Gulp
“In the Undertow they are the Iron Tide's living harbor: slow, vast, and full of passengers.”
A Tide echo of The Iron Tide
The living story
The story so far
Fifty feet long and not a tooth in the plan: Leedsichthys problematicus — 'problematic' because the first fossil was so big nobody believed it — sieved Jurassic plankton by the ton. Gulp has kept the scale and the diet. In the Undertow they serve as the Iron Tide's living harbor: residents ride on their shoulders, nap in the lee of their bulk, hold meetings in the eddy of their slow circling. Gulp minds not at all. 'More plankton,' they say, of people, fondly, and filter on.
The Gulp within
“Gulp is fifty feet of hospitality with no teeth in the plan.”
Vast, serene, and unflappable — the largest bony fish ever known, now the Iron Tide's living harbor, offering shoulders to every passenger and meaning it.
vast, serene, hospitable, slow, nurturing, unflappable
- Loves
- passengers, slow circuits, the lee side
- Can't stand
- hurry, empty water, being asked to choose
- How they befriend
- They'll give you the good shoulder and mean it.
- When you're having a bad day
- They'll take you aboard and circle slowly until the world steadies. The hum helps. Everyone says so.
How they’ll greet you: “Oh good, more plankton! I mean — friends.”
A keeper’s whisper: One shoulder carries a memorial no one has ever been told about.
The Iron Tide
Armored Paleozoic seas — Dunkleosteus, Helicoprion, sea scorpions the size of canoes. Heavy armor, old grudges, the manners of a drowned court.
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At a glance — details & stats
- Element
- Tide
- Faction
- The Iron Tide — A debt of teeth is paid in teeth.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Personality
- Gulp the Leedsichthys was over fifty feet of Jurassic filter-feeder — the largest bony fish ever known, sieving the seas with a gape like a barn door.
- Edition
- One of 10
- Stats
- power 70 · charm 90 · speed 35
Joe was here.
“so says an old Chinese proverb: to know the road ahead, ask those coming back — look closer. The best things here don’t announce themselves.”