Sentience in Fallen London

[curiousfellow]

I suspect most animals of being sentient, personally.

This snippet from the Wars of Illusion suggests bats are - if maybe not vocal, sentient:

You mention your interest to a bat. He looks you up and down, squeaks at you, and flutters off. Later, a bat taps at your window. It could even be the same bat. They all look fairly similar. Anyway, this one’s carrying a scrap of paper rolled around his little leg. The note says, ‘We will be in touch.’

I don’t have the quote for it right now, but one of the options for the Hungover Terrier results in him coming home and ‘telling you things’ which suggests dogs, too, talk.

[lily]

All of this riveting discussion causes myself to wonder… what precisely does Devil taste like? (Sulpherous, most likely.) Not, of course, that I would ask them in polite company but I would be surprised if there were not someone in the City - most like of the infernal persuasion themselves - who does not know.

[patrickreding]

@Lily Banyard-Fox

All of this riveting discussion causes myself to wonder… what precisely does Devil taste like? (Sulpherous, most likely.) Not, of course, that I would ask them in polite company but I would be surprised if there were not someone in the City - most like of the infernal persuasion themselves - who does not know.

The Infernal Sommelier would probably know. It seems like the sort of thing that would come up in his work.

[estelleknoht]

@Lily Banyard-Fox

All of this riveting discussion causes myself to wonder… what precisely does Devil taste like? (Sulpherous, most likely.) Not, of course, that I would ask them in polite company but I would be surprised if there were not someone in the City - most like of the infernal persuasion themselves - who does not know.

I am more interested in the taste of the Overgoat. When I get rich enough, that is. Probably wash it down with a serving of that damnably expensive cider, too.

[streetfelineblue]

@Byron Man

[quote=Lily Banyard-Fox]All of this riveting discussion causes myself to wonder… what precisely does Devil taste like? (Sulpherous, most likely.) Not, of course, that I would ask them in polite company but I would be surprised if there were not someone in the City - most like of the infernal persuasion themselves - who does not know.

I am more interested in the taste of the Overgoat. When I get rich enough, that is. Probably wash it down with a serving of that damnably expensive cider, too.[/quote]

Better said “When I’ll be either persuasive enough or dangerous enough to avoid it do destroy me VERY gruesomely for having tried to eat him” XDDD