<b_jonas> le/rn kithkin/Kithkins are genericized halflings for intellectual property reasons, except they also have some limited telepathy to remote sense each others\' emotions.

#!/usr/bin/perl
sub k{my$t;$t=~y/IVXLC/XLCDM/,$t.=("",I,II,III,IV,V,VI,VII,VIII,IX)[$_]for/./g;$t}$_=(shift=~/(\w+)/)[0];print k,$/