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When a creature apparently has the ability to instantly digest anything it eats, allowing it to eat things several times it's size with no change to it's own shape, or swallow living creatures (again, often larger than itself) with no resistance from within. Such a creature can swallow a sword wielding knight or a live velociraptor, but there's no problem since they seem to instantly dissolve the second they enter the stomach.
When a creature apparently has the ability to instantly digest anything it eats, allowing it to eat things several times it's size with no change to it's own shape, or swallow living creatures (again, often larger than itself) with no resistance from within. Such a creature can swallow a sword wielding knight or a live velociraptor, but there's no problem since they seem to instantly dissolve the second they enter the stomach.
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There are some stories where the ''characters'' seem to believe this, and thus make no effort to rescue someone who just got swallowed alive, writing him off the second he goes down the monster's gullet. They probably have at least a few minutes to cut him out before the digestive juices go to work (assuming he didn't just get crushed in the esophagus). Sometimes, they may not even attempt to cut him out after they kill the monster!
There are some stories where the ''characters'' seem to believe this, and thus make no effort to rescue someone who just got swallowed alive, writing him off the second he goes down the monster's gullet. They probably have at least a few minutes to cut him out before the digestive juices go to work (assuming he didn't just get crushed in the esophagus). Sometimes, they may not even attempt to cut him out after they kill the monster!


[[Eat the Bomb]] may depend on this. Compare [[Hyperactive Metabolism]] and [[Nobody Poops]]. Almost any character with a [[Black Hole Belly]] is a [[Big Eater]]. Contrast [[Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth]]
[[Eat the Bomb]] may depend on this. Compare [[Hyperactive Metabolism]] and [[Nobody Poops]]. Almost any character with a '''Black Hole Belly''' is a [[Big Eater]]. Contrast [[Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth]]


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