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3 werebeast can gain sustenance only
WEREBEASTS
from flesh that is freshly killed.
Regardless, all werebeasts vastly
prefer freshly killed prey.
A wary hunter of werebeasts does
not confuse the need for a fresh kill
with the inability to stomach cooked or
aged meat, however. Even a weretiger
could enter an ordinary household and
dine heartily on a venison stew. While
the creature would gain no sustenance
from the meal, and might have to feign
any enjoyment, it would not be harmed
by the experience.
For werebeasts who assume the
form of animal scavengers, the
restrictions on what meat they can and
cannot eat is very similar to the
requirements of normal humans. Thus,
if meat is in a state fit for humans to
eat without serious risk of sickness, a
scavenger lycanthrope can also eat it.
Scavenger lycanthropes can and do
preserve flesh, using techniques
similar to those used by humans, that
is, spicing and salting. Such
techniques decrease the nutritional
value of the flesh, however, by a factor
of two. Thus, scavenger lycanthropes
must eat twice as much preserved
meat as normal. Even scavenger
werebeasts can never extract
sustenance from cooked food. Cooking
instantly and irrevocably destroys the
nutritional value of meat for a
werebeast.
As a gener,al rule, a true lycanthrope
must eat an amount of flesh roughly
equal to the amount necessary to
sustain a natural specimen of its
animal aspect. For example, a twofoot-long
giant rat would eat perhaps
two pounds of food each day. This
means a wererat must eat two pounds
of raw flesh each day to sustain itself.
Food other than raw flesh-or, in the
case of nonscavenger werebeasts,
other than fresh raw flesh-does not
count toward this total. Thus the
wererat would still have to eat two full
pounds of flesh, no matter how much
fruit. bread. and veaetables - it
otherwise consumed.