Vasaam watches as the rest of the team ready weapons to crack the ridiculously big crab. He stays behind them, ready to send a freezing ray at the creature if he gets in range.
Lariel's the first to launch an attack, but it flies over the crab.
As others prepare, the crab advances towards Aletha, taking a solid and harsh blow in the process of getting near her. Its natural exterior badly hurt.
The big appendage snaps true, hitting Aletha's flank. On top of it, it now has hold of her, and starts squeezing into her painfully.
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Round 2
Caroline & Leona
Aletha (disabled & grappled)
Lariel & Vasaam
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Giant crab (-13)
"Seems we're having some real crabby luck at the moment...."
With a focus on her friends, Coraline takes more time and better positioning, and strikes with her spear. She does not probably hit
Seeing his friends doing not so well at hitting the creature, and worried for Aletha, Vasaam shoots a ray of frost at the thing.... and misses miserably!
Seeing their fellow team member in the pincer-y clutches of the giant crab, the team attacks with ranged and melee strikes. None land a hit, though.
Will Aletha kill the crab before it squeezes the life out of her?
Or break free from its grip?
Aletha (disabled & grappled)
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Giant crab (-13, grappling)
Ok voice in my head, I owe you one if I you get to make me do this!
B@%++ Aletha thinks as her world goes black.
Leona uses one of her bullets to hit the crab
"I say when we kill it, we eat it, I hear they are good boiled."
Aletha's attack is heavily hampered by the pain and inconvenient position she finds herself in. The strain becomes too much, and with a bleeding wound she passes out.
The crab, it's target now limb in its pincer, moves a 5ft closer towards Caroline.
It hits with its pincer, now likewise grabbing and squeezing Caroline as well. Not yet fully recovered from the encounter with the sahuagin, this crushing force is too much. She too passes out at -1.
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Round 3
Caroline (-1, stabilize roll please) & Leona
Lariel & Vasaam
Aletha (-1, stabilize roll please)
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Giant crab (-13)
So I missed?
So I missed?
Sling atk: 1d20 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 2 + 1 = 10
Damage: 1d3 ⇒ 3
The bullet flung by Leona hits, but gosh darnit, the vicious crustacean is still standing.
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Coraline tries to be a hero, and stabilize her friend! However she got too close and was grabbed and viciously attacked by the crab!
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Lariel's arrow flies over the crab, the aim a little too high, with Lariel getting slightly nervous from seeing the two first passing out from injury.
Vasaam
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Crab
Worried about the victims in the crab's claws Vasaam can do little other than try again to freeze the giant crab. "Boiled sounds great. But my attack is freezing!"
This time, Vasaam manages to hit with his frost ray.
The previously cracked natural shell has an opening, and it is taken advantage of.
The chill of ice overloads the crab's weakened state, and it collapses.
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"Time to claw someone back to the world of the living."
Leona moves and casts her Last Cure Light Wounds spell on Coraline.
Vasaam noticed that his hand was shaking when he tried to direct the spell, but luckily it somehow hurt the crustacean. "Shall we cut the claws off to boil? I don't really know where the good meat is but I think I've seen people crack crab claws. ??"
Dazed from her near death experience, Aletha mumbles something in
Muszę zamontować działko automatyczne na ramieniu, wtedy kraby będą się mnie bać! Aletha mumbles something as she regains conciousness
I need to install a shoulder mounted Autocannon, then the crabs will fear me!
Blyad She says to noone in particular
Lariel will find Aletha is not bleeding, but to get her healthier and wake up, the group will have to use healing.
Stuck on a crusty bit of one of the crab's legs, is some sort of ring.
It needs some cleaning, but it could sell for profit.
From where the crab came, a pool with much darker depth is seen.
Potentially deeper than mere shallow water.
A cluster of mushrooms pops its members one by one, suddenly.
The shadow cast in that area, by other mushroom clusters, twists and forms crude shapes of hands, which make 2 clapping motions, then they return to normal shadows.
Leona seeing and hearing that thinks
What the Fish, was that....
I think the ring in the crab should be double checked.
Leona uses Detect magic on the ring.
Vasaam casts detect magic and scans the area. "Anything in particular that I should be looking for?"
Calling on her Goddess, she surroundings the group in a positive circle of healing for
Leona looks at Aletha.
"You should be fine now, lets either get back to work, or cooking up that crab for a meal before we continue."
The ring is thoroughly checked for magical auras, but none are found.
Still, it could be sold, and profit is always convenient.
You should be fine now, lets either get back to work, or cooking up that crab for a meal before we continue
The other way to continue, is a fork in the cavern system.
Clear dripping sounds up ahead.
You make out some muttering. It doesn't sound gutteral like sahuagin do, though. But it's unclear what actually -is- making the sound.
There is steady sound of movement, can't quite determine the amount of creatures/people/? that makes the steps, but you'll likely run into something soon by going here.
"We can cook up the crab later. If we find the people there should be enough for them too.... I hear some movement there to the right."
"Your right, I hear them as well"
Hearing nothing but trusting her new companions who have saved her life enough times, she will trust their calls on the direction enemies will be coming from.
" Perhaps we should gather to cook the crab, and have our new friends join us. But first, we prepare for more combat against this new threat."
Coraline then gets ready with her spear to attack any hostile creatures that come to them.
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Lariel says "Funny... I don't hear anything from the right. But from the left... I hear some dripping sounds and a... muttering of some sort. Nothing like we heard from the sahuagin, but I can't really tell what it is."
Just realizing how ominous he must be sounding, the half-elf tries smiling, but it comes off a little creepy.
"Oh boy, sounds like we have a number of guests to prepare for."
Ouch Aletha puts her Bardiche in her left, gripping a pilum in her right, readying an attack should things flare up.
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"A better question to ask before we act is, do any of the sounds, sound like it is getting closer to us?
As I don't want to need to head of here fast out and then find out we are cut off."
You are aware they are there, but they weren't said to be approaching you.
Treading into the right tunnel, you now start to hear a gutteral & gurgling conversation.
You come upon natural hole in the floor, 10ft wide, the floor some 15 ft lower. Below is a group of about 5 sahuagin, one grabbing another by the neck, pushing it violently against the wall.
#1: "What is wrong with your mind? Who is this 'lady' you suddenly so seek to please? The only one you must follow is the priestess!"
#2: "The Lady, she is beautiful. She may not speak, but this must be a trial, that we must solve. Offerings and sacrifices, surely her speech will return. She has even surfacers working for her."
The first punches the 2nd in the scaly abdomen.
#1: "We have come across one of the surfacers already. He will do as a true sacrifice to the priestess in the colony. Now, where is this lady?"
#2: "Ah, you need to see her beauty to understand. We met her at the oasis, the place where plants still grow in this barren place. To the north, in the lower level underneath. But you shouldn't hurt the lady."
#1: (gutteral laugh, turns into a growl)
The conversation ends with the aggressive sahuagin taking a sharp coral blade, and stabbing the other in the abdomen. Some gurgling ensues, and the four sahuagin leave the 5th on the floor in a growing puddle of blood.
On the other side of the hole, the distant sight of an area plenty with water, with small natural islands.
Coraline will translate this to the group in a hushed whisper, along with the words " I think one of them may be helpful to our cause, if we can heal him in time.
"I just hope he keeps us on his friends list."
Listening to the women, Lariel takes a moment to make up his mind then rushes to help the wounded sahuagin.
[dice=Heal]1d20+5