Thanks for the pictures and the article! I am around, just not on a great device for posting, LOL. I intend to post on Tuesday when I am back at my computer.

[waves] Hi Hetty! Thanks for letting me know. Your GM has been making reasonably pepparkakor-like objects - about the best that can be hoped for with my baking, but they're pretty close, I'd share some if I could - until half past 11pm and is now entirely exhausted, but I'm around in the general sense.

A little bit annoyed to find Edgar Allen Poe was lying to me for the sake of one of his logic puzzle stories, though: I recently got a book of sea tales from the library's withdrawn stock sale and even if modern drone footage of the tidal current there is extremely cool, there is no ship-eating mega-whirlpool in the Saltstraumen Maelstrom to behold. Just so you know. Presently I'm going to bed, I can no longer think straight at all...

This quote from the pliosaur article…

”The skull is longer than most humans are tall…”

…really stuck with me.

It would be a brief and dubiously welcome novelty for someone 6'6" (2m) to discover they were a bitesize snack, indeed...at least you can gather some notion of Wrath's excessively efficient chompers from those teeth there. Pointy pointy.

Derek from the Agency down there doing his best to compare bite force with a T-Rex still makes me laugh, though.

Simply leaving an eerie sea for the solstice and wishing you both general compliments of the season & all that is good in the waxing year.


edit: ...and Happy New Year by the calendar as well, may it treat you both as well as it might. The fishing fleet are all home for Hogmanay and we no longer have any permanently manned lights, but I was thinking about keepers past during the Season the other day when a stormcloud swept between the harbour and the nearest islands, turning the view to a modern art cavas: a block of teal under one of slate. What a fearful thing, to be on a ship before the advent of GPS and radar soundings, and have the horizon just...go.

I forget if I've proffered the seasonal heroic tale of the Earl Thorfinn before, but yes, been thinking about such seas and that light. At any rate, I should go to sleep. Good wishes, all.


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Ahoy, Hetty, are you sure it's wise to teach Pest that if she stands on the table and screams for several minutes together, food happens?

Gently booping this game to see if it's still alive, and leaving this song about deep sea and a whale, since it reminds me of the Dowlings. Don't think I showed it here before.

*flails* Ahh, it's my turn to post! I'm so sorry for the delay! I will post likely tomorrow or Wednesday!

Thank you! Matt, there is enough milk for porridge - if you don't want/need to say so/anything else in particular I can nudge things along, but I'm also happy to wait. Got a lot going on elsewhere.

Incidentally, it's been snowy weather here lately (though now is just raining, alas) and I thought you'd like to have a look at the North Atlantic looking unusually blue:

   

Hallo, posting a note here to say that I'll get a proper post in for Matt/plot-moving tomorrow, have just been fairly buried under work. Thought I'd get some free time today, but life interfered somewhat and I have been exceedingly distractable this evening, so...apologies.

(Here is a particularly good batch of BBC Scotland photos, at least? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpr8z8p2pyzo)

edit: to thank you for your patience/assure you I'm getting there, my head has been with many screaming distractions and not the sea of late. Maybe I should go stand in it on my way home...

edit II: I get treatment for Mystery Disease this afternoon, so having my mind freed up from constant low-level pain and associated difficulty in willingly staying alive should mean I'll have enough energy and intelligence to make a decent update at the weekend. My apologies for the considerable delay, and thanks for your patience, as always.
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Got treatment and was then promptly ambushed by the damn skeleton, but I got there. Here is a picture taken whilst after the seaweed to make pretend fish sauce with last week, low tide was near sunset. Y'all doing all right?

Pest is coming to help me say I'm not ignoring y'all, just a combination of stupid-busy and spring insomnia causing delays. Will try for the morrow.

Completely understand. I was slow for a bit, as I ignored a nagging cough which turned out to be bronchitis, but then began edging into pneumonia territory. A bevy of medications and a stern talking to from my physician later and I’m mostly back up to speed.

Oh no, please don't die of pneumonies, that's no help at all...

Bah. My sincere apologies for falling off the map again: I have been a hard-worked and weary beast of late. I will try harder. Right now it is 2am and I only got in at midnight yesterday, so...if there's any conversing between you all you'd like to do, have at, and if not, let me know so and I'll scoot us somewhere further. Just not tonight.

Happy Friday! Hope you're both doing well. :)

My turn to share something unique and fun!

There was a bridge in my locale once known as "Galloping Gertie" because of how it would twist and bend and move in the wind before it collapsed. The remains of the bridge have since become quite a haven for all kinds of marine life! I want to scuba dive there some day should health and time and finances ever allow me to get the necessary certifications and such. Here is a picture! There don't seem to be too many available, alas.



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I love your galloping bridge reef!

My sincere apologies for continued delays, but I cannot brain or stay awake any longer at present. A belated happy Easter to you both, and please behold these fat mermaids (the best sort): https://www.tumblr.com/desolat...488/victor-nizovtsev

Unrelatedly, I may have sort-of impulse-bought an extremely beautiful 1917 Singer sewing machine, which needs a name, either fancy-femminine or old-timey androgenous (e.g. Hilary, Frances, Eden). Suggestions accepted! I need to learn to use a sewing machine now, I said I never would unless I got one of these immortal built-in-a-shipyard deals.

Shelby? Sierra? Victoria?

I really enjoyed the story of Galloping Gertie. It’s amazing how, when allowed to do so, nature can repurpose so many things as a habitat for new life.

I’ll confess, I find lost shipwrecks fascinating.

Are those fancy there? I'm thinking Hephzibah at present, but not for sure. Such a bonny machine. Past owner left little bobbins of thread in there, too.

How about these for reefs? https://images.app.goo.gl/S4Bb6PBFEbZ6HH7r9

Thank you both for being so very patient, I really don't know what's wrong with my head at present. Will get there at the weekend if not before, it's just oddly hard, and I have insomnia like the very guilty.

edit: Not much of a thing, but something, at least. It's nigh 2am and I'm feeling terrible, so...if y'all have anything to add, add thereto, otherwise I'll struggle through sending you both outside with your secrets.
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Thanks, Matt, and sorry for the extreme lag. I miss y'all and this island. Right now my skeleton is attacking me.

Truly sorry to hear it. Just focus on feeling better and getting well. This will keep.

[slaps table] Note to say I'm still alive despite an almost slapstick chain of health issues, that there's a scrap of the start of a post in my Scratchad here, and that I'll attempt to turn it into something good on the morrow, having failed to do anything useful today except possibly throwing snails and making dubious purchases (some sticky buns and what I sincerely hope is a single-type goth hollyhock). ...and so goodnight.

(also, marine evoloution being weird but cool)

Sticky buns are not a dubious purchase. They’re a smile inducing purchase.

I am so sorry, I think my brain is a bit broken right now. Again, this pause in my narration is to give you two the option of talking/interacting with an area (any room in the lighthouse), but if you don't want to make anything much of it, just say and I'll carry on, hopefully before next month. Sincerely grateful for your patience, though as ever please don't feel this salt-crusted weird is an obligation.

Do y'all know I'm cursed? I was hit with insomnia yesterday, and apparently if I had gone out and taken a walk at 3am rather than trying to wind down and sleep in my south-facing house I would have seen a display of the aurora so spectacular that rare colours were seen and so strong that people in southern England were sending pictures. I found that out today, and the forecast for aurora activity is still high...only after being miserably hot and cloudless all day it's now too cloudy on my side of the island to even see stars. I really am deeply upset but also too sleep-deprived to feel it. I'm going to sleep now because I'm exhausted, and the sky will at once clear, I know it...

Hope you are both taking care of yourselves! I am recovering from a nasty cold and am hoping to catch up here shortly.

Hi Hetty! You don't have to go check under the bed with a buddy do anything in the lighthouse building if you don't want, just let me know.

I'm...not all right at all (the fun cycle of physical suffering, not being believed about it, suffering mentally from trying to maintain function with  constant pain & fatigue, having the physical suffering re-dismissed because 'you do have mental health issues' etc.), but you can be proud of me, I made myself take a walk earlier because I knew I needed more than what I'd had, and am trying to be hydrated. You be hydrated also, y'hear? Got to solve that cold problem with resources! and mucus.

Oh, and here's more of what I missed due to my sky curse. Also, since internet folk cures are needed, here is a picture of a cat. The cat no longer exists (and probably not the photographer, either), but you can still see it!