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Your standard issue toffian: blue, rubbery, and a little baked

rubbery creatures with vaguely human shapes, the toffians are easy-going creatures largely of the blue persuasion. Toffians are largely passive creatures in their homelands, but they can become livelier when they leave home. Toffians also possess a seemingly unavoidable fondness for drugs and alcohol, which they seem to have a build in ability to recover from swimmingly.

Stats: Toughness +3, Charisma +2, Mana +4, Luck +3, Awareness -4, Will -4, Intelligence -2, Quickness –1, Strength -1. Toffian bodies are rubbery and resistant to damage, and their mellow nature makes them follow the flow of mana (and be a hit at parties). They are, however, fairly absentminded and normally not very fit.

Anatomy: toffians have far fewer organs than most other races, as many functions are treated by the body as a whole. For example, food can be digested anywhere inside the body. Their body's gelatinous nature comes from their bones being a semi-solid blood-like substance, which deals with most of the body's functions itself. They have slower metabolisms than most, which contributes to their slothful slacker nature. Only a percentage of toffians grow hair, though it is more common with females. Toffian fingers can come and go as needed, and some may prefer to keep any number out normally, and often none at all since the hand can be folded over to create its own palm at any point along the arm. Toffians often have some degree of control over their general shape,

Genders: females are normally slimmer than males, tending to be more charming than attractive. Toffians, unlike some theories may suggest, give birth and breed the same was as most races. After giving birth, females become suddenly quite strict, seeing to it that their children are raised properly and taken care of. Considered to be much like the maternal responsibility acquired by a mother bielle, this too wears off when she feels her child is safely matured. Genitalia are internal on a toffian, only emerging when breeding is imminent. While a decent amount of toffian females possess breasts, they do not generate milk. They are believed to be created consciously simply to aid in gender identification.

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Lacking external "offensive" parts, toffians may frequently prefer nudism

Youth: During infancy, a toffian lives solely on excess body mass given off by the mother. The weight they had gained during pregnancy is shed through this process, as it is painlessly removed and given to the child. Toffians are quite demanding and noisy as infants, and must be taught their tame and mellow nature. This kicks in fairly quickly, and toffians are given what education they can while young. Considering their teachers, they don't learn especially much outside of their own society. Toffians find maturity at 2-3 years, though they will begin to grow more distinguishing features several years later.

Diet: toffians require little food, absorbing some level of energy from sunlight. This makes them very big on snacks, primarily vegetables. Fishing has proven to be a near-ideal source of food for them as well. They have a number of extensive recipes, but these are mostly reserved for special occasions due to the efforts they can involve. Toffians who eat too much gain weight quickly, as it digests slowly. Some toffians are known to ingest a whole turkey, or something of similarly unusual size and carry it around their bodies as a joke.

Names and Language: toffians names are often smooth or bouncy, easy on the tongue. These can include Plum, Bulba, Pad, and Gel. Toffian language sounds incredibly slow paced to a foreign ear, but the toffian language is actually only a few words long, with numerous fluctuations of tone within it to create a sentence.

Territory: toffians live alongside the kirr tol hive on the northeast peninsula. They call their country Toffopolis, and let the toffians trade and travel through their land freely. The passive toffians are frequently overlooked by the kirr tol, and can trade some of their patiently raised crops and cattle (having slow metabolisms) to maintain the peace with the insectoid raiders.

Psychology: toffians have passivity built into their society as a whole. They are open-minded, but are often wary of being seen as easy marks or pushovers when in the outside worlds. Toffians are often exposed to drugs at very early ages, generating a moderate resistance to them and will often seek what more intense levels of intake can do.

Technology: toffians are fairly primitive in their native lands, using simple tools for farming and entertainment. Their study of medicine and herbology is outstanding, though, and they can work wonders in combination with humanoids' understanding of alchemy.

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Toffians who do choose to wear clothing frequently only use it to attract mates.

Politics/Law: toffians are ruled by their highest leader, referred to as The Toff (pronounced like "oaf"). This figure is relatively stable, even though the right for the title is always open for grabs. The role of Toff is given to the "most chill and lax of all the toffians." While this is incredibly unstable sounding planning, this has proven remarkably affective. The Toff has a superbly level head, avoids conflict, and detests harsh tempers or violence in his presence. Any who are identified to be chiller will take the place of the Toff, since appointing ones self shows a particular lack of chill. Beneath the Toff, there are the "Toff buddies," his selected comrades who oversee the distribution of goods throughout the people fairly. Toffians have very loose laws, mostly only acting against acts of violence, and then most frequent punishments are banishment.

Religion: toffians don't tend to have enough fear in them to acknowledge a need for the gods. It is not a matter of disbelief (nearly impossible, btw), simply not caring much. Similarly, the gods don't see much trouble coming from the harmless sloths, and don't bother much with them. Some of the more peace-loving gods may smile upon them, but it is never the toffians' intention to please them.

Entertainment: toffians have more leisure and forms of entertainment than any other race. Songs, dance, games, humor, plays; nearly everything but physical sports. Alien races may find them somewhat bizarre and overrated unless they are involved in the real "toffian national pastime."

Interspecies Relations: toffians openly practice a "don't bother us, we don't bother you" method of dealing with most people. While some traveling ones may seek some trouble, the country welcomes travelers and seems to miraculously avoid invasion through negotiation and their air smelling funny. Toffians on their own, however, know how to party hard, and so can be quite at home among strangers and often well met in strange places. Toffians also possess only internal sex organs, and so their normally nude lifestyles have interesting affects. Most people remain unoffended by it, but more formal toffians tend to wear clothing as a courtesy. Toffians also learned of concepts such as fashion from the other races, and so clothing is often used to try and attract a mate. The act of avoiding nudity to attract others is a remarkable concept to other races, and supposedly, an "easy" toffian is one done in garish clothing, while a "prude" will remain totally nude.

Warfare: the toffians don't believe in war, rather informal diplomacy in its place. Sometimes, toffians must resort to paying off other armies to avert invasion, or they may find it easier to bribe another army into fighting for them. When hard pressed, they may begin a surprisingly clever political espionage to spread rumors and deceit to turn armies against each other rather than them. Nobody is quite sure how the toffians would react if truly forced into the fray.

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