amigolupus posted:

I do think Laios and Senshi need the reality check, given they're at the stage where they're just feeding other people monsters without their knowledge. Like how they tried to feed a devastated Marcille some Harpy omelet after the Chimera Falin encounter, or Senshi adding a Walking Mushroom to the risotto he made for Izutsumi.

Lazy Fair posted:

Most people having an aversion to eating monsters makes sense on the surface if you think about it like it's real life.

Eating horse meat is largely taboo and illegal in the US, despite it being fine in many other cultures. While that one doesn't bother me personally, I would be extremely bothered by eating some other animals even if it was technically safe and I was assured it was delicious.

Most people here would not want to eat bugs, or worms, or snails, ect. Yet there are of course cultures where it's done. In episode 1 they eat a giant scorpion, how many of you are thrilled at eating a scorpion irl?

Plus as marcille says in this episode, there ARE good reasons to regulate and be careful about which populations of animals we consume. There are a ton of major diseases which are believed to have jumped species due to humans eating animals, such as ebola, aids/hiv, bird flu/swine flu, and covid.

This is not even getting into whether or not the monsters have eaten humans, which is also brought up in episode 1.

Clarste posted:

The thing about them eating people is a little weird to me since plenty of animals try that too.

lightrook posted:

Well, obligate carnivores like big cats aren't usually known for being good eating, and even wolves, which are commonly hunted and rarely man-eaters, aren't to my knowledge a big part of any regional cuisine I'm aware of. Some cultures even refuse to eat fish from lakes where bodies are buried, so it's not an uncommon taboo.

The only overlap in the Venn diagram of "game animal" and "maneater" I can name is a brown bear, but even then, bear paws and fat are just the exception to the rule that carnivore flesh generally tastes foul.

Not that I'd know from experience or anything, I'm mostly going off things I've read in novels.

Asterite34 posted:

These distinctions and cultural nuances and moral grey areas are the luxuries of people who aren't hungry

Suleman posted:

From what I understand, part of the problem is that carnivores by their nature eat a lot of other animals, so any harmful substances or surviving parasites those animals have will accumulate within the carnivore.

YggiDee posted:

I can't shake the deep suspicion that eating monsters is how you get prions.

Rand Brittain posted:

I can't shake the deep suspicion that eating monsters is how you get psions.

lightrook posted:

The only overlap in the Venn diagram of "game animal" and "maneater" I can name is a brown bear, but even then, bear paws and fat are just the exception to the rule that carnivore flesh generally tastes foul.

Not that I'd know from experience or anything, I'm mostly going off things I've read in novels.

Goffer posted:

This needs a One Punch Man crossover where eating monsters definitely does give you powers.

Das Boo posted:

See, this is kinda where my head's been at. I'm thinking this is akin to frontiersman/wilderness exploration where I cannot possibly fathom returning to a city to get provisions instead of at least learning to supplement my rations along the way. And then if a friendly, healthy dude comes up to me and points out all the stuff I can eat, you bet your rear end I'm learning his ways. It's only practical. Use those bones and fur, too!

Kwyndig posted:

Yeah they're not taking it seriously because they're relying on corpse retrieval and teleport spells. They're taking the easy way and budgeting out their trips with so many days food and they expect to get to X location to do Y quest, maybe they're collecting bounties, maybe they're doing errands for someone, maybe they're just trying to get to the lowest point of the dungeon and look for that wacky magician.

No matter what, they're handling it as casually as someone to whom death doesn't really apply would. Everything short of being digested by a monster is fixable and even then there's a chance (assuming your resurrectionist brought a spare cow).

chiasaur11 posted:

They're often treating it seriously, but they're treating it seriously as a very different thing from Laios and co. They get a job, budget the supplies to do it, finish the job, leave, and collect the money. It's a concrete mission with beginning, middle, and end along with a budget, supplies, and clear measures to mitigate risk.

Laios, meanwhile, is trying to go to the deepest layers of the dungeon on a tight time table, with no money. It means he has to take a very different approach.

ronya posted:

ronya posted:

Senshi is also allowed to have what seems to be an infinite amount of flour, onions, garlic, salt, sauce oils, butter, etc. to make dishes palatable. They're not just bushmeat skewers with a thick vegetable stew every day.

TwoPair posted:

Well at least at this point they're no longer really on a time table, it's just a matter of getting to the bottom and/or to the Mad Mage. Although now I suppose even if they found a bunch of money it wouldn't matter because they can't leave without getting Marcille arrested.

Electric Phantasm posted:

Man that is some foreshadowing

Zeruel posted:

whats it foreshadowing? im stupid.

Zeruel posted:

whats it foreshadowing? im stupid.

Zeruel posted:

oh, yeah. personally I don't see marcille's use of ancient magicks deserving of a criminal charge

Zeruel posted:

oh, yeah. personally I don't see marcille's use of ancient magicks deserving of a criminal charge

DrSunshine posted:

Are you willing to be her defense attorney in this world where apparently every normal person thinks of black ancient magic as super dangerous and illegal?

Kwyndig posted:

I don't think it works like that. At least the impression that I get is that the Western elves are scary dudes and might be able to take Falin.