Boz (he/him)

Teachers are usually optimists, I think. The idea that your students will someday be excellent [although now, they are little snots] is part of the appeal of any kind of teaching or coaching. It’s sort of an abstract benefit, since teachers rarely get any credit for what they do, but still, it’s great to find out that someone you taught or trained is now hugely successful at the thing you helped them learn.

Thank you for this excellent response.

Ok but actually, those are awesome, and I kind of want them. They’re probably ridiculously expensive, not made in my size, and also, murderously uncomfortable, but still.

You would then have to have someone impersonate the dead baker during the competition, or the murder would no longer be secret. You’d be on the short list of suspects, no matter how good your disguise. I think mind control would be a more practical solution. Just make it impossible for them to win, without getting arrested.

They certainly do if the tree is an Ent.

Megoosa is the best (or, more likely, worst, lol). Geese are scary af when I run into them in the park, because they are way taller and louder than expected, and they strut right up to me like, “Hey, I know you’ve got bread. Hand it over, or we will peck off all your minor appendages.”

At first I didn’t see that the glowing eyes were actually dandelions, and when I did, it somehow became more menacing. Those things have supernatural powers. They can survive anything.

I can’t argue with that reasoning, lol. I would have taken the earliest possible opportunity to have a character sit on a magical tomato, for exactly that reason.

…why a tomato? They’re kind of squishy, I would worry about someone absent-mindedly sticking one in a pocket and having a very squelchy surprise later.

Extra credit if you yourself are a small, furry animal. By almost any definition of “small,” “furry,” and “animal.”

I think a lot of GMs can honestly answer “yes” to that question, lol, so careful you don’t turn the session into a discussion of their latest writing project (along with the writing projects of anyone else in the group who feels like talking about writing).

…unless that’s your jam, in which case, go for it!