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

it was the full moon, then about 2-3 days before bel could pack up to start the hike, then 2 weeks for the hike, and another 3-4 days of recovery. So they're coming up on 3 weeks since the last full moon, 1-ish to the next. Erskin's got more practice this time, but he's tired and injured, and going back and forth too many times in a day is definitely a pain.

We could rewind a little, so Pancho offers to cook stuff downstairs, so Erskin stays human longer.

 

here's a funny thought: pancho could film erskin 'talking' and send the video to bel for a translation. high tech magic!

 

dropping by to share some very cute woofs



look at the red snoots LOOK AT THEM

 

you should play outside more, it's not healthy to spend all your time inside with your face stuck to that damn computer. it's only ok when i do it.

 

oh man i just thought of something for the woof au— what if bel comes by his bent for research honestly and alex kadros has been spending a lot of his free time with his ipad, watching every youtube video on wolf handlers and wolf sanctuaries and wolf documentaries he can find. morse paw-taps are all very well, but he might as well be able to see how his son's doing on his own.

hmmm that being said he might enjoy putting on some videos of a wolf documentary and having bel do running subtitles. that would be cute. and would probably amuse bel too.

narrator: nature's perfect killer is on the move
woof: BUNNY BUNNY BUNNY GONNA EAT THAT BUNNY I'M SO EXCITED FOR SNACKS.

narrator: a tense standoff ensues
woof: I WANT TO FUCK BUT SHE LOOKS MEAN ):
lady woof: I WANT TO FUCK BUT HE'S KIND OF A 6. MAYBE A 7.5 IN GOOD LIGHTING.

narrator: the pack launches into an exquisitely choreographed dance of death...
woof 1: whee!
woof 2: haha wheee!
woof 3: i got it! i got it! lol whoops nope!
woof 4: i got kicked but i'm ok!
woof 1: I GOT IT aw snap this shit's pointy!
woof 2: I'M YELLING NOW BECAUSE I'M HAVING SO MUCH FUN!
woofs 3 & 4 (in chorus): whee!

narrator: ...exist in an intricate web of dominance interactions; the alpha demands the respect due to him by lower-ranked beta males.
kids: play
kids: playtime
kids: it playtime let's play
kids: pow pow, snootbites!
dad: IT'S CALM DOWN AND LET ME NAP IS WHAT TIME IT IS
kids: no snootbites?
dad: no snoot biting
kids: )':

 

i would love to see someone try to characterize the dominance interactions of humans on, say, a family sitcom, as if they were writing about a wolf 'hierarchy'. someone please analyze an episode of Leave It To Beaver in terms of the power struggles between the alpha and beta male. it would be incredible.

 

so much of this shit you read is like this neckbeard fantasy, like, 'the alpha male asserts himself with tail postures while the beta males, thoroughly chastened, grovel and display their submission to their supreme leader, who's role is to maintain strict discipline and order among his subordinates,' and then you realize it was really, 'timmy wanted to wrestle while jimmy just wanted to hang out. things got kind of heated when jimmy took getting bopped in the face as an insult instead of a playful invitation, but they both calmed down when dad showed up and wanted to know what was going on, and we all learned the meaning of family.'

 

*has tea feels* Beeeeel. A______A

(getting made tea when miserable always socks me right in the chestpump don't mind me X))

 

this morning i was thinking about the sunslammer getting a few new assignments, to get back up to 'minimum crew compliment' after the zombie incident. anyway i thought it would be the usual assortment of whistleblowers, obnoxious bastards, and inconvenient heroes. i don't think bel's formally signed in / shown around any new crew besides the guys they inherited from the Zero Sum, which lainey would have been handling mostly. they would definitely have inherited the Zero Sum survivors, though. those guys are now classified as 'an embarrassment', since they all should have died heroically and were actually rescued and cured.

anyway what if, high green that got her captain culled for treason, low green disruptively promiscuous hateslut, and rustblood hero who took command on what should have been a 'throw a thousand lowbloods at the aliens to see what happens' suicide charge, won an incredible victory, and has since inconveniently dodged three different 'accidents'.

 

:3 :3 :3 :3

 

okay you know how bel is kind of hate-struck over how captain erskin is like 'my life is hard and i'm not actually privileged in any ways i like', it would be funny if the rust hero kind of, had the same attitude. like, oh, sure, bel and rustie are the same, suuure, bel only, what, ARRANGED THE SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF HIS SUPERIOR, and got promoted somewhere lame to sit it out for fifty or sixty sweeps, after which he'd still be a bright fresh young thing by anyone's standards and get to work his way back up the ladder. meanwhile the rustie is convicted of the capital crime of doing better than anyone wants rusties to do. and has been sent explicitly to die. she's pretty sure it says so on her file, see, right there, 'non-essential personnel'. so cram it, blueberry. she's got maybe thirty sweeps of lifespan and is entirely prepared to spend them with both middle fingers upraised.

disruptively promiscuous hateslut: threesome :D

 

anyway, just saying, bel needs more hatefriends.