seaman journal week 1
23/10/25
loaded up seaman in flycast and put the eggs in the tank, where they got eaten by the ammonite. the ammonite was so cool.. eventually it started flailing around the tank emitting ink at random and after a kinda graphic death scene where it crawled out of its shell, four little seaman larva(?) climbed out of its stomach.
24/10/25
the seaman larva float around making baby noises… repeating the baby noises back to them is the only way to communicate at this stage. the rest of the eggs die and disappear like the nautilus carcass. i read the manual which tells me to hypnotise the babymen by circling the cursor around their heads. you can also pull them out of the tank, but i’m still unsure what purpose this has.
the manual directs me to a website “meet seaman” which someone apparently stopped paying the bills on a while after release:
25/10/25
first spoken words by the babies - they say “seaman” “fish” “play” “yes” “no” “hey”. if you say “nautilus” or “shark” they respond “fish”… if you say “english” they say “what for?”. otherwise baby noises and single words only.
26/10/25
not much change
27/10/25
the babies have turned into sullen teenagers and have also started drinking each others blood through their head tubes. after a while there’s only two left, and they have different personalities - when you ask one what’s up he says “chillin’” and he also says things like “girls are pretty.” the other one says “don’t talk to me” “i’m mad at you” “what!! >:(” and when you try to find out whats wrong he sullenly swims off.
28/10/25
the seamen got much larger overnight and now speak in deep voices and talk to you a lot more. one of them asked if i was a boy or a girl and then misheard the answer and said “excellent.. you Know i love the Ladies.”
leonard nimoy says i can give them a name but when i ask they say “no. go away”
one of them asks my birthday and then says “betty ford was also born on april 8th.. i’m SURE you have a LOT in common” and then swims away smirking
29/10/25
seaman now has a name… “bart”, bc for some reason my partner is on a simpsons kick… he also now poops, by firing it out of his head protuberance into the screen. unsure if there’s anything i should be doing in response. he also tells you about the insect cage, which contains little seaman-shaped caterpillars.
30/10/25
i asked if seaman respects me and he said “mm… not really. but don’t fret. seaman is your friend.” he also asked if i knew my partners bday and when he misheard the answer said “that’s fine. with skills like that you’ll be broken up by the end of the week.” he was pleased to hear i dont plan on having kids, since this means i can devote more energy to seaman. i’m not sure if it’s some quirk of the microphone parser but he responds to a lot of comments saying “you WOULD say that, freak.” it’s an interesting and growing relationship.
