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

would it be too mean to everyone if it snowed or something while they napped, so their earliest scent trail was wiped out? i don't actually know how they'd get back to the safehouse if that happened.

 

Maybe pancho can meet them halfway, or a little while after bel starts really worrying.

 

Yeah, she'd be worried after a day. Maybe she could do a spell.

Edit: maybe she could magic/bribe a crow to come get them.

 

It would be cute if Pancho hadn't worried about them at all because she's used to, emotionally, 'bel goes out, bel comes back. No big deal.' So even with recent frightening events it's just easier to default to casual faith that he's a tough motherfucker who's perfectly fine.

Maybe the big excitement for her is she caught a turtle and didnt know what to do with it besides carry it around and bark at it. That would keep a woof occupied for awhile, i bet.

 

important note for proper mental imaging: when erskin thinks really hard he definitely puts his ears back and glares at the ground. you can also hear the faint sound of gears grinding together.

 

yeah i expected him to start fretting too but i guess it's hard to feel responsible to someone you only just met when your brain is mostly like 'there's my boyfriend, he's happy'. it could be funny if he turns back to a human in a couple days and all the stuff he has to worry about occurs to him at once. he's standing naked in someone's house and is like 'OH SHIT' and erskin is like 'so are you going to open that fridge or what'.

 

it's also kind of cute and nice that they did human stuff for awhile and now they're finally doing erskin-style wolf stuff. though it's a lot more repetitive. eat, run, sleep, repeat.

 

that would be really interesting for everyone, scientifically! i'm not sure how that would actually work when it's been established that the condition can't be transferred to wolves, and that each generation of werewolf kids, when bred back to wolves, produces more animalistic kids who lose the power to turn human. hmm.

if a first generation human-turned-werewolf mated with a coyote and had a viable kid, they would be honestly a really fucked up dude, but anyway the kid would be the same as erskin in being half human, but also half coywolf. if that coywolf kid mated with a coyote again, the offspring would be 3/4 nonhuman and also 3/4 coyote. it would be in the position of erskin's half-human second cousins that mated back to wolves and had kids who could only change the week of the new moon. very smart wolves, but not very human. the influence of the coyote blood is anyone's guess, though.

 

also i think erskin would have a very low opinion of human-turned werewolves who went and fucked non-werewolf canids. it's probably usually a really horrific and abusive situation, when it happens, like eugenics past the boundaries of good taste, experiments done to your own children, or a harem of miserable breeding slaves in cages, brr. by the time a human actually goes and engages in zoophilia, they're already kind of off the rails, ethics-wise, so i would think non-horrifying arrangements are rare.

half-human and quarter-human werewolves could actually see regular wolves as people, so erskin wouldn't see any problem with that— if it happened in the wild, you'd know the female or male wolf genuinely wanted to go for it, and the werewolf saw someone worth courting, too. but a human would be fucking an animal, even if they were both wolves at the time. it's really dark to think about.