My grandmother always used to say, “You can always tell on Monday who learned anything from bothering to be in church on Sunday.”
Somewhere down in the book of Revelation, there are locusts described who have the teeth of lions, the hair of women, the tails of scorpions, and the breastplates of soldiers, and their prince is named Abaddon in one language, Apollyon in another, and both the Hebrew and the Greek word mean destruction.
Anybody can look that up – the Bible is a very old book.
Search engines are about two centuries old in the 23rd century.
So, you would think that if you had any choice of going to a place where you would have to risk meeting the Abaddon Bat – bipedal, with the feet and arms and torso of a plush stuffed animal, big wings, and no head except a huge mouth in front with pinwheel-looking teeth that can rotate at high RPMs combined with massive suction – you might not choose that.
But, Mondays, money, and bad decisions...
As opposed to the bottomless pit, the creature above lives by the millions on the sea cliffs of Abaddon 5, coming out in the pale gold tones of the planet's dawn to eat fish and larger creatures that have come to the surface upon death.
The humanoid natives of Abaddon 5 live peacefully with their bats; although the majority of the fish came to the surface at the time the bats were out, there are plenty left to sustain the life of the coastal tribes.
The trouble came when an intergalactic and particularly thoughtless commercial fishing company decided they could make more money if they broke the local rules and started in the early morning. After all, they knew that they were humans on boats and not beached whales or sharks with extra fish sitting on top. What could possibly go wrong?
Mondays and bad decisions … let's just say that when you tempt the Apocalypse, you get Apocalypse results.
The crystal feather fractal of last week, flipped into a different set of parameters and palettes in Apophysis 2.09 this week and down another highly productive path -- this horror came out best on pale gold after several rendering choices!