https://priceonomics.com/how-maritime-insurance-built-ancient-rome/#:~:text=Maritime insurance was crucial in,a population of around 300%2C000.

I can’t vouch for this site in general but the facts here are basically lined up with other trustworthy sources and condensed.

This just goes back for ages.

The goal is to create a plot where a kuzdu is not only overruning an area, but has also become quite the carnivore.

Problem is? I never stopped.

This meant (a) I would love to help you better your cause (b) I’m going to poison you with a slow acting onset so that I can be somewhere else when it happens.

Let’s just not talk about my search history and how very very oddly specific they are.

RL side note - I moved in with my sister for a hot minute in my life. I took her phone and typed in her search engine: How to murder my sister and get away with it?

When she asked why I did that. I smiled and said ‘Insurance’.

Upside: RAMMING SPEED

Had a ton of fun coming up with it, and the character’s hypothesis, if true, woulda had fun implications for physics and the beginning/end of the universe. In the end though it didn’t ever come up in the little bit of RP I did, and putting so much effort into a believable hypothesis that I OOCly knew wouldn’t be accurate was probably a silly idea.

Still, it was a fun thought experiment

all for a part of my character’s life that never actually came up in play.

As an aside, that part of it always cracks my shit up, how worried I’ve been about having EVERYTHING JUST RIGHT when ultimately very few people ever even give a shit. And those that do call you out on anything are typically some of the most obnoxious players in the hobby trying to pull some weird flex on you on channel where they can seem sooo smurt, not even typically in RP.

I’ve researched how to launder money pretty deeply, including company registration and accounting laws in various locations around the world. I built up an organizational chart of the various companies, and how the money flowed worked, all for a part of my character’s life that never actually came up in play.

Do… do you happen to have those charts and spreadsheets to hand?

Oh yeah, lots of bombs, chemicals, weapons, and murder and mayhem related stuff, too. But y’know. Everybody researches that for rp, right?

Actually I’ve done a lot of drug effects research now that I think of it because in RL I am a square.

What it’s like to be waterboarded.

“Researched” this IRL. It is not pleasant. Do not recommend.

For exactly the reason you would suspect.

My Arx Prodigal had me looking up pre-modern tattooing techniques. They range from the impressively hardcore to… well, just literally cutting patterns in the skin and adding some dye.

How much less does a body tend to weigh once it’s been drained of blood.

cannibal chocolatier