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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6008715" data-attributes="member: 2067">Yeah, probably! I'd imagine they also don't feel much pain from the severing of limbs -- like cutting off a toenail (maybe a little close to the cuticle). Their bones are rubbery. Their blood vessels are localized. They feel a little plant-like, perhaps. Adds a bit to the menace of the creature:"Aye, I fought The Render once, in me callow youth, when I thought I could take on anything. I'd cracked the defenses of some of the best warriors around, slain some goblins, thought I was slicker than gnome oil, I did! I thought the ol' troll would be easy. Might not even have to kill it, I thought, just wound it, send it running back to whatever crevice it crawled from. Aye, I was a right fool. I led that company to their deaths, and me to this missin' eye. See...turns out...the troll don't fight like you'd expect a critter to fight. It's got no sense of self-preservation, no pain or fear in it. A troll knows it'll live to see another day, even if it's chopped into little bits and scattered to the wind. Most folks don't want to get hacked with an axe, or blasted with ice, but to the troll, well, it might've been a splinter or a strong breeze for all they reacted. It fights more like a machine, like an undead creature, or a golem, but it's got more cunning than those automatons, too. It ain't a mindless shambling hunger or a staid resolute defender, it doesn't have programming you can exploit. It has its own thoughts, it's own desires, and mostly, they involve you gettin' strung up and eaten, even if it has to get cut in half to do it. It doesn't really seem to care how much damage it takes. Critter like that doesn't fight with tactics or strategy. It throws itself onto your spear, just so it can get close enough to rip your throat out. It takes an axe wound or a sword blow or a hammer's smash and doesn't particularly care. They don't flinch away, they don't hesitate to attack, when they reach out with their claws or their maw, they don't calculate or plan for an opening, they just lunge and lunge and lunge, with their stumps and their bone shards if need be, whatever they can do to destroy the person on the other side.The Render's no joke, son. You go out there to fight it, you won't be comin' back unchanged. Even if you do manage to take him out, you'll have to pay a price. You won't look at the world the same way again, when you know it can produce a creature like that."</blockquote>

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