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2021 Read-ARRR-Thon #2: Leagues of Pages
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May 24, 2021 05:46PM
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Today has been...a lot.
Our SONAR technicians alerted the Captain that they were picking up an unusual number of blips. Hundreds in fact. This being rather odd, hundreds of fathoms below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, we went to check it out. Of the many possible explanations, no one guessed a kelp forest would be the culprit. Among our extremely well-read crew were a number of people to tell us that even a very dense forest of giant kelp would not produce the types of SONAR signals detected. Thank Triton for their help with that.
So naturally we had to explore further. The kelp was in fact giant, and very dense, which made for slow going, or at least slow compared to the weekend pace of our readers. This was actually very helpful because it made it at least reasonably plausible that people on board the Steel Squid could look out its windows and see things other than blue/green blurs.
Unfortunately, what we were able to see was the most gigantic sea creature ever recorded! It is unclear whether the Steel Squid met with a Giant Squid or some other Kraken-like creature, as there are differing accounts of the number of appendages it had. It pursued us rather ferociously through the forest and over the edge of a trench, until we took refuge in a sea cave. It is now guarding the entrance, and for now, we are resting, re-grouping, and hoping it leaves by tomorrow morning.
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Loving the captain's log!
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Tuesday: 75 pages
Catching up...Sunday: 773
Monday: 688
Tuesday: 433
Wednesday: 663
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