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@Thinslayer Also! Would you like me to post your character on the character tab of the roleplay or would you like to?

Im thinking about tweaking the post requirements a tad so more people are able to join.

@Conejitoooo

I'm thinking we should let the players do it so they can adjust their character sheets as necessary.

Regarding the post requirements, I don't feel that we need to change much. If I'm not mistaken, we still have our minimum of 5 people who signed up. Additionally, group RPs with slower posting rates can be really frustrating to participate in. Even with daily posting, in a group of five, it can take about 5 days for any given person to get the chance to reply. With every other day posting, that doubles to 10 day intervals. 5-10 days is a LONG time to wait for a chance to reply. So you may want to evaluate the benefits of having more players vs the benefits of having more story content. You're the top GM, so the decision is ultimately yours, though.

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@Conejitoooo
Did you see my post about Rei?

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@Rabidporcupine
I hope this discussion didn't sap the fun out of your idea. I actually like it, and I'd like to try and help you make it happen.

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I should probably point out that the monsters named so far aren't an exhaustive list of all the ones on the planet, but just a list of the sapient ones. The less intelligent monsters with no humanoid sapience don't organize themselves into anything so advanced, and are mentally incapable of joining the Zodiac Tribes. So there's probably lots of monsters out there he could cook and eat without worrying too much. It's like you said, if it can ask you to stop, you probably shouldn't eat it.

If you choose to go the goblin route, be an Uruk. They're one of the biggest and most dominant groups of the Cancer Tribe, and I've got some fun stories charted out for them.

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@Rabidporcupine
Hm, that's very true.

There's a few aspects to consider. First, all the other monsters are, despite their human-level sapience, still different species. Humanity is no stranger to eating intelligent animals, of which pork is a prime example. And we're not wholly averse to using parts of our own species for irreverent uses; human bones are a preferred instrument in leatherworking, for example, and some of the modern stem cell research uses aborted human embryos. And, whether the monsters have human-sapience or not, everything's fair game when they're out for your blood. You gotta defend yourself.

Now, all that said, that the monsters are "humans in different bodies" is merely headcanon. Current literary convention has the different species at different levels of sapience, which is inconsistent with broad-spectrum humanity. So at most, I could see there being an in-universe conversation about the morality of eating creatures with sapience approaching ours, but at the end of the day, they're not (considered?) human.

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No I get that, don’t worry. It’s just that I want to make sure I’m not making a character built around the concept of hunting, cooking and eating fantasy monsters, or using their body parts to make new equipment Monster Hunter style, if actually doing that kind of stuff would make him a terrible evil person, you know?

@Rabidporcupine

You know, it's funny you should mention that, because I recently toyed with a story recently involving that very concept. People were enslaving and eating fantasy creatures, and it never occurred to them that it might be wrong, because they didn't see their victims as people. They dragged the summoned Chosen Hero into eating such things, and when he later realized what he'd done, it became something of a defining moment for him.

The story never left my head because it felt too preachy, but I think the idea still has its merits if you'd like to explore it.

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Oh yeah nah I get that there’d be the normal earth animals hanging around, but like, would killing, cooking and eating a hydra or something like that be the kind of horrific murder it would be if he did it to a human in the real world, or are monsters like them basically just animals for the most part?

@Rabidporcupine

While I don't know how Conojitoooo feels about it, my headcanon has always been that sapient monsters are literally human beings in different bodies. I once had an explanation for it, but it's never really come up to become necessary. But yeah, killing a sapient monster is killing a person, tantamount to murder. Most of the people in this world probably don't give a hoot about that, though.

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@ERode
Technically, this is the OOC, but the interest check is where we're doing all the planning at the moment. I think we'll probably switch over to the OOC once the RP officially starts.

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@Rabidporcupine
Yes, they're ALL people! You're killing and eating the flesh of living, breathing people! Muah ha ha ha ha!

Jokes aside, yeah, there's plenty of non-sapient creatures in the New World too, the majority of which you'd recognize from Earth.

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Also you might wanna put a bunch of them in a hider or something. It's a huge wall of text to read

@Conscripts

Hiders implemented. ;)