Who made this?

[emet_sulk]

Type: Text
Sender ID: emet_sulk (Emet-Selch)
To: Public
Subject: Who made this?
Warnings: Cursed horse

[ It's just a photograph taken of one of this month's bounty targets and presented with nothing more than a simple, terse message: ]



Who made this?

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text | un: astudyinviolet

[astudyinviolet]

[ Sherlock does not know what is worse: the fact that this creature exists or that if a taxidermy or skeleton existed of it, his mother would have put it in her room of curiosities where the items she proved forgeries and fabrications ended up. ]

Good Lord. Have we another mad scientist stitching parts together again?

[emet_sulk]

As far as I can tell from where I'm standing, it has no visible seams or other marks of a typical chimera.

[astudyinviolet]

So either a higher level of grafting or a creature naturally like that.

[emet_sulk]

I struggle to imagine this being an entirely natural evolution. What could it possibly need with all those hands?

For that matter, what equine beast uses hands to gallop on?

[astudyinviolet]

Why are any of the myriad of strange creatures in this world as they are?

1/2

[emet_sulk]

Usually a result of the demands of its environment. Which means

[ Wait. ]

2/2

[emet_sulk]

[ ........... ]

This beast has opposable thumbs.

[astudyinviolet]

[ He hates this. ]

There are a number of upsetting realizations to be made from that fact.

[emet_sulk]

I find myself beginning to strongly agree with the bounty poster that we ought to put down this animal before it scares others to death.

[ He's not actually that distressed...yet. It will be fine as long as the honse doesn't climb a tree.

(He's hoping very hard that it does not climb a tree.) ]

[astudyinviolet]

As much as this creature is a terror to perceive, it has yet to do any physical harm or damage, correct?

[ That said, he does not want this thing in the Cosmo Conservatory... ]

[emet_sulk]

It appears to be grazing peacefully for n

It just tore down a low-hanging branch to eat the leaves.

[astudyinviolet]

I suppose it does have extra reach to do that.

[emet_sulk]

This does nothing to reassure me that the creature cannot climb trees.

If it browses leaves then I suspect it isn't a landbound beast.

[astudyinviolet]

Is it constrained by the laws of gravity, or does it appear to have magic to count its weight?