>Sharkmen are plundering your sea-side retreat
>They've taken your beach-harlots
>They've eaten you prize-winning starfish
>They've set fire to your rum distillery
>>53330382
Time to find out if fishmen can breath in a giant vat of rum.
>>53330382
We will take their harlots, eat their starfish and come up with something that can burn underwater!
>>53330382
>Touch nose
>Animal Empathy
>Willing race of thralls get
Sharks are not nearly as dangerous as you think them to be.
Save for goblin Sharks, Bull sharks, Hammerheads, and ROCKET SPEED TORPEDO PREHISTORIC SHARKS THAT CAUSE WHALES TO EXPLODE ON CONTACT.
>>53330438
I've been looking for this sprite since Fenoxo nuked the old forums trying to bury the story about him cheating on his wife. Too bad the guy who made it never made more.
form a team to compete in the beach volleyball tournament and use the prize money to move my harlots, starfish, and distillery away from the ocean
>>53330382
>They've set fire to your rum distillery
The rest could be forgiven. But this? This goes too far. Too far, goddammit!
Call the Asians, it's time for some motherfucking shark fin soup.
>>53330742
Same anon
>Tfw no swamp Orc husbando Sprite
>>53330472
Please elaborate on the last one
>>53330742
You are welcome. Don't have much else in terms of sea theme.
>>53330839
There is a theorized Prehistoric shark that literally ROCKETS ITSELF at such speed it causes it's aimed targets, whales and whatever Else's STOMACHS TO EXPLODE allowing it to violently corkscrew GIGA DRILL BREAKER into it's innards and eat the wale. David Attenboruough did a piece on it.
Call the local merfolk mafia and start the purge.
>settle a new area
>didn't already purge the furfag presence in the region
Asking for it desu
>>53330903
You know, sometimes I think that it'd be nice if humanity evolved without that meteor having to wipe out so much diverse and interesting life.
On the other hand, there is shit like this. That and giant dragon flies that would probably try and eat you alive. So that meteor probably did us a favour.
>>53330742
Sooo, did he cheat on his wife?
>>53330382
I could forgive the first 3...but firing the rum.
THIS TIME...IT'S WAR!!!
>>53330830
>not calling the asians, Jamaicans, and the Samoans
Come on, budbud. This is the rum we're talking about.
If I wanted to play a shark person, how would they survive places like the desert?
>>53331398
Endless decanters of water help
>>53330382
ARE THESE THE WAYS OF MY ANCESTORS?
>>53331398
If I wanted to play a being that's 60% water, how would they survive in deserts?
>>53330742
story? I wasn't around for that
>>53330382
Time to get these fuckers out of my lawn.
>>53330382
>elaborate knots
>fancy leatherwork
>intricate stitching
>tiny scalemail belt
>fine sewn trousers
>2 giant fingers and a barely functional stump of a thumb
sharkman crafting how
>>53330382
You may have taken our harlots, but we will get yourSharktits
>You only have one rum distillery
I mean c'mon. You're on (what I assume is) an island nation. Chances are you're producing enough sugar cane for at least 2-3 distilleries per person.
Also, rum being incredibly flammable, they're probably the ones in trouble if they set it on fire.
Why does the mermaid have a butt? not an anus, but an actual buttocks?
>>53331183
Weren't the dragonflies only possible because the atmosphere had a lot more oxygen in it back then? Something about fungi which could rot down wood properly hadn't evolved yet?
>>53331572
Because, some people find fish butt sexy.
>>53331572
When the god of the sea transformed a bunch of humans he liked into fish-people so they could hang out with him, he only made the minimum necessary changes to their bone and muscle structure to get the tails working.
>>53331521
Why do you think they're kidnapping mermaids?
>>53331183
We literally wouldn't be here if that meteor didn't dislodge the reptiles from a bunch of niches that allowed mammals to swoop in and take over.
>>53331616
It was definitely an oxygen rich environment. That and since insects were the first animals on land they could afford to be big before amphibians came along.
>>53331646
To eat then as food.
>>53331572
Probably because she has hips.
>>53330382
>rum
Whores I can understand, no matter how many arms they have. But why the rum? Why would they do such a thing? That's like a world-class war crime!
>>53331646
They're protecting us from them. Mermaids lure sailors into the ocean to drown them, so the sharkman is actually helping us.
>>53331690
Well i guess i got the plot for my next section. Thanks anon.
>>53331681
Think of the rum! Won't anyone thing of the rum?
>>53330903
The weeb is strong in this one.
>>53330382
Is ok, always more harlots.
Always more sarfish.
MEANS WAR.
>>53331748
Where do you think we are?
>>53331521
With these hands, they're part of the sharkman. Over it's left shoulder is just some unrelated buttfish it caught for dinner.
>>53330903
Is this recent? I can't find anything about this.
>>53330382
>they've set fire to your rum distillery
https://youtu.be/JImcvtJzIK8
>>53330382
I'm going to make soup out of your fucking fins, you bastards.
>>53331183
The meteor wasn't even the worst (Best) mass extinction
The best one was the great dying, which took place ~256 MYA and killed somewhere around 90% of ALL life on the planet. The best part is we have more or less no clue how it happened.
>>53330382
They took the whores AND torched the booze!?!?!
The ocean will run red for weeks after I'm through.
>>53330382
>Sailors do the same all the time
>They were probably intended for consumption as I don't really see any other prizes a starfish could win
>RACE WAR NOW
>>53330382
This will not stand!
>>53331999
Ah yes, the buttfish; the sailor's favourite catch.
>>53332298
The first planet wide extinction killed all life on the planet turning it from a carbon based atmosphere to a oxygen one. To be fair there was only one life form on the planet and it stretched across the entire world.
It was an ocean fungus.
>>53332451
Those things are STILL fucking around
>>53331653
>It was definitely an oxygen rich environment. That and since insects were the first animals on land they could afford to be big before amphibians came along.
I had a pastor that believed this was also how dinosaurs became a thing, since the oxygen-rich environment would let lizards grow much larger as well.
>>53332509
The actual reason is because the common ancestors of dinosaus was part of the 10% of animals that lived through the great dying, and the globe was warmer then so it was easier for reptiles to get big
Also: Birds are reptiles
>>53330438
Doesn't that one have a penis?
>>53332600
At least one. Most shark-men in CoC have 2.
15" if memory serves.
>>53332629
>At least one. Most shark-men in CoC have 2.
>15" if memory serves.
When you were a kid, did you want to be a firefighter or a doctor or an astronaut? I bet you had amazing dreams. I bet you wanted to save the world. And look where you are now.
How strange.
>>53332781
Says the guy using cropped porn as a reaction pic.
>>53331521
The sharkmen have little remora-people to assist them in things they can't do.
>>53332781
I'll have you know I once came close to submitting a character for CoC, but I never got past the first 2 sex scenes because it's really difficult to write a scene that works for a 3-foot, genderless goo-goblin-drider-hybrid, and a 7'8" winged demon-minotaur-hermaphrodite with 6 beachball-sized, mouth-nippled breasts, and a whole bouquet of penises of every conceivable length, with, and variety. Plus every possibility between those extremes.
It take some doing, I can tell you.
>>53332827
I had weird dreams, what can I say?
>>53332913
Well, I salute you for trying. The nice thing about erotica is that you can get very vague and suggestive as long as the word have the right brain-feel.
>>53330382
>My Harlots?
>My Starfish?!
>My MOONSHINE?!?!?!
Oh, HELL NO. I think it's time I introduced these chucklefucks to blast fishing. JACK! WHERE'D YOU PUT THE FERTILIZER?! I HAVE SOME NEIGHBORS TO DEAL WITH!
>>53330382
Get the otterfolk to clear them out and pay them with a year of free booze
>>53330382
>>They've set fire to your rum distillery
Oh, so THAT'S why the rum is gone!
>>53331616
Oxygen thing is false, volcanic activity was much higher
>>53330382
We enslave them to work our NEW distillery and take THEIR harlots.
>>53330382
Invite the analogue !China to send settlers. Soon the shark fin trade will destroy the shark population.
>>53334419
>>53330382
What do they stand to gain from doing all of this? Have I wronged them in some way I'm not aware of?
>>53330438
Cesium.
>>53332781
I always wanted to be the Orkin Man. Aim low, miss low.
>>53330382
>Sharkmen are plundering your sea-side retreat
fine
>They've taken your beach-harlots
a loss
>They've eaten you prize-winning starfish
I will miss it, but not that much.
>They've set fire to your rum distillery
KILL THEM ALL
>>53330382
Time to call in
THE SHARK FIGHTER.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3wchrctxFo
>>53331521
Oh, that gear is clearly traded (or, plausibly, stolen), perhaps in exchange for the rock sluts and fringed anuses they're stealing. Actual shark folk-art (or sharkfolk art?) is much less elaborate, being primarily made using coral, worked into shapes using tooth-sawing and skin-sanding techniques that gives it a smooth, organic look.
Shark folk have tremendous upper body strength and their powerful electroreception and sense of smell, even outside of the water, mean they can track their enemies down and subdue them hand-to-hand, without having to rely on short range melee weapons. At longer range, of course, sharkfolk can make spears of wood with tooth spearheads
>>53333168
>Beyond the Western Deep
I see that you are a man of culture as well
>>53331233
>>53331460
There's rumours that the reason the forums were taken down and rebooted was because apparently Fen slept with a female member of the forums at one of the conventions he attended, then started to blackmail her for more sex and for her to keep the whole thing a secret from his wife. Eventually the girl dumped all the evidence in the forums before they were nuked, which is why the forums were reset and people lost their accounts and everything uploaded to the server.
>>53332871
I'm using this
>>53330382
>They've set fire to your rum distillery
Who taught them about fire ?
>>53338075
Deep sea vents my bro
>>53338075
Yes, who indeed would teach the aquatic beasts the secrets of fire? Certainly not I, Koth of the unyielding flame. I would never think of doing such and act even if they promised me mermaid pussy.
>>53330382
They can have it I live in a landlocked territory.
>>53338196
Slick muscular dolphin pussy
>>53332451
>>53332298
>>53331653
>>53331616
>>53330903
where do you guys learn about this shit?
>>53332998
the fuck is that picture about
>>53338285
School, books, scientific articles, the occasional TV special.
>>53338285
>get interested in biology, evolution and science stuff
>read books, magazines and wikipedia articles on those subjects
>watch national geographic sometimes
It's not that difficult if you're not retarded
>>53338501
pls. I've only recently gotten out of some distressing cult shit, I've had no way of knowing about any of this.
>>53338501
was just wondering if you had some links for the specific things linked, like David A and exploding whale sharks
You dick
>>53338690
Jeez, that sucks.
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/prehistoric/
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/timeform.php
http://www.geography4kids.com/files/land_intro.html
Never be afraid to google something if you don't know what it means.
>>53332298
Massive volcanic eruptions in what is now Siberia is the leading candidate. Although there's conflicting evidence whether the extincion was caused by a "nuclear winter" type scenario where massive amounts of volcanic ash blocked the sun and caused a sudden short-lived ice age, or due to greenhouse gasses released by the volcanism completely fucking up the climate.
In fact, practically every mass extincion seems to be tied to a large igneous province. Even the K/T one. The asteroid impact is what gave the killing blow, but dinosaurs had been getting fucked over by volcanism long before that. Which one was actually the cause of the extincion is up to debate, though (i.e. would they have survived just the volcanism without the asteroid impact, or would they have died off anyway and the asteroid just provided a faster and more dramatic end).
On a side note, if there's any place in the world that's bound to be cursed by something horrible, it's Norilsk area in Siberia. Site of a massive nickel orebody (with considerable amounts of platinium as accessory) created by the flood basalt eruption (in fact, the creation of the orebody is likely a direct product of event that lead to the end-Permian mass extincion), later used a prison camp by the Soviets where thousands of prisoners were worked to death in inhospitable conditions (it's one of the coldest places in Siberia, especially when you taken in the account the near constant wind from the arctic sea). These days the leading cause of death for people living there is suicide or alcoholism (although to be honest that's the case in most of Russia). The place is also extremely polluted due to very lax adherence to any environmental laws, so if you don't die from suicidal depression you probably get cancer or something.
>>53330382
Why does that mermaid have buttocks?
>>53334748
>Aim low, miss low.
?????
>>53338881
That's where the ovaries are, so it's a mating display. When the mermaid has a fat ass, it means she needs to get fertilized.
>>53338909
>tfw there just happens to be a Fantasy Marine Biologist in the thread
Thanks for answer, makes sense now!
>>53338895
>Aim low, miss low.
The British Army during the Napoleonic Wars noticed a tendancy for soldiers to overestimate how high they were aiming due to the nature of the human eye and the lack of sights on firearms of the time.
They discovered that when ordered to aim at the torso of the enemy, the vast majority of shots actually struck a foot or so above the 'enemy's' heads, accounting for the often unexplainable lack of lethality infantry companies demonstrated during battle.
So the taught doctrine during this period was for British infantrymen to compensate for this by aiming low, at the enemy's knees or groin, thus producing a larger number of lethal upper torso hits. Sergeants and officers would remind their men of this prior to ordering volleys.
This mean the British infantry were significantly more lethal even than troops with superior discipline and drill, such as Prussians, but who didn't train with live ammunition and notice this discrepancy.
t. Man who has read all the Sharpe books.
tl;dr is true statement with muskets
>>53338924
Fantasy Marine Biology is fun.
I think we're due for another Horrible Deep Sea Thread at some point again. Although that's about real marine biology, which is usually stranger than fantasy anyway.
Sharkmen are an under-used concept.
>>53338995
>>53338997
If you know legit Marine Biology, maybe you can help. Is "ovaries" the right term for >>53338909? The angle I'm going for is that they're swollen and engorged, partially to maintain proper temperature for fertilization and implantation, but mostly as a mating display.
As I type this, I feel like I'm describing an aquatic mammal, but I know there are some non-mammals that birth live young.
>>53334290
>Shark-girl harlots
Now that I can get into
>>53338997
One of my favourite books growing up was 'A Natural History of the Unnatural World'.
Basically a fake natural history log book, documenting modern expeditions to encounter all sorts of animals from ancient myth, from Thunder Birds in the USA to Kelpies in Scotland, with accounts from the explorers/mocked up photographs.
Everything was written as though the creatures were real and being studied by biologists, which I really liked because usually there's this divide between Science! and Magic!
I always like playing character's whose motivation for adventuring is to collect and study species, like a fantasy Darwin on the HMS Beagle.
>>53338997
>>53339094
>>53339027
More
>>53330382
>They've set fire to your rum distillery
Now they've crossed the fucking line
>>53339027
90% of my sharkpeople pictures are porn.
And, funny enough, I once ran a game using Sahuagin as the villains in a Shadow Over Innsmouth-type scenario...
>>53339146
>>53339106
Thoughts?
>>53339027
That pistol looks like it could stop a tank.
>>53339106
Very nice. I like the ornamentation.
>>53339187
I'd hit it.
>>53339096
>Mouth full of concentric rows of serrated teeth
>Sandpaper skin
>Apex predator instincts
>Examines new or unusual things by biting them
>Harlot
N...no thanks
>>53339184
Mmmm, quite.
>>53330382
>They've eaten you prize-winning starfish
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>53339229
Veteran adventurers like me go for the more challenging harlots.
>>53339229
I was once doing ERP with a guy who had just rescued a shark princess and wanted a blow job from her.
Fucking retards.
I should have gone with it, just to show him the folly of his ways.
>>53339190
Well, anything that requires a sharkman to stop and reach for a gun is probably going to need really big bullets to kill....
>>53339284
It must truly be a jawesome threat.
>captcha: circle the street signs
>Pearl Lane and Ocean Drive
>>53339299
>>53339265
>not hunting down and laying with the terrible Scylla, Devourer of Ships
It's almost like you don't want to fight off a pack of dogs while searching for something to penetrate.
>>53339094
I'm not actually a marine biologist (or a biologist, for that matter; I'm a geologist and engineering student, with longstanding interest in paleontology and marine biology). But that doesn't sound very mammal-like to me. I'm not entirely sure if ovaries are the correct term (avaries are where egg cells develop, but I'm not entirely sure if fish eggs remain in the ovaries or are the moved somewhere else in the body before being laid), but fish that do lay eggs do sometimes exhibit visual change when they're carrying eggs ready to be laid (usually swollen abdomen from holding all the eggs, sometimes together with colour change to serve as a mating display). Most fish have external fertilization, so the female lays ufertilized eggs and the male ejeculates on them.
On a completely unrelated note, I'm pretty sure this picture contains one of the best images of a gulper eel skull on the internet. Which says less about my artistic skills (which are nonexistent) and more about how really fucking hard it was to find a reference picture. The best I found was a blurry scan from some marine biology textbook, which I tried to reproduce as closely as I could.
Right, so. How does a strictly marine, not coastal, civilization come about? Because I'm not happy with dude-armed fish in my setting which have achieved sweet stuff like grand architecture and metalworking just for the sake of repeating the archetype. For starters, I'd say ability to communicate and to use tools are required.
Gesturing is probably the first choice when you think of communicating underwater but there are a lot more ways to go about it as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_systems_in_fish
But as far as tools go, live examples are mostly limited to spitting sand or water, moving rocks to cover something or as an anvil to bash some tough crustacean against it.
>>53339533
Problem is rust and no fire. If you can solve those problems (usually with magic/unobtainium) the civilizations become a lot more feasible.
>>53339564
>rust
Gold
>>53339595
Really soft, making it difficult to use.
>>53339595
Copper and brass are also quite resistant to corrosion, I think. Few susbtances are entirely corrosion-proof, but plenty of metals are less susceptible than iron (which, aside from a few exceptions, does not occur in native form in surface conditions because it is so prone to oxidation).
>>53339533
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIYvdAO02-w
Pressurised water is surprisingly destructive.
>>53330919
>bestreplyofthethread.txt
>>53339271
>shark girl without hair and elf ears
Fuck yeah. I don't know where did that stupid trend come.
>>53339690
I'd expect to see a lot less metal in such a civilization, and probably a lot more carved stone, coral, bones, and shells in use for tools.
>>53339821
I tend to not mind the ears if they a clearly just fins framing her face, otherwise the head looks a bit bare
>>53338285
Fucking summer. Fucking normies. Ree.
>>53330382
>They've set fire to your rum distillery.
WAR!
>>53330382
Does this remind anyone else of that modest mouse video?
IT'S TIME FOR MOTHERFUCKING STREET SHARKS!!!
This is somewhat off topic, but how large is a shark man's penis?
>>53330382
First, we're going to make them fight us on our own turf. We'll hold a big party on the beach where we burn effigies of sharkmen and dump chum on the ground. When this draws them out, the ballistae teams we have hidden in the jungle will move out of hiding and harpoon the bastards and reel them in like the fish they are. Then we fill them with arrows and wait for them to die. Then we feast on their fins and display their corpses as a warning to the survivors.
Of course we're going after those the next day with fishing spears and helms of water breathing.
>>53341089
....read the thread. dingus.
>>53341089
They're both about regular size for his body frame.
>>53340975
Depends on the setting, faggot
>>53338995
I learned something today!
>>53341089
>penis
>singular
15 inches apparently.
>>53330382
I deploy a squad of Tentaculats. They will regret everything forever.
>>53332600
Yeah, but you can tell her to get rid of it.
>>53339821
Blame monstergirls.
>>53339027
Can't have shark-men without shark-women!
>>53341300
She's got a dick, doesn't she.
>>53341339
Maybe, maybe not
>>53341339
"She"
>>53341339
Actually; if it's a true shark it would have claspers, and it would have 2 of them.
>>53341049
Fuck off Matt.
>>53330382
ROBIN!
GET THE SHARK REPELLENT!
>>53341416
The symbols on the "S" give it away. Plus, furry artists have a depressing habit of futafying tough punk chicks.
>the shark religion is ancestoral,worshiping the kings of old
>these include kings big enough to eat a whale in one biet and the torpedo shark
>shark society is filled with WE WUZings and trying to prove your ancestory
>they kidbap mermaids for craftmenship and sex slaves
>>53334290
>>53334290
I hear you can drive them into a craze during sex if you make yourself bleed a little. They can go for hours if you do.
>>53339094
>creepy_mermaid.jpg
You are a goddamned pussy.
>>53341586
*Bat shark repellent
>>53339027
THIS GUY!
I have had this picture saved for years looking for more about him...
I would kill to read the adventures of sharkmandude and his little clownfish buddy.
Who Ron Spencer Merfolk here?
So we're posting pictures of shark-men now?
Righty-ho.
>>53339284
>That tiny murderous clownfish above the shark
>>53341634
We're both wrong. It's the "Shark-Repellent Bat Spray"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dghbyBaQyI
>>53341665
jesus fuck dude go to church
>>53341656
Not Ron Spencer anything. Ever.
>>53341665
Not enough shark, hair and nipples kill the picture.
>>53341656
Here's card art by Scott M. Fischer, was supposed to be an Un-set Merfolk card.
CU01_U2
There's No Folk Like Merfolk
1U
Creature – Merfolk
2/2
When There's No Folk Like Merfolk comes into play, choose a word with four or more letters.
At the beginning of your upkeep, name a movie whose title contains the chosen word. If you don't, sacrifice There's No Folk Like Merfolk.
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/un-seen-2-electric-bugaloo-2014-11-10
>>53341708
Oaky-doaky.
>Art by Randy Elliot
>>53341593
Ahh, alas I'm cool with futa but would like to see it used in less cliche manners myself
>>53341863
>>53341819
>with
>from
Any other good names?
>>53341819
>Pick "Star"
>Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
>Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
>Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
>Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
>Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
>Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
>Star Wars Clone Wars (CGI Film)
>Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
>Star Trek: The Motion Picture
>Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan
>Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
>Star Trek VI: The Voyage Home
>Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
>Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
>Star Trek Generations
>Star Trek: First Contact
>Star Trek: Insurrection
>Star Trek: Nemesis
>Star Trek
>Star Trek Into Darkness
>Star Trek Beyond
>Star Beast (International title for Alien)
>Stargate
>Stardust
>Starship Ttoopers
>Starman
>Star Kid
>Starlet
>Starry Eyes
>Star Crystal
>>53340006
Coral would make the most sense. Basically natural cement and you can train it to grow however you want.
>>53342023
>Stardust
I got my first blowjob during that.
I mean, it's not relevent, I just like to brag and reminisce
>>53342023
>no Starfox
>>53342206
Movies not games ya dingus
>>53330382
>They've taken your beach-harlots
>They've set fire to your rum distillery
Barnacles happen
>They've eaten you prize-winning starfish
SPLIT YOUR LUNGS WITH BLOOD AND THUNDER
>>53342023
It says name a title that contains the word. Doesn't have to start with said word.
So even movies like superstar work
>>53341665
Now it gets good.
>>53330382
Sharkmen? That sound oddly heretical. I never liked the sea anyway
>>53341833
God is dead and we killed him
>>53330382
>They've eaten you prize-winning starfish
That is NOT okay! They messed with my starfish.
When I catch one of them he's getting tied down in that tank and whatever's left of my starfish is going to remind him that starfish are predators.
>>53342658
Oh come off of it. This is lukewarm vanilla pudding compared to things that make up the actual fringe of human perversion.
>>53342640
Heretics, you say?
>>53339821
I've just notice that I fucked up with this picture. That's not shark, that's orca.
>>53339821
>It's furry
>But it's also muscles and THICCness
>>53339146
There's a Ravenloft fan-splat that actually gives rules for running Sahuagin in exactly that sort of fashion.
>>53341300
Source?
>>53341612
Indeed. We can go far deeper. As it turns out, mermaids, like everything else that lives in the sea, get freakier the deeper you go.
>>53339240
>Sahuagin officer
No he bloody isn't!
>>53343933
Such a cute tailboop
>>53343269
If sharks are the beach bullies orcas are the bully hunters
>>53338326
>Allows you to know the answer by familiarity with the written material or by doing the math equation
>Can do well at the test if you're good at either english or math, even if you're not good at both
Actually kind of a neat idea
>>53332871
>The sharkmen have little remora-people to assist them in things they can't do.
This is adorable
I love sharkmen.
>>53338871
That sounds like it'd be the most cursed place on earth in a modern fantasy setting
>>53330438
Men! Fetch me the Greek Fire!
>>53339187
Nah. Looks more afraid than shocked.
Better throw her back into the waters.
>>53339223
THAT BULGE...
>>53341654
I believe it's fromKillbook of a Bounty Hunter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Man_Standing:_Killbook_of_a_Bounty_Hunter
>>53343636
Anons? Query: what would you rather have as a PC option, actual sahuagin/shark-men, or a Lovecraftian-inspired half-sahuagin?
>>53339821
Saying breasts on a shark is okay but that hair makes no sense is an arbitrary distinction.
>>53341654
>>53345807
'Yes, it is from Dan Luvisi's Killbook of a Bounty Hunter. The character is Jawesome. He has lore and shit.
>>53330382
>>They've set fire to your rum distillery
Bastards! We're going to hang them all from the fucking docks like prize catches!
Would Sharkmen make good orc-replacements for an Earthsea-style high seas game?
>>53341612
Dude, you really shouldn't touch that fishie.
>>53350018
Im gonna touch that fishie
>>53339564
Start with biological materials, Coral architecture that is grown into the desired shape, animals bred to grow sharp blades on a shell/claw to be harvested, types of kelp or sinew bred for fiber. Try thinking of their palaces as an engineered reef for royalty rather than a building.
>>53350018
>>53350034
Is this your fishie?
>>53350345
No, that is not my fishie. My fishie has colors. But thanks for trying
>>53350416
>>53338690
>distressing cult shit
Storytime, now.
>>53350429
Cant find any info/lore on this character, am i just retarded or does the character have a different name?
>>53350441
>>53350416
>>53350429
>>53350452
A Metal Gear Revengence type game with this guy needs to happen.
>>53350470
MGS: Red Wake
Dumping weird sea things.
>>53351356
I'm pretty sure the one on the left's a demon
>>53330903
I've never heard of that so what is this, from an anime?
There are tons of prehistoric sharks. Sharks themselves are old as fuck.
Something like Zamtrios would make the perfect shark man for me.
>>53330382
I'm going to need a bigger boat.
>>53351385
C. megalodon at least is theorized to have hunted by ramming its prey from below to stun or even kill it. Prehistoric "killer spermwhales" may also have hunted whales in the same way (spermwhales are quite interesting creatures in being highly derived form of large apex predator whale that survived while most of their relatives died out due to their specialized diet; also they've got the whole organic sonic cannon thing going on). Killing big things by ramming them seems to be a generally a good hunting strategy, as Cretaceous mosasaurs also apparently did the same thing (the tip of a mosasaur's skull is solid bone which according to skin impression was covered with large thick scales, allowing it to function like a natural equivalent of a ramming prow of ancient ships)
>>53351503
Please explain the sonic cannon.
>>53351538
The name "spermwhale" is actually short for "spermaceti whale", spermaceti being the name for a vaxy liquid held in an organ in the whale's head (which is why the whale has such a huge blocky head; the skull is not that different from other toothed whales, but there's a huge mass of soft tissue over the upper jaw). Said organ is locaded directly behind the phonic lips (the organ toothed whales use to create sound pulse for echolocation), and is theorized to form a part of a complex apparatus that acts like a lense for sound waves. Sound pulses from the photic lips pass through the spermaceti organ (which conducts sound far better than water), then bounce back through the melon. The pulse can be focused into a tight beam of extremely loud sound, which the whale can use to stun or kill its prey.
Spermwhales are the loudest animals on Earth, capable of producing sounds as loud as a jet engine, and being caught directly in the path of ones sonic death beam would instantly kill a human diver by rupturing their internal organs from the force of the sound.
>>53351637
Sweet jesus thats awesome
>>53330382
Do sharks have dicks?
>>53351704
As far as I know, they don't, but I might be wrong. Male sharks have claspers, which are modified anal fins used to hold onto female during mating, but I don't think they have a penis as such. Fish generally don't have a penis, although some have modified fins that fulfill the same function.
>>53341049
FUCK this is literally the first thing that popped into my head when I saw this thread
I fucking hate the Street Sharks
>>53351787
There go all my dreams of mermaid sexual slavery, oh well.
Thanks anyway anon.
>>53351704
Yes and no. They are not technically penises, but they have two "claspers" which remain external and are used for penetrating females for sex.
Pic related, left is male and right is female.
>>53351787
>hold onto female during mating
Oh you sweet summer child, no, that's not what they're used for.
>>53351827
Fucking google it before trusting an anon, anon.
>>53351704
Nature gave them 2.
>>53351833
>Fucking google it before trusting an anon, anon.
I considered it but I was too scared of what I might find.
Usually I compare whatever anon tells me with my own knowledge, and considering I was pretty sure already that fish don't have penises, I accepted what he said.
>>53351878
They technically don't but some have modified fins that fulfill the same purpose. Sharks aren't particularly unique in that matter. For example, male guppies also use modified fins to penetrate the female.
>>53351878
You're awful curious about shark dicks for someone scared of shark dicks.
>>53351637
What was the main industrial use of the 'sperm' oil?
>No Jonathan Jones
For absolute shame
>>53351972
Curiosity has taken me to many wondrous things, and one or two that froze my soul with terror.
I find that it's best to be cautious with these things.
>>53342719
Who made a horse an inquisitor?
>>53351637
Thank you for inspiring me to make at least four new monsters.
>>53352104
He made himself a horse I think, with 40k-style cosmetic surgery.
Still a furry but not a mutant, genetically 100% human, and he's canon, he's in a Dan Abnett book.
Probably same story with this dude, but he looks way more like a sanctioned abhuman than Heldane there.
>>53351996
Lamp oil and cosmetics.
>>53345070
Those horrid little fairies scared me as a kid. Moreso than the gigantic monster shark. Weird.
>>53351704
E621 says they have two.
>>53352148
>he's in a Dan Abnett book.
>Paying any attention to the fanfiction mill at Black Library
>Even giving a fuck about actual canon anymore
>>53350416
>MASTER
>BLASTER
Who runs seaside town?
>>53351827
>mermaid sexual slavery
You know, Mermaids are likely mammals.
It goes a way to explaining all the mermaid sex fantasies which goes hand in hand with mermaid legends since Atargatis's transformation was first mentioned in ancient tribal tales.
>>53332551
>Also: Birds are reptiles
Explain?
>>53354050
Dinosaurs are reptiles, birds are dinosaurs, thus birds are reptiles
>>53353036
>You know, Mermaids are likely mammals.
I'm surprised there aren't more depictions of mermaids as being half-dolphin or half-whale instead of half-fish, especially since it sorta helps get around the "mermaid problem."
>>53357155
is that supposed to be an orca or an narwhal? The spear confuses me
>>53357345
>>53357155
color pattern looks like orca. Spear looks like a nawhal was hunted.
>>53357155
Them being actual marine mammals does make more sense than having a mammalian upper body glued onto a fish tail.
I prefer mermaids to either have more dolphin-like lower bodies or be more fishy all over, rather than half and half. Looks better.
>>53357388
Imagine humanoid whale people would look like? Their heads would be massive if you had ones like sperm whales swimming around with their giant arms dangingly along side them.
>>53331521
More importantly, none of that shit would last long under water.
>>53357388
T H I C C
>>53357849
Thiccposters should be gassed.
>>53349713
For an orc replacement you just need any race of physically intimidating, violent, belligerent, savages. That's why G.W. based them on football hooligans
So in answer to your question; yes, they could easily be shark-men if you want.
>>53339184
That seems like far too small a tank for the subject contained within it. will no doubt cause health problems and early expiration.
>>53339187
Its got some pretty good fuckin tits on it.
>>53350018
Isn't that fish the really poisonous evil kind of fish?
>>53358120
Oh, it caused early expiration all right.
Motherfucker killed everyone on board.
>>53339223
Is that the guy from Gurren Lagann?
>>53339379
Mermaids are not fish, they are like dolphins.
That means the females have pussies that grip so tight they will strip the skin off your dick, while mermen penises are prehensile and fire off like shotguns.
>>53330919
Holyyy shit, didn't think anyone remembered this
>>53358207
I'm not hearing a downside.
Just need to wear like three or four condoms.
>>53331554
that pic it's just perfect
>>53330382
I poison the water.
If we don't get the beach bitches, no one does.
>>53331450
We're 60% water, so probably something like us.
>>53339027
Counterblast has a shark miniature and character, iirc.
Feels bad when the Sardhuin/Piscean Warrior minis from Rogue Trader don't look like sharkmen, but fanon implies they do now. :<
>>53359086
I'm pretty sure that's what anon's point was.
Step aside fishfuckers, best aquatic waifu coming through.
>>53334662
They find it easier than hunting sea harlots and catching their own starfish.
Also they just found the rum distillery, tasted it, one died, they now think its evil.
Really its just a buncha underwater savages being underwater savages.
>>53330945
Can't purge them in their own enviroment.
Especially if they are smart. The deus cucks is hard to do if you can barely swing your sword and they can move around better than on land.
>>53339533
They would either be very primitive, tough it would work- Metalurgy or stonemasonry is not the end all of an empire and many has risen up in the world without even inventing the wheel. What really is needed is a stable culture and fair laws.
Unless they are amphibious or living in air filled caves they would mostly live in motley stone huts or less generally just close to each other enough to ward of animals. Trading with other large "schools" of people for things from their part of the sea.
>>53363436
Was gonna say ''But anon, thats not a picture of a selkie'' But then i saw the filename. And the seal.
So instead ill just add another selkie
>>53330382
>They've set fire to your rum distillery
looks like I'm making sharkfin soup
>>53364078
Okay, but how?
You can't do a direct attack because its their invincible fortress and natural enviroment and you can't just salt the earth because the sea is big and they can just fuck off.
How do we deal with the sharkmen threat everyone? In revenge of our rum.
>>53364119
Do what some anon did in another thread. Open portals to the netherhells under the ocean. Drain the fucking sees into the fiery abyss!
>>53364154
But WE also need the oceans, for seafaring and food.
>>53347367
So is wanting a muscular sharkwomen to crush me with her thighs and eat my corpse, but here we are...
>>53364174
Nah
>>53364174
Yep. That's why the anon said they opened other portals into the elemental plain of water. Oh and because daemonic sea life was popping up they briefly routed the water through heaven because it somehow made it holy.
I'm personally not 100% convinced of the mechanics because, for instance, a church is certainly holy ground but that doesn't mean the toilets and drinking fountains are filled with holy water but yeah, sure, osmotically obtained holiness added to the water.
>>53364212
This is basically D&D as played by the office drones at Aperture Science.
>>53332451
There were two forms of life. It was the ones that excreted oxygen as a waste product that "poisoned" the planet and killed off the competition.
>>53364212
I mean, the portal to the plane of water wont exactly suck or shit out water, even if it did let it trough thanks to the internal pressure of it.
All it would most likely do is create a really weird looking vortex.
Meanwhile the fishmen are being underwater vikings and raiding your other coastal villages. THEY CANNOT BE STOPPED!
>>53364174
No, see, because you have portals you just open up into a dimension with really decent sales on seafood. Also check out OP's pic again. That fucker clearly isn't very nomadic. How far could he make it with those stubby little legs? Clearly these are local boys who are tired of your whoring and drunkenness thus they attacked the local rum and beach whore industries. This means you merely need to ascertain their location so you can surgically strike with hell portals. No need to wipe out the entire ocean, you fucking psycho, only, say, 2% max just to be sure. Maybe five if feeling particularly vindictive.
>>53332509
This actually isn't a terrible bit of logic, though the two things are probably unrelated.
Lower oxygen level is, however, why we don't have dragonflies the size of birds anymore. That's probably for the best.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meganeura
>>53364288
>you can surgically strike with hell portals
Well good job fucko, now you got sharkmen and DEVIL sharkmen raiding your coasts.
Wizards, no sense of right or wrong.
>>53364267
Do not trust this poster. He is clearly an agent of the shark people.
Sharks are far more sensitive to light than humans, so without the ocean to filter they're going to have some problems with glare during daytime raids. The kingdom will merely dress it's strongest warriors in bikinis and wigs and have they prance around giggling to lure the shark warriors in, then it's party time!
>>53364333
You missed the part about dumping massive amounts of holy water into the ocean to keep levels topped off.
>>53364327
Kind of off-topic, but I always wondered whether some of the animals back then (or even before) ever had civilizations or tool use. I mean, we can probably deduce from the evolutionary record that it didn't happen, but there's some huge spans of time that are low on data. Plus, we would never know they were there if their ruins had completely decayed.
>>53364267
>the portal to the plane of water wont exactly suck or shit out water,
You clearly aren't using the right portal, matey.
>>53338995
This is very confusing to me, though I've only ever fired ranch guns with iron sights. I always learned to aim slightly above whatever I was firing at, to accommodate the round dropping.
What is it about muskets that caused this behavior?
>>53364353
Well it could work if not for one big stick in the cogs.
The church would come by and be all "oh this is a holy site now." and then you can't go there without hearing the preaching and you know that a sailor wont exactly abide by the church rules.
Also dilution, I don't think holy water has the viscosity to remain seperate or even sink fast enough to not be diluted by the hellportals EVIL water.
>>53364384
It's probably just bullshit.
>British soldiers in X were the best at Y because (some convoluted explanation over several paragraphs).
>>53364340
If we're doing fun with portals at the moment, there's always the joys of the bag of holding. Land mines that when stepped on shove a tube with the rolled up portable hole into the opening of the bag of holding. When done send in the peasants to fill in the resulting holes in the beach and have them walk around a bit to make sure there aren't an unaccounted for mines.
Or if their eyesight sucks, sure, mockup beach babes that when grabbed trigger the same thing. Drop the fuckers in the astral plane.
>>53350018
>>53358156
Them's good eatins.
https://www.lionfish-slayer.com/recipes/
>>53358156
They're an invasive species in a number of places because very few things can eat them thanks to their poisoned spines.
Primarily because >>53364442 like most invasive fish.
>>53364353
Tool use is hardly unlikely since we're finding out it is actually pretty damn common. Whether or not they got up to building Atlantis, well, yeah, that's unlikely. Dinosaurs with tools? Why not. Dinosaurs with dwellings? Possible, I suppose, but at 65,000,000+ years they're extremely unlikely to find any significant evidence. Evidence from humans is lucky to have lasted over 10,000. Nothing would last on the surface. We're lucky what little has lasted as-is and the fossil record is woefully incomplete.
>>53364353
That depends how far down the rabbit hole you want to go. Google "out of place artifacts"
>>53330382
That thing clearly can't run very fast and it forgot to bring the majestic sharquine to ride off into the sunset. Pretty sure the guard will catch up with them as soon as they're done trying to "save" rum from the distillery.
>>53364492
The mezopotamians managed to make an empire without the wheel and the chinese invented gunpowder but didn't have guns. The romans had fucking concrete for gods sake.
Technology is not a straight line. There has most likely been societies in the past with certain technology that died out and lost the info.
>>53364119
Nets. We'll just use their instincts against them.
>>53364578
True, but those were all very modern human civilizations.
>>53364353 was wondering if there were extinct(?), intelligent animals that had developed civilization and advanced tool use.
>>53364616
We would've found their remains with their technology. An entire race does not just die without their things, archeology has proven that.
But sure, its possible. Its also possible we are the only intelligent life in the universe (intelligent in human standards.)
>>53364353
>ancient earth life
>developing civilization and tools
This has always been my favorite theory about the Greys/Reptilian aliens; they are, in fact, highly-evolved natives of Earth. Plausible deniability when government officials say that there are no extraterrestrials.
(As for what they have been doing for the last couple of dozen million years, and why they allowed mammals to infest the planet, no idea.)
It made for a fun episode of Voyager.
>>53364384
>What is it about muskets that caused this behavior?
A lack of ballistic understanding/general knowledge.
Fire arms are a relatively new technology, as is general education. Back when muskets were cutting edge tech most people couldn't even read, and many suffered from iodine deficiency, which lowers the IQ by a significant amount.
>>53364413
You open the portals at the top of Hell, so the water flows OUT of the ocean, and is sort of a waterfall of seawater into hell. Did you miss that part?
>>53364717
Well then we're back to the fact that we got a sinkhole into hell and if dwarf fortress taught me anything its that it usually spells the doom for the entire place.
Also that you got a big sinkhole into hell, you know the whole area is gonna be dried up and you'll lose all those treasures of the seas.
>>53364687
Actually, I was referring to the behavior of the muskets, my bad. It sounds like the recoil was imparted before the round left the barrel.
>>53364769
Or by draining the oceans you've rendered those treasures accessible without extreme magicks to survive underwater at crushdepth.
Besides, how badly do you want these shark bastards dead? They FUCKED WITH OUR RUM.
>>53364848
I dunno man, rum is good an all but satan is kinda not worth the trouble. We got the backup grog after all.
>>53364413
That's why you research one-way portals, baby. Gotta think this shit through before you post.
The real problem is what to do when angelic, demonic, and elemental ambassadors show up wanting to know who is violating the fuck out of their sovereign planar borders. The key at this point is to blame the sharks. After all, just look what they did to your innocent distillery and rather less innocent beach babes! Clearly this is some ne'er do well seafood. Oh and also you need to keep an eye on your fellow co-conspirators because if it looks like they might flip on you you have to have another portal preferably to an undead realm because you don't want this fucker to die since if his soul reaches heaven or hell he'll just rat you out.
>>53352179
>Those horrid little fairies scared me as a kid. Moreso than the gigantic monster shark. Weird.
That's because theyevolved from people.
>>53364876
Oh fine, you big pussy, then use an elemental plane of fire.
It's clear you don't deserve rum or beach-harlots, though, so you don't get to participate when we rebuild.
>>53364931
If we go this freestyle then the sharks would simply go and stealthily make it look like you were the ones to voilet the NAP making hell send their tactical mall nukes to your suburban rum and child sex slave facilities. Voilating the NAP making you counterattack with your drugged up researched magic fireball children to start a war (whoops can't write that on my anarchist unfunded site.) against hell leading to your free demice and further and continuous violation of everyones NAP
>>53357155
Even half fish can be easily explained with convergent evolution.
There is even a mammal with scales, the pangolin, so it's not even an unknown feature to mammals.
>>53331514
I'm making him my BBEG for my next campaign fuck it.
>>53349107
Oh cool I always thought it was a stylized Captain Cantu from Lolo and Stitch
>>53343616
Muscles and Thiccness?