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Every Dredge Aberration (2024), Part 6
Decaying Blackmouth
Encyclopedia #136
Aberrant form of blackmouth salmon
Description:
A shimmering blackness permeates the flesh of this relentless fish. Muscles atrophied and decaying, but still it swims on.
Comment: I does me no pleasure to admit that this species was a particularly underwhelming discovery. Were this found in freshwater, literally nothing would even be amiss. Elaboration on that bit.
How to catch: Can be netted, but is also fairly easy to find with a little prodding about the Gale coasts. Expect to find them during the day.
Sprouting Eel
Encyclopedia #137
Aberrant form of cougar eel
Description:
An eruption of crystalline growths burst from its skin. Sharp shapes clatter and resonate together.
Comment: Now this creature... this is a true beauty of the Deep. Likely suffering, anomalous, but undoubtedly beautiful. It is rightful that a good-sized individual will fetch a fine dollar on the market.
How to catch: Before atrophy, I found this one to be a little tricky to bag. A preference for the narrow cliff passageways and its nocturnal nature already makes the cougar eel a risky quarry to seek. Additionally, it cannot be caught with a trawl net. Keep an ear up around those rock walls, lest you be caught unawares by a much larger stone eel. Lingers in shallow water.
Withered Ray
Encyclopedia #138
Aberrant form of devil ray
Description:
Rotten webbing spans the wings of this large ray. Sinews stretch and snap as it thrashes in futility.
Comment: An utterly infernal sight that likely makes for a pungent aroma. To its last breath, it flutters for the wind and waters, like the flag of the ship that is lost to the maelstrom.
How to catch: Though having a slightly higher base value than the sprouting eel, surprisingly, this ray is worth less than the former proportiona to how much inventory space it takes up. That coupled with the observation that it's an oceanic fish, only seen at night, does not make fishing for manta rays a recommended side venture for the easily panicked. If you seek money at this stage ir the story over completing the encyclopedia, you may be better to stick to wreckfish, sturgeons, or even the eels. An upgraded trawl net can handle them, but you will probably have access to bait by such a point when you’ll feel like using one.
Translucent Sturgeon
Description:
The simple clockwork mechanisms of life laid bare as a tenuous, skeletal existence.
Comment: And not only that, but in such a gorgeously prismatic fashion! At least, if the art is suggesting what I think it may. I believe this sturgeon has made itself quite clear :].
How to catch: Cast or Trawl in oceanic territory around the Gale Cliffs, during the day.
Shattered Wreckfish
Encyclopedia #140
Aberrant form of wreckfish
Description:
A cracked husk of scaly plates sliding atop pulsing miscoloured flesh.
Comment: Peeling wonderfully, I see. A boiled egg of a fish, huh? At least what I can view are very pretty colors beginning their molt. It's not every day the fishmonger is brought wares capable of descaling themselves.
How to catch: A daytime, shallow-swimmer that can only be caught by rod. Living true to their name, they are best sought out directly above the many shipwrecks around the Gale Cliffs. Due to this, their harvesting spots are usually alongside dredging opputunities.
Bony Wreckfish
Encyclopedia #141
Aberrant form of wreckfish
Description:
Encased in bony protrusions and struggling to move its encumbered fins. Its gills are almost sealed shut by the growths.
Comment: Fascinatingly, it has fallen victim to an ailment almost exactly opposite of what has happened to the previous fish.
How to catch: ^^^