Greedy and Buddy have been joined by Nasty and Grimy, bringing the zombie grindylow total up to 4.
They have all been given ropes and grappling hooks because they have proven that they are the worst at climbing.
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The sea devil's attacks somehow turn out less damaging and severe than the doomed creatures first thought.
The three otherworldly creatures converged on the the prone sea devil, tearing at it and drinking their fill of it's blood, eventually dragging it kicking and screaming into the rip with them.
Attack rolls: The big one and one small one can 5' adjust and take full attacks. The other one will have to move in.
The things fell from the rip, answering Deader's call, lunging forth, all claws, dripping blood from every tiny mouth.
The two undead grindylows were in the water cleaning barnacles. A mental command from Deader had them take position at the blade of the keel and look up at the intruders, hiding for now.
The bloody creatures finish their ghastly meal and vanish back into the folds of space and time. The two things that were once grindylows and the Ghoulish Sailor move back to the smallboat and gut and bleed the heavy corpse of Son. Once they've lightened the massive mutant corpse they drag his body, and and two other grindylow bodies from the smallboat and down into the bilge. Aside from an occasionally hungry glance, they completely ignore the living crew.
Deader doesn't even look at his unliving crewmates. Somehow they just know. As one they turn and dive into the water.
The creatures pay no mind to surrender. They happily gorge on Plugg's unconscious body, replenishing the blood they have been constantly excreting. The ghoul likewise continues it's feast.
The little hook covered horror Deader had named Greedy looked for the nearest breathing target and dragged itself forward by it's arms, trailing dripping leathery tentacles behind it.
Another rent in space. Another terrible creature. Another pair of tearing claws.
The two bleeding creatures follow their prey The larger one moves in behind Plugg in a sudden flurry of claws
The smaller one steps up in front of Scourge, but remains intent on Plugg.
On the other side of the ship, the dripping ghoul tears into the body of the paralyzed sailor, flaying flesh and ripping off a bite of living meat. The zombified octogoblin covered in hooks and nets finally made it to the railing, pulling itself to the edge and looking at the living with dead white eyes. The second one followed a few feet behind.
The two bleeding creatures lash out at their fleeing prey.
The inhuman things were covered in tiny mouths and dripped crimson all over the deck. They tore at Plugg with single-minded savagery.
The three monsters converge on the witch's massive son, dragging it's bloated carcass beneath the waves. The water churns as they pull their meal to the bottom and feed. Soon the blackened water is entirely a dark and dirty red.
The larger one didn't have nearly as much trouble.
The bleeding things lunged forward at their new prey...
...but the smaller of the two was unable to pull itself through the water with any success.
The dead sailor ripped free of the grasping tendrils, lunging forward to continue it's assault on the Grindylows.
The things that rose behind her were terrible to behold. Instead of normal facial features, they had a single large eye that took up most of their head. They moved like they were boneless. Their hands were little more than massive scything claws. They were covered in tiny fang-filled mouths that opened and closed, drinking in the filthy water and spitting out blood from others, like some bizarre parody of a fishes gills. They were fixated on the Grindylow witch.
Bubbles surfaced and popped behind the Grindylow witch. Then clawed hands breached the water and raked at her back...
Deader's new crewman lashes out savagely at the creature in front of it.
Deader's new friend dipped below the surface and reappeared attempting to it's teeth into Grindylow flesh.
The terrible thing surfaced again, it's eyes just above the water, bobbing along next to his master like a puppet on the end of lazy strings. The unrestrained savagery it had just displayed was firmly in check again, locked away by it's master's commands.
The terrible thing continued to pummel and tear at the corpse of it's former friend. Fishhook-covered tentacles wrapped all around the corpse, dragging it under, churning the water into a reddish froth.
The terrible hook-covered creature that used to be a grindylow continued to pummel it's former friends.
A wet gurgle escaped the lips of the hook-tangled creature. It lashed out with unnatural strength striking it's former brethren.
Greedy's hook-studded tentacles thrash with barely repressed malice. It's clear that the mindless urge to kill it's former's allies is there, but it obeys the commands it has been given. It moves to a new patch of netting and hooks, continuing to thrash and rip.
Never did roll Greedy's HP. He started with 1 HD, then became a zombie, so it's HD changed to D8s and he got 1 bonus HD from size, so he gets 8 HP base.
Nice. Greedy's a tough little bugger. With DR5/Slashing he only took 2 damage from that last set of attacks, putting him currently at 14/16 HP. Edit: Greedy's stats added to alias. Grindylows make surprisingly good zombies.
The undead octopus goblin continued to tear at the netting, reaching hungrily towards it's former companions, getting more and more hooks imbedded in it's flesh and thrashing with all ten limbs, whipping the water into a bloody froth topped with pinkish foam.
Greedy moves into the net and begins to rip at it, ignoring the hooks.
Deader grinned and beckoned and something stepped out of a rippling fold in space just behind the last of their foes. It screamed a thousand far away whispers as it's skin bubbled in the light of the sun. Enraged, it lashed out with miss-jointed limbs and tore into the man before it.
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