thank you so much for your wonderfully detailed response!
and, excellent. I will have him start sooner than Memorial Day for sample gathering. and I would definitely like for him to be able to send off what he finds for analysis. it could be a good way to springboard him into joining since he doesn't have any other outside contacts yet and hopefully Morningstar can see that beneath the willing personality there is at least someone willing to get their hands dirty.
anyway, excellent. I can start working on a log post shortly!
EDIT: hi guys, i didn't know if i should submit a second comment or not but since it continues on from the questions listed above, i figured maybe i'd just edit.
so, i know you guys posted a general description of what the crabs looked like in the event. i will review this later, as well, but am currently on the train and heading home so having to do this all on mobile.
my question is: ren's going to try to strip the corpse of one of the crabs, as best he can, focusing obviously on the tentacles and the venom, as stated above, but what i wanted to know was:
1. since there's really no rules for how to handle creatures like this, i figured he'll default to the closest approximation he'd know, which is regular size crabs. so, basically, will it be possible for him to remove the shell covering the body like one would a regular crab? maybe using a knife?
2. how accessible would the organs be? also how large? i assume there'd be a fair bit of blood and gore. would there anything noticeable, appearance-wise, with regard to the blood. a weird color, perhaps? would there be any additional risks like the blood being lethally toxic etc.
basically, the tentacles and venom are still the focus of the thread, but since he is going to be digging around i thought i should double check with you guys first. i'm sorry i didn't think to include this in my initial comment and will try to avoid situations like this again in the future.
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and, excellent. I will have him start sooner than Memorial Day for sample gathering. and I would definitely like for him to be able to send off what he finds for analysis. it could be a good way to springboard him into joining since he doesn't have any other outside contacts yet and hopefully Morningstar can see that beneath the willing personality there is at least someone willing to get their hands dirty.
anyway, excellent. I can start working on a log post shortly!
EDIT: hi guys, i didn't know if i should submit a second comment or not but since it continues on from the questions listed above, i figured maybe i'd just edit.
so, i know you guys posted a general description of what the crabs looked like in the event. i will review this later, as well, but am currently on the train and heading home so having to do this all on mobile.
my question is: ren's going to try to strip the corpse of one of the crabs, as best he can, focusing obviously on the tentacles and the venom, as stated above, but what i wanted to know was:
1. since there's really no rules for how to handle creatures like this, i figured he'll default to the closest approximation he'd know, which is regular size crabs. so, basically, will it be possible for him to remove the shell covering the body like one would a regular crab? maybe using a knife?
2. how accessible would the organs be? also how large? i assume there'd be a fair bit of blood and gore. would there anything noticeable, appearance-wise, with regard to the blood. a weird color, perhaps? would there be any additional risks like the blood being lethally toxic etc.
basically, the tentacles and venom are still the focus of the thread, but since he is going to be digging around i thought i should double check with you guys first. i'm sorry i didn't think to include this in my initial comment and will try to avoid situations like this again in the future.
thanks a bunch.