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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9806435" data-attributes="member: 508">In the second short adventure, the mermaid PC:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Met up with members of her merfolk tribe (as she did the first night of every full moon), to explain what all she'd learned about life as a human in the past month</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Was told a deep aboleth had recently come to the shallower waters and had been slain from the inside by a triton hero wielding a powerful weapon, Galrich's fang, but the triton had likely died and the weapon was still inside the aboleth's stomach</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Was furthermore told a group of anguillians (eel men) had been standing guard around the deep aboleth's corpse, refusing to allow anyone but the prophesized next wielder of the weapon, "she who has both two legs and none at all" - an obvious reference to the mermaid PC, whose intellect was housed inside a slain human woman while her mermaid body resides in stasis in a magic amulet she wears (she can "swap bodies" at will)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Agreed to meet the tribe members the following morning to go to the deep aboleth and seek out the weapon</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Brought along the other three PCs (and their mongrelfolk NPC adept)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fought an orca on the way, who slew the mermaid samurai leader of the group meeting with the mermaid PC, then left with its meal</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Arrived with the other PCs at the deep aboleth, showed the anguillian cleric she was the next wielder (by briefly swapping bodies in front of him), and then entered the deep anguillian, foillowed (in single file) by her companions</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fought Small and Medium monstrous crabs, a crabman druid (all of whom had eaten their way into the deep aboleth without the anguillians noticing); the druid thought the "godflesh" was all his, and if he ate enough of the deep aboleth he'd gain his godlike powers</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Found the weapon embedded in the top of the stomach cavity, and had the human monk retrieve the triton's corpse, then all returned back outside the deep aboleth</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Showed the anguillian cleric the weapon, to which he praised the God of the Sea for allowing the prophecy to be fulfilled...at which point he said the prophecy didn't say who would wield the weapon next after "she who has both two legs and none at all" and called for his six anguillian warriors to help him slay the PCs</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fought them off, slaying one warrior and the cleric, at which point the other five retreated back to the deeper depths from whence they'd come, not wanting any further trouble</li> </ul>Galrich's fang swaps between a trident, a longspear, a shortspear, and a stiletto, each a +1 weapon and grants the wielder proficiency in whatever form it currently holds.  And the PCs all leveled up to 3rd at the end of the adventure.Johnathan</blockquote>

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