Morgan dodges the grasping pieces of seaweed and driftwood with ridiculous ease. Realising the queen is nearly dead, he risks a blow from the octopus to finish her.
Threading his arrows past the octopus' swirling tentacles is tricky and means the arrows carry less power than usual, but they find their mark.
The doctor focuses on getting his patient to the surface, but gets caught up in the enchanted sea plants! He slashes at the offending weeds.
Jord Celestial squid who is now next to the queen will use smite evil on her and attack
Jord himself will attempt to bash the Octopus with his morning star
Jord crushes the octopus with his morning star, mutilating several of its tentacles.
Sejanus throws more fire but fails to hit the Queen as more steam explodes where the flame lands.
Morgan evades the entangling debris and the octopus' attack as he shoots 2 arrows directly into the Queen's head. She is silent and falls just beneath the water, dead.
The Whale tries to swallow Reinald whole but Reinald pushes against its teeth and resists for now.
Genade has freed Syl from the silver weights but they are both tangled. Syl also seems to be resisting you and trying to swim down towards the stone font. Jerieth is having the same problem with Sandara but manages to grapple her and swim up slowly.
Jord attacks the Octopus again and Jords summoned Octopus will full attack the Whale as it was right next tot he queen
Summoned Octopus attacks on Whale
Jord attacks the Octopus
Summoned Octopus Tentacle 2 Grab Roll
Summoned Octopus Attack on Whale Crit confirm
The octopus hurts the Whale but isn't able to grapple it.
Jord crushes the octopus summoned by the Queen and it dies.
Sejanus looks for targets to surface and struggles, entangled.
This time the Whale succeeds in forcing Reinald into its huge mouth and swallows him whole.
The doctor continues cutting at the weeds with one hand, and holding onto Syl with the other.
Thrusting his bow and quiver at Sejanus "Keep it dry, don't burn it", Morgan grabs a dagger from his belt and prepares to dive into the water. "Jord, let's get tha' scum sucking whale"
Reinald squirms and struggles to get his cutlass into the whale's flesh.
If a creature with this special attack begins its turn with an opponent grappled in its mouth (see Grab), it can attempt a new combat maneuver check (as though attempting to pin the opponent). If it succeeds, it swallows its prey, and the opponent takes bite damage. Unless otherwise noted, the opponent can be up to one size category Smaller than the swallowing creature. Being swallowed causes a creature to take damage each round. The amount and type of damage varies and is given in the creature’s statistics. A swallowed creature keeps the grappled condition, while the creature that did the swallowing does not. A swallowed creature can try to cut its way free with any light slashing or piercing weapon (the amount of cutting damage required to get free is equal to 1/10 the creature’s total hit points), or it can just try to escape the grapple. The Armor Class of the interior of a creature that swallows whole is normally 10 + 1/2 its natural armor bonus, with no modifiers for size or Dexterity. If a swallowed creature cuts its way out, the swallowing creature cannot use swallow whole again until the damage is healed. If the swallowed creature escapes the grapple, success puts it back in the attacker’s mouth, where it may be bitten or swallowed again.
Jord will move to the whale and get ready to attack it
Summoned Octopus attacks on Whale
Morgan and Jord get into the water to close with the Whale. Reinald is spat out, not as easy a morsel to consume after all. The Whale send its tentacles at the octopus but it is too small and slippery.
Reinald grits his teeth and lays into the whale thinking,Not today devil beastie. Now its might turn to bite.
Summoned Octopus attacks on Whale
Swim roll to move 5ft
Jord swims up to thar beastie and attempts to smack it over the haed
Struggling in the difficult terrain, Morgan is unable to do more than flounder and prevent himself becoming entangled.
In spite of being heavily wounded, Reinald swims back towards the Whale with Jord and together they bash the Whale senseless. It goes limp in the water and floats on the surface. As you struggle to swim out of the enchanted water, the Whale's blood spirals down towards the Font at the bottom, being sucked in by some strange magic. It also seems to destroy the ghouls chained at the bottom as a pulse of dark energy radiates outwards, passing over you, causing intense pain.
When you finally get out of the cauldron's water and back into the tunnel, Jerieth and Sandara collapse next to each other as does Syl who coughs up some water. Sandara and Syl are too exhausted to talk. You can all still feel the pain though it is like you are feeling someone else's pain and not your own.
Reinald swims to the wall and gets his breath. "Well lads and lassies that was rough but we got it done."
"What in the Hells was that? I feel terrible." the doctor complains, looking back toward the water with the strange shrine at the bottom.
You are almost sure that the power that hit you was of demonic origin. Perhaps a closer look at the object could reveal more.
"Everyone gather so i can heal us all."
Jord will channel energy a couple times
The whale finished and his body wracked with pain, Morgan joins the others in swimming back to the surface. As he recovers his bow and quiver from Sejanus he exclaims. "By Besmara's bones, what cursed magic was tha', this 'ere island is full of nasty surprises. Time we were rid of it I reckon."
Everyone feels energised by Jord's channeling though the foul feeling lingers. Syl stands up with tears in his eyes. "I'm in your debt. I promise I'll never plot against you again. Thankyou. Thankyou..." He is very grateful that you saved his life and seems to have had a complete attitude change towards your group. You have a new loyal crew member.
Once Syl has spoken Sandara also offers her thanks. "I also thank you for coming to rescue us. I did not expect that you would find us after the storm but after they scattered clues for you I knew you were on our trail and prayed to Besmara that you would not fall into their trap. That overgrown THING didn't just get that way by eating too much. It was corrupted and I happen to know that the queen Grindylow was devout to Lamashtu. She told us how she would sacrifice us to Lamashtu and her son would consume us and grow bigger and bigger. I think the stone font down there was her altar and has some connection to her god." Sandara stands on her own. "I see you found my hat."
Reinald claps Syl on the shoulder. "When I was granted the helm. I take serious the charge to watch over my crew. I am glad it has gone well for us. A priestess and her wicked son-strosity. Perhaps they keep their tribe's treasure. It would be all kinds of momentous if we returned from our rescue blessed with some shiny."
Reinald stows his sword claps his hands and looks at the others. "Lets have a look eh. [b]"Sandara, Syl you have any idea were a good place to start is?"
He dives down to look at things.
As you swim below, this time without the heat of battle around you, you can see a little clearer. There are many skeletons scattered around, humanoid and sea creatures, the largest of which is a whale skull. The glint of gold and silver can be seen scattered around. The two ghouls that were chained to the bottom are no longer, having been ripped apart by whatever energy that you barely survived. You can still feel the pain of it when your eye catches the stone Font at the very bottom. Its sides are covered in relief carvings.
The Font calls to you and you think it would be a great idea to get a closer look. It's just a harmless bit of carved stone after all, you tell yourself. You get close enough to see the decorations on it, hideous creatures, mutated aberrations with extra limbs and heads twisted together in an obscene ritual. The Font is 3ft. tall and 2ft. across the shallow receptacle at its top. It is solid stone and heavy but not immovable.
The creatures depicted are all aberrations, aboleths and other monstrosities.
Aberrations and mutated things like the ones carved into the Font are commonly associated to Lamashtu. The ritual is one of group sacrifice and mutilation of self and others to gain Lamashtu's favour. If successful, most die but great power and gifts are obtained and the survivors consume the dead so that they will share in her gifts.
“I’ve got a few minutes left of these fins,” the doctor comments, “might as well use it.” He tosses back a curative and dives in after his captain.
Checking on his bow and arrows, Morgan is too late to comment before Reinald and Dr Henade dive in, but hearing the splashes he turns." Oh crap, didn't you guys say something about some pulling force in the water? Do we need to go in after them?"
Jord will channel energy again when all are together..
Checking on his bow and arrows, Morgan is too late to comment before Reinald and Dr Genade dive in, but hearing the splashes he turns, "Where be they goin' now? I thought we were done with this place. Gives me the creeps!"
You both feel an urge to open your mouths and consume the murky water directly inside the Font's bowl but the compulsion to be near the Font is gone.
Reinald swims back to the surface. "There's some gold bits among the bones. The stone is bewitched. I'm fighting the urge to drink some dirty water."
With delight Jord says
"Well just as well, I do not think Lamashtu would have done anything good for you."
The doctor follows Reinald back to the surface as soon as he can. "Wretched thing." he coughs, looking back toward the strange pool. "Although, I am extremely curious as to what would happen if I drank..." He looks back at the others, "But not curious enough to risk it."
"We've risked life and limb here. Be a shame to go back empty handed. There are some gold items down there. I wonder if the stone will make an attempt to whatever any time we hit the water or just close to it."
The tide has now started coming in. The caves will be full of water in a few hours.
"Well I ain't never been one to turn down booty, particular like, if I 'ave 'ad to fight and bleed for it. But what you 'ave said just confirms this place is cursed and we don't have much time left, afore the tide. So I say maybe one dive each, half dive an' half stay, then we swap. Then we get out of 'ere."
"I like it. Maybe rope around the waist so if anyone is gone too long we can pull em back."
"I do not trust such a thing of Lamashtu, so I won't go down, but i'll hold a rope for ya if any has one? Mine be on the ship"