Basic Cryptozoology - Wednesday - First Period - 7/30

[brandyforapples.livejournal.com]

Lucky for her class, Abigail Irene Garrett was in fact in a lovely mood for the day. She had a date set for Friday, there was a play on the island which sounded very interesting, and her patchwork terrier Mike was up on her desk, insisting on getting a scritch from under her hand.

"Today, as I told you last week, I'll be asking each of you to present a few minutes on the subject of a creature, perhaps a cryptid, from your own world. I'll start things off for all of us...

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Re: A Creature From Your World

[wannabehunter]

"We don't really classify these kind of things that way where I come from," Jo said. "But if I had to say... they're always corporeal, and they didn't start out as people, so whatever tangible non-humans fall under I guess."

Re: A Creature From Your World

[brandyforapples.livejournal.com]

She nodded.

"Fair enough. If you don't mind me asking, how do you classify things where you come from?"

Re: A Creature From Your World

[wannabehunter]

"Where they fit in the lore, mostly, groups of stories, that kind of thing" Jo said. "Usually you only find out about them when they're killing people, and the scientific method isn't exactly a high priority about then."

Re: A Creature From Your World

[brandyforapples.livejournal.com]

"I see."

...oh dear.

"So you don't think a scientific understanding of a creature can be used to help defeat it?"

Re: A Creature From Your World

[wannabehunter]

"Not exactly," Jo said. "I'm all for figuring out the best way to put something down before innocent people end up kibble. The problem's more on the acquiring a scientific understanding without something eating your spleen mid-experiment side of things."

Re: A Creature From Your World

[brandyforapples.livejournal.com]

"Experiments aren't really a necessity. Or at least not in the traditional sense.

"I should assume that there is some methodology to taking care of such creatures adopted in your world?"

Re: A Creature From Your World

[wannabehunter]

Jo nodded. "Different creatures are affected by different things. There's some overlap here and there. Not the kind of thing you want to leave up to trial and error though."

Re: A Creature From Your World

[brandyforapples.livejournal.com]

"No, but how do you think people figured out what would work originally?"

Re: A Creature From Your World

[wannabehunter]

"Being the one who survived," Jo said with complete and utter seriousness. "And then making sure other hunters knew."

Re: A Creature From Your World

[brandyforapples.livejournal.com]

"And how do you think they survived? Probably not by guessing, I would say."