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[Witcher] Are there giant sea monsters (Kraken)? How do witchers handle them?
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For a kraken, or really most giant sea monsters, the procedure is as follows:

**Step One:** Hire out a barge and the biggest galleon you can lay hands on to tow it. Don't plan on getting your deposit back for that barge. 

**Step Two:** Load down the barge with whatever farm animal is cheapest that week. Kraken aren't picky.

**Step Three:** Have your hired galleon haul your loaded barge, with you on it, into the beast's territory under the light of a full moon. 

**Step Four:** While en route, take two swigs of *Yuri's Cloaca*. For the uninitiated, it's a potion that, among other things, dramatically increases the amount of oxygen that can be safely stored in the blood, allowing a Witcher to fight for hours without drawing a breath. 

The name came about because Yuri, the Witcher who invented it, kept it a secret and so a rumor started up that the reason he could hold his breath for so long was that he was down there sucking air out of fish assholes.  

Plus the taste is just awful, even by potion standards. 

**Step Five:**Instruct the crew of your galleon to circle your barge about a mile away, and to run dark. Light torches around the barge and slaughter an animal or two, letting their blood drip into the water. 

**Step Six:** You now smell delicious and are impossible to miss. You'll probably get a questing tentacle within minutes. Let it have the run of the barge. Once your prey determines that, holy shit, there really *is* a boat full of easy meat up there, it will fully emerge and ensnare the barge.  

**Step Seven:** Now you've got him! While the Kraken is busy trying to crush the barge launch yourself as close to its center of mass as you can get, while avoiding things like teeth or spikes.  

**Step Eight:** Start digging. You want to become the deadliest tick there ever was. A combination of katar and hook sword will usually serve you well here. 

The way these monsters are built, they can't easily respond to something that's sitting right on them, and their flesh won't be heavily armored so you should be able to worm your way into its body and fully out of its reach.

**Step Nine:** Here's where the wisdom of doing so much of your anatomy training blindfolded becomes apparent. You're going to have to find what passes for a central nervous and/or circulatory system and deliver a killing blow, and do it quickly. There's a good chance your prey is freaking out right now and will dive for safety.  

Diving is bad. A monster that dies underwater can't be roped by your pursuit galleon, and that means you won't have a carcass to bring back for proof of your kill. 

**Step Ten:** Assuming you moved fast enough, you should now have one giant sea monster corpse ready to be redeemed for a substantial reward, minus the barge deposit of course. 

**Step Eleven:** Get back to your ale and whores until something else needs killing.