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| 00031 | Mon, 07 Nov 2022 08:16:11 -0700 | Mon, 07 Nov 2022 08:16:14 -0700 | yes | yes |
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Inky follows behind the merbear at a healthy 2 meters' distance away in the bubblebee, the headlights illuminating a moderate distance ahead of the distraught bear as it darts after its brother.
As the merbear homes in on the tardigrade near the ship deck, Inky keeps a lookout for any signs of movement or tentacles from behind or below the shipwreck. The bubblebee's headlights cast an eerie shadow from the ship's double masts even as it partly lights up the rim of a gaping hole in the hull.
The tardigrade, still tucked into a ball, lands on the ship deck with a gentle thud. It rolls a couple of times and finally comes to rest against the rigging. The merbear reaches it a moment later and cradles its jelly-like body gently in its bear arms. "My brother!" it cries. "My dear bear brother!"
The tardigrade slowly uncurls and stretches out and looks around, disoriented and bleary-eyed. It waggles its eight arms around experimentally, closes and opens its claws as though kneading the water. "Brother?" says the merbear in astonishment.
"I am okay brother!" says the tardigrade. "We water bears are very hardy and resilient! It will take more than a mere other worldly tentacle attack and an arcane electric blast to do me in!"
While the bears are having their teary-eyed reunion, you sense movement in the shadows deep in the ocean trench, over which protrude the ship's masts. Your lights don't penetrate the darkness enough to see what it was. But it was large. The very stuff that thalassophobia is made of.
You also think you see a flash of gold as the light of the bubblebee reflects off of something inside the ship through the hole in the hull. Could it be the second Ginnarak Crystal?
The breach in the hull is easily large enough to admit a medium sized creature such as an inkling in a bubblebee apparatus. Or a sysorcer or a lanky old half-devil tavern owner.
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