动物头发的造型。他们的手和脚没有羽毛，覆盖着鳞片，看起来像淡黄色或橙色的禽类利爪。他们的喙通常与爪子颜色相配，不过许多托夫会给喙染上花哨的条纹或图案。 |
| <b>Feathers:</b> Toves are covered in a thick covering of downy, fine feathers. These can range from deep maroon-purple, to yellow-ochre, or even greens and blues. In terms of head covering, females have longer plumage, which males often sport crests. Currently, those toves that deal with humanoid races often opt to style their plumage to mimic mammalian head-hair. Their hands and feet are featherless and scaled, looking like pale yellow or orange bird talons. Their beaks often match their talons, though many toves color their beaks with gaudy stripes or patterns. | |
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| | <b>眼睛：</b>托夫有四只眼睛，长在喙的正上方（每侧两只，横向排列）。相对于他们的脸，眼睛不算大，长着横瞳的、山羊般的瞳孔。颜色横跨黄色系（绿、橙、黄）。托夫可以独立转动眼睛，尽管这种效果常常让其他智慧种族感到不适。 |
| <b>Eyes:</b> Toves posses four eyes, set just above their beaks, (two on each side, arranged laterally.) Their eyes are not large, relative to their faces, and have sideways, goat-like pupils. Colors range across the yellow spectrum (green, orange, yellow). Toves can move their eyes independently, though the effect is often disconcerting for other sapients. | |
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| | <b>肢体：</b>托夫看起来与其说像其他类人种族，不如说更像毛绒玩具。他们共有六条肢体，每条通常覆盖着浓密的羽毛直到第一个关节，之后过渡为带鳞片的禽类利爪。每只灵活的利爪有三根爪趾和一根可对握的拇指。在他们天然的栖水环境中，这让他们能同时操作大量设备，而且大多数托夫终端都按照这种美学设计。 |
| <b>Limbs:</b> Toves look more like stuffed animals than other humanoids. They possess six limbs in total, each typically covered in thick, lush feathers until the first joint, switching into scaley, bird-like talons. Each dextrous talon possesses 3 claws and an opposable thumb. In their natural, aquatic habitat, this allows toves to manipulate a multitude of devices at once, and most tove terminals are engineered with this aesthetic in mind. | |
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| | 在陆地上，他们通常靠后腿站立，由粗壮的后腿支撑，腹部和尾巴拖在地上。 |
| On land, they typically stand on their hind legs, supported by thick haunches, their bellies and tails dragging along the ground.
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| | <b>面部：</b>托夫脸部的大部分被一张宽而短的喙占据，末端带钩状隆起。喙的颜色通常是淡黄色或橙色，与鳞片肢体的色调相配。虽然喙尖又硬又角质化，但喙的边缘相当柔韧，能做出各式各样的表情。 |
| <b>Faces:</b> The majority of a tove face is dominated by a broad, short beak, ending in a ridged hook. Beak colors are generally a pale yellow or orange, matching the tone of their scaly limbs. Though hard and chitinous at the tip, their beaks become more flexible at their edges, allowing for a wide variety of facial expressions. | |
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| | 与同类交流时，托夫常常会伴随言语摆动自己长长的、兔子般的耳朵。当非托夫与两个或更多托夫同时交谈时，这常常引发担忧，因为托夫仅靠耳部动作就能在同类间进行基本对话——这是水下的适应能力。 |
| When communicating with others of their species, toves often accompany spoke work with the movement of their long, rabbit-like ears. This is often cause for concern when a non-tove speaks with two or more toves at once, as toves can carry on basic conversations among their species with ear movement alone - an underwater adaptation.
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| | === 体型 === |
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| Toves are distinctly non-human in proportion. Their amphibious lifestyle and unusual number of limbs mean that they often lack visible hips or chests, resembling more animalistic, tubular torsos. Oftentimes toves will adopt fashion items, such as corsets or vests to mildly compress their bodies to create the illusion of hips or chests. Some toves, particularly ones of high status, often harem owners adjusting for dealing with other sapient races, utilize mild genetic manipulation to develop visible breasts. These breasts serve no real purpose or stimulation for the toves, but simply function as an aid for dealing with sex-driven sapient species.
| | 托夫的体态明显非人。他们两栖的生活方式和不寻常的肢体数量意味着他们通常没有明显的髋部或胸部，躯干更接近兽形、呈管状。托夫常常会穿戴束腰或马甲之类的时尚单品，稍微挤压身体，制造出髋部或胸部的假象。有些托夫，尤其是地位较高的，通常是那些为了与其他智慧种族打交道而经营后宫的人，会利用轻度基因操作培育出可见的乳房。这些乳房对托夫来说没有任何实际功能或刺激意义，只是作为与性驱动的智慧物种打交道的辅助工具。 |
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| | 托夫长着宽大强壮的尾巴。在水下，尾巴是他们的主要推进方式。当托夫准备长时间离开水面时，他们常常会把尾巴鼓胀起来，尽可能多地吸收水分，以便在干燥的陆地上维持生存。这些尾巴里还藏着托夫的生殖器官。 |
| Toves posses broad, muscular tails. Underwater, these tails are their primary mode of propulsion. When a tove is preparing to spend extended time out of water, they will often bloat their tails, absorbing as much water as possible to sustain them on dry land. These tails also house a tove’s reproductive organs.
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| | === 服饰 === |
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| Toves dress in clothing vaguely evocative of Victorian Earth, accessorized with coppery gear motifs and devices, focusing primarily on vests, ties, and shirts (for males) or corsets, heavy dresses, and loose blouses for females. Due to the nature of tove anatomy, pants are impractical, and, given the thickness of their feathers, unnecessary. Toves as a race possess a fondness for hats, and many wear period-appropriate top hats or bowlers. Despite their primitive look, most tove accessories are outfitted with a fair level of technological sophistication. (For example, many pocketwatches and fans contain holo screens.)
| | 托夫的穿着隐约令人想起维多利亚时代的地球，配以铜质齿轮风格的饰品和装置，主要为马甲、领带和衬衫（雄性），或束腰、厚重的连衣裙和宽松的罩衫（雌性）。由于托夫的身体构造，裤子并不实用，而且考虑到他们羽毛的厚度，也没有必要。托夫这个种族对帽子情有独钟，许多人戴着符合时代风格的礼帽或圆顶硬礼帽。尽管外观古朴，大多数托夫配饰都带有相当程度的科技含量。（例如，许多怀表和折扇都装有全息屏幕。） |
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| | === 通常栖息环境 === |
| === Environs Typically Inhabited ===
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| Because of the race’s mercantile predilections, the majority of toves dwell in Wabeships, dome-shaped satellites containing what appear to be small cities surrounding well-manicured lawns and clear ponds. Upon entry, though, a visitor finds that the majority of the buildings within the domes are not residencies but commercial businesses, making Wabeships effectively floating shopping malls, designed to entice and attract potential customers. The center of these cities is often a large bordello of non-tove species, overseen by the captain of the ship. The toves themselves generally dwell in the sections of the ship below the dome in water-filled corridors and chambers. Due to the high level of water pressure utilized by toves, and the three-dimensional layout of corridors, rooms, and terminals, the sub-sections of a Wabeship are generally inaccessible to other races. Smaller tove ships, not designed to cater to other races are likewise filled with water and designed to tove sensibilities.
| | 由于这个种族经商的天性，大多数托夫居住在瓦贝舰上：穹顶形状的卫星，里面看起来是环绕着修剪整齐的草坪和清澈池塘的小城。不过，访客一进门就会发现，穹顶内的大部分建筑不是住宅而是商铺，这让瓦贝舰实际上成了漂浮的购物中心，专门用来吸引招揽潜在顾客。这些城市的中心往往是飞船只长监管下的、由非托夫种族经营的妓院。托夫们自己通常居住在大穹顶以下的舰船区域，那里充满水的走廊和舱室构成。由于托夫使用的高水压，加上走廊、房间和终端的三维布局，瓦贝舰的下层区域通常对其他种族来说难以进入。那些不打算接待其他种族的小型托夫飞船同样注满了水，按托夫的审美设计。 |
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| | 托夫会出现在瓦贝舰或母星之外，唯一的原因就是赚钱的可能性。托夫不是探险家、寻求刺激者或科学家，但他们会抓住任何盈利的机会。因此，在任何有相当数量携带信用点者的星球上都能找到托夫。他们通常离自己的小摊位或加压舱不远，以便享受家乡的舒适。 |
| The only reason a tove can be found outside of a Wabeship or off its home planet is the possibility of money. Toves are not explorers, thrill-seekers, or scientists, but WILL seek out any opportunity to turn a profit. Thus, Toves can be found on any planet hosting a decent number of credit-carrying individuals. They are generally not far from a small stand or pressurized chamber to provide them with the comforts of home.
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| | === 繁殖 === |
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| Though toves resemble avian or mammalian creatures in appearance and behavior, their nearest terran reproductive equivalents are plants. Their bizarre reproductive systems and lack of sexually-derived pleasure mean that they are not sexually or reproductively compatible with other species.
| | 虽然托夫在外表和习性上类似禽类或哺乳动物，但他们在生育上最接近的地球同类是植物。他们奇特的生殖系统和缺乏性快感意味着他们无法与其他物种进行性或生殖上的结合。 |
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| | 雄托夫和雌托夫之间的繁殖通常遵循以下过程，需要温度凉爽、洁净的水域，且压力不低于 40 Psi： |
| Reproduction between a male and female tove usually follows the following process and requires cool, clean areas of water with no less than 40 Psi of pressure:
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| | # 雌性张开尾巴上排列的 50-200 个生殖孔，向水中释放孢子。 |
| # Females open 50-200 gonopores lining their tails, releasing spores into the water. | | # 雄性张开生殖孔，从尾巴中伸出 20-100 根毛发状的雄蕊，每根都是末端带有一簇黏性雄性遗传物质的细丝。 |
| # Males open their gonopores and extend out 20-100 hair-like stamens from their tails, each a filament topped with an adhesive cluster of the male’s genetic material. | | # 雄蕊在水中扫动，试图捕获雌性孢子。 |
| # Male stamens sweep through the water, attempting to catch female spores. | | # 雌性孢子与雄性雄蕊一接触，细胞分裂便立即开始，形成配子。 |
| # Cell division begins immediately on contact between female spores and male stamens, forming gametes. | | # 雄性将尾巴与雌性的尾巴相触，每一根顶着配子的雄蕊都会向雌性的生殖孔移动并嵌在其中，脱离雄性的身体。 |
| # The male brings his tail into contact with the female’s, as each gamete-topped stamen gravitates towards a female’s gonopore and lodges in there, breaking free of the male’s body. | | # 尾巴与尾巴的接触反复进行，以实现配子在雌性尾巴中的最大植入。 |
| # Tail-to-tail contact is repeated for maximum implantation of gametes into the female tail. | | # 每个接收到配子的生殖孔会立即自行封闭，并在配子发育成胚胎时在其周围形成一个果冻状的囊。 |
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| | 交配过程可能要持续好几个小时，对双方托夫来说都不会产生任何性快感。卵的孕育期可长达 6 个月。在此期间，雌托夫的尾巴会肿胀，常常肿到与她身体其余部分一样大。因此，雌托夫常常离不开水，在陆地上行动极其困难。雌托夫的身体常常会重新吸收部分胚胎，将其分解，直到只剩下 1-3 枚卵。雌性会在水下产下她那一窝果冻状的卵，卵必须在水中不受打扰地待上几周。托夫们通常更愿意借助科技手段来确保他们的卵安全稳妥。 |
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| | 托夫繁殖是出于延续种族和培养劳动力的理性愿望。虽然父母负责支付抚养孩子初期产生的费用，但每个新生的托夫一出生就背着债务，因为父母会记录孩子成长过程中的所有开销。年满 20 岁时，托夫被视为成年，必须开始偿还养育成本。此时，他们的债务开始按政府监管的利率计息。通常，大多数托夫需要 10 年左右才能还清债务，债务由父母双方分摊。 |
| The mating process may take upwards of several hours, and results in no sexual pleasure for either tove. Gestation of the eggs can take up to 6 months. Over the course of this period, the female tove’s tail swells, often to the size of the rest of her body. As a result, female toves are often water-bound and find landbound mobility too difficult. A female tove’s body often reabsorbs some embryos, breaking them down until she is left with no more than 1-3 eggs. A female lays her clutch of jelly-like eggs underwater, where they must remain undisturbed for several weeks. Toves most often prefer the aid of technology to make sure their eggs are kept safe and secure.
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| | 托夫的一窝通常有 1 到 3 个幼崽。然而，成年托夫认为同时抚养超过 2 个孩子在经济上不划算。剩下的孩子会交给社区，由政府机构抚养。虽然这些孩子是在官僚体系而非父母的陪伴下长大的，但他们的学徒身份意味着他们无需偿还任何父母债务。 |
| Toves reproduce out of a reasoned desire to continue populating their race and to produce a workforce. While parents are responsible for the initial payment of expenses incurred when raising a child, every newly-born tove is born in debt, as parents track all costs as the child matures. Upon reaching the age of 20, a tove is considered an adult, and must begin the process of repaying the cost of its upbringing. At this time, their debt begins to accrue interest at government-regulated rates. Typically, most toves take 10 years or so to repay their debt, which is split between both parents.
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| Tove broods generally range in size from 1 to 3. However, adult toves find it economically unsound to raise more than 2 children at a time. Remaining children are given to the community, and raised by governmental bureaus. While such children grow up with bureaucratic systems in place of parents, their apprenticeships mean that they are not required to pay back any parental debt.
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| | === 历史 === |
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| Mome, the tove homeworld, is a planet of vast, shallow seas, similar to Earth during the Cambrian era. Most of the land is covered with a single species of foot-high terrestrial algae, and the widest variety of life is aquatic. Oddly, evolutionary paths on Mome ignored the relatively sparse landmasses, and diverged based on aerial lifeforms and aquatic ones. The skies of Mome are filled with vast clouds of floating invertebrates, aerial jellyfish the size of blimps, and predatory fish that adapted to life in the skies. Predation from said fish at various points in their evolution forced the toves into deeper and deeper water, building vast civilizations in the depths.
| | 莫姆，托夫的母星，是一颗遍布广阔浅海的星球，类似寒武纪时期的地球。大部分陆地被单一物种、约一英尺高的陆生藻类覆盖，而最多样化的生命形态在水生环境中。奇怪的是，莫姆上的进化路径忽略了相对稀少的陆块，而是沿着空中生命和水生生命分叉发展。莫姆的天空充斥着成群的漂浮无脊椎动物、飞艇大小的空中水母，以及适应了天空生活的掠食性鱼类。在进化史的各个阶段，这些鱼类的捕食迫使托夫退往越来越深的水域，在深海中建立起庞大的文明。 |
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| | 在那里，托夫文明不断进步，随着他们发展出科技，他们重回水面，建起尖塔，最终进入太空。在与更广阔的宇宙接触后，托夫发现自己处于一种独特的劣势。银河系似乎靠性运转，而这是一门他们并不流利的语言。 |
| There, tove civilization advanced, and as they developed technology, they ventured back to the surface, building spires and eventually venturing into space. Upon contacting the greater universe, toves found themselves at a unique disadvantage. The galaxy seemed to run on sex, a language in which they lacked fluency.
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| | 虽然托夫不理解这种对性的痴迷，但他们可以把它当作一种商品来理解——一种几乎取之不尽、其他物种永远嫌不够的资源。通过合同、受薪雇员以及统一的贸易和通讯网络，托夫开始充当物种间性接触的中间人。最终，这些安排演变成大规模的后宫，由富有的采购人和老鸨掌控。 |
| Though the toves didn’t understand the obsession with sex, they could wrap their heads around it as a commodity—a virtually inexhaustible resource that other species couldn’t seem to get enough of. Through the use of contracts, salaried employees, and a unified trade and communication network, toves began serving as middlemen for sexual encounters between species. Eventually, these arrangements evolved into large-scale harems, controlled by wealthy Procurers and Madams.
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| | 整个托夫种族由旋涡至高卡马里拉统治，通常简称"卡马里拉"。表面上是巨型企业，它制定法律、执行法律，并规范托夫之间的政策。卡马里拉通过可购买的选票鼓励个体参与。卡马里拉的政策由多数票决定，而选票可以从卡马里拉购买。较小的政策变动通常意味着选票价格较低，而重大决策往往每票要花费数百万信用点。托夫要想改变他/她的政府，首先必须积累可观的财富。 |
| The tove race as a whole is governed by the Gyre Grand Camarilla, often referred to as “The Camarilla.” Officially a megacorporation, it creates laws, enforces laws, and regulates policies between toves. The Camarilla encourages the participation of individuals by means of buyable votes. Camarilla policy is decided by the majority of votes, and votes are purchasable from the Camarilla. Smaller policy changes usually result in cheaper costs for votes, while major decisions often cost millions of credits per vote. For a tove to effect change in his/her government, he/she must first accumulate a sizable fortune.
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| | 对财富、节俭和商业头脑的高度重视塑造了托夫社会。财富即地位，而对经济收益的渴望就是托夫最接近性欲的东西。托夫在面临金钱收益时常常会变得令人不安地专注和狂热，并且以个人财富来评判一个人的"吸引力"（作为伴侣/配偶的适宜性）。托夫仅因经济利益而与其他物种成员结婚虽然不寻常，但也并非闻所未闻。 |
| A heavy focus on wealth, frugality, and business savvy shapes tove society. Wealth is status, and a lust for economic gain is the closest thing toves experience to libido. Toves often become disturbingly focused and intense at the prospect of monetary gains, and judge the “attractiveness” of a person (suitability as a mate/spouse) based on their personal wealth. It is unusual but not unheard of for a tove to marry a member of another species based solely on monetary gain.
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| | 因此，其他种族接近托夫时往往心存戒心。他们通常不被视为奸诈之徒，但他们是难缠的讨价还价者，而且不会厌倦谈判。由于卡马里拉为了公关目的强制问责，真正会用损坏或有误导性的商品"欺骗"顾客的托夫十分罕见。 |
| As a result, toves are are often approached with caution by other races. They are not generally considered deceptive, but they are hard bargainers, and do not tire of negotiations. Because the Camarilla enforces accountability for PR purposes, rare is the tove that will actually “cheat” a customer with damaged or misleading goods.
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