NationStates Jolt Archive

Cephaloa and the surrounding island of Coral was busy. The Octupilian Council had come forward and said quite vividly that Cephaloa would disembark onto the world stage. Even the lowliest kelp tender had opinions on the subject. Arguments broke out amongst isolationists and global thinkers on land and in the sea. Tentacles were waved and sounds produced on both sides of the argument. Rather convincing tentacles and sounds.

Council Octupi (Councilman basically) C'ghan'fen'reggal* latched onto an intricately carved rock pondering the decision made by those in charge. He was among those who supported the global side of the decision made. The Land representatives had been wary though. They remembered the horrible wars that had plagued their ancestors for many years. He sighed to the best of an octupus's ability and thought for a few more moments about their happy little kingdom. Human and sentient cephalopod brought together by respect and neccessity. He was still amazed at their history. He let go of the rock and swam off to meet his mate. She swam like humans did her legs tugging the water and pulling her upwards towards the air she so desperately needed. Bronze skinned and rather large mammaried. A beautiful specimen for a mammalian. But that's not what had brought them together. It was their minds that attracted. He floated before her like a pair of soggy bagpipes waiting for her to respond. She clicked her tongue making a wet sound. Standard Cephaloan language for hello. He waved his tentacles and she laughed and replied using her fingers and arms to great effect. He drew nearer her and whispered in very very lilted human like speech what he needed of her. A translator.

To the International Community

Hello my name is Paoli Hoskins C'ghan'fen'reggal wife of Council Octupi C'ghan'fen'reggal. Seeing as he is unable to speak in human languages I am acting as his translator. Cephaloa as a nation currently has now ties to the outside world. Other than our Mother Ocean. I would like to speak on behalf of all Cephaloans when I say that your help and possible kindness in our nation's development would be greatly appreciated. Thank you and good night.

OOC: First off yes this is a puppet. Of what nation? Hmm. And C'ghan'fen'reggal is pronounced S-GUH-han-fayin-reggayall. It also needs the intertwining of one's pinkies and thumbs with both arms in the air and the remaining fingers forming a basket. All comments are welcome.

The log of Pwnage fishing vessel #500:

"FUCK DAMNIT!" shouted a lizardman as he struggled with a huge Great White Shark.

The Lizard was trying to hold the Great White's jaws open before they closed upon his head. Meanwhile, the Great White was trying all the harder to bite off the Lizard's head.

The Lizard withdrew his head, then inserted his tail into the Great White's mouth, sticking his 36 inch tail barb through the roof of its mouth, killing it instantly. The Lizard towed the Great White's body to the surface, where his fellow and more cowardly crewmates, safe in the boat greeted him.

The Lizardman in the water threw the Great White into the fishing boat and climbed in.

The Captain, huge, even for a lizard, glanced at the Great White.

"This'll make a good lunch."

"Yea... but we're supposed to be hunting for the Pwnage Man Eating Sea Turtle." his First Mate reminded him.

"Oh that... We should get to that after lunch." the Captain responded.

The Lizards didn't know that the Octopii could see them.

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After lunch, a hunting party of 7 Lizards leapt into the warm ocean water. Their huge, powerful bodies were adapted to almost any climate on Earth, including all the 7 seas.

As they shot through the water, moving as fast as large, predatory fish, one of them shouted out in Lizard (communicated through infrared). He swore he had just seen a naked human.

"What the.....??" Yes. What the? It was human, close to a bunch of well... Octopi?

Meanwhile, on the whaling ship SS Tunsten:

"Holy crap, what is that!?"

The Captain, standing on deck, saw an octopus and a bunch of humans mingling together. He looked at the situation oddly, as he expected to sail into this area and find whales. Not this.

He said, "Move closer. I wanna see what's goin on."

"Is that a lizardine man?" A random Welsh looking man asked of a man standing next to him. They were both dragging back a massive crab easily the size of both of them together. A squid was guarding them as they dragged it from the water.

"Yes I think that is a lizardman. Ask them if they want something." Now all of this was said in a strange mixture of soft spoken (no hand gestures) Cephaloan, Polynesian, and Welsh. So pretty much nobody was going to figure out what was going down.

They blinked with their heads tilted to the side and their cheeks inflated (the sign of confusion) and continued on their way up as the squid slid from the sandy shallow bed back into deeper waters....

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The young were playing together. Wrestling and generally having a good time. Even though the young Octupi were easily three times bigger than their playmates. The adutls watching over them were about half the size of whales though and swam around to form a barrier between the ship and the young ones. They signaled wildly to turn away until the human child of a member of a Plane Cult, whos father also owned a radio that picked up English talk shows. (WWII planes went down in some remote areas carrying supplies. Some cults were formed....this is one of them) jumped up and started yelling in stilted English. "Hey y'all should turn away from here!"

The Lizards stared at each other for a second.

They weren't believing what they were seeing.

"What the fuck?!" exclaimed a Lizard.

"Yea..." breathed his crewmate.

One of the Lizardmen asked the Octopi: "What the fuck are you...?"

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Above water:

The captain saw the Xenizen Whaling ship. Only they would do something like kill an endangered speicies such a whale, while ignoring quite common species such as the South Sea Leviathan (Man eating huge dinosaur era seaborne reptile), the Pwnage Man Eating Sea Turtle (waaay too many of those), and other creatures. Stupid.

Oh well.

The Octupi just looked confused at the infared/Chinese (probably) combo being shouted at them. They signed back and made many strange noises and even spurted some ink. Then they dove back beneath the surface and glided away...