To Prove D&D Exists for Echolon

WIS save 8

The damaged shelly splits open with a bell chime crack. The fish splash in a frenzy to feed on the corpse.

The lobstrocity to the front detects danger from the boat and flows forward on churning legs. It reaches up to latch claws on the kayak!

Claw Attack: 22 Damage: 5

Claw Attack: 13 Damage: 6

Tommary 24

Toots 17

Elyona 16

Crawler3 16

Ilyara 13

Crawler2 11

The forward kayak is ripped asunder and Tommary and Ilyara spill into the warm waters

Tommary, Toots, and Elyona go!

One crawler to the front, one to the back, both are in melee range.

Elyona will make two (two-handed) spear attacks at the crawler in front:

Attack: 23 Damage: 14

Attack: 23 Damage: 16

If the crawler that is under Toots’ hex is still alive she targets it with another dirge; if it has died then she will move the hex to a different monster and Target that one instead. (Attack: 29 Damage: 30)

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If the crawler that is under Toots’ hex is still alive she targets it with another dirge; if it has died then she will move the hex to a different monster and Target that one instead. (Attack: 29 Damage: 30)

 OOC: Wahoo!! A crit!!

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Elyona will make two (two-handed) spear attacks at the crawler in front:

Attack: 13 Damage: 9

Attack: 29 Damage: 11

 

 The tough shell resists one of the stabs but the other gets through and spears deeply into the thrashing shelly.

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If the crawler that is under Toots’ hex is still alive she targets it with another dirge; if it has died then she will move the hex to a different monster and Target that one instead. (Attack: 29 Damage: 30)

 The crawler disintegrates into a pool of floating, rotting, chucks of meat. The fish mostly stay away from the corpse as it is too putrid to eat.

Tommary and Ilyara, only one left!

"Nraah!  Stupid awful lobster monsters!  I JUST got dry!"

Incensed, Ilyara lashed out at the lobstrocity that had rendered her boat into kindling, striking with her new blade and calling her Traveler's blade back to her to strike in tandem, hoping to gut the bloody monstrosity like the awful sorta-fish it was.

{Green-Flame Blade, with a dagger so no disad for aquatic stabbing.  I think.  If ye want a reroll on this lemme know, Wysp.  Attack: 12 Damage: 7 piercing on the basic dagger swing, 6 fire damage from GFB, resisted by a submerged critter, and 8 more piercing if Sneak ATtack applies because Tommary's in the drink on top of this thing right next to me.  And also Attack: 14 Damage: 6 force damage from the Spirit Blade.}

OOC: Or a lot more than all that because the GFB crit.  Heh.  So the stated 9 piercing from Rilla, 4 fire damage resisted back down to 2, and 16 damage from the SneakaBlast if SneakaBlasting applies.  Or I'll just roll another set of dice if that's how ye prefer.  8 extra fire, 7 extra SneakaBlast.

The combination of spear and bladed fury break the last creature into white fleshed bits that begin to flow about the room with the current. 

The scorpions on the level below snap uselessly in your direction through the clear glass.

OOC: So probably not shatter on the glass, right?

“Quick! Grab the least pulped, not necrified lobstrocity for our lunch and hold on!” Toots will also move her hex to one of the scorpions.

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OOC: So probably not shatter on the glass, right?

 
OOC: Would that be the worst idea? Not necessarily the spell, but busting through to the scorpion level. Flood them for a moment, bust ‘em up good, pause for lunch, and then sea lions o’clock. Ne?

OOC: Best not to screw with the room until we're ready to follow up on it, methinks.  Besides, two of us need a new boat q_q

IC:
Ilyara foxy-paddled her way over to the intact boat the other ladies were occupying, grabbing ahold of the side and allowing it to drift along in the current with her attached.  "On th'one hand, yay - no more injuries.  On th'other...we only got so many boats, and that was just rude."

Tommary fends fish off the best lobstricity boil candidate* and hauls it back to the intact boat.

"I dunno, you want to eat these quick, not sure if we want to float back recover another boat from the two back there and press on, or break for a meal back at the boat storage room.

OOC:  So I've never prepped lobster, but I know with crab boils,  and 'Sposta might vouch, ... actually should check whether talking about how to properly prepare crustaceans in Mid Atlantic cities might tread on dietary sensitivities, so I'll hold off on that.  Actually, I don't think any lines were cross with turtle time, so. anyway, most crustaceans are best cooked live, if you let. the "dead" meat long enough, I think you get toxicity build ups.  Anyway, I made sure I picked the one that most likely kept its meat in lumpy form, not already feathered by the fish, when making crab cakes or seafood salad for that matter you NEVER want to feather the meat, even though your instincts tell you the meat's structure is pretty much encouraging you to do that.  NEVER feather your crab meat, it turns your crab meat into b.s. confetti, just don't do it.  Anyway, I'm assuming Toots has some old bay she puts on everything.  Maybe we'll put the Mummy dust in the boil too, though that might be a game changer.

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OOC:  So I've never prepped lobster, but I know with crab boils,  and 'Sposta might vouch, ... actually should check whether talking about how to properly prepare crustaceans in Mid Atlantic cities might tread on dietary sensitivities, so I'll hold off on that.  Actually, I don't think any lines were cross with turtle time, so. anyway, most crustaceans are best cooked live, if you let. the "dead" meat long enough, I think you get toxicity build ups.  Anyway, I made sure I picked the one that most likely kept its meat in lumpy form, not already feathered by the fish, when making crab cakes or seafood salad for that matter you NEVER want to feather the meat, even though your instincts tell you the meat's structure is pretty much encouraging you to do that.  NEVER feather your crab meat, it turns your crab meat into b.s. confetti, just don't do it.  Anyway, I'm assuming Toots has some old bay she puts on everything.  Maybe we'll put the Mummy dust in the boil too, though that might be a game changer.

 
OOC:

Yes, all seafood should either be cooked live, or right after it’s been euthanized. Unfortunately we cracked the shell, that will make crustaceans like crabs or lobster dry. Lobster is typically boiled in plain water and served with nothing but butter as the flavor is fairly mild. That is, unless you’re going for Lobsters Newburg, Thermidor, or Fra Diavolo, but IMO that’s all unnecessary for a good lobster. Heck, I even think the mayo on a lobster roll is unnecessary. 🤷‍♂️ Otherwise I prefer to simply steam it with shrimp, clams, mussels, potatoes, corn on the cob, and large chunks of sweet onion with salt, pepper, butter, and parsley in a sealed vessel. That’s similar to a New England clam bake, but self contained to save the delicious juice for crusty bread dipping.

Of course, that presumes these are like cold-water lobsters like in New England. If they are more like warm-water Caribbean lobsters (no claws), then I would baste it (in the shell) with an emulsion of olive oil, garlic, parsley and the least bit of lemon juice and zest you can get away with and still form an emulsion, and then grill the lobster. That recipe also works well with langoustine. In Triestine (a specific northern Italian dialect), langoustine are called “scampi.” Whenever you eat “shrimp scampi,” you’re really eating “shrimp a la scampi,” or “shrimp prepared as if it were scampi.” That’s basically what I eat every chance I get whenever I go back to visit my relatives. (It’s one of my favorite meals of all time.)

A tip for crab cakes: I mix my seasonings into “special” meat which is already “b s confetti” from the legs and smaller body cavities so I don’t have to worry about keeping the meat intact, and then gently fold in either lump/jumbo lump for Maryland style crab cakes, or claw meat for deviled crab cakes. (Deviled has more seasoning, so the darker claw meat holds up better as it has a more robust flavor.)

“Let’s circle back, have lunch, and grab fresh kayaks for our encore.”

You gather several large pieces of crawler creature and load them into the kayak. Working together you flow to the exit with the scorpions chasing along after you. Tommary gets a more exciting WOOOOOO in the reverse gravity flow since he is not in a boat this time.. The party is able to exit the water ribbon with its "loot".

“Well now, that wasn’t so bad. Was it? After a quick lunch we’ll grab a pair of intact boats and with any luck we won’t have to eat a giant scorpion for dinner.” As Toots is making with the cheerful pleasantries she also occasionally pauses to prestidigitate is he sodden half of the party dry and warm. “So, does anyone have any clue how to cook those chunks of… whatever they were? Or; does anyone know how to cook at all?”

OOC: Toots has a 1d4 bonus to checks using cook's utensils (and brewer's supplies & Persuasion) from her Ever Hospitable trait. However, she has neither proficiency with cook’s utensils (only ½ proficiency from Jack Jill of all Trades), nor has she a on actual set of cook’s utensils to use. 🤷‍♂️