>>40096067
>It's stuck in the crack what're the odds a giant crab is completely covered in shell? You'll find... something...

>>40096067
Places I say things (like imminent threads): https://twitter.com/Predhack

The story to now: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Re:%20Lizard%20EX%20Quest

Character sheet: http://pastebin.com/dLa1ayJX

You can ask me questions in my off time here:
ask.fm/LambQM (though it's empty right now)

>>40096067
>>Back to the moms this isn't a solo fight
Hey MOM found a crab you can eat! Come look!

>>40096067
>>Back to the moms this isn't a solo fight

>>40096067
>>Back to the moms this isn't a solo fight

We need to have the happiest little kid face possible while yelling. "Mom! Mom! I found you a crab!"

>>40096067
>>Back to the moms this isn't a solo fight
As amusing as it'd be if we fought this solo, I'm pretty sure lamb would bad end us. Hes made it pretty clear that decision is overtly retarded.

>>40096067

>Back to the moms this isn't a solo fight

"Hey I found a crab!"

>>40096067
>Back to the moms this isn't a solo fight
a family bonding moment

>>40096067
>Back to the moms this isn't a solo fight

Play it safe.

>>40096067
>>Back to the moms this isn't a solo fight

>>40096067
>AIWFMD
And to reiterate from last thread:
Attack its weakpoint for massive damage!

Now where's the glowing red spot, Lamb.

Also to reiterate from last thread, Solar beam SHOULD be super effective on it, so we should try to use it.

>>40096067
To mother!
>writing

>>40096508
You'll have to find one.

>>40096527
Except water diffuses light. Making it much less effective due to terrain modifier.

>>40096538
It has huge claws. It'll probably be unable to do anything to us if we cling on to an eye stalk and try burrow in through the joint.

>>40096562
Bitch please, we are our own light source, and we can probably just cast sunny day, which will allow solar beam to instantly fire. Also somehow make it a sunny day, despite being underwater (I have tested this, as of pokemon sapphire this works)

>>40096577
Suction can knock us off and drag us though.

>>40096602
Too bad this ain't pokemans.

>>40096636
It can be if we became meta enough!

>>40096538
Is it its eyes, its mouth, or some other tender spot?

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>>40096538
You consider the crab that has recategorized your baseline size for "leviathan." Crab leviathan. Crabiathan? Whatever.

"We should go tell our moms about the crab-uh uh ACHOo," you say to Milly before the end is interrupted by salty sneeze.

"Is... is that what we are calling it? I don't think I can pronounce that," Milly says hesitantly.

You decide not to correct her. Rubbing your nose to get rid of the stinging feeling all the salt water has left in it you swim for the beach, the mermaid right behind you. And in front of you. Now she's to the side. OKAY YOU GET IT SHE SWIMS FASTER THAN YOU.

Eventually you get to the place where you left the moms. It looks like they set up a small, especially compared to them, fire and started cooking the birds and crabs you left behind earlier. At least they didn't eat them. As you approach you see Dezzy has removed himself further out into the surf to sulk about something. Mom and Milly's Mom appear to be talking to someone, who when you get closer appears to be some sort of well dressed crab.

"Just have someone bring the basket by whenever it's ready," Mom is saying in her usual whisper-with-the-volume-of-a-speaking-voice. "I'll pay when they arrive it that's alright."

The crab appears to nod and then notices you and doffs its hat to you politely.

>Mom! Crab!
>If you were going to find your own crabs...
>Why are you talking to that crab?
>other?

>>40096527
>>40096562
>>40096602
I don't remember handing out TMs 11 and 22. Right now only one lizard knows Solar Beam and that lizard doesn't really have the stats to capitalize on it.

>>40096862
>>Mom! Crab!
>>If you were going to find your own crabs...
>>Why are you talking to that crab?
>>To the Crab I like your Hat

>>40096862
>Why are you talking to that crab?
and mom You said you wanted a crab to eat so I found you a BIIIIIG one! Come look!

>>40096862
>Why are you talking to that crab?

>>40096862
>Mom! Crab!

Is she speaking to the mudcrab merchant?

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>>40096862
>Mom! Crab!
>Why are you talking to that crab?

>>40096932
I already have that picture, that's a different crab.

>>40096862
Time to give info and get info
>writing

>>40096862
>"Well, We got enough crab to shate with you."
>"It should show up in a little bit."

>>40097083
*share
Too late to matter, but my honor demands it.

>>40097072
You stare at the crab with the dapper hat and ring of metal around its eye. It stares back politely. You turn to your mom.

"Were you talking to the crab?" you ask her with some confusion.

"Do you remember auntie's rules?" she asks.

"Don't eat anything that talks unless it's a jerk about it," you recite.

"Add things that wear clothes to that. This is Cornelius Crab."

"Entrepreneur extraordinaire," the crab in heavily accented swampspeech. You actually had trouble understanding what it said and it took your a few seconds to figure it out.

"Okay," you say slowly, then turn back to mom, "We found a crab big enough for you two to eat."

Mom looks surprised. "Did you bring it with you?" she says looking past you into the surf for something she might have missed.

"No," Milly shakes her head, "It was too big for us."

"How big was it?" her mom asks.

"If you and mom were to start eating it now and didn't get full..." you say while you do some quick number crunching based on what you saw, "It'd go bad before you finished."

"That. That's a lot of crab," Mom says a gleam appearing in her eye, "And it was big enough that you didn't want to fight it?"

"It could have swallowed you whole," you say, "That's too big for now."

"For now," Milly echoes you with a grin.

Your Mom laughs and Natty's mom looks like some terrible fear of hers just came true.

"This I have to see," Mom says, "Where is it?"

[1/2]

>>40097527
Milly describes the location to her mom and she nods. "Relay Crag? I didn't think there'd be anything in there, it's so shallow."

A weird noise starts up somewhere nearby.

You have to wonder about her definition of shallow when you had to go far down to reach bottom but you correct her, "Not shallow, full of very large crab."

You look for the source of the noise as it gets louder and find a visibly upset crab. Which is interesting since crabs don't have faces. It's just shaking, rattling and letting out what you assume is a terrified scream. For a crab.

>Ask the crab what's wrong
>Continue telling Mom about the crab, if you go right now it might not be free yet
>You're hungry and your crab is cooked.
>Other?

>>40097550
>>Ask the crab what's wrong
>Continue telling Mom about the crab, if you go right now it might not be free yet

>>40097550
>Ask the crab what's wrong
>Continue telling Mom about the crab, if you go right now it might not be free yet

>>40097550
>>Ask the crab what's wrong
>>Continue telling Mom about the crab, if you go right now it might not be free yet
>>You're hungry and your crab is cooked.

>>40097550
>Ask the crab what's wrong

>>40097550
>>Ask the crab what's wrong
Are we planning to eat a crab god or a crab godzilla equivalent?

>>40097550
>Ask the crab what's wrong

>>40097627
Yes. And that's a good thing.

>>40097648
No, I mean ask the crab which one it is. If it's their local deity, it'll be at least impolite.

>>40097666
That crab is terrified, not in awe, the natural reaction to the return of your deity is not blind terror.

>>40097723
Well, that depends on wether you worship said deity or not.

>>40097550
Why always with screaming?
>writing

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>>40097792
"Are you alright?" you ask Cornelius.

He shrieks something in a language you don't understand by Milly's mom is nice enough to translate. "YOU HAVE AWOKEN CRAB'THULU!"

"Wait, that's really its name?" Milly asks, surprised, "I though Sunny just sneezed when she was trying to call it something else."

You decide to feign being smarter than you look and not admit to what she apparently already knew.

"HIS COMING HERALDS THE END OF US ALL! WE WILL BE DEVOURED BY THE GREEDY GOD!" Natty faithfully translates.

"I woke up a god?" you wonder, looking at your mom for confirmation.

"Probably not. Crabs are prone to hyperbole. You should hear Cornelius' wife talk about the size of his claws." Mom shrugs.

This accusation apparently snaps the crab out of his terror funk and he stops to look at your mother. He might be glaring but the effect is lost without eyelids.

"There's a long and storied history about Greedy Crab'thulu!" Cornelius protests.

You all nod understandingly to try and mollify the dapper crab.

>Anyway, the giant crab is in the crag still if we go now...
>So we should plan on how to deal with the crab or something?
>Long and storied history?
>other?
pick one

Screaming wurmple because of recent discussion and my lack of screaming crab gifs

>>40098071
>Anyway, the giant crab is in the crag still if we go now...

>>40098071
>Anyway, the giant crab is in the crag still if we go now...

>>40098071
>Anyway, the giant crab is in the crag still if we go now...
Long history after while we're eating.

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>>40098071
>Anyway, the giant crab is in the crag still if we go now...


Have a molting crab gif

>>40098156
>Finally, I am free of this mortal shell!! LET THE REIGN OF CRABTHULHU BEGIN!

>>40098071
Ignoring the crab.
>writing

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>>40098233
Yeah, those crabs get seriously fuckin big.

>>40098071
>>Anyway, the giant crab is in the crag still if we go now...
We can listen to the story later, over FRIED CRAB BISCUITS

>>40098256
Everyone turns away from the crab as one and resume discussing the giant crab.

"So if it's still trappeds in the crag we can probably just attacks it there," you suggest. "It will not has all its limbs."

Mom nods and considers this while the crab goes ballistic behind you.

"Oh whats now?" Mom complains.

"He said, 'The great crab'thulu is not stuck. He made the crag. He's just as lazy as he is greedy. His magic is over all the things of the world save one! He probably just hasn't woken up completely yet!' blah blah blah. Something about putting him back to sleep," Natty says off-handly.

"Why don't I speak crab?" Milly asks.

"It's an annoying language to learn,' her mother replies.

"I want to hear the story," Dezzy says from behind you. You nearly jump with fright. You didn't realize he'd rejoined the lot of you.

"Right, so we're going to go gets the crab while he's in the crag?" your mom confirms.

>Let's go already
>Actually what was that bit about magic?
>Leave Dezzy to listen to the crab once it calms down and speaks a normal language
>Bring Dezzy
>Other?

>>40098576
>Actually what was that bit about magic?
that seemses usefuleds.

>>40098576
>Actually what was that bit about magic?
afterwards
>Leave Dezzy to listen to the crab once it calms down and speaks a normal language
He'll tell us all about it when we get back.

>>40098576
Should probably mention the suction thing before we decide to walk into the water again.

>>40098576
>Let's go already

>>40098576
>Actually what was that bit about magic?

>>40098576
What that about magic?
>writing

>>40098825
"I don't think it had magic," you say, "It was just sucking and blowing out lots of water."

"That is the least of its powers over water," the crab says urgently, thus requiring a mom to translate for it, "Ice above, fire below, and around him water's flow, plus beware its children of stone. Crab'thulu is friendless but never alone!"

"Did he actually rhyme like that?" mom asks.

"Yes. It was very hard to make work in the translation," Natty says grumpily. "I despise poetry."

"These powers and Crab'thulu's own size and strength let it challenge the furious one prior to his ascension!" the crab continues.

You nibble on some of the crab meat from earlier. You really didn't expect to take this long to get to murdering.

>Any of those stories cover weaknesses?
>What's a Furious One?
>Other questions for crab? <specify>
>Alright that's all we needed to hear.

>>40099059
>>Any of those stories cover weaknesses?>What's a Furious One?

>>40099059
>Any of those stories cover weaknesses?
We need to find the Asians in its armor.

>>40099059
>Any of those stories cover weaknesses?
>What's a Furious One?

>>40099059
>>Any of those stories cover weaknesses?

>>40099059
>What's a Furious One?

>>40099059

>Any of those stories cover weaknesses?
>What's a Furious One?

>>40099059
The crab better be able to answer these quickly.
>writing... will wait til after I grab some grub
Please standby

>>40099324
But I'm sitting...

>>40099324
Lamb, don't make us break out the adorable lizard face again, last time we nearly d'awwed our family to death. Come back now before we escalate this.

Rolled 83 (1d100)

>>40100242
Sigh, Rolling for begging skills.

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>>40099324
Okay that took much longer than expected
>writing
Luckily I foresaw this and got most of this done in advance.

>>40100577
"What's a furious one?"

You and your mother speak almost simultaneously and the little crab seems a bit cowed. But then puffs himself up in the manner of crabs and prepares to speak.

"The short version please," mom interjects as the crab begins. It looks at her and manages to look vaguely affronted before doing a crabby nod and resuming, Natty taking up the translation again.

"In the time before the great god of the sky land and sea took his place among the heavens and left his son to keep his demenses," the crab begins. Your interest piques just from the beginning of this. It sounds like the beginning of a story about God Lizard. Though why crabs would revere them, besides the obvious reasons of being eminently reverable, "When the great god who was in that time known as the Furious One Whose Light Destroys All graced our waters we brought him many sacrifices to sate his great hunger. The children of the earth, sea, and sky recognized his might and offered even some of their children that his wrath might be kept to reasonable levels. It was then that the greedy crab god, Crab'thulu, ascended from a lowly crab of no intelligence but of mighty vigor did come upon the sacrificing place, and the crab did glut itself on the sacrifices to the Furious One. And so did it incur the wrath of the Furious One, and the two did join together in battle. And before the might of the Furious One's light the crab did know his error, but fought it valiantly still, sufficient that the Furious one was impressed, and when the god among crabs fled he was allowed to escape after being broken into only four pieces. So the crab god did return to his dwelling and return to a sleep that would last until the deep wounds in its body were healed."

"Do any of your stories mention weaknesses?" you ask.

[1/2]

>>40100675
[2/2]
"Not really? The story does mention that the crab impressed the Furious One after managing to knock him off his feet with a furious desperate blow. And it was in response to that the Furious One lashed out a might foot and scored through one Crab'thulu's eyes and into the brain, cutting it four pieces. It's fortune at surviving such a blow of course added to the esteem the Furious One held it in."

"No rhymes?" you ask Natty. She snorts with derision and leave it at that.

>That was interesting. Can we bug it in the crag now?
>Maybe ask about more reinforcements? It's a big crab you can share
>Other suggestion to help vs crab <specify>
>Other?

>>40100732
>>That was interesting. Can we bug it in the crag now?

>>40100732
>That was interesting. Can we bug it in the crag now?

>>40100732
Oh, shit. It's like Zelda all over again.
>Plan 'throw a deku nut then stab it in the eye' is go!

>>40100732
>That was interesting. Can we bug it in the crag now?

>>40100732
>>That was interesting. Can we bug it in the crag now?

>>40100732
>>>That was interesting. Can we bug it in the crag now?
Crabfight.

Hit that damaged eye, commit giant crabicide!

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>>40100732
Off to the crag!
>writing

>>40101018
You glance at your mother to see if she's going to ask the crab anything else. You got what you needed. She stands and stretches and the rest of the group starts shuffling off into the water except for Dezzy who stays behind.

"Don't go looking for that skull," his mom warns him.

"I'm just going to talk to the crab," he says, rolling his eyes, and your youth sense tells you that he's going to look for that skull the second she's gone. What skull you have no idea but he'll look for it.

The crab waves and Dezzy's mom translates again as it hisses in its language, "Farewell, friends. If you survive I will gladly do business with you again. Goodbye!"

Now you roll YOUR eyes as your turn and dive into the surf, following your mom. You and Milly lead your respective parents to Relay Crag and find that monster crab hasn't moved much, though it's face is now protruding from the crack, and it's stopped moving. As you get closer you see smaller dark shapes moving around the edges of where it is stuck.

With its face exposed the crab seem larger than ever. At least 150 meters wide, though there's something odd about the bit where it disappears into the crack in the seafloor. You can make out wide cracks and misshapen portions of shell all over the crab that you assume are the result of long lost battles. Though more worrisomely you can't see any sign that the creature's huge pair of eyes have ever taken any damage. That doesn't match the story.

Even from here though you can see the distortion in the water as the crab continually varies between sucking in enormous amounts of water and blowing it out. Pulling in whatever hapless sea creatures are wandering nearby, which isn't many. Either due to most things having the brains to run away from such a monster or just having been eaten already.

>Surface and discuss who is doing what in this fight, and how to handle fighting with each other
>CHARGE
>Offer to do some close recon
>Other?

>>40101410
>Offer to do some close recon

>>40101410
Guys.
Guys are we going to get sucked into a giant crab to do a Jonah's Crab internal crab battle?
Is this Crabu crabu? Crabmonstro?

>>40101410
Looks like Recon is the choice by a landslide
I need a 2d100

Rolled 79, 27 = 106 (2d100)

>>40101720
For mother!

Rolled 36, 66 = 102 (2d100)

>>40101720

Rolled 12, 12 = 24 (2d20)

>>40101720
Here we go

Rolled 56, 23 = 79 (2d100)

>>40101720
DICE GODS HEAR MY PLEA

Rolled 82, 12 = 94 (2d100)

>>40101720
stealth lizard activate.

>>40101720
79 66
>writing

>>40101783
>>40101796
>>40101802
Where was errybody at when we were voting?
Prolly watching the gryphen fight over at REQ or something

>>40101918
They all angry I vanished for 45 minutes.

>>40101955
>>40101918
Sorry I'm kinda distracted ATM

>>40101955
Well i still love you Lamb <3

>>40101851
You get the others' attention and try to gesture what you're trying to do. Then your mom quietly makes the signal for stealth, recon, and a question. You didn't know those noises auntie taught you all to make could be used underwater. You try making the affirmative noise and she shrugs and waves you down before floating to the surface.

After grabbing a breath you swim straight down to the bottom of the sea and from there begin sneaking up on Crab'thulu. You have no trouble keeping out of line of sight with the massive eyes on the creature's face, though for some reason they're not on stalks like most crabs you've met.

As you get closer you make out the moving shapes you saw earlier and identify them as crabs. Crabs that look like they're made of a pile of rocks. They scurry about industriously trying to break away the stone holding Crab'thulu in place while their creator appears to lounge around waiting. Their progress is very slow. Though you see some of the debris from their efforts forming into more of the stone crabs. Many of them are easily big enough to make trouble for you, even if they weren't made of stone.

You try to sneak closer but are hindered by the the continued milling of the small horde of stone crabs and the fact that as you get closer you see spots all over the hide of Crab'thulu that your pretty sure are eyes. Lots and lots of small eyes. From what you know of eyes, at that size they won't see well, but seeing at all is kind of detrimental to stealth.

Backing off a bit you examine the legs sticking out of it. They're all quite long, easily hundreds of meters long. And like real crabs a couple of them end in massive claws. They move slowly, when the crab deigns to move them, but you're not sure if that's their max speed or if they just have no reason to move fast.

>Investigate further down the crag,
>Try to gank a stone crab and test their sturdiness
>Return and report
>Other?

>>40102167
>Investigate further down the crag,

>>40102167
>>Investigate further down the crag,

>>40102167

>Investigate further down the crag,

>>40102167
Down we go
Need another d100

Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>40102352
We do thing for mother!

Rolled 43 (1d100)

>>40102352
HWG

>>40102352
might wanna stop for the night, a lot of people are gone by the looks of it.

Rolled 53 (1d100)

>>40102352
active lizardflauge.

>>40102413
That was my plan gonna start next time with results of this.

>Thanks for coming folks.
>Next thread probably Saturday.
>I'll be around a while longer if anyone needs anything

>>40102475
Good night man!

>>40102475
Thanks

Good thread

Goodnight man

>>40102514
>>40102496
Thanks for coming.

I swear there will be more crab murder next time. Barring some strange votes

>>40102475
>>40102532
Thanks for running! what are our odds? Tell us so we can ignore them!

>>40102568
This crab is your personal death star and Cornelius Ardosdidos the Crab failed to hand you a perfect set of plans to it.

Also this isn't even its final form

>>40102633
Well at least it isn't a trap. How hype is Mom?

>>40102656
Pretty hype. She's a bit quiet cuz she's trying to figure out where to start in murdering this thing.

"A good murder is like a good meal. It starts with knowing what ingredients you need to get to make all the parts happen, and then what you need to murder to get those ingredients. If something isn't dying to make the meal happen then you're doing it wrong." -Mom

>>40102730
How prosaic, even if she mixed a metaphor. Dammit lizard brain stop giving Sunny new words. What's mermom's train of thought? Can DAD finally tell us apart from our sibs?

>>40102757
Natty: This ought to be fun. (Mermom is aware she's kind of crazy in her desire to break things. She was hoping her kids wouldn't catch it from her)

Dad: Okay so the big colorful one is Sunniva. The one that smells like a healer's hut is Koma. The one that smells like she was in the middle of an explosion recently and is covered in black shit is Min. Then my boy Jho. Then the other two boys who I haven't seen in a while OH I HOPE THEY DIDN'T RUN AWAY AGAIN

>>40102840
So our two older brothers are missing? Shit guess we know what's going on after crabthulu dies. How can dad bungle so badly normally, but be a frighteningly competent war caster?

>>40102882
Mom knows where they are. Heck, you know where they are.

Dad's just bad at family and standing up for himself

>>40102906
Did mom give him a concussion when they were kids or something?

>>40102932
Hahaha, you have no idea. Not personally but she was a direct cause

>>40102962
Figured as much. What do Milly and Dezzy think of us?

>>40103078
Milly: Holy crustaceans she's got legs and can swim and walk that's so cool. I bet she's seen so much cool stuff.

Dezzy: She's alright. She's no Milly though.

>>40103115
Dezzy confirmed for incest-fag

>>40103327
Nah. She's just his only point of reference for cool people

If Crabthulu's covered in eyes, then flashing it will work better than any previous victim.
Alternatively, get Mom to spit poison into its mouth.

In other news, is the Furious One sun-typed? And aren't we sun-typed?