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[CalJones]

Yeah. Perhaps the Topsider's Honor quest was related to a Grey Warden - not sure.

But warden bodies would have been good in a very creepy sort of way, as you say.

[Sattva]

While we are here, is there anyone who actually hunted game with traps or anything except rifles?

How efficient traps can be?

[mousestalker]

I've set traps out before, but not for large game. When I lived in south Georgia I had an infestation of rodents in my house. I like to think I can handle a lot of things, but seeing mice in my kitchen at 4 in the morning was a bit much.



The traps worked but I had to empty and reset them. Poisoned bait worked even better but the mice kept dying in the wall spaces. Cats worked the best. Not only do they enjoy hunting vermin, but rodents can smell the cats and so avoid any area where they are.



Maybe the darkspawn threat would be less if, instead of Mabari, the Gray Wardens used large cats.

[EccentricSage]

mousestalker wrote...

I've set traps out before, but not for large game. When I lived in south Georgia I had an infestation of rodents in my house. I like to think I can handle a lot of things, but seeing mice in my kitchen at 4 in the morning was a bit much.

The traps worked but I had to empty and reset them. Poisoned bait worked even better but the mice kept dying in the wall spaces. Cats worked the best. Not only do they enjoy hunting vermin, but rodents can smell the cats and so avoid any area where they are.

Maybe the darkspawn threat would be less if, instead of Mabari, the Gray Wardens used large cats.

I would second this, if not for the fact that a mouser cat's idea of 'playing' or a 'love nip' would involve loseing limbs if they were as large as Mabari.  XD

[DragonRacer13]

CalJones wrote...

Yeah. Perhaps the Topsider's Honor quest was related to a Grey Warden - not sure.

I wondered that, too, especially since why else would an elf be down there fighting with the Legion of the Dead? I figured the elf must have been a Warden on his Calling.

[CalJones]

I wondered how you got your name, mousestalker. I had a mouse infestation (I live in an old house divided into five flats - they basement flat was empty so I think they were coming from there) and although I started out trying to get rid of them humanely, once they start crapping in your toaster and runnning around squeaking loudly while you're trying to sleep, it's war. I used poison, but I got one of the little sods with my Dyson. The suction on it was pretty impressive.

My flat is too small for a cat, alas.

[Sattva]

mousestalker wrote...

I've set traps out before, but not for large game. When I lived in south Georgia I had an infestation of rodents in my house. I like to think I can handle a lot of things, but seeing mice in my kitchen at 4 in the morning was a bit much.

The traps worked but I had to empty and reset them. Poisoned bait worked even better but the mice kept dying in the wall spaces. Cats worked the best. Not only do they enjoy hunting vermin, but rodents can smell the cats and so avoid any area where they are.

Maybe the darkspawn threat would be less if, instead of Mabari, the Gray Wardens used large cats.

   Large cats against darkspawn! That, I have to see! They'd probably put Grey Wardens out of their job 

[TanithAeyrs]

Sattva wrote...

While we are here, is there anyone who actually hunted game with traps or anything except rifles?
How efficient traps can be?

No personal experience but my husband ran a trap line in high school to generate some extra money and he did okay.  You have to set the traps in places that you know the game you are after is likely to visit.  Trap lines should be checked daily to try to prevent unnecessary suffering.

Not real fond to traps myself.  As a veterinarian I occasionally get to treat a dog or cat that was caught on accident - the wounds are not pleasant to treat - usually there is a lot of tissue slough and sometimes gangrene.  Of course, humans are not the only creatures to create unnecessary suffering - cats do it when they toy with mice, wolves do it on a large scale when they hamstring a dozen elk and leave them (hunting for fun, not because they are hungry), many predators will start feeding before their prey is actually dead. 

[Sattva]

TanithAeyrs wrote...

Sattva wrote...

While we are here, is there anyone who actually hunted game with traps or anything except rifles?
How efficient traps can be?

No personal experience but my husband ran a trap line in high school to generate some extra money and he did okay.  You have to set the traps in places that you know the game you are after is likely to visit.  Trap lines should be checked daily to try to prevent unnecessary suffering.

Not real fond to traps myself.  As a veterinarian I occasionally get to treat a dog or cat that was caught on accident - the wounds are not pleasant to treat - usually there is a lot of tissue slough and sometimes gangrene.  Of course, humans are not the only creatures to create unnecessary suffering - cats do it when they toy with mice, wolves do it on a large scale when they hamstring a dozen elk and leave them (hunting for fun, not because they are hungry), many predators will start feeding before their prey is actually dead. 

I'm your fan. Both as veterinarian and anti-traps.

Although in game, it is a smart move to place traps and obstacles in front of your archers.
A sound technique proven by history (for ex. medieval English archers stayed on hills barbed with sharpened poles - major nuisance to chevaliers)

[Sattva]

Tattoos:  in RL xp I had no massage involved in the tattooing process <_<  So the conversation on tattoos between Zevran and Alistair is purposefully phony