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a little mermaid in a fantasy larp school
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"That's not how gills work... I'm going to start a fish farm," she adds, going back to her game and paying some virtual tokens for a starting batch of salmon.

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Drawings fish!!  Cyllene will watch intently over Sesh's shoulder.

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Apparently she doesn't start with all their traits filled in and she will have to find out by experimentation which ones taste best and yield the most eggs and have the prettiest scales. Well, she can see the scales, but has to look at each salmon before it will add that information to her summary.

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Is there a way to tell how tasty they are before killing them?

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Nope! So she has to make sure she tracks which salmon are which other salmon's parents, and then harvest them and "taste" them, and then breed the children of the tasty ones.

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How much real time does a salmon generation take?

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A day, looks like, unless she does puzzles to speed it up.

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I want to read about what humans know about fish.

declares Cyllene after a bit of salmoning (and some ambient harping).

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"Okay!" Sesh will open the Wikipedia* article on fish.

*this is a cultural translation but a pretty spot-on one

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Okay humans know way more about fish than fish people do.  - Or, wait -

I think my uncle is not strictly a fish person.

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I had a tail and no legs, he has tentacles and no legs.

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"Whoa. This was your uncle? Maybe he was the mutant baby!"

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Other tentaclesy fish people are too.  I don't know if not royal fish people marry their relatives.

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"Weeeeeird. Even if there were two species of fish people it's weird they'd be RELATED."

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I was a shark fish person I think.  My father the king is a kind of fish I not seen your word for yet.

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"Well what's he look like?

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Cyllene gestures a bunch of rays or spines fanning out from her back and hips, and then a smaller rounded fin at her feet.

Orange.  More small tooths than Maybe now the same tooths as me.

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Sesh looks up "orange fish".

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Cyllene shakes her head at all of them.

Also white.

She mimes the spikes again, then pricking her finger on one.

Sick sick sick.

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"Poisonous orange and white fish"?

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She point-point-points at the lionfish that come up in the results.

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"Huh!!! Maybe you're just a magic species and part of the magic is that you're all just part TOTALLY RANDOM SEA ANIMAL no matter what other sea animals are in your family."

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Giggle.

My mother and sisters are different too.  One more shark sister, two the same but I don't know the word.

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"Are they all full sisters?"

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