Editing Questions/Question 88

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|QuestionFaqPage=Test Drive Meme - May 2025/Event FAQ
|Link=https://kelesis.dreamwidth.org/2600.html?thread=4760872#cmt4760872
|AskedBy=redsoil
|DateAsked=2025-05-24
|QuestionText=last minute q that i forgot to slip in for dear marlowe ( gojo/@mrblueeyes )!! since set...... was allowed to keep his ability to talk to animals ( heLP ME ), and would have interrogated(?) some FROGS 🐸🐸🐸 on behalf of gojo. or a snake, or any swamp-dwelling creature he can get his hands on. <br><br>largely, he's relaying questions such as:<blockquote>— have the animals seen anyone traveling from the city into/out of the swamps ( at least one season ago, if their memory is that good )<br>— if yes, which direction(s) are they mostly traveling in?<br>— are there any areas that the animal life have learned to avoid in the swamps? either for fear of endangering themselves, or perhaps the locations of dwindling food source ( hinting at human influence )?<br>— could.... a frog/etc..... be a guide to any of these places? <small>im so sorry</small></blockquote> A general idea of how the animals have been impacted, where they most feel it, and if they've seen the comings and goings of anyone beyond the mutated entities roaming around is great!! I just forgot to ask this for Gojo's player to have the info earlier on. THANK U
|DateAnswered=2025-05-25
|AnswerText=🐸🐸🐸Frog Interrogation results🐸🐸🐸<br><br>1. The local swamp critters aren't that great at keeping track of large things that aren't attempting to eat them. They think there's been more activity 'lately' (which probably refers to the Augmented exploring recently).<br><br>2. It's definitely only recently that they've seen anyone travel back and forth, from the swamps to 'other' (Karteria, probably). The Augmented presence has confused them somewhat, and they seem to be lumping in the large mutated creatures in with them. To their senses, there isn't a discernible difference between them. <br><br>3. The frogs are intentionally and ineffectually duplicitous. They think Set is after their sweet insects, and will try to send him all over the place where all the 'really good, very delicious' insects are. These are actually more dangerous spots, where there's more poisonous (and not tasty) insects and predatory fish. (The frogs also contradict one another, for the sake of trying to encourage Set to go to where other, rival frogs are.) Trying to map based on frog-intel will reveal a battlefield of frog-grudges but nothing particularly useful. (It does suggest, perhaps, that there isn't anything traditionally human-shaped living in Asphodel Fields.)<br><br>The snakes and lizards somewhat better, if skittish. They're honest about not being sure, but they also can't remember anyone besides the Augmented/mutated entities fussing about in the swamp. They would be unwilling to guide to anywhere they think is dangerous (and are bewildered at the desire to go to where the water is foulest and where the insects are inedible), but would accept a lift to the nicer parts of the swamp.... Unlike the frogs, they will be honest about where the good hunting (for a small lizard/snake) is.
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