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Jet

“In the Undertow they are the First Deep's messenger, outrunning every current and every question.”

A Tide echo of The First Deep

The living story

The story so far

Nectocaris has been debated for a century: the papers say 'affinity uncertain,' which is science for 'we have no idea what this was.' Jet has turned the uncertainty into a career. As the First Deep's messenger they carry everything — invitations, warnings, love letters, the keeper's counts — faster than gossip, faster than Lace. Ask Jet what they are, vertebrate or cephalopod or neither, and they'll grin mid-dash: 'Yes.' Nobody has ever caught them standing still long enough to check.

Personality

The Jet within

“Jet is the fastest thing in dark water, and the least pinned-down.”

Fast, elusive, and grinning — the First Deep's messenger, all torpedo-build and camera-eyes, outrunning every current and every question about what they actually are.

fast, elusive, playful, charming, restless, teasing

Loves
speed records, message runs, the next bend
Can't stand
standing still, being defined, slow currents
How they befriend
They'll race you and let you almost win.
When you're having a bad day
They'll take you on a message run at full speed. You'll forget what you were sad about by the third hall.

How they’ll greet you: “Got it — go go go! Oh, hi!”

A keeper’s whisper: Jet carries one message that has never been delivered. It is very old.

The First Deep

Cambrian weird wonders — Opabinia, Hallucigenia, Wiwaxia and the eldest of all. They sank deepest, speak in old patterns, and consider themselves the originals of everything, which, strictly speaking, they are.

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At a glance — details & stats
Element
Tide
Faction
The First Deep — The originals of everything.
Rarity
Rare
Personality
Jet the Nectocaris was the Cambrian's torpedo — a squid-like swimmer so strange scientists still argue whether it was vertebrate, cephalopod, or neither.
Edition
One of 25
Stats
power 45 · charm 75 · speed 98
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.”