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00032 Mon, 07 Nov 2022 09:50:03 -0700 Mon, 07 Nov 2022 09:50:12 -0700 yes yes

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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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