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Knarme In reply to Evodolka [2019-09-24 15:40:04 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! That's like a pack of gigantic land-sharks with meat knives for teeth, so ferocios indeed~

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Evodolka In reply to Knarme [2019-09-24 15:46:56 +0000 UTC]

your welcome
that's a cool way to describe it

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Knarme In reply to Evodolka [2019-09-24 16:21:07 +0000 UTC]

yeah. kind of a way to visualize how to apply horror vibes on the creature.

If we would go see Jurassic, I don't think the horror would come from allos eating us. It'd come from watching how they brutally eat alive a half-grown diplodocus that is just too painfully slow to get away. The diplodocus itself wouldn't be a harmless herbivore either, we'd see it slash open allosaurus skin and flesh with its tail and see it crush skulls and ribcages with its mighty weight in self-defense. The sheer brutality of these flesh Giants battling for survival and having their bodies mercilessly broken as it's their time to fall would be the mouth-drying horrific sight to write sad novels about. I don't think such big creatures would care so much about humans, but we would watch them, we would root for them and relate to them as we watch them trying to survive, and then we'd see those beautiful creations of nature get coldly torn apart by the various misfortunes claiming their lives.

The horrors in terms of us humans getting hunted and eaten would be more like a Torvosaurus digging us up from whatever shelter we try to build in the forest, and those bloodthirsty fast Marshosaurs hunting us like giant wolves. Wouldn't be surprised to get just stomped to death by a stampeding herd of Dryosaurus or Camptosaurus either, having them step through our guts as they run, with sheer mindless terror in their frightened eyes, with no concern for the destroyed life and ravaged systems of internal organs getting ruined against the land they run on. What a cold and cruel realm of nightmare, - from human point of view, at least.

I've thought of using this little mind imagery for video game purposes or maybe just for writing.

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Evodolka In reply to Knarme [2019-09-24 17:11:15 +0000 UTC]

the colour scheme also adds to the horror vibe

actually there are few things that might make it either more horrifying or nice for the both of them
there is a theory that allosaurus would have taken chunks of flesh off while it was still alive and then the sauropod would still live on, scarred but alive
the main thing is that they are still animals, so they would go for the easier prey that puts them in less danger, which alos gets rid of the sickly individuals preventing the spread of disease

if a human was easier to get than a sauropod i imagine they totally would go for us
Torvosauurs, Allosaurus, Ceratosaurus, all 3 would be big dangers for us humans if we were suddenly in their time
never heard of Marshosaurus, thanks for introducing me to it
the world back then just seems like a normal day on a planet earth documentary, there would be some messed up and sary moments but it would still be beautiful in a way

go for it, both sound like they could work, i think literature works better with how you described it, but a game would be neat

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Knarme In reply to Evodolka [2019-09-24 17:39:45 +0000 UTC]

You know, juvenile/adolescent sauropods with previously existing illness/injury/wound/deformation etc. would be that 'weak target'. The reason allosaurus couldn't go against them completely risk-free would be that even a sickly animal can put up quite the fight if not exhausted first properly, or its healthy herd members get nervous and accidentally slap an allo. On the being eaten alive part, that's what many living animals do. In the African Savanna where predators must quickly get their share of the food before something else gets it, painted dogs being eating their prey before it has even died.

I don't think quick-footed tiny humans sound like easy prey for a flesh giant. We might even smell too strange with the stench of chemically processed clothing and cleaning products on us to be regognized as tasty meat by an allosaurus. Different if you're bleeding/covered in blood tho.

I think Marshosaurus and even Tanycolagreus would be the most dangerous for humans in that ecosystem. Actually light enough to run us down with ease. Especially considering we might be close to the size of their preferred prey items, we're more stimulating to their hunting instincts. A single Marsho is big enough to overpower and kill a human, and a mob of Tanycolagreus could do mean damage as well.

I regard Torvosaurus and Ceratosaurus as being potentially more human-dangerous than Allosaurus due to their adaptations on life in more forested places (more maneuverable, shorter-legged bodies) and potential adaptations for snatching prey smaller than their own body size (long snouts, long teeth, unlike allosaurus with its blunter head and short knife-teeth). There would be a risk of getting ambushed by them in their forested habitat where you can't properly see around.

Allosaurus, on the other hand, has a taller-standing, stiffer and less maneuverable body suggesting adaptations for open savanna. If you're more likely to encounter an allosaurus in an open savanna, you're gonna have much easier time avoiding them too due to actually seeing them before it's too late. + Savanna habitats tend to be full of visible wildlife for distraction anyways. It might be hard to get allosaurus-senpai to notice you at all in there. :c

And oh yea. Marshosaurus is an underappreciated beauty. It's apparently a megalosauroid so it's Torvo's smaller cousin. But it's only bigger than a tiger so we're talking about something way lighter and deadlier (from human pov).

And yeah without a doubt, that World must've been one of stunning beauty. But one with good material to write psychological horror from, for entertainment purposes.

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UFO123456 In reply to Knarme [2020-11-23 23:10:44 +0000 UTC]

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Evodolka In reply to Knarme [2019-09-24 19:39:15 +0000 UTC]

i know how it works, I've watched enough animal documentaries
Komodo dragons and Baboons do that too, but what i meant was taking meat off and then the meat walks off and lives for another 50 years, just a theory though

clothing HAS to be a bit of a tummy upset for them
but still, lions and tigers have been known to kill and eat people, so an animal the size of a bus might take what it can get

there are plenty of animals alive today that are frighteningly fast even if they don't look it, hippo's, walrus, crocodiles, elephants all of these animals can either keep up with or out pace a running human
i feel like a theropod could chase a person down quite well, especially things like allosaurus and torvosaurus
the advantage we humans have is that we can out endure most other animals

awesome to hear more info on such a dinosaur

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Knarme In reply to Evodolka [2019-09-26 22:07:36 +0000 UTC]

Well, humans are close to the size of prey animals lions and tigers naturally eat  + they co-evolved with humans + they're a lot smarter than a 'gator-brained' jurassic theropods. So they kinda have more means of hunting us than an allosaurus.

Maybe an allosaurus could get alarmingly quick, we don't know. But bcs its tall-standing stiff build suggests it may have mostly lived in open environments like savannas, it'd be hard to give an allosaurus a good reason to pay attention to a human. In savannas you can always watch so many other animals etc. The allos might be too distracted to really pay mind to us yanno. And we could see them afar in an open environment so we could just avoid them before getting their attention. But those sneaky Torvosaurus and Ceratosaurus who might bite my butt in the forest... Now imma be scared ok...  Not exactly happy about marshosaurs or male dryosaurs that are aggressive from hormones despite being herbivores... xD

My main point is that it's hard to get a realistic-sounding scenario where an allosaurus would be exclusively focusing on killing a human. And that there were many other animals sharing the ecosystem with it that seem better-suit for that.

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UFO123456 In reply to Knarme [2020-11-23 23:12:39 +0000 UTC]

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Knarme In reply to gabbycat17 [2019-09-08 06:59:24 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! Tried my best with the horror vibes.

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gabbycat17 In reply to Knarme [2019-09-08 23:24:53 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome! ^^

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Knarme In reply to tamoshika-kaiana [2019-09-08 06:59:37 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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