I don’t have much to add to the weirdness here, although I have to admit that I enjoy drawing deformed monsters. 🙂 Could be that I’ll be doing more of that…
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PA System: Attention passengers -- as we approach our destination in Touros, Brazil, we have a rare whale sighting for you. Go down to the dining car and look out the right side. Some whales were infected during the plague years. The disease creates huge, air-filled bladders on their skin. It's not fatal, but infected whales tend to travel alone. This fellow seems to be watching us -- everybody wave as we go by!
Girii: Huh?
Jacob: Girii. Thought we'd find you here. Come on, we'll be in Brazil soon. We need a plan.
Girii: Huh?
Jacob: Girii. Thought we'd find you here. Come on, we'll be in Brazil soon. We need a plan.
To quote bits of a very nice song written by the heartless record industry: “Don’t make me sad…keep making me laugh…”
I can deal with results the protagonists would not wish to happen, which occur because they take actions and actions have effects.
But that was just depressing.
Btw, what prevents whale/squid attacks on the train?
o.O
Huh? I’m sorry, Skur, I don’t understand — what’s depressing?
As for the train, it’s in a clear tube. Also, normal sea life isn’t aggressive against man-made structures. Might as well ask why whales and squid don’t attack bridges and transatlantic cables — mindless acts of violence never occur to them.
True, but still: What happens if the tube gets damaged by natural disaters or just plain bad luck?
The thingy in the whale is depressing.
And who knows whether a killer whale ridden by a mutated plague would not behave like a beast on rabies? Or whether a blind old whale would not accidentally collide with it.
Well, if you’re curious about the feasibility of a transatlantic tunnel, there is plenty of data on the web about the concept. I particularly like this concept art.There’s a diagram with a bit more detail here, also.
The tunnel design I’ve used is much simpler, but the concept isn’t too far-fetched.
The mysterious figure is depressing? I was going for spooky…sorry that you got ‘depressing’ from it. Just a quick setup of another mystery. 🙂
Jonas, dans la baleine,
disait, J’voudrait bien m’en aller,
Boum boum, boum boum…
Scie des années ’30.
Popular song of the thirties, as the world
was slouching toward Gomorrah…
I would go with creepy rather than depressing. It looks like a phenomenon you’d read about on the SCP website.
It depends on what it is and why it’s there. If it’s a sentient being trapped and doomed to spend it’s entire life alone in the air sac on a diseased whale, able to peer out at the world and watch the trains pass by but unable to ever interact with another sentient being no matter how much it desires to do so throughout it’s long, lonely, miserable life … well, that’s depressing.
If it’s in control of it’s situation – perhaps even in control of the whale – and it is either using diseased whales as a form of transport or is using this temporary vantage point to spy on the trains, well that’s more creepy.