...I guess I'd better give you a good description of them so that you'll know what your up against when your whole existence becomes a choice between Cave-Or-Tinfoil.
The Reptiloids are kind of tall, usually over six feet, and strong. They have silver scales that look very mirror-like, because the scales are naturally inclusive of a sheet of tin-aluminum alloy over a carbonate substrate and covered with an organic polymer that is hard and clear. This makes the Reptiloids highly resistant to the Death Ray, but it's more a natural evolution of camouflage than anything else. The Death Ray resistance is just their dumb luck. It also makes them very hard to see unless you have a light source that reflects off their scales. Sometimes you can hear them moving too.
Their faces don't have a long snout like a crocodile or T-Rex, they have a snout more like a cat's. Their teeth, however, are gruesome. They have three-times the length of dentition of a Human, and about a dozen more teeth, all sharp and evolved to cut up meat. They do that all too well. There's more than one Human living in the bat caves of Peru that has tooth-scars on their ass from not running quite fast enough. (Despite the now-known benefits, most Humans won't smoke unless the Reptiloids are right on top of them, and by then it's too late. It takes a minute or two for the smoke effects to kick in and mellow the Reptiloids out.)
The Reptiloids have short, vestigial tails, with spikes on the end. They're long enough that the Reptiloid can spike you in a fight, and worse yet, they can swing that tail down between their legs. Can you say "steel cup required for sparring" with these things? You'd better.
The Reptiloids don't wear clothing, it would mess up their camouflage. As far as I can tell, their "equipment" must be retractable, because you can't see anything but scales where most other creatures have danglies. I'm afraid of what it would be to see two of them doing the nasty!
The Reptiloids don't have ears, either. They just have a large scale where the ears would be, that doesn't blend in quite so well with the rest of their scales. The docs think that the Reptiloids hear through sensing the vibration of sound waves with this scale. We're not sure how good their hearing is, but we are sure they hate the Didgeridoo.
I'll have to tell you about the Lava Snarks another time, I'm running out of Tinfoil Time and need to get back in the bat caves.
Brad Wonder out.
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