OSR and the sea

Far west of TenKeep, long breezes blow on the Mistral Sea - you'll feel a calling from landward ways! Here are three songs or tales I heard - about giant sea monsters, mermaids, and the monster's summer break.

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The Sea Lizard

First, a tale adapted from the Hawaiian Legend of the Mo'o.

Out from Onekeep, it's said a giant sea lizard prowled the seacoast - near what's now called Squama - and slaughtered intruders. 

From across the Mistral Sea, a vengeful warrior came, murdered the sea lizard, and heaved the pieces of its head across the bay. 

All these years later, the lizard's body juts out into the surf, and the pieces of its head - now dry and heavy stone, form islands spanning North. 

Some say the lizard had a golden eye.

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Mermaids

[from a mural - Windward Oahu]

Much can be said for Mistral sun and breezes. Mermen and mermaids sometimes swim-in. Few see them, and fewer still forget.

I have seen them riding seaward on the waves

Combing the white hair of the waves blown back

When the wind blows the water white and black.

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea

By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown

Till human voices wake us, and we drown.

 

This one's from The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock.

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Monster's Summer Break

On YouTube, type-in Monsters Summer Break. 

Here's a monster mash-up song. A rambunctious surfer tune - all adrenaline and surfboard cutouts. Great lines too:

'Frankenstein's board, through the waves he rides / Dracula's chillin' with the tan he hides / Wolfman's howling at the summer sun / Creature's chillin from the lagoon, havin' fun! / Surfboards gleaming from the lagoon, under summer moon!'

It's a good one! 'Invisible man's loungin' but he's already gone!'

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Thanks for reading!