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2016 Monster Girls Challenge - Octomaid

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Day 8.

"The octomaids are a different kind of merfolk. Common folk often believe them to be just a different type of mermaid but aside from being aquatic the two subspecies could hardly be further apart. Not only do they have completely different origins, their abilities and behaviour are also different.

While common merfolk can be safely attributed to the many ancient transformation inducing talismans, the origins of octomaids used no such things! Instead their creation used magics and rituals that have long since been forgotten on the surface. I did some researching in the port town Murkwater's library and found that elder beings are potentially involved as well! Alas, I personally believe this to be nothing but superstitious conjecture.

The most notable ability that sets octomaids apart from merfolk is their intellect. While they might seem slow witted to most people, it is simply because they are not used to talking in the privitive common tongue, nor are they used to talking to less intelligent species. They have a myriad of ways to communicate with other octomaids, most of which uses body language for communication. Their thoughts often jump forward a few steps while conversing and to an ordinary people it might seem like they are making random statements unrelated to anything - while they are, in fact, already ahead of one in conversation. The difficulty in communicating as well as the baseless legends have caused people to fear the octomaids, even though they are nothing but peaceful."

- Alfred Foxworth, researcher


~Lukki
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