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Me knows exactly what is happening now-k-k-k. This called "petrifyeyed giant shark". Happens when giant shark eats so much regular shark he explodes-k-k-k. And bones become underwater cavern-k-k-k. Very rare, we is lucky.
Skrelznit does not really care which way we go first. SE is his vote if no one else has an opinion.
Mopsank tries to hide just how perturbed he is by Skrelznit's explanation. He doesn't say anything, but it's obvious.
While Grauchi can't find the words to explain why Skrelznit is wrong, he can't offer a better explanation. He'll remain silent, focusing on staying above water instead. He swims towards to south east, keeping close to the cavern walls, in search of handholds.
As you swim into the room you notice the the water thick with seaweed. While looking into the water everyone quickly notices that there are beast in the water readying to come out of the seaweed at you.
The same beast that was seen from the Stockade swim at the party.
Sassarra (24)
Grindylow (20)
Grauchi (13)
Mopsank (13)
Skrelznit (5)
Round 1: (Sassarra is up.)
8 faces, with 8 spear rise up out of the water.
Sassarra will move to where she can get a shot and zap one of them.
Sassarra (24)
Grindylow (20)
Grauchi (13)
Mopsank (13)
Skrelznit (5)
Order:
Round 1: Sassarrra, Monsters
Round 2+: The party, monsters
Round 1:
Sassarra bolt strikes one of them dead. It sinks back into the water.
Three of the beast rush to Skrelznit. Each striking out with their spears and use their tentacles to trip him.
Two of them get their spears into Skrelznit as he falls on his back.
The rest look to be staying back.
End of round 1:
Sassarrra killed yellow.
Pink hits Skrelznit for 5, and trips Skrelznit.
Green hits Skrelznit for 2.
Orange missed.
Round 2 start:
Grauchi begins casting a spell .
Pleased that they seem to be respectful enough to die when she breathes lightning, she continues.
Round 2:
Skrelznit moves behind one of the beast.
Green blows up form the force of Sassarra's bolt.
Grauchi is casting a spell.
Mopsank sifts over, flanking Pink with Skrelznit, before striking out with his Daggers. he cuts Pink down and swings at Orange; but Orange ducks out of the way.
Purple strikes out at Mopsank. He misses, but his tentacles knock mopsank to the ground.
Orange stabs out his spear at Mopsank, laying in the water, but misses.
Blue strikes out at Skrelznit, hitting him hard.
Black and White move closer.
End of round 2:
Green was killed by Sassarra.
Purple knocks Mopsank to the ground.
Blue hits Skrelznit for 7 damage.
Round 3:
As Grauchi points at the water right behind the octogoblin and a small, but seemingly angry, water elemental breaks the surface of the water. It faces the octogoblin and slams a wave in the neck of the palest octogoblin.
Grauchi himself then walks/swims closer to the closest octogoblin and swings his club.
Sassarra seems to be enjoying how they explode when she zaps them. "Oh, you don't want to eat scavenger meat raw. You don't know where they've been."
Skrelznit, the water elemental, and Sassarra each slay their target.
Grauchi Hits Orange, but Orange is still alive.
She then turns to the dark one in the back. "Now you die."
Round 3:
Mopsank swings, cutting down Orange, before shifting and finishing off black.
Round 3 end:
Mopsank kills Orange and black.
End of combat.
While looking over the dead bodies, you find that one of them was wareing Quinn's tricorne (hat).
"This must be the right way. Let's heal up and move on."
"Yes, Mopsank will trust Sassarra's judgement."
Grauchi follows the group, he takes the hat with him, in case it needs returning.
You awaking in a pitch black room; only your dark-vision allowing you to see ribbed markings along the cavern walls.
You are tied up, sitting on the edge of the steep drop into the deeper part of the water that covers much of the cave. For a few moments that only things you hear are splashing sounds and the ringing in your head.
From the around the corner to the south-east you see four kobolds slowly swimming closer.
As you turn the corner you see that the walls of this small cavern display strangely ribbed markings. Deep in the back of the cavern looks to be two kobolds tied up.
To the east you see another tunnel that looks to turn north.
Sasarra will come closer, trying to identify them. Even if they aren't their crewmates, It seems likely that these new folk would help kill the squiddies.
Hallo? Pew-Pew is no Quinn. Pew-Pew is Pew-Pew.
Bite rope has Pew-Pew arms.
He struggles against the rope vainly, but his chain shirt hinders his movement too much.
Pew-Pew is stuck and no see. Please help? Pew-Pew will be friend and lend power of little lightning.
Sassarra will help cut the other prisoner free. "They've captured a few of our friends. We're going got look for them and kill all of these squiddies for messing with us. I assume you're in." she'll also look around to see if their belongings are nearby.
"How do we trust them? Could be tricksy magic pretending to be kobolds."
Malicar almost cackles with glee when he sees a group of kobolds coming to rescue him. His voice is hoarse and scratchy as he speaks in Draconic, deep for a kobold. "Malicar thanks you for freeing him," he announces with a grin. He rubs circulation into his veins as the ropes come off, tingling pain shooting down his arms. In the pitch darkness, the color of his scales cannot be seen, but the lean, muscular kobold looks like he has been burned alive in a great fire, his scales cracked and charred. "You're hunting 'Squiddies?'" he asks.
At Mopsank's question, he scoffs, snorting a puff of flame from his nostrils. "Malicar is dragonkin. There is no greater proof of heritage than mine."
Mopsank squints, looking for hints of color in the pale of the dark.
"Your scales is dark, like mine, but not. Like charred meat."
Grauchi sees the other kobold shackled, unsure what to make of them.
"You owes us now. Maybe you helps us find our friend and takes over the ship from tall man that tooks us here. Then you is frees to do as you pleases, yes? Maybe even sticks togethers afterwards?"
Skrelznit sees that none of the new kobolds are Quinn.
He sees that tied to the cavern floor, under the water, is a large bag.
He also can see that under the water is a 2nd floor made up of metal bars, 18 in. apart, mostly covered in seaweed.
Last, he can see that there is something moving under the bars.
Skrelznit and Sassarra are able to get the two free. But they don't see their possessions nearby.
Malicar grins proudly at Mopsank's mention of his scales. "Malicar is blessed by dragonfire. Once, I was Dragonspeaker of the Bloodscale clan, who served the mighty wyrm Thryymvranax. She bathed me in her breath, and her fire burns in my flesh still." Native speakers of Draconic can tell that 'Thryymvranax' roughly translates to 'glorious inferno who consumes the dawn' - a characteristically grandiose dragon name.
At Grauchi, he asks, "Take over a softskin ship? You should start from the beginning. Tell Malicar how you came here. And what in Dahak's Breath are 'squiddies?'" His jaws snap hungrily. "Are they as tasty as they sound?"
"Dragonspeaker... that sounds like a lofty title. Perhaps we do trust you. For now, at least."
With a glint in his eye, Mopsank dives down to try and get what might be a hidden treasure.
Sassarra will head down to see what Mopsank is after.
"What did you find?" Malicar asks after Mopsank seems to spot something in the water. Shrugging, he dives in after him, a surprisingly skilled swimmer for a red-scaled kobold.
Grauchi is wet enough as it is. As the rest dives down, he's keeping a close watch on the new "recruits".
"Maybees you tells us first how you came heres?"
"Pew-Pew not sure?"
As he relates his story he begins patting his body and around him on the ground, blindly looking for his things.
"Pew-Pew was scout for tribe. Pew-Pew good scout. Find things, use little lightning far off to scare tall ones. Take things they drop. Day come little lightning not work. Tall ones not get scared. Use bite rope to take Pew-Pew on float wood. Say strange things in Tall one words....SLLLAH-VERY?...Pew-Pew not understand."
His search becomes more frantic as he is not finding his things.
"Pew-Pew think long hard about how to escape. If little lightning not work, maybe Pew-Pew make big lightning. Think hard hurt, but big lightning come and tall ones get scared and jump off float wood into wet. Pew-Pew lose control of big lightning and it hit float wood. Pew-Pew sleep and when wake up head hurt and here with bite rope again."
He appears to be in quite a state by now. He is on his hands and knees, searching every inch of the ledge that the party found him on.
"Where are things? Have you found things? Where is Pew-Pew bag? "
He looks to be near a panic attack, and is certainly not helping with any stealthiness that the party may be trying to attempt.
Mopsank and Sassarra swim down, 5 ft, to the bag and bars. As the reach to grab the bag, two claws strike past them from under the bars.
Sassarra will stay out of reach and zap the creature behind the grate repeatedly. You don't want to be caged up when there's a storm brewing.
Mopsank doesn't bother with whatever's down there. Instead, he just tries to snatch the bag and get away.
What ever is under the grate pulls back hiding under the seaweed from Sassarra's bolts, while Skrelznit unties the bag with Mopsank taking it to back up.
In the bag you find Malicar and PewPew's equipment.
Mopsank looks in the bag and furrows his brow in frustration.
"I was hoping for treasures..."
He tosses the bag over to someone else.