Lunar Lupine

[agrudis]

I was wondering, what happens to a werewolf during a total lunar eclipse? I mean, lunar eclipses only happen during full moons, so the transformation to a werewolf would happen before the eclipse.

But during the eclipse, would the werewolf stay a werewolf? Or would he/she turn back into a human for the duration of the eclipse?

Two people who I've already asked have both said that the werewolf would die, which is obviously nonsense, because if that was so then werewolves would have become extinct after the first lunar eclipse.

What does everyone else think?

[Marshall Banana]

It's a special occasion on which we hunt for young virgins to eat.

[Araciel]

It depends on the werewolf myth you're talking about.

[Rantz]

It's a special occasion on which we hunt for young virgins to eat.

I'm hiding under my cover next eclipse. :aimcry:

[blackmage_nuke]

They go about eating unsuspecting kids who have been dragged away from their television screens and computer games to see this 'amazing' phenomenon. That'll show those parents for trying to educate their children.

They also steal everyones telescopes.

[scrumpleberry]

They'd feel kind of dizzy and maybe go around kissing babies and helping old ladies cross the street for a while.

[Marshall Banana]

It's a special occasion on which we hunt for young virgins to eat.

I'm hiding under my cover next eclipse. :aimcry:

[Rantz]

[Del Murder]

I'd say they turn back into a human for a few minutes then back to werewolf form later. Or, they don't exist in the first place.

[rubah]

If they turned back human, then they should do that when it's cloudy, too.

Let's just think about possible reasons why werewolves would be affected by a full moon
1) they are on a 29-day transformation cycle, and the moon is not actually the cause, it's just a cycle.
2) reflected light from the moon reaches a certain intensity
3) they can sense when a moon is 'full'
4) ???
5) ???

The only one of these that makes any astronomical sense at all is the first one. The second is invalid because the moon at apogee and perigee (furthest away, closest) would already have different values of luminosity

the third is invalid because just as often as not, a full moon occurs during the day, but werewolves only transform at night.

Of course, the first suffers from the fact that the lunar cycle is not precisely 29 days.

OH NO

[Roogle]

It could be a psychological phenomenon, too, Allison. Maybe that, combined with your first point, could explain the transformations of werewolves.

[Rye]

It's a special occasion on which we hunt for young virgins to eat.

This just in: the reason of the decrease of activity on EoFF.

We can cancel the Event Committee now. Now, we focus on the hunt!

[Del Murder]

I think I remember a cartoon where clouds kept going in front of the moon and the werewolf kept changing.

I always thought it had something to do with the full moon's light. Like the yellow sun affecting Superman. But Superman keeps his powers at night. (new thread topic--does Superman get weaker at night?) So maybe it is just a cycle thing, like PMS. I wonder if that's how the werewolf myth got started.

[rubah]

*grows fur*

[Psychotic]

*grows fur*

You're hairy enough as it is!