Should Greimorian Meat Be Acidic?

[Crozarius]

Basically, I was thinking about making a PR that removes the polytrinic acid in the meat you get from butchering Greimorians. I couched this to someone, and they recommended that I make a suggestion thread open to discussion instead of just making a PR, so this can be discussed.

(Removing the polytrinic acid would either be via creating a new type of greimorian meat and giving that to the butcher results, or removing the polyacid from xenomeat)

 

My reasoning is this:

• Greimorian meat only contains polyacid because they butcher into Xenomorph meat for some reason. I imagine that this is a holdover from when Gremmies were ported, and nobody really cared enough to change this.
• There's nothing really to suggest that greimorians should have floor-meltingly-acidic blood. It doesn't burn you to walk on the blood, they don't disfigure you if you kill them in melee, and melee weapons you use to kill them don't melt. (Please don't add this, it would make dealing with Greimorians (on lowpop) even more annoying than it already is)
• It's inconsistent at the moment: Unathi can devour Greimorians raw with their grab devour verb and it's fine, but if they butcher the creatures and eat the steaks, they get acid damage.
• The grill which is supposed to allow you to safely eat the meat is a special machine that has to be built by Engineering (or maybe cargo if they cared to order the board??), which literally never happens. 

 

My thoughts on why it might be a bad idea to change it, however are:

• There's already a sort of pseudo-canon that Gremmies are full of acid, which might be strange if this is changed?
• Gremmies are a source of xenomeat, which is itself a source of polyacid if someone actually wanted to get polyacid for some reason.
• The acid damage from gremmie meat isn't really that much, and it usually self-heals. (I guess in this regard it might just be a RP/Mechanics thing. Because you'll have people going "oh but you have fresh skins on your xyz it's burning you")

[dessysalta]

Honestly, I think it should be all or nothing, yeah. It should either be acidic and damage things around it, or it should do nothing and be mostly edible to everyone else. I would definitely side with you on making them edible/removing the acid. Let people freak out ICly about whether or not to eat greimorians and/or how weird it is.

[Jasorn]

Yeah it's kind of weird that it's acid based, and eating it just gives you a very minor burn on a random limb, aka no damage. It should probably be changed to toxin instead, since that is what they normally inflict.