I Dread That They Knew Exactly What They Were Doing

I dread that they knew exactly what they were doing

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Every Dredge Aberration (2024), Part 1

Grotesque Mackerel

Encyclopedia #104

Aberrant form of Blue Mackerel

Description:

Corrupted scales and bulbous eyes - like nothing you’ve ever seen before.

Comment: Compared to what’s to come, an incredibly tame introduction into the dark underbelly of the local ecosystem. Along with the other mutant forms of blue mackerel, squid, and cod, this is often one of (if not the) very first aberrants that the player will stumble upon while getting their bearings in the starting region. Only mildly deformed, this fish is one of the lucky. Also, it’s the least valuable aberrant available, but at bare minimum, it’s still an improvement upon the least valuable fish in the game.

How to catch: Commonly spawn in the coastal waters along The Marrows during the day. Can be trawl-netted. Atrophy may take a few tries since this is one of three possible variations of the normal fish.

Lumpy Mackerel

Encyclopedia #105

Aberrant form of Blue Mackerel

Description:

A writhing mass of lumps, twisting and pulling their way under the scales of their vessel. How long can it have lived like this?

Comment: My first aberrant catch that I felt a twinge of real pity for, and the first one that made me feel appalled concern for those characters who could be implied to willingly feast upon such things. Its riddled body teems with cancerous mass, or, as the undulating suggests, something much more vivacious and sinister…

How to catch: Same as above.

Many-Eyed Mackerel

Encyclopedia #106

Aberrant form of Blue Mackerel

Description:

Gill plates dotted with eyeballs. Superfluous but scanning, frantically. All eyes see right through you.

Comment: This one really makes one wish fish had eyelids of their own. If it could comprehend its situation, I wonder if this specimen would wish for the same thing. What cruelty to be blessed with this paranoid, all angled gaze, only to still end up in the grasp of a superior predator. The most valuable malformation of the least valuable fish in the game.

How to catch: Same as above.

All-Seeing Cod

Encyclopedia #107

Aberrant form of Cod

Description:

Staring outwards, unblinking. Eyes borrowed from a larger being but not the mind to process what it sees.

Comment: Was that a pun…? Anyway, there’s something strangely appealing about the colors of this one to me. Stare long enough into the eyes of cod, and I guess they will gaze back. I hope those massive peepers don’t go to waste at the fish market- the hands of an experienced chef should be delighted, if anything, to work with such a nutritious addition.

How to catch: A coastal regular around The Marrows during the day. Can be caught in trawl nets.

Fanged Cod

Encyclopedia #108

Aberrant form of Cod

Description:

Deviantly sharp teeth, with chunks of smaller fish lodged between. A hunger in its eyes

Comment: For a mutated wretch of the deep, this biter doesn’t seem so intimidating until you reflect for a moment on the actual size of an average codfish. The largest individuals you snag of this variant can be as long as nearly 4 feet. I begin to hope that those living in the Marrows keep their children far from the water’s edge.

How to catch: second verse, same as the first.

Three-Headed Cod

Encyclopedia #109

Aberrant form of Cod

Description:

Three heads writhe and struggle in unison. Three mouths hang agape, then close shut together. Three lives lived as one. One fate bound to many.

Comment: More meat for the same amount of cargo space? Not much to complain about when dragging one of these up from their home. Probably by coincidence, irrelevantly, but still humorously, “3-headed cod” also happens to be the name of a real life beer, only available annually.

How to catch: Third verse, same as the first.

After the events of “Gaz: Taster of Pork”, I feel like it only would have been fair for Gaz to find her own spelldrive that curses Dib to do the Denzel Crocker spaz™ every time he mentions supernatural or extra terrestrial entities for the rest of his life.

That would be funny to do to him for no reason at all, too.

The Night Angler is so baby girl actually I love her so much like

Work it

stunning

Every Dredge Aberration (2024), Part 2

Brood Squid

Encyclopedia #110

Aberrant form of Arrow Squid

Description:

Tentacles sprout from a glowing core inside a gelatinous sac. Other cores lay dormant alongside

Comment: The first aberrant I caught where the original being, if it ever truly lived, appeared lost entirely to the corruption. It has been hollowed out and made the bloated womb for a nameless invader. It invokes two visceral images in my mind’s eye. The first being an infected cell, swelling with viral load until it is bursted, spilling out with new capsules of infection waiting to start the cycle anew. The other is of those real squids in the world which brood their own eggs to hatching. They too, sacrifice the last of themselves entirely to bring their spawn into a hungry world.

How to catch: Another coastal spawner in The Marrows region, albeit only appearing after sunset. Can be gathered in trawl nets.

Snag Squid

Encyclopedia #111

Aberrant form of Arrow Squid

Description:

Tasting tongues writhe wildly around sets of yellowed, crooked teeth. The top row are flattened like human molars.

Comment: The first aberrant that made me recoil back in my chair with a grimaced “Euuh” sound when I saw it appear on my screen. To think of what caution such a thing must be handled with, lest the role of butcher’s hand and sustenance become reversed. The artwork makes horrible suggestion of one animal in a slow transformation to become many. This layered hunger promises terrible growth and sprawling if it is allowed to consume.

How to catch: Ditto

Barbed Eel

Encyclopedia #112

Aberrant form of Grey Eel

Description:

A spine broken with sharp angles and crooked curves. A row of teeth bent on revenge.

Comment: Fortunately for I, there exists frilled sharks with a more unnerving presence than this gnarled creature. It is much like the Marrows themselves, crooked and strange, but conquered easily. Hunger on, scoliotic elver, but you won’t be the one who feasts before the sun rises.

How to catch: This wretch and its kin will require an upgrade from the basic rod to bag. Fish during the day, around the shallow waters about The Marrows. I always found them mostly around the rocks. Can be trawl-netted with the appropriate equipment.

Host Eel

Encyclopedia #113

Aberrant form of Grey Eel

Description:

Numerous glowing shapes flicker and squirm behind a distended ribcage. The rest of the fish is withered and drained.

Comment: Could it be… another strain of what plagues the brood squid? Unlikely, but to the animal, the difference won’t matter- its fate mirrors the other all the same.

How to catch: ^Ditto

Cyclopean Flounder

Encyclopedia #114

Aberrant form of Gulf Flounder

Description:

A sprawling, jellied mass spills from a single eye socket. What appears to be a dark pupil is in fact the center of an egg.

Comment: Oh…. It’s a yolk. That’s the nucleus. Another life, traded for the potential of a new one. Neither encyclopedia nor the artwork help me address the question of whether or not this flounder carries a fertilized ovum, and frankly, I do not know which answer would unsettle me more. Mercifully, ironically, this change has blinded it.

How to catch: Active during the day, and dwells only in the shallow water of The Marrows. Can be trawl netted.

Riddled Flounder

Encyclopedia #115

Aberrant form of Gulf Flounder

Description:

Baggy skin perforated with countless cavities. A singular, shapeless mass spreads underneath.

Comment: Ah, I must wonder at this piece if the devs looked to the Surinam toad, and if they found such inspiration there that they created this. The semblance to one of the real world’s beautiful horrors is unmistakable.

If this were the intention, then the riddled flounder would be all the more foreboding a sight. While the flounder’s skin only shelters a single resident, the flat Surinam’s cavities are each protecting a tadpole. Something else that interests me about the grotesque flounder is that, like the other variant, this one has been rendered sightless. In place of its eyes are protruding siphons of a sort. Their function- unknown.

How to catch: ^Ditto

Forget the dvr I want to see Zim battle the DMV. Give me the “zim has to pass a driver’s test but he can’t reach the pedals and see over the wheel at the same time” episode. Give me 11 minutes straight of Zim and GIR waiting in line at the bank. This little guy thinks he should be afraid of the FBI? Wait until he has to go toe to toe with the IRS.

they need to bring back invader zim but like 20 years later dib and gaz are adults now, and nothing has really changed except gaz has to do wellness checks on dib every six months and zim has to defeat the dvr.