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title: 00032
created: Mon, 07 Nov 2022 09:50:03 -0700
updated: Mon, 07 Nov 2022 09:50:12 -0700
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### 00032 {#00032}
> Oh thank goodness, I thought I killed that innocent bear! I should
> probably be a little more careful with my spells..
>
> Nonetheless, we need to shed some light on what's going on here, no
> sense in diving into the clutches of some evil sea creature blind.
>
> Gather himself, Corraidhin casts a fzf on the ship, searching for
> the creature inside
>
> `sudo fzf $(pwd)`
>
> > t
> > e
> > n
> > t
> > a
> > c
> > l
> > e
>
> Hmmm, no nothing too interesting there.. Maybe crystal?
>
> `sudo fzf $(pwd)`
>
> > c
> > r
> > y
> > s
> > t
> > a
> > l
>
> Blast! Why can't I find anything.. The syscerroer muses for a
> moment.
>
> OH!
>
> `sudo fzf /sea/ship_wreck/interior`
>
> > t
> > e
> > n
> > t
> > a
> > c
> > l
> > e
You probe the ship. You do not detect the presence of any tentacles
inside the ship. But you do detect the presence of the crystal you
seek.
If you scan the trench, you will detect the presence of a
*harrowkrake*. A colossal, many-tentacled sea monster with a plow
shaped shell that it drags across the ocean floor, digging deep
furrows. Kind of like if a giant squid could grow a nautilus shell.
They are usually content to stay in their trenches, grabbing prey as
it swims by with their long tentacles like some kind of nightmarish
barnacle.
The giant manta is still gliding around crunching on candies. A few
blue spherical globules of harrowkrake blood float lazily upward from
where Gabs got her stabs on, attracting the attention of a couple
horkosgrampus. The manta gives them a wide berth but doesn't
otherwise seem too concerned about them.
Horkosgrampus are toothy whales with a single long tusk. They are
mostly scavengers, and are only provoked to violence in the presence
of a lie or the breaking of an oath, in which case they go into a
frenzy preying on the liar or liars. They can smell blood from a
great distance, but can hear a lie from much further.
You hear a thud from inside the ship, and a slow rustling like smooth
stones rolling over each other. The ship settles a little further
onto its side, and dangles just a little further over the harrowkrake
trench.
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