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?

Comments

Text; un: beshackled

[beshackled]

'Twas not I. I swear it.

It does look like a case of creation magicks gone terribly, though, does it not? Mayhap they were thinking of the horn that the monoceros be armed?

Text; un: Pers

[scooba]

....Whoever made this is certainly talented.

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]

Or they wanted this creature to be "armed" and their thoughts strayed.

[emet_sulk]

[ You could even call them handy at their work-- ]

'Talented' is certainly one way to put it.

[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.

[beshackled]

[A different order of thoughts, but the principle is, in essence, the same.]

Aye. And yet, creation magicks are restricted here. So either someone has found a way around that, or this was a more deliberate construction.

'Twould be interesting to discover the answer.

[astudyinviolet]

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

[emet_sulk]

Well, you're welcome to come examine it. It's grazing in a clearing some ways east of the main port on Eltrut.

[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?

Voice | un:refantasma

[refantasma]

Someone with a bad sense of everything.

text; perfpilot

[sos_pilot]

CURSED
CURSED
SO SUPER CURSED

[scooba]

It's a lot better than what I can draw.

[beshackled]

I shall be there soon. What is it grazing on?

[astudyinviolet]

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

text; un: archangel

[thearchangel]

Oh what the hell is that thing.

[crack_shots]

No idea.

Would you say you need a hand?

[obliviscere]

Are you sure someone made it? Maybe it's a very...unique native to this place...?

» text | un: tilfrosset

[tilfrosset]

I suspect the question is less who and more why.

text; un: makoglow

[makoglow]

Why do you assume that someone made it?

[emet_sulk]

Some sort of flower. I cannot quite see from my current vantage.

[emet_sulk]

Now, now. 'Tis all a matter of practice. The star has had thousands upon thousands of years to perfect its craft and you have barely crested a few decades.

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.