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The elite individuals folded into the Fishman Island patrols. Zero to three of them ride along inside a mob of twenty to forty Gurglers, with double the limb health and double the blood pool — these are the ones that actually kill people.

GLURGLE GLURGH — Alpha Gurgler

The Alpha Gurgler is the stronger, more skilled kin of the ordinary Gurgler. They patrol alongside the rest of their kind on Fishman Island, the southernmost green land on the continent, below Catun.

Gurgler versus Alpha

Ordinary Gurglers come in numbers and are individually fragile; they win by swarming. The Alpha does not work that way:

ImportantAn Alpha Gurgler's limb health and blood pool are both double a normal Gurgler's. That single fact is what lets them stand toe to toe with most enemies rather than relying on the mob.

Like all Fishmen they carry no weapon and no armour, and fight with Martial Arts. Numerically:

StatValue
Strength40
Combat stats35
Unarmed24

Randomised by ±4. On death they drop Foul Raw Meat ×4.

The few inside the patrol

Fishman Island's homeless-spawn data states it plainly:

SquadCompositionWeight
Fishmen Patrol20–40 Gurglers, 0–3 Alpha Gurglers10
Crab group / lone Crab—1 / 1

Which is to say: almost every encounter on the island is that twenty-to-forty-strong patrol, and the actual threat is the zero to three Alphas hidden inside it.

The patrol exists only while King Gurgler is alive. Once he falls, both the Gurgler Nests and this patrol stop spawning.

NoteFishman Island does not require the Swimming skill to enter — there is a bridge to the north. That is the trap in the design: getting in is easy, getting out is not. Characters knocked down on this island are not robbed. They are eaten.

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