Apprenticeship. 
The only way you can learn it is by doing it. The claim that there’s no concrete way to tell them apart when that small so you have to train your intuition to just “know” 
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So like, instead of a dog whisperer…
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- When was World War One
- What caused the great fire of Atlanta
- Differences in painting styles between the 16th and 18th century
- Names of gangsters in Chicago
- What kind of guns did a P51 Mustang airplane carry
In itself the questions are not that special, but it was all required for a single chapter…
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Ooo what did you get for names? 
A little bump before I forget and let the thread die XD.
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Oh, way too many! I settled for… lemme check… Anthony D’Andrea. (Found him on Wikipedia.) Tried to copy some slang from that period, and (nuts as I am) I wanted the name have some historical reference. I even checked a location famous for booze at the time… Even though I’m writing a fantasy (well, actually completed book two and prepping for book three) I still want things to be right…
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… Jammed! I duck and clear my weapon. Bullets rake the wall behind me, plaster falls down on my white dress. Downstairs a jazz band works its way through their Ellington repertoire, their horn section loud enough to overcome the rattling of the Tommy. I wait until he’s empty. The mob likes their Thompsons but those things are hell to reload. I roll over the floor, aim and fire. Two slugs take the front Tommy-man out, but he isn’t the only hood in the house. Anthony D’Andrea’s men are out in force, trying to give me the works. I only have fourteen bullets left in two more clips, and these idiots have hundreds. Where are the flatfoots when you need them… probably stocking up on booze at the Green Mill. Up. Aim. Shoot and down. Clear and reload my…
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@W.L.Ink this sounds like something you’d like xD
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Current search: performance of an athlete (well, a well trained human individual) versus a wolf when it comes to speed and endurance.
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Ooo like Usain bolt vs wolf?
Spot on. It’s a bit… convoluted 
There are shapechangers in my world (kinda’ wolves, though not entirely) and clothes DO NOT transform. (This leads to one of my characters to hide clothing all over town, and also why she’s wearing that same kind of dress all the time. And even a 55 kilogram sprite of a girl makes a pretty decent wolf if you don’t allow a change of mass in some magical way.)
Now I imagined how a gang of wolf-bikers would handle the changing of clothes. They’d love to dash through the forest, but would need someone to take care of the clothes. So I imagined someone wearing a backpack and running with them. Now that guy would to have a decent condition I suppose Hence Usain Bolt
Unfortunately, some of the numbers I find are conflicting. Have to delve a little deeper…
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The following is going to give me some flak, but the idea is to ‘subvert expectations’, yet stay consistent within the rules of my world. I’m thinking of an extra arc / diversion / spin-off story.
The part that people are going to hold against me is the next: I plan the bikers to be white, potbellied, older, wolves, and the running man black, pure human, perfect condition, which might make him look like he’s their servant.
Then further down the story I plan to twist the story around, and make the black guy a ‘prince’ from another world, and the bikers his ‘guard’ in our world. Once the prince returns to his own world, how would the court respond to him carrying his guard’s clothing? Such a tale offers lots of angles to explore and make fun of, especially as all those wolves are supposed to have been killed off in the past.
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That sounds like…a lot of careful dancing you’re going to have to do. XD
I’m trying to be as consistent as possible. Even magic has its rules. As it’s a low-magic universe / story, I can’t cop out by saying ‘oh, it’s magic’ and be done with it. I would in a high fantasy setting but even Tolkien didn’t magic-up instant solutions
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True haha, jimmy neutron brain blast! XD
I was researching road trip roadkill games and found something that’s even more disturbing than my intended search.
If you have a sensitive stomach, don’t unblur this. You’ve been warned.
“Harvesting roadkill for food.”
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i know there’s a job where people pick up roadkill off highways and stuff. they surprisingly make a lot. O.O
Do they bring it home for dinner?
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No, haha. It’s a job for like… I forget the actual department, but like Wildlife or something, haha.
I’m familiar. Probably Animal Control.
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Yeah, that sounds right, haha.
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So, I didn’t find a whole lot about road trip roadkill games. Essentially, the only games I found was to punch the person next to you if you see a roadkill, or to collect points if you identify the animal.
None of those sound like something I’d like to use.
Can anyone help me out here? Maybe to adopt another road trip game but switch it out so it’s roadkill instead of [insert game objective here].
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