Important Safety Tips

[otomechapilot]

Sara here with some stuff you should know about being a small fuzzy animal.

First off, humans here hunt and trap animals. Not to be jerks or anything, just for the reasons that humans anywhere do - for food or for fur and leather. But they probably think the Forest Folk are just from stories and don't know the difference, and the locals want to keep it that way for some reason (which might be why we're here), so be vewy vewy qwiet when wandering around the woods.

This goes for Humanvestigators as well as Furvestigators. The pastel fuzzy guys will probably panic if they see you and they aren't one of us.

Second, I ran into Probably Gil. He's a honey badger, he don't give a damn, his name is Gilligan Reed here, and he made it his personal mission to find new fuzzy friends and warn them everything I've just said in a Royal We about the Forestfolk. I don't know if he's in charge but he's important.

Third, Forestfolk are starting to go dumb and stupid. Feral's the word they use. Probably real high on the list of stuff we have to fix. It's a handy excuse for not having parents, among other things.

Last off, Forestfolk names are usually just normal ones or oldtimey ones plus dumb puns, and what kind of animal you are for a last name. So I'm introducing myself as Sara Shetland.

Thanks for your time.

Comments

[otomechapilot]

Even knowing what sticks out as important could help, or what bugs them cause it's different.

[leftbehindagain]

True. The demographic imbalance is a good place to start, then. So is the amulet.

[otomechapilot]

Demographic -

Are you saying there used to be less humans and more everyone else?

[leftbehindagain]

That's what Liara-san said, I think.

[brokers]

Or more mingling between the species. There are too many humans in the city, but I cannot say for certain whether this reflects a shift in the overall population levels, or merely the isolationism that appears to be practiced by the Stonefolk and Forest Folk in this era.

[leftbehindagain]

Between the stone curse and the feral problem, it could very well be both.

[brokers]

That is very true. What do we know about these afflictions so far?

[leftbehindagain]

You'd have to ask someone else about the stone curse. Feral Forest Folk have lost their intelligence entirely, and tend to just wander off as mundane animals. So far there's no way to reverse it - if there were, I'd know.