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

it would be cute if there was an interlude where erskin bullies one of the guards into taking him out for a pee break at some point. with all the fuss over a critically injured human patient, i wouldn't be surprised if no one communicated enough to feed and water and walk the service dog and everyone just assumed someone else was doing it.

 

'erskin do you want lunch'

 

man so you know the stereotype of, white boys don't do hate crimes, they just go craaAAAAaaaazzy? in this case that's actually like, the most applicable explanation. the marine's the only survivor of his unit, comes home and gets obsessed with the notion of russian and aghani special agent terrorist spies invading america and posing as normal citizens, and starts serial killing on the weekends with a shit ton of silver bullets and silver knives because apparently these islamic commie superspies are also werewolves. like... ok. that's going in the tabloids.

local werewolf hunting gang: uh, yeah, he sure was.... uh, nuts. We're just a regular hategroup. We hate humans.
military: HAHAHA, WEREWOLVES. Uh. PTSD-triggered schizophrenia. There's no way Captain Kadros was a werewolf. Or a commie.
bel: Actually socialism, at least in the context of democratic socialism, has some valid points—

 

Try some tea!

 

i was thinking, if you wanted to avoid a big block where alex and bel are talking only to each other, erskin could be involved in the discussion, too. which like maybe he should be if they're talking about someone being detailed to hang around bel a lot.

 

if the door is closeable, they could just do that. i feel like, if a Colonel wants a private conference with his ex-Captain son who got murderated by someone who also turned out to be ex-military, the guys guarding the door wouldn't blink twice at being told 'this is way above your clearance level'. Also frankly it is, because Werewolves.

also like i don't know exactly how much surveillance is in hospitals, but i think it's more like, 'one or two monitors per room to keep tabs on patients and staff' and less 'spycams all over'. maybe just tossing a coat over a ceiling camera would be enough.

 

oh hey i found werewoof erskin's dad!



this is exactly the face (and hair) of a millionaire who went and played james bond for a decade or so, married two hot werewolf sisters, and retired to a beautiful wilderness preserve in southern england.

 

i feel like alex cadros would be kind of wry about a dude who's at least 15 years older than him looking only barely past a midlife crisis. but hey, werewolves. he can console himself with the thought that at least bel is going to look that hot when he's 80.

....yknow, he can also console himself with the fact that bel is probably going to survive anything short of being chainsawed, i bet he's going to be super relieved in a day or two to watch him bounce back. i was thinking bel should heal at 2 or 3 times the rate of a regular dude, because werewolf, and alex can try and handwave it as, 'he's incredibly fit and healthy and has great genetics'. and everyone can nod quietly and think 'and was probably involved in some sort of classified government supersoldier bullshit'.

 

erskin is pretty vague on how often you're supposed to shake hands with someone, since everyone responds positively every time a dog wants to shake paws. 'when you meet someone again (especially as a human)' is his bet.

 

bel: i am in a totally unique position here and everyone should give a fuck even the government my life is TRAGIC and SUPER SERIOUS.
erskin: not only are you not the only werewolf ever you're not even the first werewolf ever.