You enter what looks likes a bunk room. Seaweed beds fill the room.
Skrelznit finds some raw gold and sliver ore, and a decomposed human hand wrapped in seaweed like a sushi roll. On the hand is a ring.
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Skrelznit takes the gold and silver and -- after a brief but intense internal dialogue regarding loyalty vs. personal gain -- the ring and notifies his Captain.
He stares at the filthy, decomposing monster paw in his hand, then shows it to the party.
Sometimes these things grant wishes-k-k-k. Anyone can Detect Magic on this-k-k-k?
"Quinn?" she asks.
Quinn nods. "It is a magic ring. It allows the wearer to make animals like them." She looks back to the hand. "Looks like sahuagin are not 'animals'."
Sassarra nods and they move out.
You find your selves in a hallway that looks to doubles as a Larder. Parts of large died eels, and even fellow dead sahuagin hang on chains.
Sassarra finds a wand among the hanging bodies.
Quinn looks over it, but shakes her head.
Skrelznit figures out that the it is a wand of produce flame.
Walking into the last exit from the feeding room, you find the room mostly void. A single statuette sits in the center of the room. It looks like some type of wide-mouthed sea dragon.
The dragon as a depiction of Kelizandri, Elemental Lord of Water, also known as the Brackish Emperor.
Quinn whispers to the others the information.
She passes by the statue without looking. No need to draw attention.
Looseal looks to be keeping a eye on something in the Canopy with vines for arms. Looseal keeps well above its reach.
Slowly sneaking in, you find your self in a room full of eggs and small sahuagin; some the size of a claw.
In the middle of the rooms sands a Sahuagin of a abnormally large size trying to keep the young Sahuagin in line. She quickly turns looking at Sassara.
"intruders!"
Round 1:
Zaaka cries out with a mighty roar as he hurls himself at the big fishperson.
Round 1:
Zaaka cuts into the abnormal sized fish.
The beast licks her lips before clawing into Zaaka. Zaaka ducks under the fish's mouth.
Round 1 End:
The Big fish toke 17 from Zaaka
Zaaka took 2 claw (20 damage) from the big fish.
Round 2 start:
Sparks swirl around her and she channels them into the creature before swimming up to close with it.
Zaaka spins out of the way of one claw, but gets caught by the second.
He then continues to spin, thrusting his spiked body against the creature.
Round 2:
As Skrelznit starts to summon, Sassarra and Zaaka strike down the big mother.
The body floats dead.
We will search the body and the room.
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Skrelznit assists in the searching, after a brief but animated discussion with a small water elemental expecting something to attack and focusing on Captain Sassarra briefly while Skrelznit tried to remember any sort of pidgin Aquan to tell it to stop.
Just as he was making headway and the elemental was starting to understand, it popped out of existence back to its own plane.
You don't find anything of use.
Skrelznit sees a very small opening on the wast wall. Looks like there is a room behind it, but is covered in sediment; blocking the path.
The rest of the room looks to be storing sharks in pins.
To the north-east looks to be another path.
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Psst-k-k-k. There's something here-k-k-k.
If possible, Skrelznit digs and/or pokes a hole in the sediment just wide enough to get a glimpse inside.
Assuming he sees nothing of interest, he then casts Expeditious Excavation to open a hole large enough for a kobold to move through.
If nothing happens after that, he enters cautiously.
Casting his spell, Skrellznit opens the room. In the back of the room lays a mummified body of a humanoid; a silvery pendant dangles from its neck. It looks to be tied to a rusty archer.
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Skrelznit is suspicious.
How does a body get mummied underwater? How does it stay mummied underwater? Whoever tied it there, why didn't they take that shiny necklace?
I don't trusts this-k-k-k.
He cautiously examines the body from all available sides, without touching it yet.
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If he doesn't find anything, he gently pokes it with the trident. If nothing happens then, he stabs the trident into the gut of the body.
Zaaka approaches the mummy from the other side, ready to parry any attacks it makes.
Sassarra holds ready to blast it if it attacks.
Quinn does not detect any magic, but as Skrelnit stabs into the body; the eye sockets open reviling dots of light. The mummy looks ready to attack.
Skrelznit's trident stabs deep into the mommy's body.
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[b]Round 1:[/ooc]
When she attacks, the lightning runs up and down the anchor chain, burning the mummy deeply.
She then drawing in even more power to fry it again and send it's spirit back to whatever afterlife it deserves.
Zaaka hurls himself at it, tail and spikes tearing at the undead.
He reaches out his head to bite it, then stops and pulls back. It was probably off.
Round 1:
Before the Mummy could even try to attack, Sassarra and Zaaka lays it back to rest.
Looking closely, Skrelznit sees that the pendant looks to be made of some odd type of Platinum. In the shape of a cluster of tentacles and fluke tails, blue and black shades, the pendant shining.
you think the pendant is worth about 2,000 GP.
Skrelznit finds the twisting colors and tentacles shocking. Some deep inter fear strikes out at him; as if the tentacles reached out around Skrelznit's neck.
Skrelznit is shaking for rounds.
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Skrelznit staggers back, trying to shriek but having trouble breathing. He clutches his throat, repeating over and over,
Get it off me! What is it??
Anyway, it's pretty clear that whatever Skrelznit is battling is something only he can see.
He claws at his throat repeatedly, but after a few moments he seems to fight off whatever it was and returns to normal, albeit with a somewhat haunted look in his eyes, as if he'd seen his own doom.
He refuses to touch the pendant ever again.
Zaaka's eyes will go wide. "It's cursed!" and he will back away. Sassara will look at Quinn, "Anything you can do about it? If not we leave it behind."
Quinn looks at the pendant for a moment, but shakes her head.
"There is no magic, but it feels... tainted. Something has turned this metal. Even melting it won't do much; it is part of the metal."
She nods, "Then we leave it behind."