Sejanus bangs his elbow on the side of the tunnel. The shock of nerves throws off his aim.
Genade successfully identifies the creature as a Devilfish and points out the deadliness of being grappled by it.
Morgan encourages his allies and Jord calls forth divine aid for himself.
Reinald moves to the front and fires his crossbow at the Devilfish, managing to nick it slightly.
Sejanus shoots his fireball wide, chipping off a piece of the wall on the other side of the room instead.
Jerieth seems to scream at the creature but none of you are able to hear it. The devilfish is affected by the spell though.
The Devilfish's tentacles whip forward towards Genade and Reinald but are evaded.
"Not much choice, lets get it lads."
Jord will swim to the fishy and bash it on the head
Reinald uses the wall and pushes off hard dropping his crossbow and drawing his cutlass. He seems a very capable swimmer. Dipping deep under the creature and surfacing opposite Jord and laying into the fish with a heavy double handed swing.
Sejanus lobs another ball of fire. This one is far more accurate!
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Genade takes a deep breath and dives in toward the creature.
Genade moves to engage the monster, but ends up floundering in the water.
Drawing his bow, Morgan launches an arrow at the beast. With his strength behind it and at such close range Morgan is able to land a solid blow, the arrow's head disappearing into the creature.
As Jord comes in its tentacles react and strike him almost unbalancing him and pushing him underwater. He is able to attack though but barely misses. Reinald flanks and comes up with a slash but the water reduces its effect. Genade has trouble getting into the water and goes under momentarily. Jerieth swims around easily and comes in next to Jord but her rapier doesn't find its mark.
Sejanus throws his fireball and it hits right on the Devilfish's head and an arrow from Morgan follows it!
The devilfish is heavily wounded and as a defense emits a night-black cloud of liquid and disappears in it becoming totally concealed. Suddenly its tentacles shoot out of the water at Morgan and wraps around pulling him into the water towards its razor sharp mouth. Morgan feels its poison enter his bloodstream.
Reinald swims to the wall. Vomit in his beard and clouding the blood read water.
Jord goes after the devil fish trying to help morgan
"Blub.. Blub.. Blub Blub Blub!"
Pulled so quickly off his feet, Morgan is just able to grab a breath before being pulled underwater, luckily his years spent drinking questionable grog let his body fight off the creature's poison for now and resist the foul bloody ink, however although he fights off the grip of one tentacle, the other keeps him firmly secure.
Sejanus holds back. "Thrash it! I won't fire again. I might hit one of you!"
The Good doctor splashes about, trying to get some semblance of control in the water.
Reinald, Genade and Morgan struggle in the water, even Jerieth is affected by the cloud. While Sejanus watches on, Jord heroically swings his morning star right where he guessed its head to be. He was correct and the devilfish spasmed in its death throes, releasing Morgan and flailing tentacles everywhere.
The fight is over and the cloud slowly starts to dissipate after a minute. The water is now flowing to the right and seem to indicate a central chamber that is filling up.
Around this room are several bones from the Devilfish's victims. Hanging on what looks lie a jawbone is a dull metal bracer. The worms have cleared any flesh that may have been left long ago.
Reinald rinses his beard as best he can waiting for the sickness to pass. He then turns his attention to the others making sure they can get to the wall or a place to stand.
He notes an item among the things on the floor and swims down retrieving a single bracer.
"Is everyone one okay. Morgan you look well more woosy than the others."
Jord drags Morgan out of the cloud and back out of the water if possible
Morgan swims up to the surface with help from Jord.
"I be ok, I think, just a little weak, I'll be fine. Can ya seems bow in the water? I dropped it in tha' beast's embrace" and with that he shudders. However his words don't ring true, Morgan has a nasty gash and angry welts from the creature, and just seems more frail than before.
Reinald swims down looking for the bow.
Reinald quickly finds the bow at the bottom, a few worms have already started to crawl onto it but they are easily shaken off.
"Let me get a look at that." Genade says to Morgan, after struggling out of the water.
"The sooner we are out of this cave, the better. Any suggestions where to go next?"
"Jord, Doc do you have anything you can do for Sharky, he still looks more than a little eaten by that fish."
He begins to intone a prayer for Morgan
"Kurgess please bestow yer mercy upon this questionable soul, he be a scallywag but a good un."
He then casts a few healing spells on Morgan until the damage seems mostly repaired.
"Darn it, it seems yer going to have to cosy up to Kurgess a might Morgan, me healing is not working on you as well as it would for someone in the Strong Mans favour." he says with a reproachful glance
Morgan is mostly healed by Jord's magic.
By watching the water flow you can see there is only one path to go that leads further into this cave system and the Devilfish was likely there to protect it.
"Guard fish. Now we've seen it all. The current only one way left."
Reinald readies his crossbow and starts down the tunnel.
Jord waits a few seconds to see if something jumps out at Reinald then follow signalling to the others to follow as well.
Nothing happens as Reinald makes his way through the tunnel and everyone slowly follows. The tunnel goes for about 50ft. before opening up again.
Hundreds of remains float in this large bowl of water, which churns with bones, scraps of flesh, and the carcasses of strange, almost alien fish. Just visible through the roiling stew are humanoid bodies floating in the water, wan corpses drifting near the bottom of this cauldron like sleeping guardians.
Two figures hang from the ceiling above the churning water, bound hand and foot with thick strands of seaweed and sinew and weighted with heavy ingots of silver—Sandara Quinn and Slippery Syl! They both look wounded and are quite unable to fight restrained as they are.
A queenly looking figure similar to the squid-goblin creatures you have previously faced swims in the centre, wearing Sandara's hat as a trophy. Another similar looking creature is just behind her but this one is even more hideous, not to mention many times larger than any of the others. The overgrown monstrosity sees you and screeches like a baby would to its mother. The queen turns and also sees you. As soon as she does she lets out her own screech and cuts the ropes keeping Sandara and Syl above the water. They fall and with a splash start to sink thanks to the silver ingots tied to them both.
Behind you at the other end of the tunnel, four of the squid-goblins watch and wait, cutting off your exit.
Sejanus whips his arms in a complicated series of motions, tendrils of fire whirling about him and gathering into a ball of concentrated flame. He sends it speeding toward The Whale.
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or take fire damage and catch on fire.
The whale screeches again, this time in pain as fire crisps its skin and starts to burn. It submerges to put itself out and you lose track of it under the water.
Genade draws and quaffs a vial, and his hands become webbed. "Let's do this!" he yells, then dives below the group, swimming out into the room. He charges straight out at the queenly squid-goblin.
Reinald blanches when he sees the sailors go under.
Reinald shoots the queenly figure with his crossbow. .
Then the captain drops the crossbow and begins to swim toward the queen drawing his cutlass.
On receiving the healing, Morgan replies to the muscle-bound priest, "Aye, I will take any healin' an' be thankful, but perhaps Besmara ain't feelin' so kindly to the strong man at the moment, an' she has me marked for sommut!"
Still feeling a little weakened from the previous fights, Morgan opts to provide cover for his allies.
"Save Sandara, let the other b#@£& drown, then all focus on the queen squid thing, bring her down."
Following his own words, Morgan draws his bow and looses a shot that misses the creatures eye, through a lucky duck, instead inflicting a nasty gash along the head.
Morgan and Reinald find their mark and wound the Queen and she lets out a scream. You hear sounds behind you but don't see any of the creatures yet.
Geande and Jerieth dive down towards their sinking crewmembers.
Genade and Jerieth both dive down and see Sandara and Syl quickly sinking, unable to swim against the weight of the silver ingots around them. There are 2 ghouls chained up at the bottom of the Cauldron(the chains are connected to a large stone-carved font that is covered in moss and surrounded by seaweed) and are unable to reach more than 10ft. from the bottom. You swim past the Whale and grab Sandara, Jerieth is right behind you and does the same, leaving Syl to continue sinking. His face is desperate and he tries to grab onto you but fails to get a secure hold. He will surely fall into the ghoul's grasp next round.
You feel something else tug at you. Not something physical but something trying to grab onto your mind. It's coming from the stone font.
The Queen pulls out a wand and enchants in aquan and summons an octopus in front of Reinald.
Jord will summon a squid in front of the queen, this will take a round to complete
"Kurgess lets greet the lady with a beastie who is equipped to deal with a tentacled horror like it."
Seeing that Jerieth had Sandara as well, the doctor leaves the cleric in her hands and continues on after the other crewman, drawing his dagger and cutting the silver ingots free as soon as he can. The strange structures below seemed fascinating, but he had more pressing concerns.
Reinald drops his crossbow pulls his cutlass and tries to make short work of the octopus.
While Jord begins summoning, Sejanus throws another volley of flame, this time over the head of the Queen. A flash of steam rises as it hits the water.
Reinald feels something under the water lash and grab onto him, pulling him under.
Reinald comes face to face with the Whale as its powerful tentacles pull him close like it wants to eat you. You feel something else pull at you. Not something physical but something trying to grab onto your mind. It's coming from the stone font at the bottom of the cauldron.
Genade and Jerieth both work together to free their crewmates from the weights holding them down and with a few quick slices the ropes around them fall away to be seized by the creatures chained down there.
Stepping forward and left, Morgan lines up a better shot against the queen before launching 2 arrows at the Queen.
Morgan hits the Queen and she staggers back in the water, barely alive. She screams out a curse and the water around you seems to come alive, floating bits and seaweed try to wrap around your legs.
The octopus moves towards Jord and attacks with a bite and poison finds its way into your veins.
The water becomes harder to swim through, all the junk and seaweed seems to get in your way and even try to wrap around you and hold you in place. Reinald fails to break out of the grasp of the Whale.