"I'm not so sure it's a good idea to stop right here", Althea cautions. "I'd propose to move a bit further, maybe a couple dozen tails or so, just to be safe. As for watches, I guess we can determine them randomly, unless anyone has particular preferences. Oh yeah, and I obviously have little use for a bed roll, so I don't need any."<br/><br/>((We have food for a couple of days))<br/><br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">A tail, the main Lamia unit of length, defined as the length from the beginning of the tail (the counterpart of the human crotch) to the tip of the tail. Obviously, Lamia don't measure in feet - why in the world would they? XD<br/>An inch uses the same definition as an Imperial inch, and has the same length (2.54 cm).  A tail is defined as 240 inches, and therefore equivalent  to 20 Imperial feet (incidentally also exactly equivalent to the Somerset unit "rope"). They <span style="font-style: italic">do</span> have a yard, but they define it slightly differently - a yard is 40 inches exactly (instead of 36), and defined as the distance from the top of the head to the beginning of the tail.<br/>They also have another unit they call league, representing the maximum distance a Lamia can travel in an hour, which is equivalent to 1200 tails and hence quite different from what Americans understand as a league (it is 288'000 inches instead of 190'080, a factor of about 1.5). They have a mile of exactly 1000 tails, but it's rarely used and would be highly confusing (It is much closer to <span style="font-style: italic">four</span> Imperial miles. Or half of a Swedish mil. Confusing either way.). They have an even longer unit, the etmal, representing a day's journey, equivalent to 6 leagues, 2400 tails, or 1'728'000 inches.<br/>Lamia rarely have use for units smaller than an inch, and tend to define anything smaller as fractions of inches in the rare case it's actually necessary, often 10ths, 12ths (equivalent to the old unit "line") or 60ths.<br/><br/>Metric conversion:<br/>1 inch = 2.54 cm<br/>1 yard = 1.016 m<br/>1 tail = 6.10 m<br/>1 league = 7.3 km<br/>1 etmal = 44 km<br/><br/>So, the "5-foot-step", is really more of a "quarter-tail-movement" for a Lamia. Also, Lamias can move two tails with a move action, four tails with both a move and a standard action, and eight tails when they "run".</div></div></div>