Beartoggle Lake

**Beartoggle Lake** was a huge lake northwest of the city of Beartoggle.

## Description

The lake is described as "very expansive", such that at it's northwestern edge, where the Beartoggle River widens into the lake, the city of Beartoggle in the southeast is only faintly visible in the distance. Dotted across the water are boats of varying sizes, ranging from small watercraft to large ships, all in wide variety of colours. When Millicent the worm first broke news of the lake's existence to Raphina, they described it as "massive", though they were a tiny worm, so...

## History

The lake was created when the Toggle Dam was built, reducing the flow of the Beartoggle River through the city itself.

## Episode Appearances

* 209: Various Brick Sounds - Millicent first mentions the lake to Raphina, who is surprised to learn of the Toggle Dam's existence.
* 244: Saying Someone Sucks Is Evil - Boating/lizarding downriver, the party arrive at Beartoggle lake.
* 293: Fins, Gills, Angles, Scales, Eyes, Fins, Dorsal Pieces and Teeth: The party successfully open the door at the base of the dam, and get their first glimpse of the lake bed within: "It is much darker beyond the door, there's still water. And it doesn't seem like thickness of what you would expect the wall to be. It feels almost paper thin. There's the damn wall framing where the door was, like you had seen, but it's not this huge feet-thick stone archway that you have to walk through. It's basically, there's just open water beyond, which feels very weird. And beyond is just this vast, wide open, dark, watery expanse stretching as far as you can see. [...] There's a very, very, very faint light up above, you think probably from the surface, but it's very, very, faint, distant. But you do see in the ahead distance, a pulsating, almost neon, very bright blue, caerulean blue light. So it looks like it's something off away from you, but somewhat on the same level you guys are currently. But yeah, it's very dark. And it looks like the... beyond you there's still ground beneath you, it doesn't drop off below, so it seems like you're at the bottom, assuming you're at the bottom of the lake, you're on the lake bed. And it's not just flat. There's from what you can tell, from where your perspective is, there's almost these deep canyons stretching off away from you. There's rock formations and things like that on the ground, that you're going to have to maybe wend your way through. [...] There are seaweed copses strewn about. [...] There's fish everywhere. Fish around all over the place. There's bass, bluegill, sunfish. There's even huge carp. [...] The bottom of the... where you're walking is a little mushier than it was back out in the river. Not difficult terrain though or anything like that. And you kind of get a fishy smell too. [...] You don't see any obvious impediments or anything like that. You can go wherever you want. [...] You don't necessarily feel like you're being presented with a labyrinth or a maze. I was just trying to describe the topography. [...] You could maybe eventually find yourself in a dead end, but also, you can swim, so you could go up. You don't feel like you're faced with a challenge of finding the right path." / The group are walking for "hours" before they reach the anglerfish. / "It's this very serene, peaceful, silent place with no other external... It's almost like a sensory deprivation tank, in a way. You're almost alone with your own thoughts." / After hour of walking: "Eventually, you notice that this this blue light is brightening. In that you're getting closer. And the topography becoming gentler. These canyons are flattening out, and things are becoming more and more open. And eventually you find yourself emerging into this relatively large, I almost want to call it a clearing, where there's not much obstruction in terms of [...] the physical rocky stuff, it's more smooth here. And before you, as this clears and you're able to see further away, it's still pretty dark, but you see over in the distance there is this, I'll describe it as a small butte. A rocky escarpment that's flat on the top. [...] In the middle of this flatness there's this jutting up, looks rocky-ish kind of thing, bigger than the stuff you've been wending your way through. On top of it is the source of this glowing blue light. So it's this pulsing blue light. You can see there... looks like sort of a watery orb. A clear orb, sort of plopped right on top of this butte. And from within that, this blue light is pulsing, and you can see it even from this distance. It's pretty far away. You can see at the bottom of this orb, sort of on its side, there is this fish that's laying there, sort of weakly flopping about, seems to have some sort of a glowing light source attached to it that is pulsing this blue light. And for you to see it from this distance, this fish has got to be massive. And speaking of massive, wrapped around the base of the butte, you can see easily from here even, an orange, serpentine shape. And you have a pretty good guess from what you've seen or heard that this would be [...] upside down dragon. And it is wrapped around and sort of curled up, maybe sleeping or waiting, who knows. [...] You can see the legs up in the air, the lighter underbelly exposed, wrapped the whole way around this relatively sizable topographical feature."
* 294: Come In Yoisful: The group are looking for cover on the flat plain around the butte. Eric: "There are some intermittent copses of kelp and yeah, there actually is a not-too-small shipwreck, from your direction you can see it off to the right, but still between you and the closer to you than the butte. [...] So you can see that as a potential point of cover, otherwise not a tonne, certainly not for you to make your way extremely close to the dragon." / Speaking of the copes in the clearing: "It's a random distribution between you and there." / Eric clarifies the orb around the Anglerfish: "It seems like the Anglerfish is within some sort of a spherical something, like an orb." KT: "It's in an orb on top of the... so it's a complete orb?" Eric: "Yeah, like sitting on..." KT: "And then the Anglerfish is inside it?" Eric: "On the base of it. It's not like floating in the centre of the sphere. It looks like it's laying on the bottom of the sphere."
* 295: I'm the King of Beartoggle Lake!: Alex: "How tall is the butte?" Eric: "Like 40-50 feet ish."
* 299: Like a Zen Rake: Anglerfish: "You mean how like Beartoggle is like a different place than you thought it was gonna be, with like the dam and everything." / Anglerfish: "I'm keeping this here for now so we can talk a little bit and maybe I can give you something if you want or whatever, but you can go if you want. But once you go up there, you'll be in the Beartoggle that you guys heard about. [...] It's like not the Beartoggle with the dam, you know? The dam was a weird change that these fucking slivers did."

## Quotes

* "There's Beartoggle Lake, which is massive. I don't know if you'd be ferrying anybody across that." - Millicent the worm

## References

1. ↑ 244: Saying Someone Sucks Is Evil
2. ↑ 245: Meesa Mo
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 209: Various Brick Sounds