Eznam wrote:Sitharc wrote:I'd be paranoid about being eaten if I was aware it was real. While at the same time I'd be too curious and would try to look online or wherever for female preds that somehow managed to get away with eating other(s). As while it's suddenly real, I'm imagining a world where doing so would still be quite illegal as it's killing someone, and kidnapping them at the very least.
It'd be real, but in my mind it still wouldn't happen as often as would think, initially it might, but all the reckless predators would get themselves eaten too, killed in other ways, or even just arrested and convicted of one to many murders.
I'm pretty sure it'd be a situation where, like serial killers, there's maybe 1 in a million that do it, but that 1 in a million becomes a media sensation when they're found out leaving people fearing for their lives for like a week before the strange people are all that's left caring about them.
If anyone is left to support them at all, any left would be those secretly hopeful to be eaten but don't want to admit as want the surprise, or are forced in some way to keep an eye on them and make sure they don't do it again. And in this situation, people would be fearing themselves for at least months I'd imagine, and if the fear ever did subside, there'd still be paranoia and having yet another thing to be wary of.
As well as the whole travel in pairs thing would be recommended to travel in GROUPS as just in pairs that other person could be the one luring you to a secure location.
It'd be like this most of the time I imagine, as said all the initial reckless and stupid preds would get themselves caught or killed in some way.
OR it should be like in some stories, where only certain people have the 'gift' even if they aren't aware of it, or have to train your body up from smaller items and living things up to people, can't just start eating full sized people.
Imagine hearing on the news how entire classrooms of students 'disappeared' or months down the road and hear about how one or more cities are suffering a population crisis in one or more bits of town, and after a while... no one wants to move to that part of town if to that town at all.