>>107162932I don't know the efficacy of pineapple enzymes vs. repeated furious smacks with a hammer or tenderizer vs. whatever other techniques there are, but maybe Hoomans could compensate for their weaker jaws by being extra thorough when tenderizing their meals (whatever their method may be) much like how the Japanese made up for their inferior iron by being more thorough smiths.
Owls IRL don't have them, but I suppose gastroliths may be an option for Hoomans.
One thing IRL owls do is spit up bones and other parts of their food they can't digest. Maybe we could argue that the problematic parts of the meat are expelled this way.
Or if all else fails, we could just rule that Hoomans' immune systems are just built different because magic or make some other handwave to work around the issue.
Thus ends my Hooman digestion spitballing for the time being.
>>107173097One would think that a nation with no active magic would be more on the techy end of the technology-mysticism scale, but here we are! I can't deny that there's more of a focus on the heavenly layer in Viti!/who/ than there is in Vibutia!/who/ but I can't help it! A nation whose people lost its main connection to the heavenly layer and are finding and embracing a being who may or may not have been a goddess in her own right in the past and may or may not (though almost certainly not) re-ascend to divine status is just too novel a concept to overlook!
That being said, the /who/ in my heart will always be a nation of bureaucratic amish shire cowboys. I suppose the end result of combining that concept with the above paragraph is something that lines up with your "nation of cryptids" appraisal. I currently don't have any plans to scale back my endeavors to write about the country's fantastical elements (as evidenced by the topics included in the divinity rentry since its creation) but I do admit I've been skipping past the more mundane day-to-day aspects of /who/ life and I should get back to that at some point.
Yesterday I said I was going to have something written up about toehounds by now, but extended family stayed a lot longer than expected so there's no time for it so I'm just replying to stuff that was posted while I was afk.
