Fishers find CR10 Squid!

[Mark Hope]

Ah, but not as cool as the glow-in-the-dark giant squid filmed zipping around recently.

Poppycock and balderdash. Does your lightbulb squid have rotating hooks on its suckers? Can it battle sperm whales? Does it know shaolin kungfu? No, thought not. My squid can so beat up your squid.

(Awesome link, though - didn't know about those!)

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

You mean the fishers used a vorpal fishing net? Is that even RAW?

Permissive GM.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Dire Squid?

Fiendish Dire Squid. Of Legend.

 

[Kishin]

There seems to be more and more reports of colossal squids nowadays. I wonder if it's a Cthulhu or a climate thing?

Totally a Cthulhu thing. The short story 'Call of Cthulhu' mentions a prominent Cthulhu cult in Dunedin, New Zealand. (Coincidentally, a friend of mine studied in Dunedin for six months....I always wondered about her...)

 

[Hypersmurf]

It's all about the batter. Deep frying just about anything makes it tasty.

And people will deep-fry just about anything...

-Hyp.

 

[jefgorbach]

Things like this make it even easier. Iä! Iä-R'lyeh! Cthulhu fhtagn!

Thanks for the link; interesting.

While the Global Warming folks are all wrong (anyone in a cold climate knows ICE takes up MORE volume than its liquid form so melting ice would DECREASE sea level not increase it), you do have to wonder what effect the melting Artic ice and freezing Antartic ice shelf is having on the ocean's salt content/currents at the lower levels? That plus generations of pollution "could" be having some evolutionary/enviromental impact driving deep-deep sea life closer to the surface for food/living conditions??

 

[Hypersmurf]

While the Global Warming folks are all wrong (anyone in a cold climate knows ICE takes up MORE volume than its liquid form so melting ice would DECREASE sea level not increase it)...

As I understand it, it's not the melting of floating ice that's supposed to increase sea levels; it's a/ the melting of ice that's on land, meaning that water that wasn't in the ocean in any form ends up in the ocean, and b/ the heating of water that's already in liquid form. Water is densest at about 4 degrees C, right? So if something causes a whole lot of 4 degree water to become 5 degree water, it will take up more space.

If someone says "If the Arctic pack ice melts, seas will rise and we'll all drown!", their physics is out.

But if they say "If the Arctic pack ice melts, it won't be long before the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets melt too, and then seas will rise and we'll all drown!", they're at least basing their fears on something that makes some sense.

-Hyp.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

Thanks for the link; interesting.

While the Global Warming folks are all wrong (anyone in a cold climate knows ICE takes up MORE volume than its liquid form so melting ice would DECREASE sea level not increase it), you do have to wonder what effect the melting Artic ice and freezing Antartic ice shelf is having on the ocean's salt content/currents at the lower levels? That plus generations of pollution "could" be having some evolutionary/enviromental impact driving deep-deep sea life closer to the surface for food/living conditions??

I think the global warming experts say the increase in sea level would come from thermal expansion of water. Will it out power the effect of the melting ice?

 

[Kae'Yoss]

But if they say "If the Arctic pack ice melts, it won't be long before the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets melt too, and then seas will rise and we'll all drown!", they're at least basing their fears on something that makes some sense.

Okay, then: If the Arctic pack ice melts, it won't be long before the Antarctic and Greenlice ice sheets melt too, and then seas will rise and you'll all drown!

(I say "you" because I live on a hill. Would have a lot of drownage going on before I even get wet feet). So it's not fear, it's schadenfreude!

And people will deep-fry just about anything...

By all that is holy and nutritious! When I saw your link, I was thinking of ghastly things like cow brains, but I would never have thought about this! I guess some people will drink the fat out of the deep fryer if there isn't anything else around that is fattening enough to their tastes.

Though, people eat pork fat covered in chocolate.

 

[Bardsandsages]

Circumstance bonus from the Trawler, +2 from each Fisherman aiding another... they could'a got him in with about 16 brawny guys, easily.

Probably had someone cast True Fishing to get a +20 bonus. They would have needed it.

I'm still waiting anxiously for a Megalodon to come to the surface. Things like this give me hope that one is down there somewhere, deep in the ocean. It would be great to see one level one of those illegal poaching ships that defin sharks and throw the helpless creatures back into the ocean to die.