User:Moulton/Albatross

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Introduction

Albatross: Any of various large web-footed seabirds (family Diomedeidae) that are related to the petrels and include the largest seabirds. This particular Albatross is Moulton's puppet.

Backstory

The Albatross is a featured creature in The Crime of the Ancient Mariner by Simulacra Taser Colderedge.

The Crime of the Ancient Mariner

A Ship having crossed the Line was driven by Storms to the Cold Seas near the Nether Pole and thence made wayward course to the tropical Latitudes of the Great Pacific Ocean, whereupon strange things befell the voyage of the Ancient Mariner, before he returned to his own familiar Waters.

An Albatross swoops in to rescue a didactic workshop from drowning in a Noahide flood loosed upon Rocky Horror Brain Cafe by two fluidic denizens of the deep named Darth Feuder and Amida Queen.

Meanwhile, Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot are reviewing the play from the MST3K Orchestra Pit, as Amida Queen dashes them with snerkwood, disrupting them just as they are getting on with their breathless commentary and review.

What happens when an Albatross swoops in and scoops up a Salmon of Doubt?

Darth Feuder and Amida Queen fear the threat of stealth on the high seas.

An ancient Mariner meeteth three Gallants (a Concierge, Darth Feuder, and Amida Queen) bidden to a Vetting Quest, and detaineth one.

It is an ancient Mariner,

And he stoppeth one of three.

"By thy long tail fins and glittering gills,

Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?"

The Cetacean's jaws are opened wide,

And I am next of din.

The quests are met, the beast is set:

May'st fear the scary sin.

He fishes with his skinny pole,

"There was a blip," quoth he.

"Hold off! Unhook me, now! Or soon!"

Eftsoons his clasp dropt free.

The Vetting Quest is spell-bound by the cry of the old seafaring man, and constrained to fear his tale.