Wild West Squids

Darth Ruinus · Post by **Darth Ruinus** » 2008-02-22 08:33pm

So, I think this goes here, if it doesnt, then can someone move it to where ever it belongs to? Thanks.

Ok, so this came into my head after watching 3 Tremors movies, then watching Invader Zim, then playing Wild Arms 3 in the same day.

The story is set on a world, its pretty big, that once was pretty normal, like Earth. There were these race of squid/crab things that were amphibious, they lived primarily in the sea, but could move up on land.

Well, discovering that it was easier to build factories/combustion engines/chemistry/industry they started to decide to start buidling cities near the shorelines. So, it was all pretty good for a while, they reached Industrial Revolution type technology and found some old machines already up on land.

Anyways, it went on pretty good, untill around 500 (not a set number) years ago, their planet started decaying, turning into massive deserts.

Since they dont have the tech to do anything about it, they simply started finding ways to try to live on, simply thinking they would try to move as much as they could into the seas. Except they started drying up too.

As the world started dying more and more, they had to find ways to survive up on the increasingly hot desert world that was being born around them, so they found a solution in the form of some animal.

The animal, I call em barnacles, somehow eat some bacteria in the air (I just made a bullshit explanation, but I think it works) and secrete water/liquid, these barnacles are used by placing them on the squids bodies, to keep them moist and happy.

Except that these barnacles dont reproduce fast enough, (they are long lived though) and they are used by the Worms. Big graboid like things, that lived inthe small deserts of old, but now live almost anywhere, due to the planets current condition. The Worms eat the Barnacles to keep them in their bodies, where they eat a bacteria in their bodies, and extreme that liquid that helps them with digestion. (I though some kind of co-evolution type thing)

Well, Squids need Barnacles. Worms need Barnacles. So the Squids try to kill and gut the Worms, hoping to get all the good Barnacles out of them.

So, any glaring errors I need to fix here? Is it believeable? Stuff like that. Or criticisms, anything is usefull.

Lambda 00 · Post by **Lambda 00** » 2008-02-22 09:55pm

I'm not quite sure what to make of this...It sure is rather original.

Darth Ruinus · Post by **Darth Ruinus** » 2008-02-22 10:08pm

Lambda 00 wrote:I'm not quite sure what to make of this...It sure is rather original.

Like you, I'm not quite sure what to make of your statement, so I'll take it as a compliment.

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2008-02-22 10:10pm

If you took this to the logical extreme and made the squids actual cowboys, you'd be on to a winner.

Lambda 00 · Post by **Lambda 00** » 2008-02-22 10:15pm

Ford Prefect wrote:If you took this to the logical extreme and made the squids actual cowboys, you'd be on to a winner.

Yes, perfect... Let's see here, a simple search of DeviantArt shows this:
Applicable Drawing

Darth Ruinus · Post by **Darth Ruinus** » 2008-02-22 10:26pm

Lambda 00 wrote:
Ford Prefect wrote:If you took this to the logical extreme and made the squids actual cowboys, you'd be on to a winner.
Yes, perfect... Let's see here, a simple search of DeviantArt shows this:
Applicable Drawing

Dude, I actually DID draw them as cowboys.

How do I post images?

Darth Ruinus · Post by **Darth Ruinus** » 2008-02-22 10:29pm

Darth Ruinus wrote:
Lambda 00 wrote:
Ford Prefect wrote:If you took this to the logical extreme and made the squids actual cowboys, you'd be on to a winner.
Yes, perfect... Let's see here, a simple search of DeviantArt shows this:
Applicable Drawing
Dude, I actually DID draw them as cowboys.

How do I post images?

Wait hold on.

I think I can do this through Myspace?

Lambda 00 · Post by **Lambda 00** » 2008-02-22 10:31pm

Darth Ruinus wrote: Dude, I actually DID draw them as cowboys.

Sweet, got to see this

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2008-02-22 10:33pm

Ruinus, go here: http://www.imageshack.us/

Darth Ruinus · Post by **Darth Ruinus** » 2008-02-22 10:39pm

Sweet let me get my scanner working.

EDIT: USB NOT CONNECTED!

Also, keep in mind, I doodled this in class, so I may decide to change it, and it only looks... well I guess youll see when I upload it.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2008-02-22 10:43pm

Ford Prefect wrote:If you took this to the logical extreme and made the squids actual cowboys, you'd be on to a winner.

Doesn't Adult Swim have a show something like that?

Squidbillies?

Isn't it terrible?

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2008-02-22 10:47pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:
Ford Prefect wrote:If you took this to the logical extreme and made the squids actual cowboys, you'd be on to a winner.
Doesn't Adult Swim have a show something like that?

Squidbillies?

Isn't it terrible?

That's about hillbillies, not Wild West cowboys. And it's certainly not set on Arakis.

Darth Ruinus · Post by **Darth Ruinus** » 2008-02-22 10:47pm

I think this should work?

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2008-02-22 10:48pm

Ruinus, that's actually pretty goddamn awesome.

Lambda 00 · Post by **Lambda 00** » 2008-02-22 10:52pm

Ford Prefect wrote:Ruinus, that's actually pretty goddamn awesome.

Just needs a bit of firepower...

Darth Ruinus · Post by **Darth Ruinus** » 2008-02-22 10:53pm

Lambda 00 wrote:
Ford Prefect wrote:Ruinus, that's actually pretty goddamn awesome.
Just needs a bit of firepower...

Yeah, I though about guns a bit on the bus ride home, and I havent been able to actually get down and draw for a while, maybe this weekend?

DocHorror · Post by **DocHorror** » 2008-02-23 02:04pm

Squid Cowboy you say?

Darth Ruinus · Post by **Darth Ruinus** » 2008-02-23 02:23pm

DocHorror wrote:Squid Cowboy you say?

holy shit

Those look like octopuses though, I drew it more like a squid/crab thing.

Lambda 00 · Post by **Lambda 00** » 2008-02-23 03:52pm

DocHorror wrote:Squid Cowboy you say?

Where in blazes did you find this? I have got to read the rest of it!

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » 2008-02-23 04:50pm

Lambda 00 wrote:
DocHorror wrote:Squid Cowboy you say?

Where in blazes did you find this? I have got to read the rest of it!

i second this motion !

FA Xerrik · Post by **FA Xerrik** » 2008-02-23 11:12pm

If by "cowboys" you mean "rocket launcher-toting, armed to the teeth state of the art badasses" I think this story has a lot of potential.

Of course, when you get right down to it, the jump in awesomeness from normal squid to cowboy squid is far larger from the further upgrade to the aforementioned badass squid. You're only getting a little more out of it, so you might as well keep the cowboys.

Darth Ruinus · Post by **Darth Ruinus** » 2008-02-25 01:22am

Maybe this works...

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2008-02-25 06:16am

By the gods!

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2008-02-25 06:49am

Lovecraftian Lights! That is so...awesome!

Darth Ruinus · Post by **Darth Ruinus** » 2008-02-25 09:22pm

Mmmh, maybe I should start drawing more? Havent done it in a while.

Anyways, it seems people like the drawings and/or the story idea?