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| The '''Bostonharbour Greatshark''' was a long-lived shark that gained the ability to control [[sterility]] and terrorised the seas for half a century until it was killed by a group of [[C.H.E.S.]] Grand Masters at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Taup%C5%8D Lake Taupō].
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| | |birth = Probably around 1770 |
| | |death = 17 February 1815 ([[Super Death]]) |
| | |known_for = Terrorising the seas |
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| == Birth of a Greatshark ==
| | The '''Bostonharbour Greatshark''' was a long-lived shark that gained the ability to control [[sterility]] and terrorised the seas for half a century until it was killed and subsequently granted Super Death by a group of [[C.H.E.S.]] Grand Masters at the [[Battle at Lake Taupō]]. |
| The Greatshark was born of a series of unfortunate events. | |
| In December of 1773, over 90,000 pounds of tea were dumped into [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party Boston harbour]. Unbeknownst to those responsible for it, at least 30,000 pounds of this happened to be the famed tea of [[Orkney Earl Black|Orkney]]. Soon after, a violent thunderstorm struck Boston harbour; lightning rained down upon the waters of Boston, heating the water; the water turned to tea; and tea wrought from saltwater is altogether ''wrong''.
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| On that same day, a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_white_shark great white shark] swam by the bay, and as it did so, it partook of the accursed tea, and as it gorged itself on the ''wrongness'', its body ''grew''. And with it grew its sterility. By the end of the day, the storm had passed, and the shark had consumed the entirety of the tea in the harbour, in size now surpassing that of a megalodon of the primordial age.
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| However, the shark was still a shark. Unlike some of its [[King Arthur|more intelligent maritime fellows]], its intelligence remained stunted, and its only desire was to eat, and devour. With its newfound sterility had come a hunger for sterility.
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| == Terror of the Seas ==
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| For half a century, the shark would ravage anyone that dared cross the seas possessing so much as a shred more sterility than a human should. Retroactively, it was determined that the Greatshark may have been responsible for about 50% of high-seas maritime disasters of the late 18th and early 19th century. Over 81 C.H.E.S. members are estimated to have been devoured by the shark.
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| Despite this, the shark’s existence went unnoticed at first. C.H.E.S. first heard of an unusual amount of its members going missing in the open seas in the late 1780s, but it was not until 1799 that they realised that something foul was at work. In that time, a ship getting lost at sea was nothing unusual, but that very same year, the HMS Orestes foundered while carrying aboard a C.H.E.S. Master.
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| Under normal circumstances, no one with this much sterility would have ever succumbed to a natural disaster. When C.H.E.S. started suspecting that something was targeting or at the very least endagering sterility users on the open sea, all manner of transport by boat was banned until the cause was discovered. Soon after, [[King Arthur]], the one best suited to investigate the situation at hand, made for the Pacific ocean.
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| == Encounter ==
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| Despite the Greatshark’s lack of intelligence, it was nevertheless an excellent hunter. As such, it also knew when it was outmatched, and that a direct confrontation with King Arthur would have meant certain doom for it. Unfortunately for King Arthur, his sterility was too great: while he would have had to be within at least 50km of the Greatshark to sense its whereabouts, the latter was able to feel his approach from at least ten times that distance. And so, the shark continued to elude C.H.E.S. for over a decade.
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| However, King Arthur’s presence was not without success: with him protecting and overseeing transports of C.H.E.S. members across the seas, the Greatshark’s prey grew fewer and fewer, and unlike C.H.E.S. it could not rely on tea to replenish its waning sterility.
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| Thus it was that the shark grew desperate, and in 1815, attempted an ambush on King Arthur, who was overseeing a transport in the South Pacific: By surrounding its body with concentrated sterility, it created a quantum superposition that would have made it undetectable by an ordinary enemy. King Arthur, however, is all but ordinary.
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| Sensing its approach from afar, he waited. And when the Greatshark had come within 10 metres of him, he used his ability [[The Water is Me, and I am the Water|The Ocean is Me, and I am the Ocean]], which granted him command over all saltwater, to compress the water around the shark’s body to one thousand times its usual density, delivering a devastating blow to the Greatshark. The great white thrasked and screeched—as well as a shark can, that is—and quickly commenced his retreat, with King Arthur fast in pursuit.
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| == Pursuit ==
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| The Greatshark fled south until it reached what is today New Zealand. While the shark’s intelligence leaves much to be desired, the same could not be said about its instinct. Knowing full well it could not best King Arthur in the open sea, the shark performed a [[sterility leap]] from the coast 123 km inland right into the middle of Lake Taupō, where it sought to evade his crustacean pursuer.
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| Stymied, King Arthur had to forsake his pursuit: he knew he would be no match for the Greatshark in freshwater, as in its current state, his ability only granted him control over saltwater. Over the course of the next hours, the Greatshark would continuously circle the lake, waiting for a chance to escape, but whenever it swam to one end of the corner, it would find that King Arthur was already waiting for him off the island’s coast in that very direction.
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| This stalemate continued for a while, as the shark grew ever weaker; King Arthur, however, was not bothered at all, as he was spending the time making tea out of local algae and corals. Eventually, the shark would have to either come out and face him, or stay in the lake for another century and slowly wither away.
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| At the same time, there was a concern that the shark might be able to replenish its sterility by consuming the local inhabitants; fortunately, King Arthur had already informed the rest of C.H.E.S. of what had transpired, and others were on their way. By the end of the week, [[Romeo Awnthorpe]], [[Sir Timothy Angus McLeod|Tim McLeod]], and [[Nuck Chorris]] himself had arrived on the island.
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| == Battle of Lake Taupō ==
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