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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ambrus" data-source="post: 3366676" data-attributes="member: 17691">Warning: Explicit demon butchering content below.CB, it's my intention to have Maelicent return to the stables behind the cockatrice to finish butchering the two large wolf-spider carcasses he's got stashed there. He'll likely set himself up in an empty stall and work on one carcass at a time; doing his best to suspend it from the rafters by means of whatever rope or tack he can find to better allow the fluids to drain as he works. If that's not feasible he'll prop them up against the back wall as best he can. He'll use his axe to hack through the tough joints and his knives to carefully cut and pry off the chitinous leg segments and body plates. The wolf heads seem mammalian so I'm guessing that they're large fur covered canine skulls. Mael will do his best to strip off the usable fur pelt sections and in turn detach the bare wolf skulls from the bodies for later cleaning. Then depending on what the wolf-spiders' internal arrangements are the goblin will try to salvage what seems usable; likely cutting and pulling out the tendons to make sinew cord.Once both carcasses are in pieces Maelicent will go ahead and start cleaning the various parts by scrapping them with his knives and possibly scouring the chitin with sand and water. The fur pelts he'll stretch and scrape clean before he rubs the oil from skulls' brain pans to soften them up. The skulls will be similarly stripped bare, scraped an scoured clean. Later all this stuff will be set to dry in the sun, possibly on the roof of the stables. The skulls will likely require some boiling in water to get all the fleshy bits off. All of the of the left-over gristle, muscle et al will be dumped into an empty troth for later disposal into a midden pile.I don't know if it'll all work out as planned, but that's what he'll be doing for the next little while. I believe his survival skill is good enough to butcher and dress carcasses. Later he'll likely try touring the local crafstmen, apothecaries, armorers and bowyers around town to try and sell it.Also, while he's working on them, Maelicent will be examining the bodies to familiarize himself with their anatomy; in particular their weak and vulnerable spots. I figure that he'll eventually be able to take evil outsiders as a favored enemy if he studies them long enough. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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