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

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i shouldn't be laughing but i'm laughing. MOUSE LAUNCH: ENGAGE.

 

Getting porcupined by silver-headed crossbow bolts? Maybe arrows and crossbows are more of a nuisance because the silver stays stuck in the body, doing damage and impeding mobility, rather than passing through, like larger bullets, or just being a painful nuisance, like pellet shot. It takes a lot of bullet-holes to keep a werewolf down, too, as Bel has found out. Also I think washing/plating bullets in silver would limit the kinds of gun you could use...? it'd be fussy and expensive and you couldn't easily get all the casings back, the way you could reclaim silver-coated quarrels.

I wonder if Bel could be really overconfident, because even if he's cautious and alert, he still remembers that he had to basically chainsaw the afghanistan werewolves apart with bullets before they were dead, and he's even bigger. And then three inches of barbed silver arrowhead to the shoulder later it's like OH FUCK OW.

 

Hey I just realized, we've got an answer as to why that one dude tried to knife Bel right away. Bel's particular substrain of werewolf is Crazy Fucking Russian Special Forces Extra Giant Extra Scary Werewolf, and he would have been holding himself in still a very military way even as a human. Even though he's a friendly buttercup, even as a big grim, I bet he raised some serious alarms in that guy's head, whether he was a decent guy trying to slay a monster or a monster trying to edge out the competition.

 

Yeah if the guy was in a blind or something— or specifically stalking them....? Hunting werewolves in a park could be a lot easier than hunting them down in the wild. The werewolves would be only mildly alarmed by the smell of humans, even human hunters. Cover all the silver in chemical deer musk or axe deodorant or porn'n'beans and a werewolf wouldn't do more than turn the other way, or go sit under a bush, waiting for the deer hunter to pass by.

You know what would be terrifying, if Bel was just hiking along as a regular human, ready to go 'hey there!' to this other human outdoorsman, and then this guy turned and swung his weapon out of his big parka and fired.

 

Awww yee. Maybe let's have it happen when they're almost done with the loop trail? They've swung back around closer to the parking area, the werewolf hunter may or may not have already finished off Lord Failwolf and determined to wait for Bel and Erskin, betting that Bel at least would come back to his car (big, decent looking, current license plates, a bunch of national park stickers) rather than just pushing on into Canada. It's not on the full moon but it's at least after a period of exertion, so they'd be tired and complacent, and who knows where they'd be in another couple weeks. It'd be as good a time to strike as any.

 

did some quick research on crossbows.

-they're apparently as accurate, and more powerful, than compound bows now, as opposed to ten years ago. i did not know crossbow technology was this cutting edge field but apparently it is.
-they're still fucking big though. like, as long as a rifle, and half that length across. they also look fucking crazy.
-in conclusion i'm sure they'd be great to kill a werewolf with, being suitable for stags and even boar, but not at all great to sneak up on one with. i don't even know what kind of thing you could hide one in. an extra parka kind of draped over it and then tucked under your arm...?

 

Huh. A sling bow would be pretty darn cool. But it almost seems like a ren fair kind of thing? By the time the wolf is close enough for your sling bow to seriously hurt, you might want to be dropping it and grabbing your knife.

A gun with silver bullets could just be best here. A pistol's definitely easy to conceal. Maybe he's got a hunting rifle slung over his back? for far-off targets. And Bel is like 'oh, okay, I see he's armed, but it's on his back and he's not going for it, so everything is (probably) fine.'

 

what a terrible decision! i don't think you could write a time-skip post this late anyway, let's have them finish up the boning and try Danger And Excitement tomorrow or saturday, if you feel like it.

 

btw i think that while erskin doesn't like bondage the same as bel, he'd like being covered and held down? it could feel safe.

 

in the space navy AU or even the regular one, i was thinking bel trying bondage on erskin could be interesting, because to him it would be almost a form of painplay. like, instead of being able to relax it'd get him even more alert and excited. thrilling? maybe that's the word? it'd be very much a blackrom thing, like, introducing another element of challenge and struggle into the activity.

i also feel like bel would enjoy the show of getting cuffs or a rope on him and watching him viciously thrash around for awhile. maybe like 'it's a pretty simple cuff just on one hand, you should be able to unbuckle yourself even though i'm holding on to your boner.'

i bet there's at least one porno where a 'seadweller' gets 'caught' in a 'net' and then the other troll has to get him out... and off.