The hell he is! Charge into that gap and meet him in battle! The troops will funnel him right to us!

We'll tear through that hollow shell of his!

A map of the field, also.

You leap off your perch atop the large rock and attempt to block his way with your own girth! His momentum carries him into you, and you become locked in a grapple!

plug it with yourself

use your MIGHTY LEGS to jump off the edge of the canyon where you're standing and at him

move to him as fast as you can, try to flank him

>>9412152
We've got stronger claws! Force that cannon of his away from us, and start clawing with our other limb like his death depends on it!

>>9412162
bite his face off

don't cut with the cutting claw as it may free him

use your connon claw to block his off claw

He flails madly. The impact has cost you both 10 points of damage. He is at 70 HP and you are at 100!

He fires his claw in all directs, using his powerful legs to kick away from you!

>>9412151
/sigh

time to bust out the books on grapple...

>>9412183
nail him at close range with your own cannon

>>9412183
Hold his cannon with our claw! If he is going to flee, he's not taking that gun with him! Disarm him at all costs!

And holy mother of Bloodshell, our troops had better know to move in behind him and cut off his escape, or shells will be cracked.

>>9412218
he has two

You hold fast, your powerful claws (CQC!) are too much for his pitiful appendages, and he remains immobile! You hold onto his claws and bite at his soft shell! A satisfying crunch announces his first mortal wound! Blood gushes from his shell, and in a fearful tantrum he attempts to shoot you again!

HP: 40/100
You: 100/140

>>9412232
Wait, he has two?

Okay, disarm him with BOTH claws. The end result is the same, I want him bleeding and helpless.

>>9412243
bite him some more

YIELD YOU HERETIC, YIELD OR I'LL TURN YOU INTO CRABFETTI!

>>9412243
We've got those cannons in our grip. Just keep them aimed up and away from us, and we should be fine. HOLD AND BITE!

He knocks you upside the shell and fires point-blank at you, dealing a massive 40 damage! He turns to flee through the knotty kelp field, but your troops move to intercept! One mantis shrimp by the name of Gumbo leaps forth and deals a massive blow to Blasticlaw's face!

The usurper staggers from blood loss and injury. But beware the cornered tiger, for it fights twice as fiercely!

>>9412295
it's staggered, blast it with our cannon

Blasticlaw, on his last legs, scuttles with all of his cowardly strength away from the field of battle! He is nearly out of your grasp! This is your last chance to kill him!

>>9412295
>>9412334
Mother-spawning son of a jellyfish, this insult will not go unpunished!

Bladeshell guide my claw, I will leap forward with my mightly legs
and close my claw upon his head and squeeze while he's climbing over my troops!

Your troops move to intercept him!

>>9412334
FIRE

BLOODSHELL GUIDE OUR BUBBLE BULLETS

can we have ship cannons fire north of us?
FIRE AND BRIMSTONE!

>Bladeshell

I am fucking retarded and typing in two windows at once. BLOODSHELL. BLOOD. SHELL.

You beseech Bloodshell to guide your shot. You need to end this here and now, lest this pathetic, mewling usurper escape your claws!

You fire, leading the shot by a few feet. Your cavitation bubble...

...Strikes home!

Blasticlaw's tail separates from his body as he goes hurtling through the air, into the rock wall! His gore splatters the rocks and sand, and he is left gasping for breath in a heap before you. Your troops surround him, and in his death throes he makes another attempt on your life, cursing you to the end. You avoid the blast, and order his claws restrained.

He isn't quite dead. What will you do?

>>9412462
Crush his cannons.

Bring him back to the Michigan as a living trophy.

All will see my mercy and my dominance as I keep this upstart bound as part of my court.

>>9412462
Ask him to accept my divinity

If he does, HEAL HIM TO DEMONSTRATE. We have him cornered, we can put him to death if he tries anything.

If not, eat him while he still lives.

>>9412462
Coward, and a fool.
Offer him life, if he swears obedience to you.
Inform him however, that though he may yet be spared, it will cost him; he will have to surrender his cannon-claw.

>>9412462
unfortunately, we can not trust him, he is the leader of the enemy

execute him

offer amnesty to any of his troops who willingly surrender

any we must hunt down will be killed on sight

Will you execute this usurper to assert your dominance? Or will you spare him, showing the divine mercy of the Crab King?

>>9412462
Pray to the Wavemaker, and heal him with our powers. Absolutely obliterate all of his troops for their atrocities against the villagers. We will interrogate Blasticlaw, even to the point of torture.

replace your cannon with both of his to create a storm-krabkannon

>>9412462
DANCE THE DANCE OF VICTORY!

You cast MINOR HEAL on his mortal injuries, bringing him back from the precipice of death. He gazes up at you, hatred still in his eyes.

>>9412517

He has proven to be a most treacherous foe. Perhaps killing him would be wise. Creating a martyr is dangerous, however. Perhaps exile, to the most dangerous part of the seas?

>>9412517
Hobble him and let him live. Divine mercy belongs to the divine, and our victory came with the aid of the gods.

All will see him, broken and defeated, and know that he was a fool, and that we granted him mercy.

Besides, if we execute him, his followers will rise up in outrage. So long as he lives, we can use him as leverage to regain control.

And we must thank the gods for our victory!

>>9412540
Wipe the hatred out of his eyes with the serrated edges of our claw. Without his eyes he will prove of little threat as a marksshrimp.

>>9412525
do this but allow him to live and send him out to live in the shark territories in exile

>>9412540
why?

he's done nothing either way

he's still hostile

though even if he swore loyalty i wouldn't trust him to keep his oath

>>9412604
the sharks are his friends. That'd be a recipe for disaster.

Fuck up his eyes first, that way he can't fire at us.

>>9412571
you mean bloodshell, lover of combat and well, blood?

You dance the "Dance of Disgrace" before gripping his cannons in your mighty rending claw. You clamp with all your might, shattering his precious weapons. You cast MINOR HEAL to stop the bleeding, before blinding him.

MAY ALL KNOW THE FATE OF THOSE WHO WOULD WISH TO OVERTHROW THE CRAB KING. THOSE THAT WOULD DISRUPT THE PEACE WILL BE MET WITH NAUGHT BUT YOUR FURY.

>>9412604
>>9412573
Both of these. An eyeless and disabled fool will wander the shark territories, to be eaten by the barbarians he attempted to ally with. His tale will be an example to all of crustaceankind.

>>9412610
only because he is sacrificing his own to them to keep the alliance. with out anyone to sacrifice he would be eaten

>>9412571
his followers are nothing without him, so it's more or less irellevant as, they were already rising up against us

now if they don't surrender and join us we wipe them out and take their lands for our own

ok, this is one of them unredeemable guys, SACRIFICE HIM AS A TROPHY OF WAR TO BLOODSHELL, and to make an example to any other upstarts that want to rebel.

>>9412637
Casualty report!

>>9412619
There are TWO gods we serve.

Which is why we must destroy his ability to fight so completely that even Bloodshell will be pleased.

A broken shell of an enemy is a defeated enemy, dishonored, yet alive as a testament of our ability AND our mercy.

With a hearty whack, you send Blasticlaw off in the direction of the reef, where the scum known as sharks reside. We'll see how noble his allies are to him now that he is without tribute.

>>9412656
Ehh, don't like the sacrifice idea. I think the exile idea is pretty nice, though. He's no longer a threat, only his memory is. We can ruin that memory by exiling him.

>>9412637
can we still have his gun? we did cast heal. maybe our scientists can reverse engineer them and create a storm-krab kannon for us?

You cast one final MINOR HEAL before your willpower depletes to zero. The cannons miraculously come back together, though they are still heavily cracked, and bleed profusely. Perhaps you will be able to find a way to graft them onto yourself, given a little more intelligence?

>>9412670
yes, but wavemaker has litterally nothing do do with blessing or cursing our victory, provided we don't go uber bloodthirsty

the abilities gained from him helped us, but they came from peaceful pursuits

>>9412714
we saved that molt right? get casualty report, gather dead/dieing, pay homage to the gods, go back to lair and molt for int and lrc! then graft that SKK on for MOAR DAKKA!

Casualty report:
Troop count: 930/1000

Your basic troops took the brunt of the attack, suffering 30 casualties.
You lost 5 lobsters
You lost 35 mantis shrimp

>>9412727
About half of the recommended courses of action have been uber-bloodthirsty.

We are a benevolent king, a merciful king, we cannot do this serving Bloodshell alone, even in battle.

by basic troops I meant crabs, sorry.

You round up your dead and half-dead, being sure to take their shells and armor for future troops. You stop to clean up the corpses of the traitors, it is not the job of the innocent villagers to pick up this mess.

The rebels corpses piled neatly, you leave them decompose, but not before consuming a few for 20 HP.

Back at you LAIR, you can now molt for four points, over two days.

Alright, with blasticlaw exiled we need to subjugate his troops, and go from village to village regaining their allegiance, and forgiving them while making one or two elite examples.

>>9412811
MOLT

>>9412811
2 in int, 1 in LRC, and 1 def or CQC

>>9412811
3 in Def, 1 in int.

>>9412788
no, half the proposed courses of action have been to kill the guy who wouldn't hesitate to kill us if given the option

half of those were uber bloodthirsty like killing everyone

This day was a sad one.

You have gained no new trophies.
You have gained no new followers.
You have had to fight your own brothers over the delusions of one headstrong upstart.
Your empire teetered on the brink of full-on civil war, but it was through your commanding that crisis was averted.

The usurper is gone now, at the mercy of the foul creatures he was so eager to do business with, and you sit upon your throne, pondering your next course of action.

>>9412811
2 int 2 cqc

we should prop both up to level 3

>>9412864
we need the SKK it is the only way to combat the sharks that will be angered with their lack of sacrifice and come knocking!

Stats:
DEF - 10 CQC - 10
LRC - 10 SPD - 10
INT - 13

Getting a stat to 20 points will bring it to LEVEL THREE!

>>9412864
Commune with Bloodshell and the Wavemaker to decide next course of action.

Seems people are gravitating towards intellect and either LRC or CQC

>>9412899
As much speed as possible, we need to move fast, the fact that there was a creature faster than us is disturbing.

>>9412899
maybe if we increase int up by 3 (this does increase willpower right?) we will be able to both graft the gun and heal commander whats-his-face. and add 1 to def for we were injured greatly due to some shrimps cannon!

>>9412922
Our next battle will probably be with a close range enemy, so I vote INT and CQC

>>9412860
We gained no trophies or followers.

We didn't even kill the charismatic leader that already rallied our own people against us. We sent him off unsupervised to plot and scheme against us, assuming he survives.

Had we gone my way, we would have had a living trophy, followers who had been following him, and the favor of both of our gods.

>>9412899
but first we must pay homage to the gods! they allowed us to defeat our enemy and possibly take its weapons for ourselves!

>>9412939
Your next battle depends entirely on who you choose to battle!

Oh, Bloodshell has granted you a permanent +1 to LRC for that boss battle. Sorry.

>>9412961
then INT and CQC since we already have the +1 in LRC!

>>9412961
since we got the free boost to lrc we should shore up cqc

keep it balanced, yet cqc heavy since that's where most of our damage comes from

Bloodclaw approves of your combat, but was not fully satisfied by the performance. The battle was too close for his taste, he much prefers wholesale slaughter.

The Wavemaker, however, is pleased that you left Blasticlaw to his own fate. It is not your business to decide the fate of a son of Poseidon. You now have HEAL!

4 points for something.

DEF - 10 CQC - 10
LRC - 11 SPD - 10
INT - 13

INT and CQC?

3 Int
1 CQC

>>9413027
agreed

>>9413038
second

>>9413038
This

You step from your husk much more intelligent. You can aim the cannons better, you know more dances and lore, you are a better orator, and you know advanced agriculture and smithing!

Your claw has increased slightly in size, around twenty-five feet long. Its teeth look pointier.

You are now thirty-seven feet across! Fifty-five with your legs!

>>9413078
BEGIN THE GRAFTING OF THE SKK!

>>9413078
Advanced agriculture? Awesome!

With this we should be able to direct the growth of Coral to make our fortress truly impenetrable! And, y'know, help advise our farmers so that we can keep the subjects hungry and happy.

>>9413105
I'll get right on that...


...another day!

I'm in need of sleep now, dudes. Time to return to the waves from whence I came. Thanks a ton for playing, I hope I can continue to deliver a fun experience to all of you with my shelly shenanigans!

>>9413078
Report on status.
Seek guidance from Wavemaker and Bloodclaw.
ELSEOR nothing new:
Go improve the agricultural methods of our kingdom. We shall be well fed.
See if we can't get some more coral growth rate on our lair -- if we become home of a coral, we become the center of an oceanic metropolis.

>>9413140
archiving

>>9413105
after doing so create the strongest metal armor possible with new found knowledge of the thickest pieces of the lair!

>>9413168
THEN better our kingdom with our new agri knowledge! our betterment comes before all else!

>>9413189
Oh how selfish, Crab King!

Also, is someone archiving this thread? I got thread #6 down.

>>9413200
well better then just keeping the knowledge to ourselves and not helping them at all i thought. =D

>>9413220
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/9412115/

>>9413244
Thank you very much! Well, good night to all of you!

>>9413253
is this every night now?