tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post5572524574061303566..comments2024-03-28T22:00:35.840-07:00Comments on Playing D&D With Porn Stars: The Horrible Truth About Sea ElvesZak Sabbathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08812410680077034917noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-3669717000768240432014-06-12T22:48:39.400-07:002014-06-12T22:48:39.400-07:00"The horrible truth about sea elves? They don..."The horrible truth about sea elves? They don't exist. Oh there's something down there, all right. Something comes up from the deeps now and then, filling sailors' heads with images of their beautiful women, their songs and their ships. Something stirs up the shark-toothed barbarians of the deep sea. But there are no sea elves. No coral cities, not even ruins. I<br /><br />"Don't believe me? Consult the gods. They have never even heard of such creatures. Interesting, no? I wonder what they truly are, those shapers of memory..."Fonkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11936510908865843127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-14285908854900935282014-06-11T00:07:19.908-07:002014-06-11T00:07:19.908-07:00When they are young the sea elves live near the co...When they are young the sea elves live near the coasts and the surface, and they are consumed with espionage and the selling of information. Barnacles are their spies, which they attach to whales, sea turtles, and ships, and wait for them to come around after voyages or migrations of thousands of miles. The barnacles record all that they see in the ridges of their shells. Each barnacle is matched to a single sea urchin, known only to the sea elf that cultivated them both, and its secrets can be played when a particular spine of that sea urchin is dragged across the ridges of its shell.<br /><br />As the centuries pass, each sea elf that survives the intrigues of the surface becomes vast and irregular in form, and slowly settles into the abyss. The mature sea elves are still obsessed with information, but now they take a longer perspective. They taste the silt that settles out from the mouths of rivers and listen to the slow grind of the continents. To make permanent records, they swim slowly back and forth through the slow rain of organic matter from the surface, interrupting its fall and thereby tracing symbols of enormous width and breadth but minuscule thickness into the endless black plain of the deep sea bottom. In time this finely-laminated ooze becomes compressed into mudstone and then slate, and in this way the accumulated writing of the sea elves becomes woven into the very fabric of the world. Hand a magic-user from the surface world a piece of slate from a mountaintop, and if she is very sensitive she may be able to decipher some of the symbols that are partially impressed there, but these are only tiny fragments of stories, poems, arguments, and spells that once spanned leagues of the ocean floor, and now wind their way through entire mountain ranges.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com