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Among other reasons people don't tend to internalise conspiracies and/or grudges towards people who sell guns the way they do towards fellow students, coworkers, religious/racial/sexual minorities, women and so on.

I also imagine the response time from the police when someone tries to hold up a gun store is insanely fast.

For a mass shooter the goal is about fear, pain and death, not gaining possessions, so robbing a store or dealer with an available target group of whoever works there plus any customers present at that exact moment isn't super appealing.

Where are you guys finding all these weird looking critters, Chernobyl?

Well the aardark and aardwolf are both from Africa. Both are ant/termite eaters, and aardwolves are a type of hyena weirdly enough.

Pangolins are found in Asia and Africa as I recall.

Saiga antelope are from the steppe in Asia/Europe. As I recall the noses are an adaptation to breathing cold air, they help keep the internal body temperature higher by heating the air up as it passes through the nasal passages so it's warmer when it reaches the lungs.

The alaskan bull worm isn't real, to my knowledge the only worm by that name is from Spongebob, though it wouldn't surprise me to learn that a newly discovered species would be named that, biologists love their referential or silly animal names. The photo Novel posted is presumably a large marine worm from the north atlantic or pacific, or the antarctic ocean, but there's a whole heaping load of very large* worms in the ocean especially as you go towards the poles or deeper down.

Voliol's tunicate is a filter feeder, there's similar tunicates in the ocean worldwide. Some are less neat looking, being more like a squishy transparent pipe than anything else. They start out as mobile larva that swim around feeding on plankton, then once they mature a bit they anchor themselves to the sea floor, their tail and nerve cord get reabsorbed and they turn into various takes on filter feeding tubes. They basically digest their brain and leg equivalents to live the life of a vaccuum.


*Or long really, most marines worms that are big are extremely long rather than being larger in all dimensions than a small worm. Biological limitations on their internal anatomy and a lack of reason for getting thicker when longer does the same job better. Poor circulatory systems make getting nutrients from the digestive tract to the outer layers of a thicker body harder, so a thin long body helps there, and they tend to fill a lot of their length with ovaries and/or testes.

Also all the soldiers that rape people should be shot and killed.

I think the traditional method of killing war criminals is to hang them.

For various reasons I'd say it's preferable to put any of the soldiers caught on trial and then execute or incarcerate them through civilian procedures, which would generally mean hanging, lethal injection or electric chair, though I think Ukraine doesn't have the death penalty anyway*, than to have them hunted down and assassinated by revenge squads.

Though the odds of any such war criminals surviving a period of incarceration in a Ukrainian jail would be slim to none, so just shooting dead them might actually be the kinder punishment.


Sadly I expect that a lot of war criminals are going to go unpunished. Rapists, murderers and looters are going to be plentiful enough that tracking them all down isn't going to be practical, even if post-war Russia decides to be fully cooperative. This isn't really a WW2 situation with well documented death camps and experiment logs and muster rolls and so on to use to identify the people involved, it's more of an out of control mob shitshow. Apart from the odd morons who got their faces caught on cameras and so forth I imagine definitively proving that a given soldier, or even a given squad or detachment was involved in an atrocity is going to be difficult, especially if Russia decides to destroy their paper trail.


*Given the circumstances, temporarily reinstating the death penalty wouldn't seem unreasonable to me despite being highly opposed to it on general principle.

Bought a bunch of foam storage sheets for my minis the other day, turned out none of the boxes* I have are the right size to fit them into, so I've got the sheets lying around my room while I wait on bigger boxes to arrive. Left my door open for about a quarter of an hour while I had a conversation with my mother, in that time the dog went into my room and ruined two of the sheets. I have decided to buy a door spring to close the door automatically behind me. This will not be great for the cat or tortoise's ability to wander the house freely, but at this point the dog has made it clear he can't be trusted with access to my room or any of my hobby materials and I just can't be bothered with my stuff being wrecked anymore.

*Mostly under the bed storage boxes, not really designed with foam trays in mind.

Quote from: Grim Portent on May 18, 2022, 11:18:36 am

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The only thing I would add is, is there any pattern to the people killed? Does the wolfwere do anything in its human form that it couldn't do as a wolf? E.g. is the wolf figuring out which humans are responsible for urban development, and is trying to reverse the spread of human settlements on wolf territory by redirecting them to bear territory?

My thought is that the wolfwere would use it's human form to target those that it can't hunt as a wolf. It's smart enough to know that if stories about a wolf that cannot die get around people will try silver, and it can't easily approach country estates, mayorial manors or village centers while a wolf. Opening locked doors is also tricky with paws.

As a man it can approach a community under the guise of needing shelter for the night, murder gate guards and steal their keys so it can slip into a guarded property or walled village. Actual targets of such killings would be rather opportunistic I think, unlike a werewolf it has no emotional connections to the people in the area, though killing the leaders of the communities is an obvious choice for an alpha predator with a sadistic streak to make, as is terror tactics designed to scare the surviving prey.

So targets for human killings; watchmen and sentries, local officials, the residents of noble estates including staff, especially staff if the noble is not currently in residence at that property. It is not quite smart enough, or just doesn't care, that killing nobles who aren't strictly local will draw lots of attention, and it hates people who hunt in it's forests anyway, which is what the landed gentry are likely to be in the area to do. While it is basically impossible to kill without preparation, it won't necessarily kill everyone in a given household in one night, but will generally kill almost everyone over the course of one full moon and then move on to a new household for the next one.

Wolf attacks on isolated people or small groups probably cluster towards the next intended target, forming a recognisable if somewhat confusing pattern.


BTW, does anyone else find Bearded Devils look really goofy in all their art?

I could easily see elements of the Russian military going all post WW1 Germany Freikorp on things. An attempt at demilitarisation is going to leave lots of weapons in the hands of former soldiers, those soldiers are likely to form paramilitary groups, and those groups are going to resist various possible movements for social change in Russia. This either ends with a new dictatorship as the forces for change fold before paramilitary violence, or with a long drawn out civil war that could end in any of a number of ways and be of any size.

Got any examples of something which you'd define as a flesh horror (as opposed to more standardized/limited shapeshifters such as werewolves) where being one isn't rad?

Chaos Spawn from warhammer?

Endlessly growing new bodyparts, absorbing them back into the body, bits of them changing shape in the time it takes to take a single step, all while what little remains of the conscious mind is in agonising pain and wracked with confusion as their senses shift.