#ok2rb obviously

[axemartyr]

my players are very kind to me when i dm

[pelagiczones]

As we gazed into each other’s eyes, Athena [the giant Pacific octopus] encircled my arms with hers, latching on with first dozens, then hundreds of her sensitive, dexterous suckers. Each arm has more than two hundred of them. The famous naturalist and explorer William Beebe found the touch of the octopus repulsive. 'I have always a struggle before I can make my hands do their duty and seize a tentacle,' he confessed. But to me, Athena’s suckers felt like an alien’s kiss—at once a probe and a caress. Although an octopus can taste with all of its skin, in the suckers both taste and touch are exquisitely developed. Athena was tasting me and feeling me at once, knowing my skin, and possibly the blood and bone beneath, in a way I could never fathom. ...  Athena was remarkably gentle with me—even as she began to transfer her grip from her smaller, outer suckers to the larger ones. She seemed to be slowly but steadily pulling me into her tank. Had it been big enough to accommodate my body, I would have gone in willingly.

Sy Montgomery, “Deep Intellect” for Orion Magazine