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>>40243117
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>>40243117
>>Carve out the spot that heads up, but not in the right direction for the brain. Loud thudding noise.
Air is always up right?

>>40243117
>>Carve out the spot that heads up, but not in the right direction for the brain. Loud thudding noise.
Time to get to the heart of the matter.

>>40243117
>Carve out the spot that heads up, but not in the right direction for the brain. Loud thudding noise.
Most weak spots are near the brain usually and if it glows all the better! :D

>>40243117
>Carve out the spot that heads up, but not in the right direction for the brain. Loud thudding noise.
He's heart, Osborne! First, we attack his heart!

>>40243117
Up is heart
Left and right are lungs
Down is stomach right?

>>40243299
Oh shit! You're right! Changing vote from >>40243206 to >Carve out the spot on the left. Whooshing noises on that side

Left. Always go left.

>>40243117
Going up!
>writing

>>40243117
>Carve out the spot on the left. Whooshing noises on that side
I was going to go with up, but >>40243299's theory sounds like it makes sense. Let's steal some air from its gills/lungs, and hopefully not get expelled in the process!

>>40243117
>Grinding noises
Oh. That sounds safe.

Let's go left.

This would be the proper time to use magic wrong, btw.

>>40243560
Well, we do like crab meat. If air wasn't an issue, this could end up being the best all-you-can-eat crab buffet ever.

>>40243656
Well, it will.
Once we've murdered it, of course.

So, how much exp will killing Crab'thulhu net us?
Enough to evolve again?

>>40243543
So.
We're going into its heart.
arteries lead to the brain
Are we gonna be a lizard embolism?

>>40243893
We need to get to its buoyancy organ for air and then take our time burrowing into the heart.

>>40243925
Well, if we're connecting it's buoyancy organ (which crabs don't have) and its heart, we'll give it an actual embolism.

The mighty Crab'thulhu, bested by an air bubble.

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>>40243543
Feeling along the roof of the crab you find a nice pliable spot of flesh where the sound of thudding is loudest. A moment of vigorous digging later you find yourself in a long narrow and quite crowded passage leading upward. You wriggle along it, feeling the thumping grow stronger and trying to ignore what feels like a sack full of fish pressing against you.

At a guess you're crawling between the space between a stomach and some intestines, and you're not terribly keen on carving into either of those due to your long held fear of acid-related deaths. At the far end of the space between them though you find a wall similar to the one you carved through to get into this space, and you break through it with a similar amount of effort.

On the other side you find a circular room a quarter of which is dominated by a large pulsing organ at its center. That's a heart alright. The heart is fed by a large number of veins in the floor and ceiling that are high enough in the floor you could probably dig into them with little trouble. They're a fairly uniform reddish color, except for one on the left side of the room that is a disturbing black color. That black vein has a stone crab curled up into a ball on top of it.

Servicing the room are a lot of white crabs half your size seem to move in and out of the crabs flesh with impunity. They walked from veing to vein occasionally stopping to scratch it, or to plunge a little feeder into it and draw out some blood, turning their bodies temporarily red just before they disappear into a tube at the back of the room that opens to allow them passage.
[1/2]

>>40244062
[2/2]
The white crabs have formed a blackened line leading from the black vein to the tube, and you see a couple of them helping a blackened comrade to the back of the room as you watch.

You watch the heart for a minute to get an idea of any weak points it might have. Thinning of the arterial wall, exposed nerves, arrhythmia. Sadly all you spot is a thick yellow-red cord that seems to have pierced through the love muscle. White crabs reach up and pull out long lenghts of it before it snaps and pulls back into the heart.

Half in and out of the walls, the white crabs are ignoring you.

>You could probably find some way to mess with this well oiled machine <specify>
>No air. Air is more pressing, this'll keep. Double back
>No air. Maybe in that tube the white crabs go down.
>Other?

>>40244080
>No air. Air is more pressing, this'll keep. Double back

>>40244080
>No air. Maybe in that tube the white crabs go down.
Lungs perhaps? Steal oxygen directly from the source.

>>40244080
>>You could probably find some way to mess with this well oiled machine <specify>
Use a crab to cut open the black vein the run.

>>40244080
>No air. Air is more pressing, this'll keep. Double back

>>40244080
>No air. Air is more pressing, this'll keep. Double back
Do we still have the macahuitl on us? That'd cut through these veins like butter.

This fuckers respiratory system is basically full on crabs moving around?
Fuck thats cool
>No air. Air is more pressing, this'll keep. Double back

>>40244235
Even better than that, the crabs are its white blood cells.

>>40244080
Going back.
>writing

>>40244080
>No air. Air is more pressing, this'll keep. Double back
To a lung! Wish we had an offensive spell to magic the crap out of that heart. Crawling up an artery from the lung to the heart Is good too though.

>>40244329
This seems like a bit much to do on your rather limited air reserves. Which become more limited everytime you punch through one of... these... STUPID WALLS! You finally force your way back into the space between the larger cavities. The wall toughened up a bit after you passed through it. Stupid wall. You still manage to get through it handily and punch back out the other side.

You return to the room you entered the crab in and find a half dozen gray crabs that would come up to your knee wandering the room. They don't come up to your knee though. You're swimming, not walking.

The gray crabs are crisscrossing the spot you broke in through and spraying foam on it. As you watch the foam hardens into a shell. Probably to reinforce the scar tissue. Actually that stuff looks a lot like some crap you saw floating around the room when you came through.

To confirm this though a crab secures one of the floating bits of detritus back onto your exit and starts cementing it in place with the foam.

Your other exits appear to be ignored. Probably because they're thing fleshy walls you just claw through and let heal behind you. Though the one on the left side of the room looks... greyer? Dunno maybe you're imagining it

Obvious exits are
>Left. grey wooshing
>Right. just wooshing
>Up again. heart room
>Down. grinding noises

>>40244331
Well.
We do have an offensive spell.
We're just not supposed to

I'd like to propose we perform rescue breathing on the heart. Once we have the O2 to spare.

>>40244497
>Right. just wooshing
Oh, shit, is the crab a smoker?
He shouldn't do that.

>>40244497
>>Left. grey wooshing

>>40244497
>Right. just wooshing

>>40244497
>>Right. just wooshing try
Grey is moms poison.

>>40244497
>Left. grey wooshing

>>40244497
>Right. just wooshing

>>40244549
Oh, fuck. Good call, anon.

>>40244497
>Right. just wooshing

>>40244497
Just wooshing
>writing

>>40244549
The black vein in the heart probably also was.

>>40244781
Yeah mom's theme song should be poison.

>>40244818
I'd vote Cyanide by Metallica.

>>40244880
But she doesn't smell like almonds.

>>40244947
How do we know?
Have we smelled almonds?

>>40244947
>>40244971
Also, Have we smelled her while she was being poisonous?

>>40244730
The greying probably means mom is poisoning whatever is on the other side. The water clarity remains normal near it but its probably best that you just avoid that area for now. You've got a safe whooshing room over here. Which hopefully means lungs. Which means air. Which means not drowning inside Crab'thulu, your body left behind to be fed on by the apparently myriad tiny crabs living inside it.

This wall is much easier to punch through and on the other side you immediately find yourself in a very wide flattened room dominated by transparent cones that are reinforced on their edges by crab chitin. The cones themselves are shot through with thousands and thousands of veins that form a net like shape over the cones. Inside you can make out a fleshy tendril that thrashes back and forth to circulate the water. You can see small sea life has imbedded itself in a few spots on the tendril. The whoosh is coming from the movement of water through the cones. We have found the gills!

Also there's a big gas bladder on top of the room connected to the gill cones in a few places. Apparently filtering a little air to fill the plump sack on the ceiling. Most of them appear fairly decrepit apparently ignored in favor of a single cable that attaches to a gill cone in particular and has swollen it up in size significantly

>Air, sweet air! Open that bladder!
>Check out the weird cable
>Start sabotaging gill cones
>Double back again. This is just recon for when you're low on air
>Other?

>>40244947
She smells like a really sweet fruit you can't place.

>>40244971
Nope

>>40245016
You're still breathing so probably not while she was letting it out in aerosol form! Otherwise she's always poisonous in some shape or form

>>40244971
Lizard brain is a hell of a drug
>>40245016
She's always poisonous.

>>40245074
>>Double back again. This is just recon for when you're low on air

>>40245074
>Double back again. This is just recon for when you're low on air
We wait for the Sonic the Hedgehog. Air timer to start piping up.

>>40245074
>Check out the weird cable

>>40245074
>Double back again. This is just recon for when you're low on air
>Start sabotaging gill cones

>>40245074
>Tie off gas bladder and remove.
Portable air? Hell yeah!

Sunny isn't low on air yet but she's getting there.

Fun fact: Mom's current poison is a neurotoxin that doesn't affect cardiovasular tissues

>>40245074
>Check out the weird cable

>>40245203
Seconding, plus
>>40245074
>>Check out the weird cable

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>>40245207
So he IS a smoker.
Pic related.

>>40245074
Double back again with a quick check on that cable.
>writing

>>40245320
Gills probably got hurt.

>>40245413
Yeah.
Cancer'll do that to you.

>>40245074
>Air, sweet air! Open that bladder!

>>40245343
You consider trying to somehow tie off the sack of air but a quick investigation finds that half of the bladder's material is just the flesh lining the ceiling, making it a bit harder to make portable than just peeling it off.

You also take a look at the cable that apparently provides most of the air to the bladder and quickly see the reason for it. Inside the gill cone it's attached to you find the fleshy tendril in this cone has a sponge growing on the end of it that has largely immobilized it. Still it thrashes occasionally like it's supposed to and everytime it does the sponge releases a few bubbles, which flow up the cone and into the air bladder cable. That's interesting.

>Double back to the main room.
>Double back to the heart room. You air might last that long
>Wait a tick, I want to do something in this room still <specify>
>Other?

>>40245474
But the crab IS a cancer

>>40245527
We really gotta do something guys otherwise its gonna be back and forth till mom takes the glory and kills it.
>I say we nuke this bitch with magic

>>40245527
Acquire air use macahuitl to sever black blood In heart.

>>40245578
Backing.
Get a breath, go saw its major artery's surrounding the heart (easier than sawing through the heart muscle and just as deadly) then GTFO.

>>40245527
Get air, kill crab. Return to heart and cut all the arteries.

>>40245578
>cut off access to damaged lung.
No, we find it's counterpart on the other side, and cut that

>>40245527
Breathe, then let's go mess with the heart room.
>Writing

Current inventory: Skeleton sword, fire stone, shovel stone, bag of coins

>>40245763
OH SHIT.
I forgot we had an actual fucking sword.

>>40245782
Yeah, we can't use it very well due to the handle being cruddy sub-lizard design, but we should still be able to do some modest hacking with it.

>>40245763
You swim up to the gas bladder and exhale the last of your air. A quick tear with the claws and you plunge your face in and inhale.

Oh god.

That's awful.

It's stale and smells like week old crab meat.

You regret everything.

You've refilled your air, but at what cost? You try to hold the bladder closed to let it heal again. After a minute you let go and then watch the bladder tears open, completely unhealed, releasing all its gathered air into the chamber with you where it immediately disappears into the surrounding tissue, which turns bright red. As the air empties out you notice the crab starts to tilt about 30 degrees.

Well, shit. At least you're full up.

You squeeze back into the main room and watch the grey crabs work for a moment. They're about half done covering your entrance. The grinding noise from below has gotten a lot louder. Then you head back to the heart room.

The massive organ remains where you left it and none of the crabs respond to your entrance. The stone crab remains studiously where it was and the black vein appears to be leaking poison into the tissue around it very slowly. It's surrounded now by white crabs and a large green crab that can't seem to figure out what to do about the vein. They've stopped wasting white crabs on it though.

>Start jabbing arteries and veins with your sword
>Hack at that big old heart
>Try to move that rock crab, let the poison flow...
>Other thing? <specify>

>>40246159
>Start jabbing arteries and veins with your sword

Hearts are pumps. Find the main outlet arterie (It will bulge in time with the beat as its tissue is mainly elastic like) and sever it.

Crab will bleed out within minutes.

>>40246159
Don't bother with that last option, this poison doesn't affect cardiovascular tissue.

>Start jabbing arteries and veins with your sword

>>40246159

>Start jabbing arteries and veins with your sword

Then once some of the white crabs are distracted

>Try to move that rock crab, let the poison flow...

>>40246159
>Start jabbing arteries and veins with your sword
Arteries will kill faster than a ruptured heart or poison.

>>40246159
Open up the arteries, if you can find them.

Gimme a 2d100

Rolled 10, 62 = 72 (2d100)

>>40246406

Rolled 20, 82 = 102 (2d100)

>>40246406
RIP AND TEAR!

Rolled 30, 7 = 37 (2d100)

>>40246406

Rolled 47, 60 = 107 (2d100)

>>40246406

>>40246406
30, 82
>writing


10 20 30? The heck?

>>40246476
Not going to reward us for that? Or give us perils of the lizard or something?

>>40246406

30 82

Less ripping, much tearing?

>>40246476
C'mon, gotta be some sort of bonus for that.

>>40246476
Sword out, you start stabbing into and pulling into whatever arteries you can find. Your medical knowledge tells you that that's the most effective use of your attacks. Your ability to judge how you're doing though is a bit harsher. The arteries tend to be on the ceiling and more often than not deep enough that the cuts reseal themselves by vascular action alone.

Your work isn't completely overlooked though as the white crabs start letting out little "woob woob woobs" and climbing up the walls to reach you and the lines that aren't sealing quite as cleanly. The green crab sits itself down on the black vein and the stone crab immediately stands and starts climbing up to reach you itself. Somewhat slowed by its weight and unsuitability for this task.

The blade in you hand, though a bit unwieldy, is sufficient to knock the white crabs away as they come into range. Most falling harmlessly to the heart room floor, others you manage to slice properly despite the issues the sword offers and the fact swinging with force while underwater is hard.

Out of the corner of your eye you see one panicking white crab strobing red and blue colors across its shell and heading for the tunnel out. Another has found the spot you entered and burrowed into the flesh and drawn it tight. Effectively sealing the exit until that crab is dead.

>Continue fighting and stabbing whatever veins and arteries provide themselves on the ceiling
>Rush the stone crab, the sword is probably not much good but it won't be ready for you.
>Go after the little color flashing one!
>Kill the one in your exit and escape!
>other?

>>40246489
Reward given.

Captcha why you ask me to solve two?

>>40246689
>Go after the little color flashing one!

See if we can cut some veins and arteries while we go

>>40246689
>Go after the little color flashing one!

Kill the whistle blower!

>>40246689
>>Go after the little color flashing one!
If video games have taught me anything, its that you always kill the alarm guy.

>>40246689
>>Continue fighting and stabbing whatever veins and arteries provide themselves on the ceiling

>>40246689
>Go after the little color flashing one!
A bit more metagamey than I'm comfortable admitting, but I've played too many video games to be able to ignore that.

>>40246689
>Go after the little color flashing one!

Oh shit man it's getting help!
Kill all witnesses!

>>40246689
>Go after the little color flashing one!
Shiny!

>>40246689
No one escapes
I need 2d100

Rolled 4, 57 = 61 (2d100)

>>40246979

Rolled 74, 59 = 133 (2d100)

>>40246979
Ball! Er, Crab!

Rolled 38, 55 = 93 (2d100)

>>40246979

>>40246979
74 59
>writing

>>40247055
Could be worse
Could be better.

>>40247055
Pushing off the ceiling in a masssive leap you dive toward the strobing crab. You know someone trying to send up an alarm when you see one, and you'd reall rather it didn't. You tail whips and you cross the last bit of distance to plunge your sword deep into the crabs surprisingly pliable shell. The white crabs aren't hard at all. Probably because they need to squeeze into a lot of places. The colors on the crab die and you turn for another target.

There's a tremor through the fleshy ground you're clinging to and you see the stone crab has dropped off the wall and is still chasing you. You hear more "woob"ing from a white crab somewhere in the same cadence as the one you just killed but can't quickly pick out where it's coming from with the other crabs making noise while they try to repair the ceiling.

>Find the new alarm crab
>Take out the green crab, it can't move or the poison flows
>Try fighting the stone crab
>Cover the exit so the new alarm crab can't get out
>Head to YOUR exit and try to get out
>Other?

>>40247295
>>Take out the green crab, it can't move or the poison flows
We help mother!

>>40247295
>Head to YOUR exit and try to get out
These alarm crabs are going to bring a swarm down on us.

Get the door first and foremost. It is time to leave.

>>40247295
>>Take out the green crab, it can't move or the poison flows

>>40247295
>Find the new alarm crab
This is about as good of a weak spot as we're going to find, without finding a way to the brain. Let's keep it from being swarmed by more stone crabs, or whatever it is that counts for an immune system in this thing.

>>40247295
Green crab, we're coming for you!
I need 2d100

Rolled 35, 43 = 78 (2d100)

>>40247551
For Mother!

Rolled 94, 10 = 104 (2d100)

>>40247551

Rolled 80, 48 = 128 (2d100)

>>40247551
For pony.

94 48
>writing

>>40247551
The best way to keep any extra crabs busy is through damage control, you decide. You launch again, this time aimed at the green crab, who fails to respond until you're on top of it. Its shell is standard crab thickness, so you'd have some difficulty getting your sword into it with your poor grip, except that you slid the blade in a soft spot. You crank your sword and stir the organs while the green crab writhes, but does an admirable job not moving from where it sits on the black vein.

It does it little good as your weight on top of it topples it off the vein and you see the color start to flow toward the heart. Then something slams into you and you spin through the water of the chamber and turn to find the stone crab standing in your place. You prepare to fight but the stone crab just slams down onto the vein and curls up into a defensive ball of rock again.

You rub your side where the crab slammed you and wince when you accidentally rub your injury from the mad torpedo dash into this stupid crab you made with Milly. You really hope she's doing alright outside. Still the stone crab is dealt with, and you just caught sight of the alarm crab, almost to the tunnel.

>Mad dash, stop the alarm!
>Exit stage left
>Try to do more damage to the arteries on your way out
>Mom's poison might slow Crab'thulu down if it was actually getting spread properly, open the black vein
>Other?

>>40247890
>>Mom's poison might slow Crab'thulu down if it was actually getting spread properly, open the black vein
Then
>Exit stage left

>>40247890
>>Mom's poison might slow Crab'thulu down if it was actually getting spread properly, open the black vein

>>40247890
>>Mom's poison might slow Crab'thulu down if it was actually getting spread properly, open the black vein

Then we need to get the hell out

>>40247890
Cut the black artery and flee? The poison might kill the crabs trying to contain it.

>>40247985
It wont do dick to the stone crab, all the rest are fair game.

>>40247890
Cut and run
I need 2d100 to avoid horrible poisony death, or something

Rolled 83, 37 = 120 (2d100)

>>40248154
For Mother!

Rolled 60, 57 = 117 (2d100)

>>40248154

Rolled 86, 60 = 146 (2d100)

>>40248154

Rolled 73 (1d100)

Believe in the poison that believes in us!

>>40248154
86 60
>writing

>>40248293
You look at the vein full of poison. You look at the crab and see it staring back with eyes like agates. Or possibly they are agates. Either way you get the impression it understands on whatever level its intelligence is capable just what you are about to do. It starts to rise as you stab down. Then you pull like you just caught the juiciest most delicious fish in the entire ocean on your line and it just got done insulting your mother.

Red blood flows out into the water, tinged with the black of your mom's poison. You don't linger to enjoy the site of the rock crab trying to reseal the wound. You're halfway to the door by the time the crab has responded.

The white shell of the crab sealing your way out gleams in the light of your... well you. You glow, it's your thing, and you're basically the only light source in this crab.

Lining up your sword and thrust at the crab, piercing deep into and through its soft carapace. You wait for its body to slacken in death but it just seems to sit there. Dead and holding the flesh wall tight so you can't get out.

Crap.

>It's soft, use claws to dig it out of the wall
>There's a tunnel at the back you have no idea where goes
>Hide and pray the little crabs are better at their jobs than you were predicted they were.
>Other?

>>40248466
>>It's soft, use claws to dig it out of the wall
RP AND TEAR

>>40248466
>There's a tunnel at the back you have no idea where goes
Mystery box?
Why not?!

>>40248466
>>There's a tunnel at the back you have no idea where goes
Trap option go!

>>40248466
>It's soft, use claws to dig it out of the wall

>>40248466
>>There's a tunnel at the back you have no idea where goes
Brain time

>>40248466
>There's a tunnel at the back you have no idea where goes

It's going to be the crabs butt I just know it.

>>40248554
Who in their right mind would connect the anus to the heart.

This is also the tunnel the alarm crab just disappeared down. Just a reminder. I meant to mention it

>>40248601
Hell of a thing to forget Lamb

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>>40248587
The same guy who made this thing.

>>40248629
I told you there were only two exits in the room. One is blocked, where did you think the alarm crab was going?

>>40248587
You don't know anyone with a shit waifu?

>>40248587
Also something like this exists.

https://youtu.be/_y4DbZivHCY

>>40248659
Using it blood crab maguc to go through a wall?

>>40248466
Tunnel!
>writing

>>40248813
Halfway to the tunnel on the other side of the room, giving the poison spewing into it the widest possible amount of space between you, you decide that this was a good idea. Clawing a crab corpse out of a wall might have taken long enough to get you killed. The fact you're halfway to your alternate exit has nothing to do with your judgement of your decision.

You reach the tunnel and hear the alarmed woobs of the alarm crab from further down into it. Behind you the white crabs are charging into the poison. Then about half of them charge back out as their legs stop cooperating with them.

Squeezing into the tunnel is a trick but you fit alright. With the haste you're making you even see the alarm crab disappear down a branch into a side passage. You choose to go the other direction. If the crab is getting help you'd rather not run into it. Instead you bend left with the tube and bypass any other options in favor of the one that doesn't risk you getting stuck trying to contort yourself to avoid the chance you'll just get stuck until the next crab comes by.

Eventually you find an exit and disgorge yourself into whatever room it is. A quick check finds it visibly similar to the gill room you were in earlier. Except with less wooshing. Probably because the threshers in charge of stirring the water aren't doing much more than twitching in here. A single crab stands at the end of the room. a dozen pincer tipped legs holding closed veins full of black poison that the gill cones are picking up from outside. All except one which appears to escape into a wall.

The long limbed crab holds itself high above the line of poison that covers most of the floor level of the cavity, leaking out of the cracks between its claws. It seems tired. You feel tired. ALso out of air. Between the crab slamming into you and the long vigorous wiggling through tunnel you've done you appear to have exhausted your supply.

Little problems to keep your day interesting.

>>40249066

>That's it for tonight. I've got work in 20 minutes and I've done none of my prep stuff.
>Next thread... probably Saturday. I don't have an early shift that day so hopefully we can finally kill this sucker
>I'll stick around if anyone wants to complain about how this crab ain't dead yet. Or if you just have questions and shit. And by stick around I mean I'll post from work once I get there and get my phone back to the thread.

>>40249093
thanks for running

>>40249093
How badly did we fuck up the crab?

>>40249093
Thanks for running!
No complaints about the Crab'thulu taking awhile to die, that's sorta what you expect from crabs of mythic proportions.

>>40249093
I love that we just spent a whole session inside a crab. It's seriously cool.

>>40249170
>>40249450
Thanks for coming!

>>40249219
Well he rather needed that gas bladder to make the most efficient use of his legs. The poison you released hasn't been felt yet

>>40249667
Glad you're enjoying it. Thanks for coming!