>>109442307Let's go!
>>109450525You can try if you want, just letting you know ahead of time that pale-faces' poison isn't normally lethal (to the 6'6"-7'0" Hoomans at least) and that no Hooman would agree to let folks fish any up because both of their own superstitions around the fish and the fact it's the favored food of the local orca populations.
There likely are records of studies in the archives at least. You'll have to give a damned good excuse to one of the Archivists to let them lend them to you, though, and you won't be allowed to take them with you and will have to get the same Archivist's approval to make a copy of it.
All that being said, if you want to write up a drug trade (and/or pufferfish smuggling) storyline, go nuts!
>>109456568A nickname of a nickname. Love it!
>>109461661If we go by the same logic of "Waiting Room -> Lobby -> Libby", we can try to reverse-engineer an alias for Hootenheimer by filling in the blanks of "______ -> [optional] -> Hootenheimer". In this case, it would likely be best to focus on the -heimer suffix. If we shorten it even further to simply "heim" and approach it from the perspective of heim as a foreign word, we would then assume Hootenheimer's original alias pertained to a "home" in some way, as heim is home in German. Of course, this would assume Grant knows this world's version of German (KFP or Otomo dialect of Wibspik perhaps?).
Alternatively, we could focus on the obvious Oppenheimer inspiration instead. If we take this route, the direction to take would be to look at what the man irl was famous for. Big booms? Ominous declarations? Speculation and experimentation regarding microscopic particles?
tl;dr
Hootenheimer's pseudonym likely follows the formula of "[alias] -> [synonym or summation (optional) -> Hootenheimer". The question is whether to focus on the "home -> heim" aspect or the "J. Robert Oppenheimer" aspect.
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After some time and speculating, I've noticed that Hooman pseudonyms function kind of like horse names. With some exceptions like "Snuffkin" or the two in the above field report, most are two-word descriptive phrases. They typically don't describe the Hoot themselves, but something they plausibly could have done or said in their lives. So, from this third perspective, maybe the Hootie who would become known in Loreli as Hootenheimer snuck into a lab and caused an incident of some kind. Chain Reaction? I'm open to alternatives, and he's your character.
