The aerospheres should keep toxic substances out... But they're not all that strong. One of those blasts of boiling water could potentially destroy them.
Wouldn't it be easier if you guys got outta those floaty balloon bubbles and took on mer-form? It's way easier to move around in the water when you got fins.
Well, uh... It's just, the forms you have now are strictly data. I can't whip up mer-form body data for everyone from scratch in such a short amount of time. Plus, you've got experience in mer-form. None of them do. Even if I did have the data on hand to send over, there's a good chance it'd take a long while for them to get the hang of using it.
Whoa, you're accepting my explanation without any argument at all?! I was waiting for you to be like, "Rah, I don't care, just do it!" There's seriously no predicting your investment levels.
Even in the depths, light filters down from the surface up to around 1,000 meters down. Most merfolk live in areas that are shallower than 500 meters... Which means that to creatures swimmin' around below us, we have obvious shadowy silhouettes that make us easy to pick out. So merfolk livin' in dark waters that get less sunlight have photophores that make us bioluminescent. We make our bodies glow like sunlight glimmerin' off the water's surface, and that lets us camouflage ourselves. That's the deal with counter-illumination.
I see... It sounds like a necessity for living in the water. Most of the time on land, the only thing below you is the ground. The idea of being seen by someone underneath me never occurred to me. That's fascinating.
Yup. Also, sound carries real easy underwater... So sometimes we blink our lights on and off to send signals without givin' ourselves away by usin' our voices.
Ahahahaha! It's hilarious seein' you all psyched out, Sealie. Then again, ain't too many sharks around a submarine volcano that randomly shoots out jets of hot water. This place seriously reeks of sulfur, too. It's gonna mess up my sense of smell. Let's find Jade and get outta here.
