From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
All these scientists should just watch Dinosaur Train. The Old Spinosaurus is in a couple episodes, and explains anything they'd want to know. =)
ReplyDeleteWe love Dinosaur Train in our house. And we love seeing Dr. Scott in other dino documentaries we find on Netflix.
ReplyDeleteCasey Garske You know, I came up with a theory that the Dinosaur Train environment is a Slann asteroid connected by the train, and the "time tunnels" are portals connecting various points. I picture it as a processing crucible where the inscrutable toad lords are upgrading the acuity and intellect of the dinosaurs and related creatures, and the process is maybe 30% to where it needs to be before they custom-craft their saurian invasion force.
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I don't know much about Slann, but that's basically what I came up with too. An alien ship crashed in the Cretaceous, its temporal energies mutating the dinosaurs across millions of years. But especially the troodons like the Conductor who then built the dinosaur train. The "time tunnel" passes through the engines of the spaceship and the train uses the energy to appear in the epoch of choice.
ReplyDeleteWhales are too mammaly we need this picture to look more penguin with a huge crest or carnivorous duck. As a DM and an amateur artist, you have been challenged Casey Garske. #rollforinitiative
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