[Oh yeah, me too.  Responding...]<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">“Yep that sounds about right from what I've seen of the Xiticix on my journeys.” Ayashe says with a thoughtful nod. “So do you know anything about these mystery attacks. I mean Xiticix usually leave you alone as long as you don't bother them but these are unusually aggressive almost as if they are killer bee versions. Not to mention the recent influx of undead running around.”</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>"Well, from what I've heard, they can be fairly peaceful neighbors, only defending their claimed territory.  Then once in a while they'll kill all the cattle on a nearby ranch.  Later still, suddenly attack and overrun a town, killing everything.  I've mapped out these reports, and I hypothesize that they have a slowly expanding demarcation, and when their border crosses you, you become an enemy, something to be destroyed.  I don't know anything about<em>particularly</em>aggressive Xiticix; they all seem to be an expanding plague."<br/><br/>The doctor stands as she talks, buttoning her lab coat as she speculates, which only frames her lace-encased bosom.  "As for the undead, that seems more magical than scientific, which is slightly outside my areas of expertise.  But I would think them to be another plague, though less coordinated by the Xiticix; unless an intelligent vampire, they have no plan or purpose.  Unless these monsters are intelligent or seemly controlled by something?" she asks.  "I have not had many reports of them, so I do not have any theories on their behavior or ecology."