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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 7097426" data-attributes="member: 2012">The blade`s adamantine is soon exposed but still a bit tarnished. Kang has been in filth so long that it will likely take a good oiling to clean it properly."My goal has always been to defeat the guilty. To punish those that have broken the laws of the land. Good and evil aren't as important as the law, but good is usually better for society. But when good lets corruption fester, then darkness can balance the equation, although it rarely does. No, it is better to stick to the laws, even if unjust, in order to root out the guilty and punish them accordingly. That is my purpose."Kang is more dedicated to the ideals of either 'mercy' or 'murder' depending on your point of view. Kang kills and it is often-" Cruel Justice stops speaking internally and brightens its light. "Beware, Aureus, there is danger in the water!"Aureus comes out of her reverie with the inteiigent blade and glances towards the grotto's water. She notes that Phar and the others are studying the grotto intensely, looking for danger.Phar immediately spots what is upsetting Featar, just at the edge of the grotto. The fins of several sharks are circling the entrance. They seem to be hunting.While keeping an eye out for baby scrags, Quinn notes a splashing sound that isn't a scrag. He sees that Phar is watching something in the water just outside the grotto. Then he sees it too. Sharks swimming back and forth.Caerth easily detects the sharks at the edge of the grotto. He sees two fins in the water. Then all of a sudden one of them turns and rushes into the grotto at full speed. The large shark dives deep and snaps at a young scrag that comes out of its hidden place, for a second. The shark barely misses causing the little scrag to flee back into a hidden place.Another one of the juvenile scrags swims away and upward and then climbs up into the boat and stares down into the water hissing. The young aquatic troll then sees the group standing there, watching him. It lets out a sound that could be a yelp and tries to crawl out onto a nearby outcropping, but it falls into the water.The shark rushes the little scrag and easily snatches it up in its jaws and tears it to pieces. Caerth has seen sharks do this to seals but never to something like a scrag. The shark doesn't seem interested in eating the scarg, just killing it.The ichor in the water causes the shark to frenzy and soon the other shark is swimming into the grotto and thumping against the boat and then diving down to seek more scrags. The sharks cause the young scrags to panic and soon the water is churning with a dozen of the little beasties, as they try to escape the sharks in the grotto.Five of them manage to climb up out of the water where they come face to face with the group. Two hiss from within the boat while two others climb out right near the heroes` feet. The fifth one find purchase on the outcropping that the other young scrag tried to climb up on. It picks up several loose pebbles and instinctively throws them at the sharks in the water. Then, all of a sudden a trident flashes out from somewhere unseen and skewers the scrag, pinning it to the wall.There is a howl of primal joy that echoes through the grotto. Whatever made it is either invisible or so stealthy that the group cannot see it or hear its movements. Two more tridents flash out. The first just passes over Lorien's head and clangs off the rock behind. "Gods! That was close!"The second trident catches Quinn unaware, as he watches the sharks in the water. It flashes out of the shadows near the grotto's entrance and slices his arm, nearly entangling with his chain. The trident falls to the ground in front of him where one of the scrags is crawling out of the water. It looks at the wepaon, considering its options. There is another primal howl and this time, the group can see the source.A medium-sized humanoid, thing, is clinging to the inside of the grotto's rocky wall. It seems to be sticking to the wall, half facing the group. It's torso is above the water and visible, but it's lower half is nearly invisible in the water. It's head is covered in scraggly hair and it carries another trident on its back. It's body is covered in shells that look like barnacles encrusting it. It's face is covered by the shell of a long-dead sea creature and it's eyes peer through holes that have been hollowed out of the shell. It howls again and two others of its kind suddenly appear, as almost out of nowhere. One comes through the grotto's opening being pulled along by a third shark while the third humanoid appears at the edge of the ledge, clinging to the wall, half submerged.OOC: Roll Initiative!Surprise Round attack vs. Lorien: Thrown Trident > <a href="http://identicalsoftware.com/coco/dicesessionview.php?id=895#34928" target="_blank">1d20+10=11</a> (misses flat-footed AC)Surprise Round attack vs Quinn: Thrown Trident > <a href="http://identicalsoftware.com/coco/dicesessionview.php?id=895#34929" target="_blank">1d20+10=22</a> (hits flat-footed AC); Damage > <a href="http://identicalsoftware.com/coco/dicesessionview.php?id=895#34930" target="_blank">1d8+2=3</a> (nuts, I rolled a 1. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> )</blockquote>

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