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High Strangeness on the High Seas

Haunted Cosmos

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The Sea Monster

The sea takes hold of a man like a beautiful woman. It consumes his passion and causes his heart to burn with desire. There's danger and fear of what could lie beneath the waves, which are themselves wrought with terror in one moment, in invitation in another. About 5% of the world's ocean floor has been mapped, meaning 95% of the bottom of the world is foreign, alien ground to us. What surprises lurk there that we've yet to follow? What monsters might make their home there? Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord? Will he make many supplications to you or will he speak to you soft words?

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