I invented negative calorie ingredients and sold the formula, specifically, negative calorie cookies that tasted exactly like regular cookies. It was a wild success, people lost weight, but they stunted the growth of children severely, leading to developmental defects when consumed by pregnant women and young children.

[Action replay of the octopus bait construction and deploy - 8K, 4D chess edition]

Alice arrives with 2lbs of dog meat and skewers it on Cat's grappling hook which is tied to the rope.
Cat swings the rope and tosses it at the waterline so the meat touching the water becomes palpable to underwater organisms. Cat pulls on the rope, it's jerky movements mimicking tasty bait wriggling in the water. Slowly pulling it back, Cat attempts to lure one of the creatures out of the water, or at least make them surface.

The goal is not 'fishing' (or rather snaking, octopussing), as it getting the prey entangled on the rope as even Cat would not be able to pull the huge creatures out.The goal is simply to lure one of them out of the water so they can be range-attacked and eventually separated and flanked. Attacking both of them would be suicidal. We would have to take out one with ranged attacks first before we can enter melee with the other. I still assume only the snake can move on land as the octopus probably can't support his own body weight without the buoyancy of water. But what do I know, it appears this octopus can do it all.

Of course any creature that surfaces should also be stung by a wasp. We probably have to wear one down like this with ranged attacks only. The question is how long that works before they realize they only take damage without prospect of food and won't come out without a victim in range. That's why we have to offer them a reward as well. If that's not enough Cat will probably have to pile up more dog meat garnished with ghoul. Can you even eat them? Let's find out.

So the plan is - meat fishing - meat pile - live bait (summons or me). We gotta keep them entertained with different bait or they won't come out after a few hits. But we can't communicate this while deafened

>20kg
Couldn't even hold that out straight, let alone roll up a rope with it. We're still at 5kg but host had other issues recently (solved)

chad octopus has no weak spots