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So a squid walks into a Bar.
Well, no. That's not right. Squid are aquatic, and the creature is floating in midair with no sign of water support at all. The top of its central mass, a pink and purple lumpy sac of sorts, hovers something like nine feet above the ground; the ends of its lowest tentacles clear the floor by a good three feet. Walking, too, is the wrong word for it. While its tentacles (four manipulators and two slenderer tendrils) are moving, to be true, it's the sort of leisurely drifting motion one sees from light objects moving through a breeze, and not the steady, purposeful motion of a walk. And as long as we're on the topic, squid is an inaccurate term for it on another front: while squid have heads, they're part of their central line, with the body on one side and the tentacles on the other. The creature instead has a blunt, snakelike head and neck, perhaps the length of an adult human arm from fingertip to elbow. The head and neck skin are a pale, almost luminescent blue, mottled here and there with darker blues. Its six eyes, three down each side of its head, are black. Unlike a squid's, the eyes give the appearance of being all pupil, or nearly all- and it's blinking in surprise, and whistling sharply in startlement, neither of which is a behavior of which squid are generally capable.
But all things considered and for lack of a better term, one may safely say that, yes, a squid walks into a Bar.
[tinytag: Vergil the Engineer, Darryl "Mother" Roskow, Vext]
Well, no. That's not right. Squid are aquatic, and the creature is floating in midair with no sign of water support at all. The top of its central mass, a pink and purple lumpy sac of sorts, hovers something like nine feet above the ground; the ends of its lowest tentacles clear the floor by a good three feet. Walking, too, is the wrong word for it. While its tentacles (four manipulators and two slenderer tendrils) are moving, to be true, it's the sort of leisurely drifting motion one sees from light objects moving through a breeze, and not the steady, purposeful motion of a walk. And as long as we're on the topic, squid is an inaccurate term for it on another front: while squid have heads, they're part of their central line, with the body on one side and the tentacles on the other. The creature instead has a blunt, snakelike head and neck, perhaps the length of an adult human arm from fingertip to elbow. The head and neck skin are a pale, almost luminescent blue, mottled here and there with darker blues. Its six eyes, three down each side of its head, are black. Unlike a squid's, the eyes give the appearance of being all pupil, or nearly all- and it's blinking in surprise, and whistling sharply in startlement, neither of which is a behavior of which squid are generally capable.
But all things considered and for lack of a better term, one may safely say that, yes, a squid walks into a Bar.
[tinytag: Vergil the Engineer, Darryl "Mother" Roskow, Vext]