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[woofdad]

So, I was wondering - what's something from your world that's been really weird to find out isn't universal? For example, I'm a werewolf and I've been kind of surprised by how many worlds we apparently don't exist in. It's a weird feeling.

Related, is cats having extra eyes a thing where you're from or not, asking for both me and my boyfriend.

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[nightyorb]

Everybody here just being... human.
No orcs, no goblins, no elves. Just humans everywhere.
Like, sure, I come from a town where humans are the majority race, but nothing but humans?
It's super weird.

And cats definitely just have two eyes where I am from.
Are you *sure* it's a cat and not, I dunno, a hellspawn or something?

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[woofdad]

[Someone else from a world where elves actually exist, then... among other species that, at most, Grant's kind of heard of in the context of fiction.]

Oh, yeah, that must be weird; those species don't exist where I'm from, either, but we do have more types of person around than humans, even taking into account that werewolves are just another kind of human (which was ANOTHER thing that was kind of weird to find out isn't universal, which is why i mention it at all tbh).

Pretty sure! Especially since I'm not thinking of just one cat; it was just something that cropped up now and then in cats back home, like having extra toes. I didn't realize until that threw Dimitri off that it wasn't common everywhere.

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[amaure]

A werewolf? How very interesting, I believe you are the first I have met of such since my arrival here.

I cannot fully say I am surprised by aught I am familiar with proving not to be universal, particularly when such may not be true depending upon the time and development of the world in question. One's unfamiliarity with such means not that it does not or cannot exist, after all.

As for your question concerning the felines, are you speaking of merely a house cat, or aught of the feline persuasion? An important distinction. If the former, than they typically have two, if the latter, then they can have more or none at all depending on the feline creature we are speaking of.

Why? What's the norm for you?

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[woofdad]

Haaa, yeah, it doesn't seem like there are many of us here.

That's true, yeah; I've considered the possibility that some of what I'm familiar with may just not be common knowledge yet in other worlds, just like how for all I know things from their world could just be outside my perception in mine. But even that unfamiliarity can be odd to adjust to, especially when it comes to stuff where the current understanding of it in my own world has been so integral to my life. In any case, I guess it is a distinction worth making.

House cats. They've usually got two eyes where I'm from, too, but "extras" aren't uncommon!

[spacebaloney]

[Lance shouldn't reply, but he's bored and something something idle hands, devil's playthings.]

you're a what?

depends on where you are. earth? no. somewhere in the boondocks of space? yes.

[woofdad]

[Oh God. Realizing who it is, it takes him a moment to put a reply together at all, and it's... well.]

A werewolf.

I'll count that as a "no".

[lordofthefries]

[Sasha has an answer to Grant's question, but she has one of her own that's far more pressing at the moment:]

whats a warewolf

[Don't ask her to spell it correctly when she's not even sure that it really exists.]

[woofdad]

[Oh come on Sasha, the spelling's right there! But... honestly, he's not too bothered. He'll just do his best to explain.]

Apparently it's different in some worlds, so I can only speak for mine - but, where I'm from, a werewolf is someone carrying a curse called lycanthropy. It has a lot of different symptoms, but the biggest and best-known is that we change shape into something kind of like a dog or wolf each full moon.

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[lovelybottom]

It's been strange to find that so many worlds have few or no monsters at all. Or those monsters are entirely mythological. Does the lycanthropy carry over into this world?

Can't say I've ever seen cats with more than two eyes, though. Not ones that lived, anyway.

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[woofdad]

Yeah? I might've heard some already about the kinds of monsters in your world, but I don't remember much in the way of details off the top of my head.

It's... hard to say. The symptoms are largely suppressed, but since they come back on those weird weekends, I'm working under the assumption it's technically still in my system and I just don't show the signs most of the time.

Weird; it's not that uncommon where I'm from, but it's sounding like your, uh, cat eye experience is closer to the majority around here.

[schachmeister]

Well... for one thing, where I come from, the sun rises in the west and sets in the east.
There are other things, of course, but that tripped my friends and me up so much in the beginning.
We definitely got lost a time or two cause we went in the wrong direction.

[woofdad]

Really? It's east to west where I'm from, too... jesus, that does sound disorienting. I take it you've been able to adapt, though? ...I mean, I hope so for your sake, anyway.

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[machismost]

[ Good thing Kirishima tends to match whatever people start the conversation with because he's a loud guy and his first response is to shout at his 'gear. Werewolf??? This is almost as crazy as finding out Santa Claus is real here. ]

Werewolves are something out of the movies where I'm from if you mean the type that only get to change situationally. But there's a lot of people where I'm from with dog or wolf mutation Quirks who are like that all the time! One of the pro heroes in my country is like that!

Oh yeah! Quirks are special powers people are born with. A lot like Pokemon powers but most people only get one type I guess would be the best way to put it... Most people have them where I'm from. It was weird coming here and finding out most other offworlders DON'T get them.

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[woofdad]

Yep, I only changed on full moons. That was generally how it was for werewolves.

[He almost starts to say something about how he only ever knew one werewolf who looked even partially wolf-like all the time, but... poor Romu's situation isn't something he's comfortable bringing up so casually.]

Huh, that IS interesting; that's not how my world works, either. What kinds of quirks do people end up with where you're from?

action look i have to do this okay

[demonpuppy]

[Chip sees this post go up.]

[Looks at it for a solid few minutes.]

[Then goes looking for Grant to tug gently on his sleeve.]

...do I gotta tell everyone about me, too...?

CRIES...

[woofdad]

[As soon as Grant realizes what Chip is asking, he sets down his Gear to focus on them.]

Not if you don't want to. This kind of thing is completely up to you; I'm telling them about my situation because I want to, but it doesn't mean you have to say anything.

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[copykiri]

Awoooowooo!

[That sure is a little girl spouting off an eerily accurate wolf (pup) howl. But she switched to text after to make communicating easier. The extent of Kiri's knowledge of Exandrian werewolves is 'they exist.']

there are werewolves at home! never met one. are they like kenku but with fur instead of feathers? tabaxi are like that but cats not wolves. it is strange that almost nobody here is an adventurer.

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[woofdad]

[Oh no that's CUTE]

I can't say for sure what werewolves may be like where you're from; apparently it can be different, even in worlds that have them at all! Where I'm from, though, we're humans carrying a curse that turns us into creatures kind of like wolves on full moons. There are other symptoms, too, but that's the biggest one.

[cyan_maid]

[So uh let's just...assume Jane's gotten the broad strokes truth bomb from the memshare event at this point? Because wow Grant that's sure a sentence.]

Oh, um. Cats having extra eyes...is a special-case thing from my world, yes.
My friend Roxy had one that might've been a mutated...clone...thing? But Mutie was really a sweet dear, much nicer than the cat I was used to in my neighborhood, so I think having the four eyes was probably a factor in that. So, it wasn't the norm, but it was definitely a possibility I had run into.

And for me, it's weird that, uh...well, I guess it's not so much weird as it is better off for everyone, but the, erm, Betty Crobat brand isn't nearly as pervasive as Betty Crocker, despite it being a very clear sort of Pokemom world counterpart.

[woofdad]

[Probably a safe bet!!]

I see... that's interesting, it's a much more commonplace mutation where I'm from - though I couldn't say if it has any significant effect on temperament.

Betty Crobat is the cake mixes and stuff, right? Dare I ask, uh, why it's better that it's not as pervasive as the version from your world?

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[goldeneyeball]

well that makes two werewolves ive met then

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[woofdad]

Now, that just raises the question of how much you do or don't think you know based on that.

[It's really nothing personal, JW, he's just... frequently braced for Bullshit.]

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[trampire]

Eating grubs, or using sopor slime to rest. There's a feW others as Well, like the fact you don't use a typing quirk.

What's a WereWolf?

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[woofdad]

Oh, yeah, eating larvae isn't so much a thing where I'm from - though I know it is in some cultures in my world?

[not exactly what he meant, Grant]

What do you mean by a typing quirk - and sopor slime, for that matter?

A werewolf is a human carrying a specific curse called lycanthropy - at least where I'm from, apparently it differs even in worlds where there are werewolves at all. It gives us a bunch of traits kind of similar to wolves or dogs, and causes us to involuntarily change shape to something even more like them on full moons.

[epitaffio]

I guess... Santa Claus?
I mean, he's not real back where I was from. At least I'm pretty sure he's not.
But this one time, I talked to a guy who didn't know about Santa Claus at all.

And... I don't think that's NORMAL but maybe it's happened!
I think there's even been cases of animals born with two heads.

[woofdad]

[Oh god oh fuck how does he engage with the Santa Issue, he has a child who could read this-- granted, that child is twelve, but if they want to assume Santa is real in their world based on him being real in THIS world, how could he say otherwise huh!!!

He'll just. Skirt it.]

Yeah, most of the people I'm traveling with hadn't heard of him, either, until we met him here.

We get that every so often, too. The big thing with cats and eyes where I'm from is that it's a lot more common than things like animals having extra heads - it's just like how they'll have extra toes or things like that sometimes.

[uber_marionettist]

I don't know what weird is. If such a thing could be said to exist, I don't know her.

Now that I've answered your first question, you might want to specify how many eyes count as 'extra.' Now, I'm figuring you mean two eyeballs per skull as a baseline. And I'm no cat fancier, but I can tell you the cats you'd find on the current planet occupied by what you might call 'civilisation' definitely sport more than that at least some of the time.

What you gotta understand about that, though, is that everything that exists is the result of some colossal fuckery. For example, the first version of that planet occupied by human beings adhered pretty strongly to the 'two eyeballs per skull' standard.

Now, if you're not human, I have some different answers for you.

You are human, aren't you?

[woofdad]

[Boy, that's a hell of a way for a message to start. ...And to continue. But... he'll do his best to put together a reply, at least to the parts he can figure out a reply to.]

Yeah, you've got it; I'm thinking of more than two as "extra". That's one more for that being at least kind of a thing, then!

What do you mean by the first version? And I am a human, yes.

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[insidegalra]

I'm starting to wonder if alternate realities or timelines are only confirmed in a handful of worlds. Most of the things I find out aren't universal are a relief rather than a concern, however.


But I can confirm I have only ever had two eyes.

[His partner has called him a space cat enough times that when the opportunity came he had to make the joke. Of course the moment after Thace types that he has to wonder if anybody else will find it humorous.]

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[woofdad]

Oh, yeah - my world has different planes of reality, but I'd guess that's different from the kinds of alternate realities you're thinking of?

[Good news, Thace, that at least gets a little snort out of Grant.]

Ha, I'll mark that down, then.

[brokencode]

Most people I know are drastically lacking when it comes to technological advancements. Space travel is pretty much non-existent.

... Also they do not have monsters creeping around in old treasure troves.

Or a cannibalism problem.

[woofdad]

Man yeah, my world just... BARELY has space travel at this point. The moon's about as far as we've gotten.

Treasure trove monsters and cannibalism, though, I couldn't say much about on a global scale but can DEFINITELY confirm those aren't things I've really encountered in my everyday life.

...Except for the period when I was a kid and this one cannibal serial killer was my number one fear, even though he was already dead when I found out the details. But the fact that that guy was such a huge deal may be evidence of how uncommon it is?

[shiningkindness]

Where I'm from, cats usually only have two eyes. Anything more than that is pretty unusual.

To be honest, though, my world used to be pretty normal. There aren't any mythological creatures or anything that people might consider "weird" until magic was introduced into my world. And even then, the magic back home isn't too widespread.

[woofdad]

See, it's funny you say that - and that kind of thing is exactly why I'm curious about other people's worlds! - because not having magic is a lot "weirder" to me and people from my world than having it.

How did it get introduced? Do you mean it was brought in from an external source?