Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
From Ben
Wyvernian, Chapter 4 of ToP was really awesome! So Ryker and Ras have actually been on Pandora before… interesting. They also have their own rag tag team besides themselves; although none of them have taken the intelligence serum except Ryker, who has apparently taken a perfected version of it on his home ark. The way Ryker talks about this perfected serum leads me to believe that the intelligence serum on Pandora only works on primates or apes, since they’re closest relatives to humans. Ras already seems to be missing his arm, but he doesn’t have his razor blade arm yet. Ryker can talk perfectly fine which means he isn’t missing his lower jaw. Yet. It says that Wretch is a “mechanical genius”. Could that mean that he is the one who will eventually create the prosthetic parts for Ryker and Ras?
Ryker seems to be considered the most knowledgeable and therefore the most intelligent out of the group. But for some reason he didn’t consider using the humans as manpower to fight the guardians? It leads me to believe that Salizar is far more cunning than Ryker. This could be because of a variety of reasons. It could be the fact that Salizar is an ape; which means his planning skills and what not already have a boost, and Ryker is just a Yutyrannus, a reptile running on instinct. Plus, both creatures took completely different intelligence serums. Ryker’s “perfected serum” may just be perfect because it can work on any creature. It might not necessarily mean that it gives him a perfect intelligence.
Hmm, the group have also been on Hades. Interesting. They lost a lot of members there too because of an “incident”. Based on the time reference it could be completely possible that they had an encounter with Cinder and her wyverns. Cinder and her wyverns would definitely outmatch Ryker’s land-based army/group, which is why so many casualties were made. That also maybe how Cinder learned more about the ARKs. The way Killion reacted to this makes me believe that a close friend of his perished on Hades. This means that the group has been on three ARKs thus far: The Home ARK, Hades, and Pandora.
Another character that intrigues me is Asher. She’s a carcharodontosaurus who apparently went on a rampage throughout her tribe. But she should be far more powerful than Ryker and shouldn’t be affected by his fear roar. How did Asher come to work UNDER Ryker, if she should be stronger than him? This could tie into the whole Knowledge is Power thingie, but if Asher is a quiet character so I don’t think she would have worked for him out of respect. I’d imagine that a character like her would just want to live a peaceful life, not go to the Earth. Perhaps Ryker did something to her which caused her to work with him out of fear.
Ras also doesn’t like to talk about his past. He doesn’t even talk about how he met Ryker. Perhaps that’s how he lost his arm?
And Ryker really wants to go to the Earth badly, because it calls out to him. That’s probably the element’s fault. It probably wants Ryker really badly because of the intelligence serum. Or something i dunno.
And finally I believe Salizar’s plan is going to involve getting rid of Ryker’s bottom jaw. Ryker’s fear roar is a very powerful thing and if he uses it on any of his group, pretty much all will be affected (except Asher). So if he gets rid of it… he can’t use it. It all makes sense now. He’s probably going to use Asher to his advantage.