Chubwart's blades sink deep into gaps in the creature's shell and with a groan, it slumps over dead.
Bjorkus paddles forward and delivers a swimming gore to the surviving Sahaugin.
The bull's horns drive deep into the fishman's gut, killing him.
Luthor draws his wand and taps himself and Chubwart with it.
Once the healing's done, the ulfen stows his wand and resumes leading the way.
The hallway curves back and opens into another massive chamber, the bottom of which falls down beyond line of sight. Rising out of the depths is long phosphorescent seaweed.
Kal studies the seaweed curiously, trying to decide whether he's seen or heard of anything like it in the past.
Kal knows that the seaweed is an uncommon but not exceptionally rare species of plant. It's not dangerous or particularly useful.
As Luthor swims across, something in the seaweed stirs...
Everyone except for Opal and Bjorkus spots the giant eel swimming up towards the party from the below the seaweed.
Luthor will swim forward and elbow the giant eel.
Kal focuses on the water, swims back a bit and tries to make an opening for Chubwart to flank the thing.
Kal draws his bow and fires an arrow at the eel.
Chubwart paddle over and jabs at the giant eel.
The little goblin grins when he sees his blade react to the eel's flesh.
His animal-bane dagger lashes out again, impaling the surprised beast to death.
Luthor nods west and keeps swimming.
Curtains of golden seaweed block either end of this room. A crudely chiseled dais sits against the back wall, supporting a stone throne of massive proportions. The throne’s eroded appearance, darkly stained stones, strange runes, and images of one-eyed beasts make it evident that it had sat in the slime at the bottom of the sea for long ages before being dragged up and placed here.
Occupying this room is a mutant four-armed sahuagin monstrosity and two massively muscled female sahuagin with vile tattoos covering their bodies.
One of the females says something to the other and then they both charge Luthor and Chubs with their tridents.
Kal gurgles in laughter when he hears the words coming from the room ahead. He opens his mouth and forms a response, sending the words floating into the room.
He holds his bow ready and waits for the passage to clear somewhat so he can get through.
Chubwart attempts to swim into a flank.
After easily dodging the females, the stabs one in the back with his dagger.
He wounds the sahaugin sending her into a frenzy.
The monstrous chieftain raises his trident and charges forward.
Luthor is surprised to find he is the target when Kal is the one seemingly mocking the chieftain. Surprised enough that the trident pierces his stomach. He struggles to keep holding his breath.
opal Hastes her group.
He launches a right hook at S1.
The right hook then goes the other way as it backhands the chieftain.
And finally he then pulls his fist back and does another hook on S2.
Luthor's attacks are largely mitigated by the resistance from the water, but he still manages to graze all three sending them into a frenzy.
Bjorkus paddles forward and gores the nearest female.
Kal winces at the attempt to eviscerate Luthor, and sends an arrow swimming toward the sahuagin chieftain.
Kal's arrow loses a lot of momentum but still manages to graze the chieftain's scaly hide.
The bull's goring drops the eastern female while the western one drops her trident and lashes out at her attackers in a frenzy.
Chubwart stabs the wounded female.
The vicious goblin easily finishes off the wounded sahaugin and then swims around to flank the big mutant.
Opal tosses off a couple lightening bolts at the chief.
Luthor deftly dodges the first blow, but the second almost goes right through him. The pain and blood loss makes the Half Ulfen drop unconscious and if not for the potion he drank, he would also be drowning.
Before Luthor succumbs to his injuries he finds his movement has slowed down to normal.
Opal's bolts of lightning scorch the chieftain who roars in anger at her.
Bjorkus answers the chieftain with a roar of his own and lunges with his horns.
Kal moves into the cavern behind the unconscious Luthor and retrieves the Ulfen's curative wand.
Captain Chubwart paddles over to flank the mutant.
Chubwart stabs and viciously bites the four-armed chieftain but the massive fishman refuses to fall.
Kal glares daggers at the chieftain.
He drops his bow and draws his dagger, holding it in front of him warily.
Opal flings more lightening bolts at the crude chieftain.
Both of Opal's bolts of lightning hit and, after convulsing violently one last time, the four-armed sahaugin goes limp in the water.
"Let's make a quick search of him and this room."
Opal casts detect magic as she searches the bodies.
Kal grins over at Opal.
He sheathes his dagger and taps the unconscious man with the wand a few times.
He then retrieves his bow and begins swimming around to examine the chamber.
The room on the left appears to have been the chieftan's bedroom and the one on the right, the bedroom of his two concubines.
The chieftain's room has the following in it.
A gold-plated conch shell engraved with images of sea elves and hippocampi (worth 1,200 gp)
A gilt tattooing kit (worth 50 gp)
A burnished brass hand mirror (worth 20 gp)
A gold Varisian music box (no longer functional) that holds the ivory image of a dancing harrower (worth 400 gp).
A search of the throne room reveals that there's a gap beneath the throne. Luthor and Bjorkus work to move the throne aside.
Eventually, the two manage to slide the throne aside revealing a hidden passage.
Swimming down the passage bring the party to another room. This chamber is empty save for two chests. One is a iron-banded chest decorated with skulls that seems to have held up remarkably well considering its immersion in seawater. The other is a stone box with the image of a fish-headed demon carved onto its lid, whose seams appear to have been sealed by lead.
"We've been down here long enough. Let us just take the chests with us and open them once we have reached out boat."
On the chieftain and his concubines you find the following.
An elaborate trident made from coral (that Luthor can verify is human-bane if nothing else)
A finely made harness made of eel leather and coral
Two potions (CMW)
A platinum necklace with strange whorls of blue in it
Bjorkus nods.
"We can crack 'em open and see what we got back on the ships."
As the secret passage is found, Kal takes some of the other items and nods back toward the other passage. He addresses Opal.
He turns and swims out of the passage and back to the entrance.
When Kal swims past the nursery bearing an armful of loot he spots the sahauagin matron bodily guarding the eggs and hissing. He arrives back at the entrance without further incident.
It takes several minutes but Luthor and Bjorkus are eventually able to drag the chests back to the entrance.
Kal takes a few lungfuls of air and returns to the water with the others as they go to retrieve the locathah. As he enters the room, he frowns a bit hesitantly. It's not natural. Why cut off her legs? He shudders. The dining chamber...
The locathah looks up at Kal with sad disinterest.
"My tribe? Not far from this place."
Kal frowns at the woman's disinterest, confused. "Is it not your desire to return to them?"
"Why would I return? I'm ruined and I've lost my clutch. I'm not worthy."