On his next turn Eskilline hunts and pecks amid the seaweed and coral.
Esmarelda's eyes slowly gaze over the reef, and it doesn't take the varisian woman long to spot her target. Taking a deep breath, she vanishes under the ocean's clear waves and makes it down to her crab she had seen.
A few moments later the surface of the water breaks, allowing Esmarelda to gasp for air. She smirked as she held up the crab and called to her friends. "Oh boys, and madam, I believe you may have a better chance over here." Before dropping the sea bug into the pot and closing the top.
The crab tries to nip at Esmareldas fingers as the pot slams closed, consigning it to its dark reedy prison.
"Damnit! Come on, time to team up or this will take all day."
Hodge bounces his palm against his forehead as he watches Esmarelda scoop up a crab. Of course!
He calmly strolls over to a crab. Breaking orders to mimic the crew, Hodge does not place it in his pot, but grabs it with both hands and lifts it high above his head towards his shipmates; it may be more pertinent to help these poor, blind humanoids who seemed to be made of some sort of cork, as he could easily fill his own pot with crabs afterwards.
Aviz makes sure to grab a pot so when he finds one he can actually get it, then sees their strange new crewmate with a crab, holding it up like a trophy. Aviz swims over and puts the creature away, then tries to think about how to do this. "Uhh, yes. Keep looking." He points to the creature's "eyes", then points to the water, then himself, then to the pots.
Hodge and Aviz work together to grab a Crab, stuffing it in to a pot. Two down, ten to go. This was gonna be a long swim.
Eskilline managed to grab a crab and, at the same time, spots an old broken crab pot. He pulls it off of the bottom of the reef with some hardship and slides the crab in, clicking it shut.
Esmarelda scans the area, she saw no crabs so she moved along a bit to try again on the other side. While doing so she came back up to the surface for air. "You know, I never knew how hard it was to catch dinner." She said with a small smirk, trying to keep the mood light.
Zale did his best to detach himself from the proceedings, hoping someone else could point him toward a crab, as he was utterly failing to find one on his own.
G'nosha spotted another crab, dove into the water, and this time managed to grab it.
"Need some help?" she asked Esmarelda.
Hodge finds another crab, and again holds it above his head as an offer to the rest of the group.
"I wouldn't say no to it lovely." Esmarelda answered giving G'nosha a charming smile.
Zale gratefully dove towards Hodge, snatching up the offered angrily snapping creature and shoving it into the trap. He couldn't help giving the Undrowned a moderately confused look as he did so, still marveling at the creature's apparent total lack of a need for air.
Zale and Hodge work together to stuff another crab in to a pot, Esmarelda fails to find one but G'Nosha dives like a pro and half fills her own pot. The party are getting a hang of it now.
Though Eskilline dives well, he gets mistaken by a slow moving fish, grabbing the thing and spooking it, before it slipped out of his hands and away.
Aviz swims over to Hodge to try to capture another spotted crab.
G'nosha disappeared underwater, and quickly returned, another crab in her hands.
"Here, it'll be your first one."
Hodge searches for another Crab, but seems to have chased them off by hunting in the same spot for too long. He wanders around the bottom of the reef, neck craning down searching for another one to snatch up.
Esmarelda opened her crab basket and allowed G'nosha to place the crab inside. "My thanks lovely." She smiled.
Es managed to fill her crab pot and the others are slowly beginning to get in to the swing of things when...
Creature Red
Creature Green
Aviz
Eskilline
G'Nosha
Zale
Esmarelda
Hodge
As you dive and look around you begin to feel like you are being watched. You manage to spot the creatures watching you, two small but vicious looking red and black lobster creatures. You spot them but they manage to move quicker than you, launching themselves at you with blinding speed and lashing out with their claws.
The lobsters hit with one claw each on their targets, the one attacking Hodge managing to clamp on to the man, holding him tightly, the other attacking G'Nosha not managing to grab the woman but doing a good bit of damage.
Aviz turns sharply as his allies fall under attack by some sort of mutant super-lobsters. He grabs his weapon and starts hauling over to make some early lunch out of them.
Aviz chops down on the nearest creature!
G'nosha grabbed her flail, and counterattacked.
"Besmara's bones!" Esmarelda cried out as she saw the creature attack G'nosha.
Thanks to their good work in the bilges, Esmarelda had her rapier on her. She moved closer to G'nosha and her attacker, using her rapier upon to creature.
Hodge draws his rusted bastard sword and tries to hack the creature off of him.
Some might have been surprised by the sudden attack of the lobster creatures, but Zale was quickly learning to expect the worst in any given situation. He tread water while he drew his blade, took in a deep breath, and dove for the creature threatening G'nosha.
Aviz and G'Noshas attacks connect but seem to be a little less effective than usual. Esmareldas attack however is a solid one, stabbing deep in to a chink in the creatures shell. The death lobster spasms and blood spurts in to the water around it. It lashes out with its claw at Es, who it perceives as a bigger threat due to the damage.
Both of the claws hit, clamping on tightly and beginning to crush the poor rogue.
As Hodges attack misses the Reefclaw he is facing goes to try to murder him back.
The creature managed to miss the strange armour clad monster completely.
Had they been above the waves Esmarelda would have let out a scream of pain.
Lady luck, thou are fickle.
Esmarelda began to twist in the claws of the creature as she tried to break out of the grip.
The one person who has shown Aviz compassion on the ship looks to be on the verge of death. Aviz swiftly chops down upon her attacker!
Aviz chops down in to the crab demon, driving the creature over the edge and in to death, but not before it gets in its last snap. It spasms as it releases Es, who floats away lifelessly with blood spurting from the wounds she has received, its claws instantly seeking its attacker. Both of the claws hit, clamping hard on to the man, before falling away as the creature drifts away lifelessly.
The one person who has shown Aviz compassion on the ship looks to be on the verge of death. Aviz swiftly chops down upon her attacker!
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Eskilline does indeed sink like a rock, all of 10ft to the reef below. From here he can see the demon lobsters better maybe.
Poison courses through Aviz from the claws of the dying Reefclaw but the mans constitution is just too high for it to take effect. The Strix shakes it off and continues to fight on.
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Eskilline kicks off the reef and swims northward.
G'nosha dove once again to attack the creature, but her movements seemed restricted by the water.
Hodge is going to try and break the grapple, and if successful begin moving towards Esmarelda.
Eskilline kicks off the reef and swims northward.
Zale lashed out at the creature near Hodge and managed to do some damag, distracting it from the huge creature as he began to lumber towards Es.
At the same time Esk managed to make it closer to Es, the creature near Zale lashes out with its claws, seeking to damage the man.
Eskilling breaks the waterline. *pant, pant*
Blood still flows from the gash inflicted upon the varisian woman by the creature.
Hodge is going to prepare Cure Light Wounds, and frantically beckon to the party above.
G'nosha tried to reach Esmarelda, and to bring her closer to Hodge.
Damn you woman, had to get separated from us. Aviz wraps an arm around Es's chest and goes onto his back, then starts swimming them both to the nearest dry spot. The boat, dry land, a rock above the waterline; anything to get her out of the water.