Boat Trolls planning thread! (full of spoilers, non-players enter at your own risk)

uhhh we could play a little more werewoof AU, with bel and alex sort of working the situation out, and maybe playing around together? talking with erskin about stuff? attempting to teach erskin morse code until erskin gnaws on bel's paws? maybe erskin could suggest a trip to the dog park.

 

haha yeah, it's boring just to write your own dudes chattering. bacon, maybe? alex has taken a sick day, or a half-day? maybe after your son is like 'so uh i'm a werewolf' and your son's werewolf pal is like 'yeah your military keeps all that sort of thing classified' you kind of want to absorb that information for awhile.

 

haha! he would, too. i can start off.

 

oh hey bel mentioned REI supply camping. maybe they can go along with alex...? maybe erskin will be allowed in the store because they want to try on the doggie backpacks. some stores are more chill than others about having dogs in.

 

WAH. Woof Erskin's baby pictures would have been criminally adorable.

 

i fucking love that everything wolves do they do like a bunch of really excited fratbros like yes they're going to check out these humans and say hi to the one they know but first they gotta jump around and pummel each other cuz they're just that stoked

 

erskin is an adorable mess and i love him. also now bel and alex are kind of confronted with the fact of an extremely high-energy canine doing his absolute level best not to tear up the house, while he's wound tight enough to start throwing off sparks. he's trying to be a good boy, he really is, but all the puttering around camps and houses isn't exactly the regular sixty-mile runs he's fit for.

 

yeah, werewolf language is like probably at least 1/3 woo magic, and another 1/3 instinct, and the remaining third is canine-but-not-dog body language only more subtle. not at all conducive to rote memorization.

also it must be funny for him to be parsing all of erskin's running commentary, too, when he's a wolf, like suddenly getting subtitles.

 

oh my god i just realized even going to the dog park as a human is going to be weird for him now. this is potentially hilarious, thinking about bel walking up and realizing he understands what the dogs are saying a lot better than he understands what their owners are trying to convey. also i guess potentially agonizing, it seems like the kind of situation that could be really, really overwhelming. we could play it either way.

 

uh i think probably both? if reggie was called in to do cold war spy stuff, it would have had to do with russian werewolves, probably, which we've established the russian military not only employs but creates. wwwwhat if the cold war was about when russia started folding werewolves into their military instead of using their military to exterminate them— maybe some soldiers in ww2 proved themselves exceptionally valorous?— and as probably the only western secret agent werewolf expert, reggie would be in pretty high demand, wouldn't he.

i think whatever was going on at the time would have been way over a younger alex's clearance level, though. if he was doing spy things he'd have been there to handle the mundane side of things, and probably provide distraction from reggie's activities. which were, honestly, probably just making a lot of new friends and being erskin's aunt's wingman, for all that he would have told american and british intelligence that it was very hush-hush wink wink secret information gathering and status jockeying.