Not just general meat products, but they actually eat
other chickens. They
do engage in cannibalism sometimes. In fact that's true of most poultry species. It's supposedly a stress response most commonly brought on by poor egg-farming conditions.
Does 'Heal' restore lost limbs? Or just HP like in D&D?
I actually would need to check my notes. I remember getting into this question at one point. But iirc the basic answer is 'yes'. That's largely because I don't believe there is any kind of 'regeneration' spell that restores health over time and could be justified as a separate spell, and, like most RPGs (honestly Fallout is the only one I can think of), the games don't simulate any kind of limb-loss, it's just HP pools.
That's kinda the point of
having an HP system: it's an approximation. Every so often you'll have games that degrade combat or skill effectiveness based in HP, but that's really the limit.
Also, given the spell is meant for
combat use, in a situation where
swords are regularly in use, not restoring limbs is kinda silly. Combat styles would rapidly eschew debilitative magic and torso strikes as being most effective and switch to going for limb severance in such a world.
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That said, Taylor can't really do much to fix monstrous features, vial or natural, because there's nothing 'wrong' with them. They've had their biology overwritten by a shard, or the shard is basically just maintaining a copy of their mind in shardspace and letting it puppet an impossible body. Which means that 'healing' a monstrous cape would either do nothing or just cause them to cease to exist. The only way to 'fix' it is to convince the shard that the person isn't supposed to be like that. (Which in the latter case brings up some major ethical questions, since no doubt a shard will just make a new copy and change it... so you're still basically killing somebody.)
Well, that or physically alter them somehow to the point that their shard is forced to re-adapt their power in some fashion, like what with happened to Valefor. Such as in Ward when
Sveta has her body comepletely reshaped.
But a temporary chicken spell isn't gonna do that.
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Edit: Though she
could probably do it via long-term Reskin in some of the less extreme cases, and even a few of the extreme ones. Weld would probably be the ideal test case.... like give him some kind of 'high school football jock' reskin for an extended period, and his shard might just turn him into Colossus. Newter and Gregor are probably sufficiently human enough as well with non-extreme basic concepts to manage at least
something to make their lives better. But that would require Taylor to actually know and understand that powers can change like that. I'm not even sure if the
PRT is aware of that in canon. Or Cauldron for that matter.
"...what have done?..."
