I think the reincarnate has merit. It's the "know everything every other aboleth knows" I have issue with.
In the bowels of the serpentine lair we found the aboleth Astragagar, and after protracted combat, we finally defeated it, though it cost at least three of our members.
As we exited the monstrous lair and wend our way back up through the cultist rooms above, Black Brian was obviously ruffled about the lack of treasure we'd found in the god-things lair. We humored him in rifling again through the cultist leader's chambers, but at first found nothing. In his anger, Black Brian dashed the bronze-and-serpentine idol left on a pedestal in the leader's chamber. Inside it we found an an odd key that looked like a swimming aboleth. After several additional minutes of searching, El'landon the hunter perceived the magically camouflaged secret door in the room, and we applied the key.
Beyond the doorway, we found a strange chamber, flecked with bits of serpentine gem. In the very center of the oval chamber was a slime-rimmed pool of greenish-blue water, which appeared to have no walls or bottom. Beside it was a brass pedestal upon which stood an ancient book. I still shudder at the words on the page it was open to...
"We beseech thee, dwellers of sunken R'lyeh - sons of Dagon, viziers of Cthulhu, kin of Olhydra - forget us not. Remember us and adore us as we hold open this portal to your darkest depths. In time when you call us to that sunken city, may we be reborn as thou art - undefeated, undeterred and hungry to return."
We must have burned a dozen spells collapsing the watery portal. Even as it screamed against our assault and the first ropy tentacles fought to keep it open, we could hear Astragagar call to our minds in a calm, fatherly voice - "This is not the only door to my house"
I only hope we will be paid enough for our deeds to bring back some of our dead, for truly, our fight is not yet ended.
