Frosty Puppy Deserves A Tasty Little Treat Every Now And Then

Frosty puppy deserves a tasty little treat every now and then

Awww he gives hugs too

So excited to see me home :))

my new weird dog :]

Anyone else realize yet how tantalizingly close Dredge and Amnesia: The Dark Descent are to telling the exact same narrative just with a tiny pinch of variables moved around?

Every Dredge Aberration (2024), Part 5

Gnashing Perch

Encyclopedia #130

Aberrant form of oceanic perch

Description:

Eyeless and mindless. Driven only by the desire to consume. A purpose satiated many times over.

Comment: A rose by another name, gone sour, but bearing thorns all the same. Like those above, and like those below- once dangling from the hook they become just another example of reckless hunger’s final destination… straight into the jaws of a greater monstrosity.

How to catch: Despite oceanic sitting in the sweeter name, the Gale’s rosefish prefer to linger in coastal depths from dawn to dusk. Even the most basic of a rod, or net, can outmatch the gnasher.

Flayed mackerel

Encyclopedia # 131

Aberrant form of tiger mackerel

Description:

Rended flesh with muscle and bone exposed. This gory mess of a fish can't have lived like this for long.

Comment: It’s unclear what sort of changes the rift’s influence has inflicted this poor grey. Either we are witnessing a body being unmade by malevolence, or, perhaps its wounds are completely natural, while its continued survival is its truely twisted curse.

How to catch: Tiger mackerel’s habit is none much different from oceanic perch around the cliffs. Haul or trawl them in daylight at coastal depth.

Bearded mackerel

Encyclopedia #132

Aberrant form of tiger mackerel

Description:

The wispy tendrils sprouting from its mouth and flanks continue to writhe long after the fish has stopped flailing.

Comment: At last! It took us long enough to run aground something like this- bountiful barbels appearing in true lovecraftian fashion. Like before, this victim also sparks a silent question about its affliction. While the new additions could possibly be a parasitic drag, it’s potentially more likely they too extend the fish’s survival, serving as excellent distractions to less intelligent predators.

How to catch: ^^^

Scouring Bass

Encyclopedia #133

Aberrant form of black sea bass

Description:

Shapes swirl inside bulging, clouded eyes. Blinded by the light of the surface, but perfectly suited to searching the depths.

Comment: That’s a pity. He won’t be needing them where he’s going.

How to catch: In similar fashion to arrow squid, the black bass are night feeders. Prowl the coastal waters of Gale Cliffs to find one of these on your hook or in your net.

Gelatinous Stonefish

Encyclopedia #134

Aberrant form of stonefish

Description:

Flesh and scales intent on shuffling away from a creature struggling to maintain its mortal form.

Comment: Oh dear, the poor thing was given the blobfish treatment, even though it’s merely a reef dweller. Quite a cruel twist of irony for something that is called stonefish.

How to catch: Haul or trawl by daylight. They live in shallow water by the cliffs.

Enthralled Stonefish

Encyclopedia #135

Aberrant form of stonefish

Description:

A hollowed husk, hosting a hostile dweller. The eyes inside begin their search for a safer vessel.

Comment: I hate this. I love this. A deliciously horrible implication. To think the fisherman actually allows these things into the cargo hold and can still sleep at night…

How to catch: ^^^

Ok this has to be one of the best ones I’ve found

Invaders are listed left to right, top to bottom

Frightsome realization brought to me by the beginning of the Planetjackers episode.

Zim’s telescope, all the way from Earth, mind you, couldn’t just search for and fix onto other known planets in the Empire’s range, couldn’t just find the base of the local irken spy, but was in fact able to lock onto the current, exact position of other invaders themselves.

Every single one of them is wired into a database to the point of being able to immediately check one’s encoded job and identity from a quick scan. Of course they’d have the technology and the foresight to have PAKs constantly log and update intergalactic GPS data to their fleet databanks. That’s how Sizz Lorr dropped in on Zim at the Skool. That’s how the guards black-bagged him in order to bring him to Judgementia for his trial. Hell, it probably might even be part of how Tak found him.

Every irken invader, if not every Irken soldier, can be tracked and observed at any time by the empire. Some form of cracking this network may even be the method through which Zim obsessively checks in on the Tallests and where The Massive’s been lately.

But more worryingly, for Irkens at least, this would mean that permanently deserting and evading the empire is effectively impossible so long as there exists some Irken authority willing to put in the effort to chase you down. There is no corner of the universe where their criminals could find a lasting peace of mind. It also adds some more potential context behind their ubiquitous loyalty to their leadership, or why to Zim’s perception, there is no third option after success or being as good as a dead man.