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<blockquote data-quote="Rolzup" data-source="post: 2993667" data-attributes="member: 10105">Based entirely upon an off-hand comment made in a thread on a different board entirely, I've had this image floating (literally, even!) in my head for a week now.&nbsp; Time to do something with it.Imagine, if you would, a hot-air balloon.&nbsp; Nice and simple, yes?Now, scale it up a bit.&nbsp; Instead of a basket dangling below the balloon, you've got a sailing vessel of respectable size.&nbsp; One large enough to carry a crew of forty or fifty men, say.&nbsp; Pretty popular concept, and one that I've seen in any number of illustrations.Now, replace the balloon with a much larger version of this....<img src="http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/Descript/Porcupine/InflatPuffer.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />...fully inflated, swimming lazily through the sky, with the aforementioned ship hanging below it.How would you stat up such a creature?&nbsp; It would have to be of at least Gargantuan size, I suppose...maybe colossal.&nbsp; And goodness, what would you call the thing?&nbsp; The real-life version is called a Balloon fish, and I suppose that's not out of line for this variation, but it lacks a certain poetry, doesn't it?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rolzup, post: 2993667, member: 10105"] Based entirely upon an off-hand comment made in a thread on a different board entirely, I've had this image floating (literally, even!) in my head for a week now. Time to do something with it. Imagine, if you would, a hot-air balloon. Nice and simple, yes? Now, scale it up a bit. Instead of a basket dangling below the balloon, you've got a sailing vessel of respectable size. One large enough to carry a crew of forty or fifty men, say. Pretty popular concept, and one that I've seen in any number of illustrations. Now, replace the balloon with a much larger version of this.... [img]http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/Descript/Porcupine/InflatPuffer.JPG[/img] ...fully inflated, swimming lazily through the sky, with the aforementioned ship hanging below it. How would you stat up such a creature? It would have to be of at least Gargantuan size, I suppose...maybe colossal. And goodness, what would you call the thing? The real-life version is called a Balloon fish, and I suppose that's not out of line for this variation, but it lacks a certain poetry, doesn't it? [/QUOTE]

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