Alternate novel openings: which would you read first?
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@cstross Oh, ferrets. Definitely ferrets! Giving us not one, but two opportunities to flex some creative muscle:
(1) By coming up with an actual, plausible scenario in which the escape rooms became inhabited by ferrets.
(2) By taking on the truly Hitchcockian task of making cute fluffy animals somehow scary.
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@ApostateEnglishman @cstross first problem, why would you want to escape the room even though there are ferrets?
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@MuffelKanuffel @ApostateEnglishman Because ferrets in numbers n > 1 are absolutely f'ing terrifying. (Source: I have been in a room with 30+ ferrets. Land piranhas!)
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@cstross @ApostateEnglishman hehe, hm first wait (and search the ferrets' sleeping places for the key). but if all the ferrets are still in the room after 3 minutes, there is no escape.