Howdy,
Ok, buckle up dopers, we’re taking a ride on the imagination express.
A classical hollywood werewolf, as in a regular human that turns into a wolf-monster on a night of an unclouded full moon, is also an alcoholic.
Being an alcoholic, he is smashed at the moment just before the light of the full moon hits his inebriated body. What happens? Does he become a drunken monster, or does the transformation process ignore all effects of toxins in the bloodstream? Does he stumble around like a total nincompoop, or attack random objects, or perhaps there is no change?
I realize there is probably very little source material to work with on this, but I think it’s food for thought. So chew, damnit, chew! Errr… please?
Yours forever,
Autolycus
Movie werewolves are usually portrayed as normal humans most of the time, so it should be entirely consistent for them to experience alcohol poisoning. However, once the change begins, I expect that the transformation itself would burn the alcohol out of their system.
Actual werewolves, of course, are already immune to the effects of most toxins by virtue of their exotic metabolism.
Werewolves can only be killed by silver. You can’t poison them. Since being drunk is really just the effects of mild alcohol poisoning, the werewolf would probably be immune to them once it changed. An alternate explanation is that the transformation requires an enormous amount of caloric energ: that’s why werewolves are always so hungry. If they had a lot of alcohol in their system, the transformation would probably burn it all up, leaving a less hungry, but badly hung-over, werewolf. Which probably wouldn’t be much of an improvement.
In many RPGs, were-critters have superhuman healing. The toxin would be metabolized immediately.
However, the classic folklore werewolf is often discovered when a wound inflicted on the wolf shows up on the man. That would presumably work both ways and the wolf would be drunk.
So it depends on whether your wolf is based more on scared bohemian peasants or White Wolf Game Studios.
I once saw a werewolf drinking a piña colada at Trader Vic’s, so apparently they are affected by alcohol. Otherwise, why not just order a coke or something else cheaper? BTW, his hair was perfect, if that matters.
Yeah. I’d like to meet his tailor, too. Ah-woo! (Lucky for you I have Warren Zevon’s Werewolves of London in my iTunes library, or you’d be getting Pitted for putting that earwig in my head! ;))
I concur that traditionally, the werewolf (at least when in wolf form) is nigh unpoisonable, so it’d probably cure his hangover (or render it moot) for the duration of the wolf form.
What about a vampire who bit a passed out drunk? And what if that drunk were actually a werewolf but the moon wasn’t full?
That makes much more sense now! I always wondered what drinking a Pina Colada and trailer mix meant.
But yeah, regarding the OP, I’d assume that while not probable, it would at least be entertaining.
According to some sources, a vampire can get drunk by drinking the blood of a human who’s drunk. I’ve also seen it written that a vampire will get a magic/power high from drinking a werewolf’s blood.
What if someone made a drink called ‘Silverschlager’, that had little bits of hammered silver in it? What would happened to a guy who changed into a werewolf shortly after pounding a bottle of it?
