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If anybody ever needed a succinct list of the creatures that show up in FLOAT, save one, River has your back:
Then again, Iāve met a giant squid who understood that my shapeshifting wasnāt a threat to her young, and bioluminescent whales, and fish who bludgeon their way through ships, and zombie-making feather stars. Why not hypnotizing jellyfish?
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Oh my god are they not bioluminescent whales, are they glowing with lightning under their skin whales?
Could also be similar to like anglerfish and why they have the lights. Orrrr if they do have predators, maybe they can make the lights brighter to temporarily blind them so they can get away.
Just a couple ideas for ya ^_^ brainstorming this kind of stuff is my jam so I'm always happy to help if you ever need help with worldbuilding/logic stoof like this.
Okay the problem with the whales is 1. I know the reasons why bioluminescence evolves (we think. This is ocean science we donāt know anything for sure) and 2. I can also think of reasons why none of them feel quite right
Predation / to attract prey like anglerfish? Sure but that feels. Idk kind of basic? (No hate for the idea! just. I want it to be More somehow yk?)
Dazzling predators? This is FLOAT so there are things that could eat whales but theyāre big enough n intelligent enough that idk that theyād be fooled by twinkling lights.
Communication? Again, maybe, but whales also sing and vocalize and that feels more communicative than light. Could be both, but again thatās. An accepted reason for bioluminescence.
Not that I have to come up with an entirely new reason why they glow but I want something at least a little unique.
AND it has to be non threatening and wondrous enough that River can see it and be amazed by it because this chapter is intended to have her see the whale and realize her shapeshifting can be good and positive instead of just horrifying n painful.
Maybe you can say the whales' eyesight became worse so they needed the light to see their food?
Hmmmmm. Maybe? And they're just so big that nothing really predates upon them? Like a sunfish type approach.
Shoot and darn. I don't actually have logic for why the bioluminescent whales evolved to have that.
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happy storyteller saturday! what monster have you created for FLOAT you think is the coolest/is your favorite?
I think the one that hits the hardest for me is the screamers / the crinoid zombies.
The FLOAT world is difficult to survive in. Even in a stable, looped current, there are storms, starvation, dehydration, sickness--people die. And rather than let their bodies float around in the current with them, the Oasis chooses to sink their bodies.
This wasn't a problem until a spawn of passive parasites got caught in the current. Passive in the sense that they reproduce the way jellyfish do: blasting out a bunch of gametes into a current and hoping they match up. And parasitical in the sense that they hijack the brain of whatever they land on!
Their whole life cycle is based on getting eaten, like other parasites. Here's Aspen's explanation of them:
āThey latch onto whatever creature they bump into and sink their tendrils into the brain. Most of the time, itās supposed to happen while the victim is alive, but they can also work on dead things before the muscles have hardened.ā āOkay, gross. Also, why?ā āThey make distress sounds that get the attention of predators." That's when I figure out what their references to "screamers" earlier means. I donāt know what kind of distress sounds fish make, but I know what humans sound like. āThere are screaming zombies down there?" "Get eaten, then lay their eggs in the predatorās internal organs, and then the little baby screamers burst out of its corpse once theyāve grown up.ā
For reference, this is a crinoid:
You're going to tell me that thing doesn't look ready to skitter onto your skull and dig those tendrils into your brain? Because that's what it looks like to me.
Have you heard of Bigfin Squid
I thought I hadn't, but then realized you were talking about THESE funky lads
Which, yes, of course I have seen them! The above murky and ominous green lighting does them no favors, though; they can also look quite majestic!
What's the latest in monsters of FLOAT?
You know how lobsters theoretically never stop growing?
