Human-octopus barter
I swear there's a thread somewhere that covers some of this, but can't find it now. Assume that you are a large (~25kg) octopus, living in the shallow waters that used to be part of the West Coast of North America. You have a net woven of seaweed, a spear and a knife tipped with sharpened glass from bottles you've found and broken, and a stone corral full of assorted shellfish which eat the offal from your fishing expeditions. You build sculptures of piled rocks for amusement. What do the post-apocalyptic descendants of the civilisation that once lived on shore have to trade with you in exchange for salvaging things from sunken ships and swamped cities?
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