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[SPEC] Seabed's Nectar as a Food Source
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fleabit
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 		[SPEC] Seabed's Nectar as a Food Source
After thinking about it, I believe two things.

1. Seabed's nectar is a food source for our monster.
2. The creature is not a hybrid creature, it's a definitive creature type.

For the simple reason of what seabed's nectar is supposed to do. At least, especially if you believe in the latest page of information that says nectar provides among other things:

1. Accelerated growth.
2. Soft muscle tissue growth.
3. Increased strength.
4. Sharper eyesight.

Also I wonder if it is very much like a drug. If it gives a "wave of pure happiness," well.. that sounds like a drug. And perhaps our monster is going through withdrawl symptoms. A cranky OD'd monster.. that's a nasty thing.

I still do not get the connection with the reaction within humans though. Perhaps something with people getting frightened and worked up (perhaps adrenaline kicks it off), makes the the nectar react in an unpleasent way.

But if it's a food source, then the creature is one that has been eating the stuff for a long while. And so the thought of it being a very specific creature type seems more plausible to me.

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Naturally big because of eating the stuff.

Cranky because its food is taken away.

Maybe it (or them) shrink over time because of not having it to eat, but it's still deadly even small.... so it goes from Godzillas to Raptors! (okay... I know that was really far fetched... but still... Razz )

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 		http://www.boldfutura.org mentions food and beverage as a use for deep sea exploration in its news section:

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In the area of deep-sea water exploration, cultivation and development, Bold Futura has engineered and developed technology that is being applied and used in six deep-sea water facilities located around the world. During the last three years Bold Futura has accelerated undersea exploration, development and research using our adapted technology. Deep-sea water is mainly utilized in such diversified fields as food and beverages, environmental applications and conservation, health and beauty, medical applications, energy resources and agriculture. Our research and development division is aggressively researching new ways to study, adapt and practically apply deep-sea water exploration and development to beneficial applications.

Given the fact that we are receiving many inquiries from not only Japan but also overseas, deep-sea water applications is a business prospect that is expected to be increasingly active
in years to come. In terms of their technological aspect, deep-sea water exploration, cultivation and development are proving to be beneficial to society in every area.


Source: http://www.boldfutura.org/news.htm
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 		Re: [SPEC] Seabed's Nectar as a Food Source
fleabit wrote:

I still do not get the connection with the reaction within humans though. Perhaps something with people getting frightened and worked up (perhaps adrenaline kicks it off), makes the the nectar react in an unpleasent way.


Exploding people might not have anything to do with the nectar, the monster might shoot out poison quills or something which makes people puff up like puffer fish.

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 		Well if the nectar is their food supply that when the monster emerges from being released from the deep sea drilling all those people that had been drinking Slusho have become perfect hosts for incubation of the creatures offspring some-kind of incubator for the smaller parasite that eventually becomes gigantic hence the exploding people. Just a thought

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 		Re: [SPEC] Seabed's Nectar as a Food Source
fleabit wrote:
...seabed's nectar is supposed to...

1. Accelerated growth.
2. Soft muscle tissue growth.
3. Increased strength.
4. Sharper eyesight.


Sounds like the kind of thing you'd give to a Spartan. Wait...you don't think...?

Anyways, I like the theory. If the nectar is all that's needed to make a monster, then that might explain the (possible) multiple incidents beforehand. This monster is only one member of a species of creatures, all of which are starting to get annoyed by Tagruato's greedy drillers.

Overall I'd say if the nectar is all that's needed, then the monster will be of a specific type, and there will be more than one (not necessarily in the movie). If the monster appears due to a specific incident/accident though, then there is most likely only one, and it'll be a mutation/hybrid.

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 		Re: [SPEC] Seabed's Nectar as a Food Source
detranova wrote:
fleabit wrote:
...seabed's nectar is supposed to...

1. Accelerated growth.
2. Soft muscle tissue growth.
3. Increased strength.
4. Sharper eyesight.


Sounds like the kind of thing you'd give to a Spartan. Wait...you don't think...?

Anyways, I like the theory. If the nectar is all that's needed to make a monster, then that might explain the (possible) multiple incidents beforehand. This monster is only one member of a species of creatures, all of which are starting to get annoyed by Tagruato's greedy drillers.

Overall I'd say if the nectar is all that's needed, then the monster will be of a specific type, and there will be more than one (not necessarily in the movie). If the monster appears due to a specific incident/accident though, then there is most likely only one, and it'll be a mutation/hybrid.



I'm saying that maybe the smaller monsters or some kind of larval form of the bigger monster need the nectar to reach full adult stage so they find these hosts that have drank a lot of Slusho to incubate in and reach full maturity. Thats why the horses weren't harmed they don't have what the monsters require to mature.

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 		Re: [SPEC] Seabed's Nectar as a Food Source
Lurk wrote:
I'm saying that maybe the smaller monsters or some kind of larval form of the bigger monster need the nectar to reach full adult stage so they find these hosts that have drank a lot of Slusho to incubate in and reach full maturity. Thats why the horses weren't harmed they don't have what the monsters require to mature.


The only problem I see with that would be with the timeline. In order for there to be a monster big enough to take down the SOL, some small monsters must have emerged, meaning that people would have already chest-bursted. That may be possible given how the military reacts rather indifferently to Lena going boom, but that the public wouldn't know is doubtful. After all, there's a greater chance for these people to pop in public (at work, on the road, etc.), so that'd have to be rather newsworthy (next up: HR Giger, artist or psychic?). Still possible, but a lot of luck would have to be involved for the public not to know, and for the monsterlings to escape unharmed after they're born.

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 		This reminds me of the Mbwun monster from Lincon Child and Douglas Preston's novel Relic, where a mutated human needs some special leaves in order to funtion.
I could definitely see the nectar work as drug, or perhaps even something the creature needs in order to survive. As already stated somewhere, this thing is so huge it should be possible.
But perhaps with the nectar?
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 		From what I know about animals, they would only go bat shit crazy like this for two reasons. One is that classic momma protecting its kids scenario, the other is if their main supply of food has been disrupted. I personally think the second makes the most sense here. This monster has been pretty much just sitting on its ass drinking pure slusho for god knows how long, and because of it has become this hulking mass of muscle we see attacking NY. The other slusho sites were more isolated so no mutated monsters grew there. Or perhaps the previous sites have monsters which taguarto was able to stop before they got moving. Yet in the site off the east coast we find a nectar source that already has someone feeding on it and this time Taguarto can't stop it.

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shivs wrote:
From what I know about animals, they would only go bat shit crazy like this for two reasons. One is that classic momma protecting its kids scenario, the other is if their main supply of food has been disrupted. I personally think the second makes the most sense here. This monster has been pretty much just sitting on its ass drinking pure slusho for god knows how long, and because of it has become this hulking mass of muscle we see attacking NY. The other slusho sites were more isolated so no mutated monsters grew there. Or perhaps the previous sites have monsters which taguarto was able to stop before they got moving. Yet in the site off the east coast we find a nectar source that already has someone feeding on it and this time Taguarto can't stop it.

i could see that, also it was stated somewhere that the animals in the new picture of the hacked site are all animals who are endangered from shrinking habitats, so if the drilling is not only interrupting the food supply but is also disturbing the habitat of the monster then that would make sense why it would go on a rampage too, or maybe someone just poked it in the eye.

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