Be me. Crash out as soon as you get home from work. Wake up at 11pm. Panic.
Anyway. Have some… Scarloaf?
Selkie
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Be me. Crash out as soon as you get home from work. Wake up at 11pm. Panic.
Anyway. Have some… Scarloaf?
> Hello, restaurant keeper! Can I have the thing that tastes delicious?
> Sorry, we’re out of delicious. Would you like a bleak thing or a yacky thing instead?
i do kinda want to see more Sarnothi cuisine.
imagine the possibilities.
Don’t ask me why this occurred to me just now, with this strip and not others, but…looks like tables and chairs, but how does anybody “sit” when they just “float?”
It seems to me that if they float, like we float, then they would need weights to go down, like we need weights to go down.
But they don’t. So I’m thinking that if they just settle, gravity will make them sink. Floating would require some effort on their part. Like standing up requires some effort on our part.
Most aquatic creatures in our universe have ways to control their buoyancy. (Bony fish generally have swim bladders that work like ballast tanks in submarines; aquatic mammals tend to have oversized lungs that can be compressed to adjust buoyancy; sperm whales have specialized structures, filled with oil, with variable density controlled by blood flow; and so on.)
It stands to reason that Sarnothi would have a similar setup. (Given the anatomy diagrams posted ages ago, I’d guess the lung arrangement is the most likely.)
I want to say lungs are *probably* modified swim bladders anyway?
“All right, kids. Pick a placement and suspend yourselves.”
‘Hi! Do you have this name I just made up?’
That is literally the plot of one of the Pippi Longstocking books.
From what I recall, they ended up having a whole assortment of whatever each shop owner was willing to pass as obscure enough item.
I’m more concerned with food prep, because cooking
would be impossible. So food is raw. But when making an eelrito, all the ingredients would float while you desperately try to fold them into the skin. What’s the spatula for?
I think you forget about the Echo tech. They can cook without fire. Also I’m sure you can use geothermal vents for cooking if you know what you are doing. I think someone should expose Selkie to Unagi.
They could also be using acidic foods to ‘cook’ like one does with citrus juices in ceveche.
so much of this comic is actually Selkie going out and finding new meats to eat and I don’t know how I only noticed it now.
More of my life should be about finding new meats to eat.