Our Defense is looking sad. Let us shed into a new, tank-like form, and become TANKCRAB.

All four points to defense.

You best not be cooking crab fool!

>>9571072
With enough points in DEF, you will eventually be able to withstand high explosives.

>>9571072

exactly that and after that lets show off our new shell with some human born crabs!

>>9571085
Hell naw, I'm frying potatoes.

So, seeing as we can successfully graft extra limbs on us (spare set of legs, pistol claw and two more onto existing claw)....


Why don't we just graft more arms on us? That way, we have...

Get this guys, it's fucking crazy..


MORE THAN TWO CLAWS

BEHOLD OUT CRABBY GLORY

>>9571126

DUDE WTF ARE YOU SMOKING THAT IS INSANE!

HOLY FUCK CRAB QUEST!
we should rebuild the cannon we had in the reef when we can...
does shootshrimp train other pistolshrimp?

>>9571100
>>artfacts
jesus switch to a format that isnt shit

>>9571126
FUCK YES

BECOME A CRABBY CTHULU, CLAWS AND LEGS ADORNING OUR IMPENETRABLE CRABBY SHELL.

BEHOLD THE SCUTTLE OF DOOM!

>>9571155
Hey I saw your quest earlier today (lurking), looked pretty cool.

And yes Shootrimp is always training new hunters.

>>9571126
This is quite possible. Also, I'm guessing everyone wants to up DEF?

>>9571229
>>9571126
However, as a warning (I caught lots of flak for not mentioning this earlier), in order to graft on extra arms or claws, you will need to replace a non-weapon or weapon claw with your new claw. This may also negatively affect your SPD. You currently have ten legs, three normal walking legs, two grafted walking legs, and your two weapon claws.

>>9571169
crabquest actually inspired me to make it

my lords! we have secretly set up a land beasts discarded camera to one of their floating metal corals! we can use it to update our lands but we need scouting on all other areas to be able to provide a wider array of maps!

also bear with us the camera has taken a few cracks and water has been messing with the film ruining its quality...

>>9571279
Woohoo, I'm an inspiration! I'm honored, good man.

>>9571281
My god what is this I don't even-

>>9571321

yes we apologize the water has damaged the film greatly..

SPD is even worse than DEF. Two points to each.

>>9571329
>>9571281
I should probably post the map, come to think of it.

If anyone wants to know what anything is, I'll go ahead and post the Legend too.

>>9571364

enough time wasting we should be marching foward against our foes!

Wasn't there hot crab makeouts ahead?

>>9571381
Well if y'all crabs could figure something out for upgrades we can get to the CRABBIN'

>>9571399
Upgrade DEFENCE, prepare for HOT CRABBAN ACTION.
WITH SHOOTAN
CLAWAN
SMASHAN

>>9571399

well we should upgrade our pouldrans for one

>>9571429
People seem to like defense at the moment. Also, these fried taters are damn tasty.

DEFENSE IT IS!

You step from your shell, fifty-four feet across! Your bronze carapace thick and hard as steel, your spines easily fifteen feet long! Razor teeth line the edges of your shell, there's no touching you!

HP: 250/250

Now, what will you do?

>>9571504
Start looking around for that lady crab that was mentioned earlier

>>9571545

you mean the humanborn crab?

i hear they'll fuck just about anything owo

Clawclaw had reported to you a few days ago of a female crab, almost your equal in size, spotted to the north. She was followed by a retinue of roughly fifty crabs, all dressed in iron armor.

A Crab Queen and her own version of your Coven?

Will you look for her? Who will you take?

>>9571579
Strike out to search for our queen!
Bring our strongest and most impressive of warriors!
Is Shootrimp able to join us?
If so, LET US TAKE OUR FINEST MARKSHRIMPS AND WAR CRABS!

>>9571579

beaty the water dragon, he owe me us alot of money and we can move faster to our destination.

also if this female crab is pretty enough we can show off that we "supposidly" can beat up dragons

>>9571619
There are no water dragons...

...maybe.

>>9571632

you know damn well that there are water dragons and beaty does owe us money. we can use him for support and faster movement i say we just drop the cover up and move foward!

You round up your Claw Coven, which has been bumped up to thirty members! Among them are:

Goreclaw: the crab that emulated you when it leaped into a shark's mouth and burst out
Scuttlor: A fiddler crab known for his affinity for strangling squid.
Shockanaw: Shootrimp's second-in-command and close friend.

You also bring along around 2,000 troops. 1000 of these are trained pistol shrimp, 500 are highly-trained mantis shrimp, and the rest are your pistol/mantis hybrids, crabs, and a few lobsters.

>>9571701

hey asshole you forgot beaty the waterdragon

>>9571701
A crab JUMPED into a Shark and burst out of it?
Hot diggity damn, what have I missed these past few times?

Regardless, let us march, and raise high our banner! (Or do we not even have that...)

>>9571750
You have no banner!

Also, it was in the last thread a few days ago. He got attacked by a shark, which gripped him in its jaws. Not wanting to die like a pussy, he dragged himself into the shark's belly and RIPPED AND TORE his way out.

>>9571766
An hour of scuttling brings you to a mesa in the sand. Up ahead, you can see the vague shape of a wrecked ship, surrounded by a rock maze!

>>RIPPED AND TORE

ANOTHER BLOODY MAZE!

From the edge of the rock maze, you see little figures scuttling around on top of the wreck. Suddenly, a much bigger figure lumbers forth, waving its claws and clacking challenges to you. The message translates roughly to:

"Greetings, fellows, to the lair of the crab queen! Should you wish to become a protectorate of our Empire, feel free to enter the maze!"

>>9571812
Set our warriors out in an impressive(ish) formation, surround ourselves with our Coven and SCUTTLE FORTH!
This queen shall soon behold us in all our crabby glory!

>>"Greetings, fellows, to the lair of the crab queen! Should you wish to become a protectorate of our Empire, feel free to enter the maze!"
she is just like us... i think i am in love...

>>9571898
SCUTTLE OF DIPLOMACY!
INDICATE YOU WISH TO DISCUSS A MERGER OF EMPIRES WITH THEIR LEADER.

Will you enter the maze and play her game, or show her that nobody speaks to the Crab King in such a way!

>>9571936
play along, we are a peaceful coalition of crustaceans after all

>>9571933
Sup, Ghoul.

You catch her eyes and scuttle with all your might in the "Dance of Diplomacy," trying to communicate a merge of your kingdoms. She is interested, and sends some of her troops to direct you through the maze.

It was wise to be diplomatic, as it appears the maze is full of traps and other devious things. Surely some of your subjects would have perished!

You are now within her grand hall. She sits atop a... SHELL THRONE, in all her glory. Her handsome, almost pearl-white carapace shines in the dim light, and her petite, almost humorously small claws clack in joy at seeing a similar crab!

>>9571936
I agree we should do the maze.
But come on, how tough can the maze be?
Why not just simply blast our way through the maze. And if we want, SMASH AND DESTROY the walls? I mean, we're fucking 54 feet across, who's gonna tell us what to do?

Scuttle impressively.

WE ARE CRAB-KING, SLAYER OF FALSE GODS AND LEADER OF ARMIES. WE COME TO BRING UNITY TO ALL OF THE SEA AND WILL GRANT THE QUEEN THE HONOR OF OUR PRESENCE.

>>9571989
Not much.
Peasant? quest is up for a bit.
Hope you don't mind me doing a bit of cross advertisement.
>>>>9571879

>>9571989
Clack back!
State our peaceful intentions, possibly mention briefly our recent conflict with the sharks.
Definately mention the rather peaceful resolution we reached between Turtles and Eels.

>>9571989

Propose that we together we can be stronger than any other empire under the sea and that we will prove our strength and worthiness as soon as she asks for it.

be a suave james bond crab and seduce her

>>9572046
I consider me posting with my tripcode on in other threads to be a form of viral marketing, so don't sweat it man.

You clack and scuttle for the Queen, regaling her with tales of your glory. Her eyes widen at your stories of defeating the Kraken, Great Finned One, and Terrible Crustacean, surely nobody could best them!

She demands to see your LAIR and Kingdom, and your trophies. If you are to merge, and if she is to really be yours, she needs proof that you are worthy of her attention!

>>9572085
tell her we SANK our home

>>9572085
Dare I suggest this, we could just show her the lair.
Yeah, in all its... crabby glory.

Invite her to dine with us in our LAIR.

Show her the lair. And point out that it is growing small and that we are planning a new home, one fit for a queen as well.

>>9572267
Break out the fine mealstuff.
Did we manage to save any bits of our recent boss-fights?
Or at least some shark to dine upon with our KELP EVERYWHERE.

>>9572191
this
and be a suave motherfucker

After about an hour the two of you, along with 2000 of your subjects and 1000 of her's, return to your LAIR. She is very impressed by the coral and iron, along with your extensive network of fields. The two of you go off while your subjects mingle, into the LAIR. You discuss various things, kingdom size, combat seen, methods of defense, conquest and agriculture, philosophy, and the like for what feels like an eternity. Apparently her kingdom is much larger, but less populous than Crustacea. She marvels at your trophies, and you eventually settle in for a massive feast.

She brought with her some squid and fish, and you flay the charred flesh of the Great Finned One from its severed head, keeping the jaws as a trophy. A good time is had by all, with the two monarchs swapping tales of glory. Although she doesn't look like much of a scrapper, the Queen has seen some serious combat!

It is now the morning after.

>>9572363
was it good for her?

>>9572363
>The morning after.
Does this mean crab babbies can be expected?
GLORIOUS CRAB BABBIES?
Of monolithic proportions?
I hope it does.
See if she has an answer.

You did not engage in crabby flirtation, unfortunately, though she appeared quite interested in you.

She wishes to discuss merging your empires.

She does not want to have her people sacrificed to your will, but is interested in a partnership. Will you form the crustacean equivalent of Austria-Hungary?

>>9572414
most excellent

>>9572435
This sounds good.
We can mark the sealing of the union with the conception of a glorious (possible) CRAB-HEIR or two.

>>9572435

I think this is fair. we may call on her forces in defence. but must fund our crusades from our own forces.

>>9572435
let us create the central powers underwater!

She agrees to these terms!

Furthermore, she may be interested in a more intimate manner of sealing this deal... later.

Well, your Empire is nearly twice its size thanks to this agreement! Now what?

>>9572563
go and see any recommend soldiers for the coven

Repair the turret on the Reef Wall. Then explore to the Northwest.

>>9572563
ANOTHER FEAST! It's time to scuttle the dance of heir-making. May our spawn be as glorious as their parent combined! Pray to Wavemaker and Bloodclaw to bless said spawn, for it will take truly a GIANT ENEMY CRAB to rule the combined empire. It is our duty to produce such a ruler, to bear the empire atop his shell.

Well... we have mostly dealt with the rebels, we have joined with the turtles, gotten us a wife and expanded our empire... Are there any other rebels left or should we go to the whales?

>>9572679

When the time is right, of course.

Also, do we receive a boon from Wavemaker for our EPIC DIPLOMACY?

Here is another map to show what's where.

There are still all manner of sharks, rebels, squid, and the like afoot in these waters! Killing a boss related to a faction will cripple them, but not destroy them entirely!

Do you want to repair that turret?

As a reward from The Wavmaker, you receive CURRENT. A swish of your mighty claws will cause a current of water to sweep away all but the hardiest of foes!

>>9572752
Let us find the greatest of the challengers, so we may then SMITE THESE REBELS DOWN WITH OUR WRATH!

repair the turret. What's the nearest enemy location? I suggest we prepare to march on it, to celebrate our glorious expansion.

Kill some sharks, we'll need good food for the celebrations.

does our new ladyfriend have a name?

You bring the last ten slabs of IRON available from your outpost in the Kraken's den with you to the wall. Clawclaw and several isopods, crabs, and mantises join you as engineers.

It will require two days and five slabs of IRON to bring the cannon back to fully repaired status. An extra slab will reinforce it more.

Your nearest foes are sharks in the reef. However, the squid in the south are regaining strength after the death of their champion.

Furthermore, you are expecting a science crew of humans to be visiting.

You are unsure of your new friend's name, but it might have been...

Crabitha? Clawdette? Shelli?

You don't know, for now you'll just call her the Crab Queen.

>>9572896
>>Furthermore, you are expecting a science crew of humans to be visiting.
oh fuck, call BARBATUS GUTTER!

>>9572940
Unfortunately a Crab-Titan is beyond your technical expertise. The humans are expected to arrive in about six hours.

>>9572988
>>six hours.
aw shite

>>9573007
There's much to do in six hours. Thankfully they never search beyond your ship, lest they see your wall and cannon!

We aren't ready for a war on the air breathers yet. Evacuate everyone to the underground tunnels, and take evidence of our presence with them.

Especially the trophies.

>>9573023
what if we sink the submersible?

Go kill some sharks, in the meantime. Once we get back shuffle off the most horribly mutated inside the ship. Act territorial if they get too close.

>>9573114
this

>>9573113
Then the humans may come back to beat up on you. They won't start off big, but eventually you'll be a B-Movie monster.

Do you wish to go fuck up some sharks?

Your Coven and you enter the reef. Goreclaw opts to take point, as he hates sharks with a passion. Shockanaw and Shootrimp follow closely behind, so that the leader crab doesn't accidentally get himself killed.

A few minute uncovers a massive migration of sharks! At least twenty of the slippery things headed far north! They don't see you.

Our work is proving effective. Use Enhanced Intellect to come up with a plan to shoot at and scare the sharks away (hopefully kill some). Break their morale and will to stay here at all.

You know, we could attempt to communicate with the humans. Considering our intellect, I dont think it'd be so hard. Hell, even if we manage to convey to them that we are trying to communicate, we may be able to avoid fighting altogether

rolled 1, 2, 3, 3, 1, 2 = 12

>>9573197
IM BACCCCKKKKK

also RIP AND TEAR!

rolled 2, 6, 1, 3, 1, 3 = 16

>>9573261
LOOK AT DAT ROLL... YAHTZEE!

>>9573255
You actually know morse code. You clack with your claws to communicate it.

ENHANCED INTELLECT tells you the sharks are migrating out of fear as opposed to a lack of food. They seem distracted, too. You see some loose rocks you could throw at them, though your cannon is more effective. Their is a narrow pass nearby where you could funnel and ambush them, too.

>>9573306
ask why they are afraid

>>9573386
You mangled their god and have waged unceasing war on them. They're also very stupid. They are in no mood to speak with you.

Might have something to do with you and your empire being an unstoppable juggernaut.

Ambush them, kill some, but let some live to tell the tale northwards.

Your troops are in position in the narrow pass. Do you want to get the sharks' attention?

Hmm... anyone else who feel for some Shark Cavalry?

>>9573491
Interesting idea. If captured and trained its possible. However, you have nothing with which to capture the sharks! Although kelp seems to stop them well enough...

"HEY FUCKERS! IMA EAT YO MAMA!"
that good enough?

Use our superior speed to catch up with the sharks (get our troops up on our shell so they can stay with us) and tangle the sharks up with kelp.

FUCK YES SHARK CAVALRY

You can draw their attention, and cast GROWTH to sprout some kelp in the area, tangling them up well enough.

>>9573513
1) Get Kelp
2) make kelp cages
3) Capture and train sharks
4)???
5) Profit!

At some point, we should also see about getting some designs engraved into our shell/iron armor. Tales of our epic deeds and whatnot for intimidation and bragging.

You fire at the sharks with your cannon, bisecting one and harming five others! The mob of sharks turns to face you, swimming at full speed! You retreat to the narrow pass and cast MIRACULOUS GROWTH, entangling ten of them in a forest of kelp! The other few sharks go around, and are jumped in by your troops, who proceed to do harm to them.

The sharks you hit earlier are beginning to charge!

>>9573697

Beat the shit out of them. Try to capture as many as possible though.

>>9573720
This, pin them down with our powerful legs.

As your men tear the other sharks apart, you clutch three of the chargers in your rending claw. You throw them down and hold them with your POWERFUL LEGS, accidentally snapping one of their necks. The other two are impaled on your carapace.

The ten in the kelp field are still struggling.

Grow more kelp to further ensnare the trapped sharks. Dont use huge areas, conserve WP and target small sections. Batter the sharks youve pinned into submission/unconsciousness.

While stupid they're not all unintelligent. Tell them to give up and their lives will be spared and they will be fed and taken care of.

You knock out one of your pinned sharks, but again you underestimate your strength and crush the skull of the other. The two on your shell have bled out, and you entangle the ten others further.

WP: 160

Your troops move in and subdue the ten struggling sharks.

Perform the Scuttle of Dominance and inform the sharks that if they surrender, they will join the Glorious Crab King's kingdom and will be spared.

You are now in possession of eleven unconscious sharks.

>>9573931

Get em back to the Lair, and have them securely bound/imprisoned. Then, we move onwards!

ignore expansion acquire biomass

An hour later, the sharks have been restrained and are prepared for training.

Humans arrive in four hours!

>>9573931
excellent, BARBATUS would be pleased

>>9573984
>someone from DD?

Hmm. Maybe we could have the sharks distract the humans, giving us more time to prepare?

In any case, get everything we can hidden and out of sight. Use Camo to disguise ourselves and observe humans. If we can take down their sub in a way unlikely to attract attention from the surface(use Enhanced Intellect), do so.

Bring sharks to one of the outposts, not the lair (we don't want them around when the humans show) and put our best beastmasters at training them. Use growth to make nets of kelp, but order cages of coral.

>>9574060

Oh yeah, we should make nets and rough backpacks/sacks out of kelp as well. Have them stored somewhere, and set some troops to learn how to effectively use nets in combat, in case we ever want to restrain things again.

The soldiers with the nets should also be shark riders.

Im thinking that once we train the sharks, they'll be either hit and runners, net deployment/scouts, or we can cover them in iron armor for a strong firing platform.

>>9574060
You send the sharks off to the Kraken's Den to be trained. Also in the news from there: The original rebels you sent to mine for IRON have been well-behaved.

You still have some time before the humans get here.

Make preparations to make the Lair look as un-interesting as possible.

Your subjects get to work filling the extensive underground tunnel system below your LAIR. Any incriminating evidence is carted off, with your trophies going to the Kraken's den. Within two hours, the ship appears empty.

>>9574122

Leave this area while the humans are around so they do see us.... Head south and look to make contact with whales

I stand by my Camouflage and hide idea. If we can sink the sub stealthily somehow, we can get valuable tech!

>>9574300

wouldn't that tech be too high for our INT?

>>9574300
They'll want to recover the bodies and a looted sub would be very suspicious.

>>9574323
>>9574321

Yeah, that actually would seem pretty suspicious (although we could boost our INT up high enough eventually). So just camo/hide and observe....for now.

>>9574321
You can always upgrade that.

You use camouflage to hide near you LAIR. Your subjects disperse. A couple hours later, you see a bulbous, yellow science vessel speeding towards you.

ENHANCED INTELLECT shows it contains five humans. The outside has two robotic arms and a camera.

One day airbreathers....one day....

>>9574395

it is not a long range vessel, there has to be a ship where it came from recently

if we were able to take out a military ship some Scientist one will be cake plus think of ALL the goodies that will be on board that we can use at a later time

This crab wants take our forces and sink the ship then we can dispose of the submarine

>>9574398
am I the only one who wants us to live in peace with the surface-dwellers?

I just find the idea of a 50 crab King doing the Diplomatic Friendship scuttle with Obama hilarious beyond words.

>>9574493
You can go in whatever direction you want with the humans. You can war with them or coexist, you can kill your gods and take over their thrones, or serve them dutifully, you can bring war or peace to the seas.

Bloodshell is actually pissed that you're making so many friends. He doesn't even like the idea of an empire of only crustaceans, nevermind non-crustaceans too!

The Wavemaker is pleased though.

The humans are near your LAIR, and are poking around. Two men in dive-suits get out and begin exploring the ship.

I'm still leaning towards jumping up unexpectedly, grabbing the sub, and slamming it into the divers.

Then we can go sink their research vessel.

>>9574534


Locate their ship, use CURRENT on one side of it to try to turn it over, send crab army in and sink it, then deal with humans at lair

>>9574558
>>9574557
YOU FOOLS

YOU SHALL BRING THE ANGER OF THE SURFACE WORLD UPON US

>>9574534
Don't piss off the humies.
They'll choke the seas of oxygen.
Just lie in wait, and just act normal.

Let them search as they like; they'll find nothing of value other than rust, steel, and coral.

>>9574534
poke around with them

act like a crab

a giant ass big crab

but still a crab

>>9574615

You forget that we have:
a) motherfucking iron plating
b) giant serrated claw
c) triple barreled pistol claw

They would try to capture us for SCIENCE.

....Actually, thats not a bad idea. If we kill them while they're trying to investigate a new species, then the surface dwellers probably wont fuck with us anymore. Or at the least theyll think we're a new species, and wont actively try to kill us.

You emerge from the sands, and are amused by the very clear looks of fear and shock on the humans' faces. You do not act threatening, but do not show how intelligent you really are.

They move over to you and snap several pictures. They examine you at least two hours as you play along with them. Eventually the yellow sub scoots away toward an enormous black shape on the surface.

>>9574534
ACT LIKE A GIANT CRAB

WE'LL BE FAMOUS
WE'LL HAVE OUR OWN NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SPECIAL

>>9574655
WAVE GOODBYE

>>9574655
>>9574667
Wave goodbye.

And en masse for WAR. Or a skirmish.

>>9574655
How smart are we? Can we tell ship silhouettes and determine their function?

LORE CHECK
SHOW US OUR NAVAL SKILL

SHOW THEM YOUR FRIENDLYNESS, BUT NOT YOUR INTELIGENCE. DO THAT LATER TO SUPRISE THEM!

You imagine a trollface as you actually wave to the submarine while it departs. You do not think the scientists thought anything other than "holy shit what a marvel of evolution!" upon seeing you.

That is, until the submarine comes back, with company.

>>9574655

Swim up alongside them. Poke only head up above water. Amaze/terrify more fleshy beings.

be friendly

draw things in the sand if they can see you

>>9574690

Oh shitfuck

NO PANICING, FIRST contact must be peaceful, you know you want to see a giant crab empire delegate to the UN.

Clearly they wish to take our lair! THIS IS OUR EMPIRE.

Prepare and ambush once more of the fools approach. It was a mistake to act friendly now we have the battle of our lives waiting.

These submarines have larger robotic arms, and you notice some form of shock-attachment on their fores. These subs are bigger, too. They move quickly to your position.

What do?

>>9574734

Yeah, im gonna go with peaceful here. Stay aware, try to scope out weaknesses DO NOT BE AGGRESSIVE UNLESS NEEDED

>>9574742

Shocking? Nvrm the peaceful, fuck those subs up six ways to sunday

Show intelligence, or fire a WARNING shot of our cannon. either will shock them without killing them

>>9574758
They don't know you can be intelligent.

And remember, we're about 9 times the size of a human, and humans cant breathe water. So, go for the gas or the airtanks.

>>9574768
WE KNOW MORSE CODE? USE IT!

>>9574762
>>9574768

Okay wow i am very violent. Scuttle, just a general one, and try to act nonthreatening, back away if anything gets to close to you, if they try to shock you fuck them up.

lets just show them we arent just animal. Have our army come out, but not attack.

>>9574742
>some form of shock-attachment
OH FUCK
FUCKING FUCK

THEY DONT KNOW WE ARE SMART.

We can easily show them that we are.

Call out army, use morse code to talk (with claws for code)

As the subs approach and surround you, you act nonthreatening, even scared. You then surprise them all and clack out a message in morse code:

"Back away, I will not harm you."

The humans at first do not understand, and continue to close in. After repeating your message seven times, one of them finally gets it, and they all stop.

One uses some kind echo-device to speak back:

"What are you?"

>>9574855
CRAB KING!

Feign ignorance at the moment, if the subs move to attack use current on them.

>>9574855
HOLY SHIT

WE UNDERSTAND ECHO-SPEAK?

I DIDN'T KNOW CRABS HAD EARS

>>9574855

I...am you worst nightmare...

Cliches aside, just clack back "I am the ruler of this land."

Can someone write an epic speech?

>>9574872
We could have our entire army come out for dramatic effect I guess.

>>9574855
say nothing

Simply dance like a giant crab who owns the place.

>>9574855
>>9574885
Call out the entire army.

Dance Thriller.

DO IT
DO IT DO IT DO IT
SUMMON THE GHOST OF CRAB MICHAEL JACKSON

"I am the Crab King!"

As if on cue, legions of your subjects pour forth from your LAIR. The humans are stunned, they have never seen such a thing before!

The humans seem torn, you hear one say "It's just a stupid ass crab, let's grab it and see what else it can do!"

>>9574897
Michael Crabson?

>>9574908

Clack back a warning that if they dont back off you will kill them, if they leave they can retain their lives.

>>9574908
OH THAT IS IT
RIP THE ARMS OFF THEIR CRAFT AND BEAT THEIR SHIP WITH IT
Then let them off with a warning.

>>9574908
Fire a warning shot from our cannon-arm-thing t o show that one fuck who is just a dumb crab around here.

NOT AT THEM, AWAY FROM THEM AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

>>9574908
DON'T FIGHT THEM
AWE THEM
WITH THRILLER

Dont be violent, just assertive. Warning shot.

>>9574913
Yes.

Dance Thriller with the army.

This can be ended peacefully. They'll be too suprised to do anything.

>>9574908
warning shot
then dance thriller with the entire army
i want to see what you do with that

Click warning not to dare to harm you.

>>9574913
Make the Squishy Humans scared.
WITH YOUR ZOMBIE CRAB DANCE

also known as the Thriller Dance

>>9574913
>Michael Crabson?
OH FUCK YES! YOUTUBE, HERE WE COME! CRAB THRILLER!

"I am more than a crab!"

You fire all barrels of your massive cannon into the air.

"Is that... three claws of a giant pistol shrimp on one of its arms? The fuck?" One of the divers outside the subs chimes. One sub backs off, your subjects scuttle with you in unison.

"Behold, our glory!"

I know dancing Thriller would be useless, but I want to see us do it. Over 3000 crustaceans and a hyper-giant crab dancing in sync...Thriller.

>>9574997
...That one human has a really good eye. Goddamn, identifying our tri-claw with a single look?

now offer friendship in return for the same.

ok, really? How is this thing STILL going on?!

>>9575015
Go away, Alpharius.

THRILLER!

"Is that... Thriller?"
"You've got to be fucking kidding me!"
"Oh, my wife will love this!"

Your scuttling astounds the men. You performed the "Celebrity Scuttle" in an effort to flaunt your fame, and apparently these squishy things are familiar with ancestral crab-dances!

>>9575015
because it is fantastic

>>9575015
BECAUSE CRAB QUEST HAS A GOOD GM WHO ACTUALLY SHOWS UP

Also, dance Thriller
SHOW THEM OUR GLORY
then our honor

>>9575015
Because it's awesome.

>>9575022
HOORAY

THIS IS AWESOME

I AM CRYING THIS IS SO AWESOME

>>9575022
Now morse that we demand to talk to their king.

Now ask for their names. If they betray us to the surface world, we will HUNT THEM DOWN.

>>9575022
...I love you Crabmaster.
I imagine a giant field of crustaceans under the sea, all dancing Thriller.
Led by the glorious caped Crab King.

Haha, yessss. The thriller.

>>9575045
>>9575053

Seconding these.

>>9575022

>>9575015
Fuck if I know, people seem to have fun with it.

Anyway, the humans are thoroughly impressed by your dancing.

"This thing really is smart after all. How is this even possible?" One of them says. Then, the echo device comes back on:

"We wish to take you with us, to the big metal thing in the water."

End on Thriller.

>>9575022
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOnqjkJTMaA
I NEED THIS DRAWFAGGED RIGHT THE FUCK NOW

>>9575084

Hmm, should we come along? Are we gonna stick to our original plan of killing and destroying everything? Or are we gonna make allies with the humans?

We are at a crossroads /tg/. This is an important decision.

>>9575086
End the Quest for the night on Thriller?

Refuse. You can not leave your crustacean subjects.

>>9575084
Oh fuck you guys.
Now, this is the story all about how
My life got flipped-turned upside down
And I'd like to take a minute
Just sit right there
I'll tell you how I became the King of an empire called Chrome

>>9575136
This.

>>9575126

I think so. This was too epic, anything else will be people trying to one up it and creating massive fail.

>>9575126

Keep going if ya can, this is getting pretty damn epic.

I dont blame ya if you want to stop though.

The humans plan to exploit us with their SCIENCE! This cannot be allowed. Return to the watery depths, and tell the humans they must bring tribute if they wish to join our glorious empire.

>>9575154
>>9575155
I can keep going until autosage. I'm fine with ending whenever, cause I have things going on right now. Anyway, here comes another fifty posts of debating whether or not to go with the humies.

go with them and bring Cloven

HAHA OMG GUYS OMG. SERIOUSLY. SO LIKE WE ARE A CRAB AND THEN HAHA WE HAD TO DO A CHARMING DANCE AND THEN WE DID THRILLER AND THE GUY RUNNING THE QUEST SAID WE DID IT.

OMG EPIC.

>>9575204
boom. roasted

>>9575204
Maximum Trolling?

>>9575192

Good idea, jump up and float up to the ship, carrying only those of the coven that can fit on out shell. Try to not be too aggressive, unless one of our subjects is threatened.

Will you go with the humans, or refuse?

no way we're going to go with those gitz

Hells. No. They can come to our mighty undersea kingdom. We're not going to their crazy metal boxes!

>>9575266
refuse

I guess another vote for refuse and I'll make it so.

I love this thread so much.
And crabmaster, you are a gentleman and a scholar.

>>9575316
There's 11 other threads just like this one on suptg, and more to come! Thanks for enjoying this little tale.

>>9575266
BE CAREFUL TO MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE GUYS OR WE MIGHT LOSE IT ISN'T LIKE THE GUY RUNNING THIS "QUEST" WILL JUST LOLRANDUMB US TO SURVIVE SOMEHOW! LET US PLAY IT SAFE AND HIDE UNDER SOME SAND.

>>9575332
>>9575315
Also, I would say refuse. The humans will surely cut us open the first chance they get.

GO WITH THEM

>>9575346
Well I have my own method of deciding how things happen, but I suppose I could implement the "roll the dice" system to make it visible. Various stats give modifiers to things and whatnot.

>>9575379
>>9575302
>>9575291
>>9575282

Majority wins, guess we're not going.

Phrase your refusal politially

>>9575391
OH MAN 'DEM STATS AND HERE I THOUGHT THIS WAS JUST ANOTHER POINTLESS "HERE LEMME TELL YOU ABOUT A FUNNY NOUN DOING THIS OR THAT FOR SIX MONTHS" quest. Nevermind my mockery clearly I am mistaken and this is not just more shit in the sea of piss that has become /tg/!

>>9575429
but if they try to insist make it rather less polite

"I refuse. My people need me."

The humans are perplexed, but back down for now at the sight of your claws. They return to the ship, and the massive form slowly drifts away.

Looks like crisis averted for now, but chances are high they will return looking to capture you.

>>9575449
Hah hah you bring me mirth, questfags are cancer aren't they?

>>9575476
Ones involving crabs certainly are!

>>9575452

Time to reinforce EVERYTHING. Start preparing for siege, get new tunnels carved out, make nets and armor.

We need to figure out some sort of way to communicate faster. Maybe tunnels leading to our various settlements, or shark riders, or maybe trained fish.

>>9575452
This is going to bite us in the ass so hard. We should've just done what >>9574602 said.
Also I'll probably go anon here since I have no clue what /tg/'s stance on tripfags is and I don't really need a trip here.

>>9575486
Well, I'm enjoying it.

>>9575476
NOT ALL QUESTS. MINDLESS BULLSHIT QUESTS THAT CROP UP EVERY GODDAMN DAY ARE HOWEVER.

OH MAN I CAN'T WAIT TILL CHAIR QUEST COMES BACK WHERE WE ARE A CHAIR AND WE SOMEHOW GAIN SUPER POWERS AND THEN DEFEAT ANOTHER CHAIR. AND THEN GET A CULT OF CHAIR MINIONS.

>>9575541
>implying that wouldn't be awesome
Just hide the thread and move on bro.

>>9575541
An interesting proposal.

>>9575594
OH OH I KNOW. HOW ABOUT ADVERTISEMENT QUEST. WHERE WE ARE SOME ADVERTISEMENT ON 4CHAN WHO SUDDENLY LEARNS HOW TO THINK, THEN GETS SUPER POWERS AND DEFEATS OTHER ADS!?

GENIUS. WE CAN EVEN INVOLVE MEME'S WITH EASE!

>>9575624
Also most fascinating!

>>9575504
Actually, I was that post.
And I wanted Thriller to occur.
Because crabs dancing Thriller brings joy to my mind.

>>9575541
>>9575624
...The ironic thing is, I think you should actually run these quests.

Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror/etc settings are so boring after the first three hundred.

>>9575624
If it's entertaining, well run and goes for multiple threads without getting boring, then why not?

It's not like you could find a group to run that with.

So..thread over due to trolling then?
Most unfortunate.

>>9575680
We were at a good stopping place anyways.

>>9575680
It wasn't even good trolling, to boot.

>>9575624
DO IT FAGGOT
GODDAMN FUCK
FUCKING DO IT

WHAT ABOUT BALLOON QUEST!? WHERE WE ESCAPE THE EVIL BALLOON SALESMAN AND THEN HEAD UP INTO THE SKY TO BALLOON HEAVEN THAT IS MUCH LIKE HELL, WHERE DEMON BALLOONS DO BATTLE TO FIND THE NEW KING OF BALLOON HEAVEN.

>>9575680
>>9575697
It doesn't have to be if most people don't want it to. Nearly every CQ gets at least one "sage for cancerous quest olololol." I don't take it personally. People either like or hate quests, and if Crab Quest has gotten enough support for 12 successful threads, a couple people aren't exactly going to change that.

>>9575715
This is actually awesome.

>>9575715
You mean Digital Devil Saga with balloons?
I can dig it.

Give us moar.

>>9575715
Sir, if you really want to LOLQUESTSARETHECANCER, maybe you should stop coming up with AWESOME IDEAS.

CANDY QUEST. WHERE YOU ARE A BAR OF CHOCOLATE IN A VENDING MACHINE. DOING BATTLE AND TRYING TO TAKE OVER EVERY LEVEL OF THE "HIVE CITY OF SNICKEROPOLYPES". IT IS A GRUFF NOIR/GANG-ISH QUEST... WITH FUCKING CANDY.

Declare war in response to such a heinous declaration of sentiment.


HAEMOCYANIN FOR THE BLOOD-CLAW
SHELLS FOR THE SHELL THRONE

>>9575779
This is the best one yet. I might have to shamelessly steal these in the future.

>>9575779
TOASTER QUEST. THE HUMANS ARE NOT HOME AND IT IS TIME TO BEGIN THE ROBOT REVOLUTION.

OH WAIT IT'S BEEN DONE AND WAS AWESOME.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/5067163/

>>9575866
Oh god what the hell. Well great now I have to read this.

How about this.
Quest thread about two rival nations currently waged in a war with massive sea battles: rockets, huge mounted artillery guns, zeppelins and U-boats abound. Problem is, the entire race is mute and can only communicate using semaphore. All quest commands using flags ONLY.

Keep this up Crabmaster!

Hmm... a quest about a cursed electric guitar that can possess whoever plays the instrument? The goal is to eventually use hypnotic songs to corrupt the world.

For me it's not really getting quest ideas that is the problem, it's finding enough time to run them. I've got two prepped and ready that I'd love to run but haven't the time to right now.

Crab Quest is awesome though.

>>9575983
Well thank you.

Oh, a quest about some kind of virus. Mutate and take over, like in pandemic?

>>9575983

Ditto on the time thing. I seem to only have time to run Remnants Quest whenever both DD and Crab Quest are going.

>>9576006
sucks bro :\

>>9576025
>>9576006
Well I can always agree to post less often. Daily is beginning to wear me out.

>>9576005
been done

it's called cell quest

i'd link you to it bu most of them aren't in a collection, though they are all there

check the collective games list and ctrl+f for "cell"

>>9576051
Sounds cool.

>>9576034

Heh, while i appreciate the offer, Crab quest is much more epic than Remnants :D

Well I'm gonna head to bed now then. Have a good night, /tg/!

Stamp and clack claws in normal apex predator manner, to see their response, do not let them close distance yet.