[DRAFT] A Monstrous Debate

[Bulletarnia]

Title: A Monstrous Debate
The Issue: After Labtech Inc. LLC. accidentally released experimental test subjects, a swarm of mutant @@ANIMAL@@s have begun taking over the local wildlife. Several groups have begun giving you ideas about what to do about these monstrous organisms.

Option 1: "We need to snatch all of these genetically unique specimens!" Cries chief of biodiversity @@RANDOMNAME@@ setting down @@HIS@@ Gamegal Advance revealing a Maxémon team consisting only of shinies. "This uniqueness can give us excellent insight into how to make things as different as physically possible. It would also probably have scientific significance."
Effect: Collecting near extinct animals is a government sanctioned hobby.

Option 2: Famous nature survivalist, Gear Brylls, walks up wearing a loincloth made of urine saturated @@ANIMAL@@ skin, "I was born in the wilds and the wilds was born in me. I have stared into the eyes of the forest and let it pee in my waterskin. These beauts need to be released into the wilds."
Effect: @@LEADER@@ regularly appeases sanatorium escapees.

Option 3: "Cage them?! RELEASE THEM?! ARE YOU CRAZY?!?" Screams your minister of defense, "Just one fanged, three-horned, thick skinned, vicious @@ANIMAL@@ took 57 seconds of straight machine gun fire to take down. We need to militarize these monsters and harness their genetic superiority."
Effect: The military has more beasts than humans.

First Draft

Title: A Monstrous Debate
The Issue: A swarm of mutant @@ANIMAL@@s have begun taking over the local wildlife. Several groups have begun giving you ideas about what to do about these monstrous organisms.

Option 1: "We need to snatch all of these genetically unique specimens!" Cries chief of biodiversity @@RANDOMNAME@@ while juggling @@HIS@@ falling Gamegal Advance revealing a Maxémon team consisting only of shinies. "This uniqueness can give us excellent insight into how to make things as different as physically possible. It would also probably have scientific significance."
Effect: Collecting near extinct animals is a government sanctioned hobby.

Option 2: Famous nature survivalist, Gear Brylls, walks up wearing a loincloth made of urine saturated @@ANIMAL@@ skin, "I was born in the wilds and the wilds was born in me. I have stared into the eyes of the forest and let it pee in my waterskin. These beauts need to be released back to where they came from."
Effect: @@LEADER@@ regularly appeases sanatorium escapees.

Option 3: "Cage them?! RELEASE THEM?! ARE YOU CRAZY?!?" Screams your minister of defense, "Just one fanged, three-horned, thick skinned, vicious @@ANIMAL@@ took 57 seconds of straight machine gun fire to take down. We need to militarize these monsters and harness their genetic superiority."
Effect: The military has more beasts than humans.

Second Draft

Title: A Monstrous Debate
The Issue: After a highly radioactive contaminant was dumped into the lake of a wildlife reserve, a swarm of mutant @@ANIMAL@@s have begun taking over the local wildlife. Several groups have begun giving you ideas about what to do about these monstrous organisms.

Option 1: "We need to snatch all of these genetically unique specimens!" Cries chief of biodiversity @@RANDOMNAME@@ while juggling @@HIS@@ falling Gamegal Advance revealing a Maxémon team consisting only of shinies. "This uniqueness can give us excellent insight into how to make things as different as physically possible. It would also probably have scientific significance."
Effect: Collecting near extinct animals is a government sanctioned hobby.

Option 2: Famous nature survivalist, Gear Brylls, walks up wearing a loincloth made of urine saturated @@ANIMAL@@ skin, "I was born in the wilds and the wilds was born in me. I have stared into the eyes of the forest and let it pee in my waterskin. These beauts need to be released back to where they came from."
Effect: @@LEADER@@ regularly appeases sanatorium escapees.

Option 3: "Cage them?! RELEASE THEM?! ARE YOU CRAZY?!?" Screams your minister of defense, "Just one fanged, three-horned, thick skinned, vicious @@ANIMAL@@ took 57 seconds of straight machine gun fire to take down. We need to militarize these monsters and harness their genetic superiority."
Effect: The military has more beasts than humans.

[Outer Sparta]

Tell a backstory behind these mutant creatures. How did they arise? The premise of this issue is vague without some sort of backstory that explains their existence.

[Australian rePublic]

Did this make them stronger or weaker?

[Verdant Haven]

So... Is this a fantasy world, like TMNT? High levels of radioactivity can cause mutations, absolutely, but of the horribly fatal variety. If you look at the birth defects in the radioactive trace area of the Chernobyl accident, for example, you see lots of children with disfiguring conditions and developmental impediments, but no super powers. I'm not sure that Godzilla type results fit the verisimilitude/realism aspect of the game.

[Bulletarnia]

Did this make them stronger or weaker?

The third option states that they become significantly stronger.

[Bulletarnia]

... I'm not sure that Godzilla type results fit the verisimilitude/realism aspect of the game.

I understand but can't really think of another way to introduce these creatures. Should I maybe tone them down a bit, or are you suggesting I obtain a different way to introduce them?

[Verdant Haven]

... I'm not sure that Godzilla type results fit the verisimilitude/realism aspect of the game.

I understand but can't really think of another way to introduce these creatures. Should I maybe tone them down a bit, or are you suggesting I obtain a different way to introduce them?

If I'm being honest, I'm suggesting that such a thing isn't particularly believable as an accident or coincidence, regardless of origin. The sort of changes described are not reasonable evolutionary shifts in any sort of natural timeline. If you want to pursue the idea of militarizable monsters though, my suggestion would be to have them as the escaped creations of deliberate genetic manipulation - a hostile nation on your border, a clandestine bio-research lab for a pharma corp, the like. Them having escaped accidentally, I think your debate options might make sense as a question of capturing them to learn scientific secrets, letting them be as living things that deserve to be free from further experimentation, or trying to harness them for their original monstrous and military purpose.

Just my thoughts!

[Bears Armed]

I understand but can't really think of another way to introduce these creatures. Should I maybe tone them down a bit, or are you suggesting I obtain a different way to introduce them?

If I'm being honest, I'm suggesting that such a thing isn't particularly believable as an accident or coincidence, regardless of origin. The sort of changes described are not reasonable evolutionary shifts in any sort of natural timeline. If you want to pursue the idea of militarizable monsters though, my suggestion would be to have them as the escaped creations of deliberate genetic manipulation - a hostile nation on your border, a clandestine bio-research lab for a pharma corp, the like. Them having escaped accidentally, I think your debate options might make sense as a question of capturing them to learn scientific secrets, letting them be as living things that deserve to be free from further experimentation, or trying to harness them for their original monstrous and military purpose.

Just my thoughts!

Bearing in mind that we already have an issue with an option that develops dinosaurs for military use...

[Verdant Haven]

Bearing in mind that we already have an issue with an option that develops dinosaurs for military use...

If you deliberately bring them back to life with human-led genetic manipulation, yup! That's what I'm suggesting has some plausibility to me. Having nigh-invincible super beasts occur as a random accident of radiation exposure is what I'm quibbling over.