"You run out of note-cards before you run out of different parts to classify, and after a while you can't tell the difference between the 'before' and 'after' piles. You'll get as much out of this beast by organising a game of footy with what's left."[1]
Thalatte are biological peculiarities that roam the depths of the Unterzee. Their anatomy is utterly incomprehensible: they possesses a beaked mouth, a "double handful of maxillipeds," an acidic "outermost eyesocket", a "liver-brain," a toothy swim bladder, and an uncountable number of other mismatched organs.[2][3] To hunt prey, they draw them close with their hooked sucker-maws and barrage them with globs of "vile fluid."[2][4]
Thalatte meat can be edible but is extremely hard to prepare. Organs tend to twitch and move long after death,[5] and some bits are so foul that eating them can drive a person to suicide.[6] Needless to say, rendering Thalatte meat requires both a weak gag reflex[7] and the patience for a nine-hour-long boil.[8]
References
- ↑ Dissect it for knowledge, Sunless Sea
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Dissect it for knowledge, Sunless Sea "You run out of note-cards before you run out of different parts to classify, and after a while you can't tell the difference between the 'before' and 'after' piles. [...] What manner of creature would need a beaked mouth, a hooked sucker-maw, and a double handful of maxillipeds?"
- ↑ Fillet it for supplies, Sunless Sea "[...] the creature's outermost eyesocket is filled with virulent acid; the liver-brain [...] the swim bladder appears to have teeth."
- ↑ A first look at Zubmariner, Failbettergames.com "The Thalatte [...] a fanged orifice at the front. This orifice applies a force which draws your Zubmarine towards it. The Thalatte can [...] expectorate gobbets of vile fluid."
- ↑ Dissect it for knowledge, Sunless Sea "[...] several organs once removed [...] will not stay put in their designated piles - not until you start staking them to the deck, [...]"
- ↑ Fillet it for supplies, Sunless Sea "You never determine exactly which bit it was that Zeeman Hodgkiss ate. She never said; she simply [...] flung herself into the main boiler. [...] You doubt the cook has enough pepper in stock to mask a taste like that."
- ↑ Fillet it for supplies, Sunless Sea ""Just close your eyes and hold your nose! [...] you don't even need to swallow [...] Down it goes."
- ↑ Fillet it for supplies, Sunless Sea "And after all - anything can be a bisque after it's been boiled for nine hours."
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