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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lazlow" data-source="post: 2665413" data-attributes="member: 24242">Following Clipper, you all traverse a labyrinthine series of passageways, stairways, and catwalks, leading deeper and deeper into the bowels of the tower.  (You all wonder how Clipper knows the way so well, seeing as how none of you have seen half of these corridors before.)  Soon you come to a dark, dank level far below the classroom in which you first met with Master Algernon.  Sconces and torches provided the only light down here, and the air is heavy and thick with the smell of the sea.  Cobwebs hang high in the corners of the stone hallway, at the end of which is an archway.You pass through the archway into a cavernous room, the ceiling only about 15 feet high but wider and longer than you can see in the dim firelight.  The room echoes nearly every little sound made, and you can hear the soft sound of water lapping against stone.  Close in, along either side of the room are what appear to be stalls, similar to what might house horses in a stable but wider and taller.  Above these stalls are placards with numbers on them.  The one immediately inside the door on your right has the number one, and the one on the left has the number two.  Through and beyond the stalls you can just make out the reflection of some of the torchlight glittering on water.  Inside the stalls are crabs.But...  Not crabs.  No, aside from being a deep emerald green, they sport ten legs, with the front two having pincers but the back four ending in flat, paddle-like shapes.  And, of course, they're about eight feet wide, half again as long, and at least five feet tall.  They sit inert on the shore, faint glimmers of torchlight dancing on the hard, shiny shells.</blockquote>

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