>>23988314Only if I give away the intentions, and leave a witness. This is something else that people don't consider with the Post Collapse Cannibal, they assume a feral beast, something mindless, that charges at you with a foaming mouth.
No, it's something much more scarier than that, a friend, an ally, a loved one, someone who looks, talks, smells just like you, someone that you've no trouble walking a certain line with. The hunt is not one where I am in the woods and you are in the compound, is it I in the compound with you, waiting for the moment where you go to bed, take a leak or dump, or turn your back on me.
Or we can play compound and woods, that too works, much less fun however, since you'd be dealing with drones and booby traps.
What you'd think I'd stalk the woods waiting for passerbys? Lol, that's a waste of energy. Booby trap the fuck out of an area, do a patrol, grab the meat. Hell, build the booby traps, tell about the monster, get taking in and guide people to said booby traps as well. Rinse and repeat for infinite meat.
You really don't get it yeah? You genuinely cannot tell, in a post fall society who is an ally or a friend, and if you cannot trust anyone, you will die. And if you do trust the wrong person? You will also die. And there will be people who know of you, can read you like a book, and then eat you.
One must assume that all Man is Primal, to survive in a Primal world. Sleep with one eye open, knife in hand, gun in other. To assume that at any moment you are going to be attacked. That peace and trust are openings, and will be used against you.
That is how you live in such times, because yes; The Post Fall Cannibal is a Beast, but Beasts are not stupid, they are Predators, ones adapted specifically to hunt Human prey to outsmart them.
Here's the funny part, in that sort of world? It's not only acceptable and understandable, it's the best way to survive as an Individual in a world
