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<blockquote data-quote="WizO_Pounamu" data-source="post: 2560520">If said werewolf could avoid detection, then no one need know the probem. After all, most people don't know werewolves are anything more than ancient fables made to scare children into behaving and those people who insist that werewolves inhabit Central Park tend to get very carefully watched by men in white coats.However if said werewolf is discovered in the fight, it faces a couple of likely problems:<ol>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Most people are not comfortable with werewolves. Cue screaming and searching for weapons.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">At this pont of history there are no laws protecting non-humans against humans except for as cruelty to animals. However there are usually death sentances for animals deemed a risk to humans and werewolves would probably fit that category.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">With the fight held in a sturdy metal cage, the task of confining a discovered werewolf is made that much easier. The other combatant being stuck in there too may not be as bad publically than a werewolf loose on the crowd.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Hope that the referee isn't allergic to dogs or the odds are against the werewolf right from the start. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></li>
</ol>The same points could be made for aliens or even mutants as well. Remember, although strange cratures exist in this setting, it's still in a human city and humans are notoriously slow to change the biases and fears of many generations.&nbsp;- Pounamu</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WizO_Pounamu, post: 2560520"] If said werewolf could avoid detection, then no one need know the probem. After all, most people don't know werewolves are anything more than ancient fables made to scare children into behaving and those people who insist that werewolves inhabit Central Park tend to get very carefully watched by men in white coats. However if said werewolf is discovered in the fight, it faces a couple of likely problems: [list=1] [*]Most people are not comfortable with werewolves. Cue screaming and searching for weapons. [*]At this pont of history there are no laws protecting non-humans against humans except for as cruelty to animals. However there are usually death sentances for animals deemed a risk to humans and werewolves would probably fit that category. [*]With the fight held in a sturdy metal cage, the task of confining a discovered werewolf is made that much easier. The other combatant being stuck in there too may not be as bad publically than a werewolf loose on the crowd. [*]Hope that the referee isn't allergic to dogs or the odds are against the werewolf right from the start. ;) [/list] The same points could be made for aliens or even mutants as well. Remember, although strange cratures exist in this setting, it's still in a human city and humans are notoriously slow to change the biases and fears of many generations. - Pounamu [/QUOTE]

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