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Oh, cuddle.

Cuttle, cuttle.

Well, maybe a nunciate better.

Well, 'cause sometimes when you're on antidepressants, you do, do need a little m- more cuddles.

Uh, we do this before literally every session of a- a- a- a TTRPG that we have played since the- almost the very beginning.

We just started with angel cards, and now we are using a hand-painted major arcana deck from Cuttlefish, friend of the show, community member.

They sent these to us in this-

Twiggy Warrior

For our first story, we're traveling to Australia.

There's a small piece of the South Australian coastline that is called the Cuttlefish Coast.

It's earned this name because every year, this is where tens of thousands of cuttlefish normally come to spawn.

On August 30th, the BBC uploaded a story to YouTube entitled, Australia Usually Hosts the World's Biggest Cuttlefish Mating Event, Not This Year.

Unfortunately, that headline is an incredible understatement.

Cuttlefish populations fluctuate naturally.

Since biologists started keeping records, the population has swung between a low of 13,500 in 2013 and to a high of 247,000 in 2020.

However, this year, scientists only counted 1,800 cuttlefish.

He and Wallace would form one of the strongest teams in the detachment.

There was Corporal George Sheard, commander of the Cuttlefish.

Sheard was the youngest member of the team, barely 20 years old.

He was a strong paddler and a skilled swimmer.

Their hands blistered, their arms ached, and their bodies stiffened from cold.

But they continued.

On the second night, the third canoe, Cuttlefish, was lost.

The details are unclear, but the canoe either capsized or was damaged.

So cuttlefish have a unique internal

shell.

Cuttlefish have got fewer brains.

Yep.

I'm going to finish my thing about the shell.

That was in Jervis Bay.

They found a bunch of octopuses that throw stuff at each other when they're annoyed.

Cuttlefish probably wouldn't do that.

Recording by Jeffrey Smith, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Half Hours with the Lower Animals by Charles Holder Chapter 13 The Cuttlefishes In the great libraries of the country will be found books dating back to the last two centuries, many of which contain cuts and descriptions of frightful animals resembling huge spiders, called krakens or devilfishes.

They are represented climbing over ships and hauling them down.

One is described as so huge that the crew of a vessel landed upon it, not discovering that it was not an island until they had built a fire, when the supposed island, really a kraken, sank beneath them.