'Thing is, what if the meat's poisonous?'
OOC knowledge: It's an apex predator, or close enough to it. Apex predators don't need to rely on poisonous flesh to avoid predation, only lower trophic levels do that. And if these things are this biome's version of poison dart frogs or somesuch, we're screwed. Therefore, the only reason its flesh would be toxic is if for some reason the biochemistry of this place's creatures was sufficiently different to be toxic to us...and if that's the case, we're screwed no matter what.
Just some cheerful thoughts explaining my last action!
After retching a bit, you manage to say to them 'I don't think it's poisonous, but it's sure as hell inedible.'
That's...um...unfortunate.
I'd appreciate it more if you explained
why it's inedible. Is it just that it tastes horrible, something like how monarch butterflies taste bitter to deter predation? (In that case, see above note about poison dart frogs.) If not...um...what is it?
There appears to be life, much like that on earth, living here. Alongside the great big creatures, there's things like millipedes, grasshopp-
Yeah, we know.
There's a number of people gathered here, around a waterfall about a hundred meters high, on both sides of the thirty-meter wide river. A number look injured, all of them looks nervous. As you step into the clear area around the river, everyone seems to notice you and the other seven, all of them suddenly going tense before relaxing a bit.
There ARE others here. How many remains a mystery, though. There could easily be more throughout this giant forest.
That's a pleasant surprise.
Greet people. Hope they speak English.
Assuming we do, of course. If we're French, hope they speak French; if we're Chinese, hope they speak Mandarin; if we're South African, hope they speak Afrikaans; etc.