This upms the difficulty from high to impossible there is no way that heroes, weakened from taking down one NW and the goblins, can survive three more (and if somebody did that, please let me know what strategy they used). What ISN'T is that very soon after you deal with those two threats, THREE NW will attack you, and will keep doing so every few days. The goblin raid at that time strains the resources, but is survivable.
I did it twice once tanking the NW with the Spirit, and another time, with a dwarf. It IS possible to handle a single Noble Werewolf and a goblin raid even at that time. The venom is cytotoxic (cell-destroying) and its effects are appalling.Yeah, if minute = day in the game, I have to agree. Its venom glands are described as “colossal,” and it’s estimated that 1/35th of the venom in a typical bite is enough to kill a 150-pound man. Most important, it produces more venom than anything else, more even than the king cobra. It has one of the fastest strikes, and the longest fangs-over 2 inches-of any snake. While not the longest venomous serpent, it’s the heaviest, and can reach 40 pounds. My own nominee for phone-booth snake (assuming you could even find a phone booth today) is the Gaboon viper. Seconds later, it rousted dinner, and despite the rat snake’s lead, the King got its prey so quickly Simpson realized that if it had attacked him, he would have had no chance to shoot. Then it continued on its rat-snake mission, passing within a few feet of him. The snake saw him, raised its head off the ground, and seemed to reflect on the situation. Simpson froze in place but lifted his rifle to the ready position just in case. In researching the book, Caras asked five snake experts to name the deadliest serpents on the planet, “the snakes that you would least like to be trapped in a phone booth with.” There are something like 200 species of dangerous snakes (out of a total of 2,500), and the only one that made all five lists was the king cobra.
Garcia asked about my policy on snakes, and in an appendix to Dangerous to Man is a fascinating little piece of herpetological knowledge that I read more than 50 years ago and have never forgotten.
The other is The Monarch of Deadman Bay (1969), the fictionalized life story of an Alaskan brown bear from birth to death, at the hands of, naturally, a hunter. One is Dangerous to Man (1964) which is a scholarly, rather than a sensational, look at all the hazardous critters on the planet and how much of a threat they actually are. He was a prolific writer, and of his many books there are two that are very much worth your while. A few posts back I mentioned the late naturalist, author, and television personality Roger Caras, whom I knew a little bit and liked despite our bitter differences over hunting.
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