I thought of something we could do to help A) keep shit from going this bad again and B) deal with our eldrich abomination problem.
To put it simply...
Any of you all ever play Exalted?
Can't say I have, but I've read the TV Tropes page a couple of times...do you mean we should treat the entire current crop of gods as the Primordials?
Dear Ghazkull, the proposed mechanism to let dwarves survive (ie, overfishing) is faulty. Fish wouldn't survive in a darkness so deep it kills off crops. See, pretty much all fish depend ultimately on various types of phytoplantkon, which, due in part to the short life cycles which let them support such a high ratio of animals to plants, are very susceptible to lack of sunlight. Due to their size and lack of large structures like roots, stems, or leaves, dead phytoplankton don't leave as much stuff behind for herbivores to eat when dead, unlike (say) grass, which doesn't lose so much of its nutrient value for the herbivore when a field dies. The fish which don't rely on phytoplankton rely on other kinds of plants, like kelp or zooxanthelle. Therefore, fish won't be doing so well in case of an ashstorm which completely blocks out the sun for weeks or months...or, really, any worldwide event which causes death of crops.
TL;DR: Dwarves--or anyone--fishing their way through the apocalypse doesn't work if farming has failed, or perhaps even if it hasn't.
Oh, and the dying marine life, which was noted once the survival of everyone wasn't at stake? It's really bad. If all marine life goes extinct, that leads to a mass extinction on land as well, leading to life being reduced to insects and the like in essentially the best-case scenario. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT AND MAKE NEYRAVAH PROUD.
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As a general note, self important overly large script will be ignored on grounds of lacking maturity.
That was intended to be "Stands-out large script," but point taken.
Furthermore, you are stating the obvious GWG, the whole planet is dying, but i doubt that all life would die in a matter of months. Additional to this fish in the deeper seas also survive without sunlight. I figure they will spread rapidly to more shallow waters once their opposition there is gone. Still life is dying and will die next round.
1. Actually, a whole lot of life would die that fast. After all, how long can
you go without eating? And you have whole tissues devoted to storing energy, unlike little monocellular (or few-celled) phytoplankton. After a month or two, a lot of the plants on which everything lives would be dead, either from lack of sunlight or from being eaten (and this is worth noting, because in absence of light very few, if any, plants will be sprouting or growing). Then herbivores will die off, probably faster than normal due to the probable malnutrition--certainly, if we consider the higher energy costs for endotherms due to plummeting temperatures. Then carnivores will die off, although with a bit less malnutrition to fear due to the abundant carrion. Of course, that's assuming that there were enough photosynthetic organisms to maintain all those animals, and given the amount produced by the marine plants, especially the probably-first-to-go phytoplankton...
2. When did I say all that would happen this turn?
3. Deep-sea fishes mostly survive on detritus drifting down from above or (less directly) hydrothermal vents. The former will die once the surface life stops drifting detritus down, although they'll have one last feast, and the latter of course has no reason to spread out and would die if they did so.
4. Dwarves have deep-sea fishing? Since when?
Is Gren going to become the new Udil?
It would be...[tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FullCircleRevolution]amusing[/url]...
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