 December 30, 2013 - 5:04pm | OK was watching the Colony last night. Thought Lawrence Fishburne and Bill Paxton, how bad could it be? Spoiler Alert OK so another post apocalypse one group turned canibal eating everyone they meet flick. But it did get me thinking of how to turn it into an SF module like the one in one of our mags where part of the colonists went feral and all. But how do you eat the races of the Frontier? Humans and Yazirians are pretty straight foward. Vrusk maybe like shellfish but Dralasites? Any ideas? Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
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 December 30, 2013 - 7:38pm | ...or porridge, depending if you like your dral hot or cold. |
 December 30, 2013 - 7:41pm | The skin shreads nicely and can be fried up nicely like pork skins. -iggy |
 December 31, 2013 - 12:16pm | No Comment. EDIT: Skin can be tanned and worn as leather. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 December 31, 2013 - 12:33pm | I'm thinking their inner muscle tissue isn't like watery... it can move around but I bet it does have some cohesion with itself like a thick jelly. Maybe you have to mix it with flour to be able to fry it, or maybe you eat it like caviar almost like a dip! But as iggy mentioned... the skin would hold up on a grill. Might be hard to eat though... Slow cooking might be required. ----------------------------------------------- |
December 31, 2013 - 12:56pm | OK, now I might be identifying with the drals a bit, but I'm feeling a bit grossed out thinking about eating other drals. -iggy |
December 31, 2013 - 1:04pm | Well... we are talking crazed feral colonist and all. ----------------------------------------------- |
 December 31, 2013 - 2:26pm | OK - just have to say EW here. |
December 31, 2013 - 5:31pm | OK - just have to say EW here. Oh, I'm with bossmoss on that . I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
January 1, 2014 - 2:13pm | OK so I like the Dral ideas but do have one question. If you remove a Yazirians gliding wings could you use them like banana leafs to wrap and slow cook the Yazirian meat? Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
January 1, 2014 - 6:18pm | OK so I like the Dral ideas but do have one question. If you remove a Yazirians gliding wings could you use them like banana leafs to wrap and slow cook the Yazirian meat? I wouldn't think so. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 January 1, 2014 - 8:44pm | Would a vrusk turn bright pink once boiled? If so, then I think they could become a delicious option :) |
 January 1, 2014 - 8:45pm | First post usingmy iPhone: Chilled Yazarian brains. A famous Sathar cuisine. The bombing starts in five minutes. |
January 1, 2014 - 9:34pm | First post usingmy iPhone: Chilled Yazarian brains. A famous Sathar cuisine. Sathar love sucking fluids and gushy stuff hence the reason few sathar agents ever caught have been dralasites- the just dont last long in the company of sathar. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
January 2, 2014 - 1:47pm | Maybe the Sathar are just big on Juicers. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
 January 2, 2014 - 6:09pm | The headline news clicks away The Butcher of Triad's Trial continues today with a Vrusk colonists describing their horror on realizing that the supposably famed farmed Stobster (Star lobster) that they bought at Bob's Exotic Meats for a party was in fact a missing co-worker Sverla. "We all ate her" (sobs the Vrusk) Authorities believe that Bob the Butcher killed and sold Vrusk, Human, Yazirian, and Dralasites as various high end meats and meat products. DNA testing of his meats indicate at the time of his arrest at least 20 genetically unique individuals from all 4 races where in his products. The tip that led to his arrest was a clover tattoo on a ham that the purchaser thought did not look like an AG Inspection mark, DNA determined it was human and not Spork (space pork). The defense is expected to plead a case based on that Bob Woods is a survivor of the failed Colony of Inness and had been traumatized into believing eating sentient beings was normal as a youth and is in fact suffering from an insanity in which he acts out the terrible things he experienced as a youth in surviving that horror. In related news... Could be a good missing persons case for Star Law, any company security looking for missing employees or private eye types. Or just a survival case... of the PCs versus the mad cannibal guy. Of course PCs fighting to stay alive on a planet who's colony has gone nuts this way would be a good scarry storyline. How to stay alive when you are the food source might be rough, or worse what if dead people are the only food source left? How long can PCs hang on to be civilizied, will food arrive in time to save them from the madness, why do some colonist look starved surviving on a tablesppon of rations and others look healthy? Or maybe people did survive from the colony without eating others but everyone has a stigma on them because either a couple people did eat other people or someone made up the story... a PC could have it rough if their colony was rumored to have survived by eating their dead. "Never fire a laser at a mirror." |
January 2, 2014 - 6:29pm | Its been called the "custom of the sea" - eating of a weaker person in the lifeboat so that the rest can survive. Call it the custom of the failed colony, Failed Colony Cafe or some such. not likely to happen on a lifeboat in space as LS would likely run out before everyone got really hungry. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
January 3, 2014 - 9:08am | Yes I like the butcher idea. Could be a good Star Law case. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
January 3, 2014 - 10:00am | Damaged misjumped ship would be a good scarry one... No one knows who is disapearing people or why people are vanishing. The first few could be made to look like foolish attempts to use Lifeboats. A lot of places to hide and stalk each other from (think the original Alien Movie shot on board that cargo ship). Maybe at first the crew crew is unaware a crew member has been eating other people, because his first victims are storage class passengers. Sabotage of internal systems by the crewmate gone bad to cover his/her tracks. Possable use of system security to frame innocent crewmates. Maybe even the horror of realizing the misjump was not a misjump but on purpose... it was always the plan of the crewman to eat everyone and disable the ship. This would lead to worries about any "rescue" ship, what if he has friends on the way with the same culinary cravings, at the very minium the rescue ship might be a pirate ship. Could be good and creepy. "Never fire a laser at a mirror." |
January 3, 2014 - 10:07am | Or maybe the crewman is collecting meat for special high end clients and the "rescue ship" is really a meat wagon come for a pick up. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
