@restart-the-cycle @keeper-of-magic @angeliteonfridgeduty (Since you seem to be curious about this now . . . )
Lucky spent the last few cycles with me, trying to uncover all the secrets of this butchering chart we found. The results are . . . morbid, to say the least.
Head - Edible, though not worth effort of breaking the skull; Very rich in protein, however
Claws - Generally Inedible
Leg - Little meat, but sweet and somewhat fatty
Chuck - Tender, meaty, and better cooked than raw; Very full flavor
Rib - Full, hearty, meaty flavor that strikes the tongue, despite how little fat is marbled in
Loin - Lean and tender, but bland; Do not eat alone
Tail - Very long strips of mostly fat; What little meat there is tastes wonderful
Tongue - Very rubbery and sticky, but with unrivaled flavor
Organs - None are very appealing, save for the heart, which has a nice gamey taste
Too little meat for a lizard. Overall, though, a sweeter and leaner choice to Pink.
(OOC: There was originally an image to accompany this, but I'm still fighting drawing it and wanted to get this posted because tomorrow is the big reveal lol.
I will post it once I finish it.)
This confirms it. He's eating them. He's dissecting and eating creatures . . . but why?! Why do this, then still have the nerve to lie?
I have to thank Lucky for all this, he confronted Drops about it shortly after. The transcript is below.
LE: Drops, we need to talk.
NDI: Is it about the dissections? The way I talked to Pages? Ungrateful spoiled little rat, is what she is.
LE: None of that. Look, I swiped one of your notes-
LE: Shut up or we'll find out if you're a mobile model as well. Now, look, I swiped one of your notes and you're clearly butchering creatures. You even have the way they taste!
LE: Tell me why or you'll get a fire egg shoved down that bloody maw of yours.
NDI: I was curious. My ancients always wanted me to reflect on their own odd personalities. I never understood it. One day, they gave me a mouth, and it was like something inside of me awoke.
NDI: A part of me I wouldn't trade for the Triple Affirmative, even.
NDI: They wanted to see me go savage. They wanted to watch me break down into nothing more than the beasts on the ground below.
NDI: But I'm a little more sophisticated than that. Instead I began dissecting out of curiosity. But of course, then I had to dispose of the bodies, and, well, I have a mouth, so-
NDI: Yes. You all have no idea how good meat tastes. Particularly red lizards, they're all muscle and absolutely amazing. Cooked or raw, I like-
LE: You're getting sidetracked.
NDI: Right, um, of course. So, my ancients started coming down themselves. And, I had enough of it, so I did some research and . . .
NDI: I won't explain how I did it. But I disabled their ID drones so I could hurt them. As much as I wanted.
LE: For fuck's sake, Drops, don't tell me you-
LE: Well, that settles that.
NDI: They got suspicious, even though I only ate about a third who crossed my path. So they all ascended and left me behind. Alone. Hungry.
NDI: Creatures have been slow coming in. I started to feel weak without their blood. I fear my system as become reliant on it, just as necessary as water.
LE: Why the fake water call.
NDI: Well I needed something to eat! I doubt anyone would respond to a sudden call for blood, so I did the next best thing!
LE: Yeah, next time, don't.
NDI: Lesson learned, lesson learned. Look, if I had known something like that actually happened I wouldn't have done it! I would have said something else, like . . . like I needed creatures for an experiment or I needed creatures to fight off something in my ecosystem.
LE: Be glad I'm not mad at you. The others . . .
NDI: Is there another annoying messenger on it's way-
LE: . . . You'll . . . you'll see. Monarch hinted at something called a Scrapper.
NDI: FOR FUCK'S SAKE, TELL THEM TO STOP IT!
LE: You deserve it. Anyway, now I'm curious. What do some creatures taste like?
Technically there's more Lucky wrote, but it's all just Drops talking about the way different creatures taste and I am not reading all of that. There is one good thing:
Lucky convinced him to open his communications in a few cycles.
Now, with all this out of the way, who wants to go topple a superstructure with me?
