Friday Cephalopod: Our scouts have been sighted!

We'll have to advance the invasion plan. A scout squad of paper nautiluses have been exposed off the coast of California.

Several of the scouts bravely tried to wrest the camera from the spy, but failed. We're going to have to send some muscle to accompany the reconnaissance patrols from now on -- all we needed was a few Humboldt squid to have been able to completely suppress this exposure.

Puny humans. Nothing will stop the massive Cephalopod Armada!

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