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Look at this and check out just shy of 10,000 feet.
http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/images/stories/oap-landsea-oceans-100608-moderate.jpg

Now go read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_whale

Highlights:
50+ Feet long
Dive 1.9 miles
Can't be attacked due to size
Can hold breath for 90 minutes
Uses echolocation
Largest brain out of any animal ever
Weighs 90,390 pounds
They can go almost anywhere... blue that is ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cetacea_range_map_Sperm_Whale_4.PNG

Sperm whales are the awesome.

Posted: Mar 17 2011 12:00 am

Yeah dude you can see them from space!

Posted: Mar 17 2011 01:12 am

but they tried to eat pinnochio Sad

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

Actually, they can be attacked, although it's usually the calves, as with almost any large whale...killer whales love to be mean motherfuckers and attack groups and eat the babies. They've also been known to attack even big whales by chasing them, tiring them out and then take turns jumping on them to eventually drown them.

You can almost say, they love to orca-strate attacks.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah~

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

Doddsino wrote:

Actually, they can be attacked, although it's usually the calves, as with almost any large whale...killer whales love to be mean motherfuckers and attack groups and eat the babies. They've also been known to attack even big whales by chasing them, tiring them out and then take turns jumping on them to eventually drown them.

You can almost say, they love to orca-strate attacks.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah~

As I understand it, the full grown males don't hang out often with the women and children.

If being chased by an Orca, they could catch a quick breath and then just head down. Get to that point where the Orca starts to get dizzy from too much pressure and sit and laugh a little just below that. Echolocate in morse code:

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Posted: Mar 17 2011 09:44 am

I played a sperm whale in an RPG one time, and it was awesome until I got beached. The rest of my party just left me there to die.

Posted: Mar 17 2011 10:13 am

Next time i sit in front of my laptop with a girl and gonna ask her if she wanna see a picutre of a sperm whale. Then i show her a pic of sasha grey squirting cum out of her ass.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

aeonic wrote:

I played a sperm whale in an RPG one time, and it was awesome until I got beached. The rest of my party just left me there to die.

Yeah... the not-blue area on the map I linked to is generally not a suggestion, but rather an instant kill zone for large marine life.

Posted: Mar 17 2011 11:08 am

GPFontaine wrote:

aeonic wrote:

I played a sperm whale in an RPG one time, and it was awesome until I got beached. The rest of my party just left me there to die.

Yeah... the not-blue area on the map I linked to is generally not a suggestion, but rather an instant kill zone for large marine life.

I'm sure it's different on RIFTs Earth. That said, at least they cut my PC up and gave most of the meat to a nearby coastal village.

Posted: Mar 17 2011 03:37 pm

aeonic wrote:

I'm sure it's different on RIFTs Earth. That said, at least they cut my PC up and gave most of the meat to a nearby coastal village.

RIFTs Earth?

A RPG where you play as a Sperm Whale?

Posted: Mar 17 2011 04:03 pm

Atma wrote:

aeonic wrote:

I'm sure it's different on RIFTs Earth. That said, at least they cut my PC up and gave most of the meat to a nearby coastal village.

RIFTs Earth?

A RPG where you play as a Sperm Whale?

You can play as pretty much anything, but yes, I was playing a sperm whale.

Posted: Mar 17 2011 04:15 pm

aeonic wrote:

Atma wrote:

aeonic wrote:

I'm sure it's different on RIFTs Earth. That said, at least they cut my PC up and gave most of the meat to a nearby coastal village.

RIFTs Earth?

A RPG where you play as a Sperm Whale?

You can play as pretty much anything, but yes, I was playing a sperm whale.

lol thats funny for some reason.

what could you do as a sperm whale? just swim & eat? how did you end up beached?

Posted: Mar 17 2011 04:21 pm

I had Whale Song magic and was tremendously physically powerful. It was a mostly underwater campaign, and I accidentally got beached when I'd injured one of my flippers and was having trouble getting to the surface to breathe. In their infinite wisdom, my teammates decided that the best way to get me out of the water was by using a sub-borne rocket-propelled net launcher. It got him out of the water, just too far. And the coastal town where the rockets ended up landing was none too happy either.

Posted: Mar 17 2011 05:34 pm

aeonic wrote:

I had Whale Song magic and was tremendously physically powerful. It was a mostly underwater campaign, and I accidentally got beached when I'd injured one of my flippers and was having trouble getting to the surface to breathe. In their infinite wisdom, my teammates decided that the best way to get me out of the water was by using a sub-borne rocket-propelled net launcher. It got him out of the water, just too far. And the coastal town where the rockets ended up landing was none too happy either.

I have no idea what this game is, but I am 100% interested in it now.

GPFontaine wrote:

..-. ..- -.-. -.- -.-- --- ..- .-- .... .- .-.. . --..-- .- -. -.. ..-. ..- -.-. -.- -.-- --- ..- -.. --- .-.. .--. .... .. -.

Posted: Mar 17 2011 08:42 pm

I thought they did battle with Giant Squids.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

Atma wrote:

aeonic wrote:

I had Whale Song magic and was tremendously physically powerful. It was a mostly underwater campaign, and I accidentally got beached when I'd injured one of my flippers and was having trouble getting to the surface to breathe. In their infinite wisdom, my teammates decided that the best way to get me out of the water was by using a sub-borne rocket-propelled net launcher. It got him out of the water, just too far. And the coastal town where the rockets ended up landing was none too happy either.

I have no idea what this game is, but I am 100% interested in it now.

YES!!!
What the fuck is this game? Is this the MMO RIFT?

I had no idea it was so odd... and maybe cool.

Posted: Mar 18 2011 07:58 am

No, it's the pen and paper RPG Rifts. We were playing mostly on Rifts Earth in an undersea setting. I did it on a play by post for a while. The MMO Rift is actually being sued by Palladium Books for copyright infringement; he's (Kevin Siembieda, the guy who owns Palladium) won't win, but if you've got intellectual property, if you don't defend it, it sort of sets a precedent.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

So there is a rift between the two Rifts?

Posted: Mar 18 2011 10:26 am

GPFontaine wrote:

So there is a rift between the two Rifts?

HAH!

Posted: Mar 18 2011 10:36 am

LOL, pretty much. Kevin Siembieda is a little sue happy, but I'd understand: Todd MacFarlane sued him over the use of the word "spawn" in his Nightspawn game and forced him to change it to Nightbane. MacFarlane then later attempted to use Mechanoids, which is a trademarked name from Palladium, for one of his toy lines. You can still see the spec figures on his site, I believe.

But anyhow, whales are cool and stuff. I did a whale-watching tour with my Mom and was really blown away by how peaceful they are.