#aberrant fish

[thatpointything]

Part 1 of that DREDGE thing I talked about earlier.

#dredge game #dredge #aberrant fish #fish

[ms-scarletwings]

Aberrant Fish

The first hint many an angler will get of the dark, insidious secrets these waters hold,

and yet, they are the first thing to be accepted as only another flavor of mundane.

The game text calls them grotesque. The fishmonger calls them corrupted. You get to call them a bonus. Rather than fear and revile them, tradesmen will pay a shiny extra penny to add them into their stock. They are gestured to and spoken of, but never truly elaborated on by the townsfolk. They have probably been here long before most of them, and so will be here long after they are gone. They were certainly here before you. Maybe you don’t need their answers, and yet if you are like me, you still witlessly question and keep dredging for more.

Like many things pulled from those cursed depths, they whisper flecks of madness from an impossible voice. What messages do they carry, and what forces do they play vessel to? Are they the lingering embers from a long-extinguished calamity, or are they harbingers of the next one to come?

I believe we have already seen signs of fire with our own eyes- impossible, great beasts that prowl the four (now five) coasts, the dying cult, gibbering fog…. That damned book. These tortured creatures are but another form of the same smoke.

To the question of where they came from, if your fisherman pokes around enough and braves the darkness, he may have already found a response in one of the many obelisks scattered around the map. Specifically, I refer to this.

This would suggest the aberrants themselves are what leaked in through the cracks that the largest of all monsters wants to rend apart? Not entirely, but in part. For the researcher at the Stellar Basin came to her own conclusion I want to factor in.

Her words give credence to the possibility that it is actually those greater beasts themselves at the heart of the corruption. I think she was half onto something, because what if these twisted forms, both large and small, were blooms along the same set of festering roots?

The more dark stones you disturb in the frenzy of your own madness, the more you learn about the age before your arrival, about the islands, and especially about their current guardians. The Mindsuckers- carrion puppet masters given a home, the Basin creature- a spore that miraculously survived its dive to the abyss, and the Serpent- lifeless stone made animate and malicious, all had their creation remembered in great detail by the obelisks. Some hints point that their emergence was rather recent, relative to even more powerful beings, such as the leviathan.

Maybe there are even more unseen horrors far below, blessedly out of our reach, for now. My view is that the malformed beasts are the aimless children of that unfathomable thing which waits beyond the veil. With them came its influence, and its corruption, and from them it continues to spread to all life surrounding. The smaller rifts were always a transformative disease upon the harbor’s fish, but with the rise of the new monsters, the sickness runs farther and less avoidably than ever. Whether these aberrant spawn are a gift to the worthy, or another deceptive evil that leads to madness remains left to be seen.

I will be giving a spotlight to each of these fascinating specimens at the back of Dredge’s encyclopedia, including those found in the Pale Reach, for further comment and appreciation. Updating the list below as we go along!

[#79-84]

[#85-90]

[#91-96]

[#97-102]

[#103-108]

[#109-114]

[#115-120]

[#121-126]

[#127-132]

[#133-138]

[#139-144]

[#145-150]

[#163-168]

[#169-174]

[Bonus I. Night Angler]

[Bonus II. Serpent]

[Bonus III. Basin Creature]

[Bonus IV. Mindsuckers]

[Bonus V. Unseeing Mother]

[Bonus VI. “Narwhal”]

#dredge game #dredge #dredge analysis #aberrant fish #grotesque fish #dredge spoilers #scarlet talks about things

[tamvmat]

Dredge dredge dredge dredge dredge dredge

#dredge game #dredge #aberrations #fish #fan art #ink drawing #i need more of this game! #over too quickly

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 278

You know what I’ve gotten obsessed with and inspired by? Dredge. 

You know what is also fun? Merfolk. What’s even better? Lovecraftian corrupted merfolk. Especially if say, one goes with the Lazarus Waters being a form of ectoplasm. So, in this? Lazarus waters are like lakes, while Amity Park, thanks to the Portal, and the barriers? It is an entire sea. 

There are islands, small areas that were once the tips of buildings that have gathered more landmass around them. There are mangroves, trees not like anything on earth or anywhere else stretching up in canopies dark enough to block out the sun, yet lit by the green waters. 

It goes deep. Mariana Trench deep, despite it being impossible. The GIW have explored for caves or tunnels, they’ve tried to find some sort of explanation, but there isn’t one. 

Now all that ecto? That has an effect on people. They mutate, they change, they adapt. Anywhere else would have been a slow death- something the GIW might have even been counting on. But Amity Park? It was founded by witches, it was the hotspot for the supernatural, even before the Fentonwork Portal. They’ve been dealing with this sort of energy in microdoses from the moment they first began to live in the city in any generation. 

But they begin to adapt. Shift into something… other. Some stay contaminated, clinging to human forms as they form homes on the tiny islands, fishing and farming what they can. Others become Liminal, almost seeming to meld with fish, some similar to ones of the Living and others something just to the left. Similar yes, but not quite… right. And then there are those that have truly melded with the energy of the dead, forms torn asunder by it, ripped apart and made anew by it. 

The first sign back when the barrier was activated, when they could no longer leave and were trapped were the fish in the lake. And now they are the same, with gazes of something Else, with gnashing teeth and a hunger gnawing at where hearts once were. 

But they aren’t monsters. They’re still themselves. Just a little… Other now. 

#DCxDP #DPxDC #Prompts #Eldritch Ghosts #Liminal Amity Park #Merfolk AU #They see nothing wrong with each other because they’ve gotten used to it #Also yes they can ‘swim’ in the air too #Seriously check out the Dredge Wiki if u aren’t up for playin- at least look at the Aberrations #Even the more human-looking Parkers (usually elderly but not always) still look Off #While others have become deep sea nightmares #I see the fact there’s an entire Lazarus ecosystem in the middle of nowhere Illinois interesting Absolutely No One #People Definitely Doesn’t Have A Fishing Boat Out There Trying To Fish Up The Pit Creatures #Honestly GIW might do that too & have some fucked up fish- they keep failing at catching a parker who knows better #Clockwork and others visit too sometimes & it’s like seeing a Fucking Incomprehensible Leviathan #If the Infinite Realms is the Open Ocean then Amity is a Sea where whales go to set up their nursery #Idk if any of this makes sense I’ve been sick the last few days lol #Dredge Au

[brammariek]

so i heard you all like fucked up fish

update: MOAR FISHIES

#dredge game #dredge #Aberrations #i am completely normal about the fishing game

[amararala]

Season 10 Pokemon Trainer Gem

#ft Misdreavus G-Corsola Shellos Tatsugiri Eevee with aberrated fish in mouth c: and Skrelp #heheh shellos the snail not sure about corsola #all nfe pokemon as its the start of the season c: #amararala art #hermitcraft #hermitcraft fanart #geminitay #geminitay fanart #shellos

[corvidaearts]

ive made some updates to the sashimi's design

anyway go read lost in the dark (he's got a heavy heart)

#hunger au #mcyt #hermitcraft #hermitblr #trafficblr #traffic series #crows art stash #carrions block art (hc/life) #tis the season for fucked up fish loll #i like calling this an aberrated form of the original design for any of you dredge enjoyers out there #i also personally like to think the light hums #as in it brightens and sometimes flickers and you can see the stomach/gullet area shift in a way you typically shouldn't #ive got some more personal comments on this but maybe ill draw more of this extinct species later..someday

[doubledealer93]

So I got the Xanathar figure recently with Zero regrets. I love this guy so much, the smile, the fish and the LOOKS. I would like to eventually make replicas of his office.

#toy photography #photography #Xanathar #hasbro #dungeons and dragons #beholder #aberration #dioramas #art #crafts #miniatures #fish

[cityelf]

🌌 throw it b a c k 🌌

(& the still images.)

#dredge #dredge game #black salt games #fish #aberrations #art #attempts

[spearxwind]

DAVE THE DIVER AND DREDGE CROSSOVER DLC NO FUCKING WAY!!!!!!!!!!!

#AND ITS FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OBSESSED OBSESSED OBSESSED #MORE DREDGE PER DREDGE #thunderclap #IM SOOOO HYPED they make the aberrations move in the water but with the same style and you can move the boat around #AUHGGGGGG #im soooo normal about fish im soooo normal

[roroorecmoo]

#dredge #aberration #some fishes

[thatpointything]

Doing a Dredge thing.

#dredge #dredge game #food #cooking #worldbuilding #aberration #aberrations #aberrant fish

[ms-scarletwings]

Every Dredge Aberration (2023), Part 1

Grotesque Mackerel

Encyclopedia #79

Aberrant form of Blue Mackerel

Description:

Corrupted scales and bulbous eyes - like nothing you’ve ever seen before.

Comment: Compared to what’s to come, an incredibly tame introduction into the dark underbelly of the local ecosystem. Along with the other mutant forms of blue mackerel, squid, and cod, this is often one of (if not the) very first aberrants that the player will stumble upon while getting their bearings in the starting region. Only mildly deformed, this fish is one of the lucky. Also, it’s the least valuable aberrant available, but at bare minimum, it’s still an improvement upon the least valuable fish in the game.

How to catch: Commonly spawn in the coastal waters along The Marrows during the day. Can be trawl-netted. Atrophy may take a few tries since this is one of three possible variations of the normal fish.

Lumpy Mackerel

Encyclopedia #80

Aberrant form of Blue Mackerel

Description:

A writhing mass of lumps, twisting and pulling their way under the scales of their vessel. How long can it have lived like this?

Comment: My first aberrant catch that I felt a twinge of real pity for, and the first one that made me feel appalled concern for those characters who could be implied to willingly feast upon such things. Its riddled body teems with cancerous mass, or, as the undulating suggests, something much more vivacious and sinister…

How to catch: Same as above.

Many-Eyed Mackerel

Encyclopedia #81

Aberrant form of Blue Mackerel

Description:

Gill plates dotted with eyeballs. Superfluous but scanning, frantically. All eyes see right through you.

Comment: This one really makes one wish fish had eyelids of their own. If it could comprehend its situation, I wonder if this specimen would wish for the same thing. What cruelty to be blessed with this paranoid, all angled gaze, only to still end up in the grasp of a superior predator. The most valuable malformation of the least valuable fish in the game.

How to catch: Same as above.

All-Seeing Cod

Encyclopedia #82

Aberrant form of Cod

Description:

Staring outwards, unblinking. Eyes borrowed from a larger being but not the mind to process what it sees.

Comment: Was that a pun…? Anyway, there’s something strangely appealing about the colors of this one to me. Stare long enough into the eyes of cod, and I guess they will gaze back. I hope those massive peepers don’t go to waste at the fish market- the hands of an experienced chef should be delighted, if anything, to work with such a nutritious addition.

How to catch: A coastal regular around The Marrows during the day. Can be caught in trawl nets.

Fanged Cod

Encyclopedia #83

Aberrant form of Cod

Description:

Deviantly sharp teeth, with chunks of smaller fish lodged between. A hunger in its eyes

Comment: For a mutated wretch of the deep, this biter doesn’t seem so intimidating until you reflect for a moment on the actual size of an average codfish. The largest individuals you snag of this variant can be as long as nearly 4 feet. I begin to hope that those living in the Marrows keep their children far from the water’s edge.

How to catch: second verse, same as the first.

Three-Headed Cod

Encyclopedia #84

Aberrant form of Cod

Description:

Three heads writhe and struggle in unison. Three mouths hang agape, then close shut together. Three lives lived as one. One fate bound to many.

Comment: More meat for the same amount of cargo space? Not much to complain about when dragging one of these up from their home. Probably by coincidence, irrelevantly, but still humorously, “3-headed cod” also happens to be the name of a real life beer, only available annually.

How to catch: Third verse, same as the first.

#dredge game #dredge #aberrant fish #grotesque fish #fish horror #scarlet talks about things

[aberrantceramics]

Horizon Cup with Skeletal Fish, Including that rarest of skeletal fish, the Fish Within a Paralellogram

#fish #ceramics #art #pottery #aberrant ceramics

[larkscribbles]

Another Dredge fishy! This one’s an all-seeing aberrant cod! [speedpaint]

#dredge #dredge game #fanart #black salt games #cod #aberrant #fish #digital art

[trainingdummyrabbit]

riffing w my silly lil fish abno :]

#ikeep wanting t extrapolate its actual outfit but. it seems to insist ! so wellcheers ✌ TWO!! #plain adn shrimple. (<- not a shrimp) #projmoon #pikart #seems like its settling as a shimp aberration. ilike this fish :) #(subject to change also; ithink theres more i can do buuuut character design brain turned off rn <3 yip)