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

ideas for the next day? it would be cute if alex did more things with erskin-and-bel rather than just bel, i think

 

erskin probably finds frisbees enjoyably weird to chase around! i think he finds the conflict between his prey drive and his ethics pretty frustrating sometimes. he always wants to chase and play, but it's absolutely inculcated in him that killing just for fun will make you into a crazy evil monster, and then you will get shot up with silver, and it will serve you right.

to be fair i think the combination of a wolf's high prey drive and a human's tidy ability to stop seeing other humans as people does, generally, pitch a non-zero number of werewolves straight into crazy evil monster territory.

maybe the werewolf hunter guy plot could work along the lines of like, there are fucked up serial killer werewolf gangs out there, so there's also some werewolf hunters who are like 'look, any werewolf can and probably will turn evil, it's just the way the natures mesh together and bring out the worst of both, might as well put them down before they hurt anyone if they're just going to do it eventually, right, it's like putting down a rabid dog before it starts foaming'. and of course there's no real evidence that there are more good families than bad, because of course the good families mind their own fucking business and the bad ones charge around eating military squadrons.

plus for reasons that are kind of beyond me, humans tend to be fucking nuts about exterminating every single predator in an area that might so much as glance thoughtfully at one of our herd animals, let alone our women and children. werewolf hunter is probably a popular job among the asshole set of humans that mess around in the weird parts of the world.

 

Would it be interesting for erskin to go into freakout flight mode? Like when confronted with one of these guys. He's so much more lighthearted t and less traumatized in this au, haha, but i expect dedicated werewolf hunters are very scary problems for kids like erskin , who really dont want to murder anyone and are too wolfish for clever planning or facility with tools, and so can do nothing but run.

 

Oof, gotta go snooze now, sorry!

 

I would think werewolf hunters would be specifically armored around the forearms, throat, and heels to soak up the crushing power of wolf chomps, plus big loose coats, and could thus just let desperate werewolves 'ambush' them and then stab them up a lot with silver knives. Plus obviously long range weapons like guns and crossbows.

So yeah erskin flipping out and hauling bel into running for it could be the smartest plan.

Would it set bel's ptsd off, being hunted, or would he be confident and calm about it?

 

if you felt like a NEEDLESSLY COMPLEX DRAMA PLOT, what if bel and erskin /don't/ tell alex what's up, putting it off for some indefinite 'later', then the hunter comes after them during the full moon and they run in desperation back to alex's house? and alex wakes up to like rusty and a gigantic mystery dog huddling under the kitchen sink, possibly with a few crossbow bolts stuck in them apiece, and a very angry looking guy in a lot of black leather on the verge of breaking in?

 

okay! i was thinking from that angle the heavily armed guy would have to stand on the front porch and try to lie about being animal control. but yeah bel working out what to do and how to control himself when worked up like that would be pretty cool! we will figure it out.

 

btw it's not that erskin doesn't want to play with them, it's just that he loves being ornery and obnoxious and figuring out how to play the game wrong

 

flatlining on more ideas of what to do. i feel like roadkill today ):