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- Sun Dec 10, 2006 2:05 pm
- Forum: What should a werewolf be?
- Topic: Mating: Bitten WW vs Born WW
- Replies: 76
- Views: 25876
If we're going with the viral lycanthropy model, the heritability of lycanthropy would depend on the specifics of the virus. If you think of the lycanthropy virus as something that somehow permanently edits a person's genetic code, then it is likely to be heritable in part or in whole if both parent...
- Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:20 pm
- Forum: What should a werewolf be?
- Topic: How painful should the shift be? And...
- Replies: 112
- Views: 39559
There is no reason why joints would pop in or out of socket in a shift. Actually there is, if you're changing from human-to-wolf, or gestalt-to-wolf. There are several pieces of skeleton, such as the pelvis and sacrum have to be configured quite differently to handle bipedal/quadripedal motion. Whe...
- Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:58 am
- Forum: General Stuff
- Topic: How many Therians?
- Replies: 140
- Views: 46848
- Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:36 am
- Forum: What should a werewolf be?
- Topic: Limits on Interaction with the Human World?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11779
Limits on Interaction with the Human World?
Since this is one of the primary foci of Freeborn and a big source of narrative tension in much of werewolf media, I thought it might be interesting to ask: In your conception, how extensive or limited would a werewolf's interaction with normal humans be? Could a werewolf continue to hold the job th...
- Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:56 am
- Forum: What should a werewolf be?
- Topic: How painful should the shift be? And...
- Replies: 112
- Views: 39559
Dunno about you guys, but every time my shoulder, hip, or jaw pops out of (or even back into) joint, it hurts a bit, regardless of how many times I've done it before. I don't imagine that that sensation spread over my entire body could ever really be comfortable. I can go for the idea of an endorphi...
- Sat Aug 05, 2006 3:54 pm
- Forum: What should a werewolf be?
- Topic: Bark or No Bark?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 19542
- Fri Aug 04, 2006 2:40 pm
- Forum: What should a werewolf be?
- Topic: Do Werwolfs also have hay fever?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 9723
It depends on your paradigm. If our werewolves are primarily mundane and scientific, I see no reason why not. Hayfever is an autoimmune inflammatory syndrome, which is to say that it's caused by an indiscriminately aggressive immune system. Since wolves and humans are both succeptible to environment...
- Fri Aug 04, 2006 2:26 pm
- Forum: What should a werewolf be?
- Topic: Nice looking ww design (PG-13)
- Replies: 45
- Views: 19717
Both are very nice, and I appreciate that considerations are taken for the werewolves' ability to do basic things like...you know, moving. My singular nitpick is that unless those claws are retractable, particularly on the hind feet, there's no way they would stay that attenuated or sharp for any le...
- Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:47 am
- Forum: General Stuff
- Topic: My University's Mascot *(please read my latest post)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7660
- Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:35 am
- Forum: What should a werewolf be?
- Topic: Lycanthropy and Jungian Archetypes (yet another essay)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 26441
- Tue Jan 24, 2006 10:36 am
- Forum: What should a werewolf be?
- Topic: Where would a Werewolf 'Sanctuary' be located?
- Replies: 73
- Views: 31519
There are places in nearly every state and region in the US and Canada where you have tracts of wilderness within relatively close proximity to civilization. For example, I live in Northwest Georgia, where we have the Cohutta Wilderness, a 40,000+ acre, federally protected wilderness area (the large...
- Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:26 am
- Forum: The Pack- General Business
- Topic: RENAMED: Pack Pendants Request List.
- Replies: 211
- Views: 120970
- Fri Aug 05, 2005 1:22 pm
- Forum: What should a werewolf be?
- Topic: Werewolves and talking
- Replies: 278
- Views: 87455
- Fri Aug 05, 2005 1:15 pm
- Forum: What should a werewolf be?
- Topic: Pack Sociology and Behavior
- Replies: 52
- Views: 17993
Pack Sociology and Behavior
In what ways (and to what extent) do you thing that wolf-type social behavior ought to filter into werewolf (particularly human-formed) life? Do you think that a pack-like caste system would be used? If so, how do you think that system would be enforced/reinforced, what would determine the ranking o...
- Mon Aug 01, 2005 12:31 pm
- Forum: What should a werewolf be?
- Topic: Their diet?
- Replies: 237
- Views: 99123
Lupin is correct. There are no recorded cases of a wild, healthy (i.e. non-rabid) wolf attacking a human in North America. Except under very specific conditions, like the Sawtooth Pack, who were extensively socialized as pups so that researchers could watch them as closely as possible, wolves instin...
- Sun Jul 31, 2005 5:02 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: New members.
- Replies: 2154
- Views: 453050
- Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:19 pm
- Forum: What should a werewolf be?
- Topic: What power should a werewolf have in its possession?
- Replies: 117
- Views: 25149
I'll add my opinion to the pile: I think that for the purposes of a story-centered, modern-earth movie, werewolves should come with heightened, animal-like senses and the extra strength and speed you'd expect from a large predator. I also think that a certain amount of accelerated healing would be r...
- Fri Jul 29, 2005 8:37 am
- Forum: What should a werewolf be?
- Topic: true form
- Replies: 105
- Views: 23559