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Crustations rule!

Crab Battle!

Looks like Endless Summer has arrived.

>>9389405
There will be many a battle involving crabs.

>>9389412
No, newfag summer will be 100% quest threads. You better not want to discuss anything even remotely /tg/ related around here. You'll have to bump your 4th edition thread a dozen times just to get one other person to jerk you off. And those newfags will keep the ENTIRE FIRST PAGE devoted to Obama worship and make us sit on the back of the bus, herein being ANY PAGE BUT THE FIRST ONE.

crab quest is pretty rad tho

>>9389504
Some seem to be having fun. I understand though that as a questfag, my presence is considered CANCERous.

>>9389533
You think its funny, but its not. I am physically repulsed by your presence. Quest Threads, metashit, Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader, Ars Magic, it all makes me physically ill. If I see something that isn't 4e D&D, 40K, or Ayn Rand on Page 0 I puke a little. I want you to know that you are hurting me in ways I find hard to fathom.

>>9389585
You sound a bit crabby. Don't fear quest threads, friend, just come out of your shell a bit.

>>9389631
No. If I agree to kill myself, will you cut off your fingers with a hedge shear? I don't want you dead, I just want you to never create anything ever again.

Yes, I admit, I HATE CREATIVITY. And you are trying to create something, so here's the deal. I kill myself, I'm not around to bother you anymore, and you cut off your fingers and agree to never use your imagination again.

This is a gentleman's agreemnet, and you have already ceded to it by reading this. So, every time you think of something reative again, remember that you took a man's life to have that thought.

>>9389686
Sounds pretty heavy to me.

>>9389631
>crabby
>shell

winnnnnrarrrrr

>>9389533

isn't the crab the shape of the cancer constellation? I think i see what you did there.

>>9389727
You are seeing what I did there. It was a pun I whipped up in a pinch.

>>9389713
Lets just ignore the troll and get this quest going. Lets slaughter some sharks for great crustacean justice.

we should continue heading to the kraken's lair!

Well, when last we left, you stood in the lair of the Kraken. Wrecked ships line the walls of this massive cavern, which will provide you with an excellent outpost and source of IRON for your main LAIR. Your retinue of thirty mantis shrimp are with you, as are six lobsters. The twelve foot lobsters will act as beasts of burden.

why type of ships are we talking here?
crushed wooden ships or more modern ones?

>>9389786
Can we instruct our workers on how to make better tools for a more successful kelp harvest?

cover yourself in iron in order to strengthen yourself

>>9389825
>Source of IRON for your LAIR
These are modern ships. The oldest one you can find is a ship dated "1853" on the side of the ship, in gold letters, you see MA_AGA___R. Other than that, these are modern ships.

>>9389831
Your ENHANCED INTELLECT allowed you to instruct your subjects on better methods of agriculture and toolmaking, yes.

To think, you were once a brainless killing machine!

harvest more dakka from the modern ships. might need it when the humies come

>>9389868
This is a good idea, have our best craftacean construct us metal armor. Send our some of our mantis shrimp with some pistolshrimp to patrol our territory and ensure
our foes are staying away.

Yay, Crab Quest!
Alright, let's instruct the shrimp to sift through small spaces for shiny objects!

You set out to find munitions for the guns that line your LAIR. Although there are many wrecks here, the best you can find are 30 operational shells of varying sizes. Something tells you very few of these shells will be useful to you.

>>9389927
YES! didn't miss it! Time to get rid of those pesky sharks, or maybe the eels.

You can harvest a maximum of 12 LARGE SLABS of IRON. This will require all of your lobsters to transport, forcing you to come back later for your munitions.
IRON PLATE - 6 slabs
REINFORCED SIDING FOR LAIR - 12 slabs
SHRIMP PLATE - 400 suits for 12 slabs

I will assign further values for any other suggestions.

eh if no one can come up with something to take from here immediately, lets head west.

>>9389975
Let's get rid of those sharks or eels, get more land for the kelp farms.

>crab quest

Well since your current empire has expanded to nearly 10,000 subjects (only 3,000 of which inhabit your LAIR. They will be your only concern when it comes to food needs.), you could expand west into the unknown or further south, past these barrens.

>>9390010
It started as a joke, and has now turned into the formation of Crab Rome.

>>9390021
Well the squids have raided once already, let's take care of them.

Find our way to the surface for destruction of Humanity!

What is best in life?

>>9389962
so if we wear this metal armor how much will it affect our speed?

>>9390054
We need a battle whale for that! (Whale+cannons+ armor plate= best mobile fort ever.)

Go to the Marianas Trench. Awaken Dagon.

The squids have actually raided us so lets do some killing of them. Just a small skirmish...really...

Your current food stores will last you about a month, I believe. Unless somebody is paying closer attention and can quote me from a past thread.

Anyway, further south is Squid Country. Butchering their fabled hero, the Kraken, has greatly demoralized them. They will not surrender, but any squid you encounter will face penalties in combat against you.

>>9389962
I say we we return with the iron and make the suits for the shrimp. To wear iron upon our awe-inspiring spiked carapace would be an insult to the Wavemaker.

>>9390063
You will suffer a -2 on SPD. However, LEVEL TWO speed will give you POWERFUL LEGS. They can carry you at a top land speed of 60 mph and 30mph when burdened with your armor.

Your current top speed will be 20 mph burdened and 40mph unburdened.

Head south and slaughter some squids. If the opportunity arises, we should try to enslave some of them.

>>9390103
IRON armor will cover our spikes, which has saved us on multiple occasions, let's not do that.

>>9390070
>Go to the Marianas Trench. Eat Dagon.
FTFY

>>9390088
All of your troops that you dedicate to combat will receive armor.

Subject count:
850 mantis shrimp
1000 pistol shrimp
150 lobsters
1000 crabs

>>9390127
You can always... y'know... make holes for your spines? When your armor is on, you will get +4 to DEF.

For the whales, you have seen pods of humpbacks and right whales on their migratory route swim by every so often. However, you have not seen any in many weeks.

You hear that sperm whales may roost to the far south, where the fearsome Colossal Squid live.

>>9390168
So, +4 def, -2 speed, yet we no longer have an awe inspiring carapace of glistening bronze showing, and our soldiers are still squishy.

>>9390197
Yep, that's about right.

>>9390194
How colossal?

>>9390208
Not exactly Kraken sized, but pretty huge. At least twice your size. Alone, you would destroy one. Against a pack, they might have field day with you.

>>9390208
colossal enough to presumably feast entirely on sperm whales. Since normal colossal squid are about 30 feet in length, and this part of the ocean has everything at least 4 times larger..

>>9390205
yeah, lets not do that, less squishy minions, more speed for us

they will love us for bringing our heroes home alive instead of as the ocean floor equivalent of grease spots

>>9390235
Hey man this is the badass side of the ocean.

>>9390239
Since you are following the way of the OPEN CLAW AND CLOSED PINCER, that is a wise choice.

construct armour so that spikes poke out of holes and/or attach iron spikes to our own crabby spikes and craft for us a gigantic iron claw with which to crush the carapaceless squids.

>>9390255
Alright, so let's send the lobsters back with the iron to make the suits, I suppose? Our hunting party should continue through the cave killing any squid we find, so as to clear it out for further excavation.

>>9390264
IRON CLAW - +4 to CQC, -1 to speed. 3 slabs to cover your eighteen foot (I know I said 10 foot in the last thread but I like 18 feet better) claw.

>>9390239
also, since i forgot about molting when making that post

we have the chance to improve our defence on our own, the minions rather less so

You find no squid within the Kraken's lair. The gargantuan cephalopod preferred solitude.

>>9390288
Oh yeah, didn't realize that. I really don't want to have to reconstruct armor each molt session, so I change my vote to minionarmor.

okay a suit for us would be 6 slabs , so that means we still have 6 slabs for our shrimp , which i think should equal out to around 200 suits , sooooooo............yeah?

>>9390298
check ships, attempt to find one named "Mary Celeste"

Will you bring the slabs back? A single slab is worth its weight in 8 shells for your cannons.

>>9390325
yes, at the very least do this

that way we have it on hand no matter what we decide to do with it in the end

>>9390316
behold, your troop count
>>9390146

Oh, also:
DEFENSES FOR OUTPOST - 10 slabs

You drag the massive chunks of iron back to your LAIR. Your craftshrimp get to work fashioning suits of armor for your subjects.

then we shall pick the strongest of our minions to form the armoured core of our conquering army. with our minions at our back we shall dominate the sea in a tide of IRON , SHELLS , and BLOOD!!!!

Your ENHANCED INTELLECT allows them to create GOOD ARMOR! This will give all troops +4 to their personal defenses.
Mantis - 4 nat. DEF
Pistol - 2 nat DEF
Lobster - 6 nat. DEF
Crab - 5 nat. DEF

>>9390355
do the legends of the protocrabs include any information on their size or fighting abilities?

>>9390397
100 mantis 50 lobster 50 crab for the 6 plate we're definately not using for ourselves sound good?

also, still in support of not using armor for ourself at all

>>9390405
The protocrabs range in size greatly. Not entirely crabs, these ancient crustaceans normally exist only in legend. However, CRAB LORE tells you that they were often rather large, about twelve to fifteen feet long on average. The oldest and mightiest of these beasts could be bigger than you, however!

>>9390439
philosophically contemplate whether or not we are, in fact, a proto crab of legend.

>>9390456
Your brain tells you that you were born quite a long time ago, about 20 years, give or take a couple. This makes you old, but not a protocrab.

>>9390472
as we are not protocrabs, there is no ethical dillemma in fighting them and possibly eating them if they do not bow to our empire

if they do bow, integrate them into our society and have them create temples to wavecrasher and bloodclaw

So now that you have well-armored soldiers and your food supplies are stable, in which direction will the crab king head?

also, combat WILL damage you (I've been lenient during combat in favor of crabby awesomeness). Bringing food or consuming corpses will heal you. Your HP is 100, with your armor providing an extra 20.

>>9390510
to clarify, move into protocrab territory

>>9390511
To protocrabia!

Alright, start shoring up defenses on our IRON LAIR. Those military dudes are bound to come looking for their ship.

In the meantime... Now that the Kraken has been killed, won't the sea life near it's cave begin to recover? Seeing as how the thing eating all of it is gone? Given a bit of time, the Kraken's lair could be like an outpost, or something similar.

That's two votes for expansion to the west.

>>9390550
That is true, and I'm glad to see someone still remembers that the humans will eventually come sniffing for their lost investment.

>>9390560
Can't we just have the craftaceans use the rest of the iron from the Kraken's lair to create defenses? We've made all the armor we need, right?

>>9390560
forgot this was a carrier

they have like 4 nuclear power plants onboard

learn nuclear engineering and power up this shit!

By your estimation, the humans will be here in about two days. In the meantime you can perform a small molt. This will only give you 1 point and cost a day.

>>9390582
as for how, set up an internet away course >.>

>>9390581
The guns aboard your LAIR are operational, though you lack the intellect to aim them properly. You could create defenses of some sort, I'll await suggestions and assign costs accordingly.

>>9390588
two days?

wait on expansion into protocrab territory untill threat is dealt with

we'll also want to look into crustacean power costs for moving the ship, it's location is pretty easy for the humans to find as it's almost straight down from where it sank

>>9390617
The Michigan lies nearly in two, a great schism denotes your mighty pistol shots to its side. It would take a great many of you to haul the LAIR, probably somewhere around 4000 lobsters.

Also, moving your LAIR will destroy the extensive network of tunnels your lobsters have been creating during your crusades.

>>9390665
this is a concern

on the other hand, so is the humans being able to find us

they can make metal float, who knows what other kinds of wonders they may have achieved?

>>9390665
We should must prepare for war. Send scouts to the corners of our realm to alert us of when the humans' iron whales come. In the meantime we should molt and
gather our strength.

If the humans find your LAIR, then they will become a constant harassing force. Moving your LAIR will get them off your back, but it is costly and difficult. Then again, plenty of other ships have gone missing and never been found by them, who's to say you couldn't permanently elude them?

>>9390721
maybe we can arm some our our units with no ranged capability with the weird looking stick that stung a bit, they are squishy anyways.

Keep the lair where it is for now, if the squishy pink ones manage to defeat us in battle somehow, we're doing it wrong.

Molting for only one point seems wasteful, since it wouldn't bump up any stat to a new level.

I say put more effort into fortifying the lair, possibly repairing some of the damage we did so that it has more effective defenses.

If you give your orders now before molting, you have enough time to perform a basic molt. This will eat up the two days, but give you 3 points to spend on stats.

You have 6 slabs of iron left, also.

>>9390753
i think we should move

we came from the north and the kraken lair is east right?

west is protocrabs and south squid/shark territory?

>>9390753
If we do this we can only get a speed upgrade, but it might be worth it. Not sure...

What if we spent some time honoring our gods? Asking for blessings and protection from the squishy pink ones with the stinging weapons.

cover up the tunnels, take about a months worth of food with us, seem like we were never there. what are the going to find...take our Kraken trophy maybe just in case?

>>9390811
forgot to say move to the Kraken tunnel place thingy.

>>9390791
Kraken Lair is south, Squid Country is further South.
West is protocrabs (maybe)
East and North are crustacean habitats. To the far north is a reef full of sharks and other fish.

>>9390792
Bloodshell will be most pleased by the coming storm. The Wavemaker remains indifferent. The humans are no sons of the Sea, but he does not enjoy conflict much.

For the sake of convenience, OP, could you draw up a world map?
Nothing fancy, just coordinates on a spread to show where we and things are.

>>9390811
This has merit... we could move to the Kraken's lair for a bit of time, then come back once the humans abandon the search for their ship. Is the Kraken's lair big enough for our coterie of crustaceans?

>>9390834
this would be nice, something to reference

also, how many lobsters do we currently have in our civilization total?

if we have the appropriate number we could just call them all up and move, if not then we'd need to gain more lobster followers

>>9390844
The Kraken's Lair will easily engulf your ship. It will take the entire two days to move in.

>>9390834
Oh geez I'm no good for that kind of thing. I'll try and MS Paint a shitty little map, I suppose.

>>9390811
Besides, what could they do with it? Make it float again, not likely, they come, they look, they leave.

>>9390868
krakens lair is fine

>>9390870
the soft squishy ones may have built it, but we claimed it as our own through rite of combat

we should not suffer them to defile our home

However, simply pulling all of your subjects and suspicious items out of the ship and moving in will take only five hours. It may leave your LAIR open to invasion by squid or other unwholesome little beasts, but it is easy.

Well... seeing as how the Kraken had a horde of ships in it's lair, the humans probably don't go in there. Moving the IRON LAIR into the Kraken cave would also solidify our victory over the squid.

Crabmaster, would the land around the Kraken cavern be able to sustain our crustaceans? Now that the Kraken is gone and the sea creatures can return?

>>9390920
The ground is rocky, and would take a few days to make fertile. The local fauna will slowly move in again, but that may take up to a month.

This is the shitty ass map I attempted.
Red Dot - LAIR
Blue Dot - Kraken's Den
small Red squares - Crustacean habitats (loyal)
Small Blue Squares - Crustacean Habitats (not yet loyal)
Black Field - unexplored
Green Field - Reef and Shark Country

>>9390936
fortunately, we have captured fish in hopes of herding them

delay this for further food stocks while preparing the ground for farming

>>9390960
Oh way to go me, forgetting to attach the image.

>>9390962
You captured about five Atlantic Wolf-fish. They will sustain you for about six days alone.

I say go ahead and move, it will make any future assault on our great Crustacea far more difficult with a cavern to flank our IRON LAIR. Plus it will get us away from the location of the shipwreck so that if humans come sniffing they have to look harder.

>>9391005
You understand the risks?

>>9391015
risks?

i understand that we'll lose the tunnels and have a hard time with food for a bit

but is there anything actually dangerous about the move itself?

Also, schools of Atlantic Salmon are known to roam farther North. I can update the map if you wish.

>>9391015
Can you make a pros and cons list of moving the LAIR versus not moving the LAIR?

Don't move our Iron Lair into the cave. However, we should build an outpost in the cave and fertilize the land at a latter date.

>>9391033
Well no, not exactly.

PROS:
-Safe Lair
-Hidden Lair
-Nearby IRON

CONS:
-Takes two days
-Little food in area, kelp fields now require convoys to transport kelp
-Far from kingdom, may result in losses of faith!
-Lose tunnels

>>9391047
then i say lets move the entire ship

So then what will it be, my crabby players?

>>9391062
after moving, turn cave into giant temple to bloodclaw and wavemaker to inspire more faith

>>9391093
>Temple to Bloodclaw AND Wavemaker
They don't work that way. You can encourage freedom of crustacean-related religion in your kingdom, but double-churches don't really work out. Wavemaker will approve of your liberal nature, though!

Let's not move the ship and fortify the shit out of it with the remaining iron bars. Moving it just seems like we'll lose a lot of bonuses for little gain.

>>9391114
If the humans find your huge ass inside their ship, they'll be pissed and begin to raid. Otherwise, they'll loot some valuables and get out of dodge.

OR

Under the guise of having a second base move the majority of your forces to the kraken cave, invite lots of your subjects to come see the majesty!

Suddenly, we have a base, the humans can see their ship and ideally no one gets hurt.

Cept maybe the humans if they try to steal your base.

or you could get an enemy to launch an attack on your base jsut as the humans arrive

vacate the LAIR for the moment , take all evidence with and precede to kraken lair until squishy ones get bored and leave. while we're here we can troll around for squid to trench stomp.

But if they're all dead, who can call back to HQ? You'll be like some kind of 50s movie monster.

>>9391127

second

You wish to start a massive trip to the Kraken's Den? Sure.
You also wish to hide out for the two days, right?

>>9391143
point

ambush preparations anyone?

i doubt they'll have all that many people, so we should be able to crush them all at once

Time's ticking gents, need to make a decision.

Well you guys have all the options I can offer. Trust me, this is a relatively big call but it won't be game-ending or anything.

1. move ship

2. leave and come back later

3. fight pitched battle

4. ambush

>>9391220
I'd say which of those I find wisest but I've coddled you fellas enough.

>>9391232
tis fine, i was just attempting to make a list of all the options i've seen

was in favour of moving the ship, but now in favour of ambush

Well hurry your scuttling asses up! Time waits for no crab!

>>9391220

nooooooo

1.leave ship. take evidence of crabby awesomeness with us.

2.come back when humans leave.

3.move back in and continue crabby domination.

I suppose we could ambush the humans while they look at our IRON LAIR, but then they might send more to look for those humans... On the plus side, sending a steady stream of humans every so often would provide us with lots of tech to learn to use and more iron to upgrade our troops with. Having humans show up every so often isn't so bad as long as we win.

>>9391258
this wasn't a timeline, this was a list of potential options

>>9391266
Continuous killing of the humans may result in full blown WAR WITH THE SURFACE WORLD. This WOULD give you more tech and plenty of iron, but the squishy things are more advanced than you, and would eventually bring fearsome weapons to bear upon you and your kingdom.

>>9391266
i was more hoping for belief in dangerous currents and crushing depths

You could always ambush the first group of humans and check them out. The Navy will chalk it up to some kind of tragic error.

>>9391296
does anybody have any other options for dealing with the humans?

if not then i'd suggest rolling on the 4 in the list as we can't seem to come to an agreement otherwise

Only on /tg/ could I find a group of people conflicted on what choice to make as a giant crab facing the threat of invasion.

why not just, you know, act like local wildlife

humans wouldn't nuke a dumb crab that blew up their ship- they'd study it at worst, and avoid its area at best.

>>9391431
well, they are humans, they do shit like making metal float and making loud noisy stinging things

fighting them requires careful thought and strategy

>>9391456
Well considering the last reports anyone got from the Michigan were "OH FUCK A GIANT CRAB WHAT THE- they may be a little more willing to shoot you.

Pretend like we don't exist is the obvious choice. Humans will just chalk it up to random weirdness ,remaining hidden from them is the only way we can expand our crabby empire in peace.

>>9391486
ah, I see

>>9391486
We must wait and strike from the sea's when they least expect it.

For the sake of MOVING THINGS ALONG I will go with the HIDE option.

Fast forwarding two days...

The humans came and went from your IRON LAIR. They didn't take anything, as most anything of value was mysteriously absent from the ship. Science teams will be coming by every now and then to explore and investigate further. You molted in the mean time, gaining 2 points and expanding to Thirty Feet!

your food stores will support your for a month.

Status: Titan of the Deep
Stats:
DEF - 10
CQC - 10
LRC - 5
SPD - 8
INT - 10

As a reward from The Wavemaker for your peaceful methods, you have learned GROWTH and NATURAL CAMO. Your carapace can now blend in to resemble a rock, and you can grow a small patch of kelp miraculously from the ground!

>>9391548
speed

we skipped over it last time, totally need it this time

>>9391548
SPD 2

DEF 1

>>9391567
use growth all around the krakens cavern

should help lure more delicious fish in as well

Seems like a few people like speed. Remember, you only have two points to use.

>>9391592
both speed, then it shall level

SPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDD:D:D:D:D:DD:D:D:D

Upgrading SPD will give you POWERFUL LEGS capable of carrying you at the dizzying speed of 60mph!

OP is a god
2 pts in speed

You step out of your old husk with longer, stronger legs. Your legspan puts you at about Forty-Six Feet Across!

You can run with the best of them

>>9391642
THATS FASTER THAN A TANK
My god, my dream of being a crab battering ram are coming true.

All animals are classes as either bilaterially or radially symmetric by biologists. Then you have these fucking crabs.

GOD that pisses me off!

>>9391666
now that the humans are gone, prepare to invade protocrab territory

>>9391683
UNDER THE SEA,
Down here it's crazy,
The GM is lazy,
So you're a fucking huge crab.

dump all further point in int
make reactors on iron lair work.
moving fort
???
PROFIT!

>>9391698
Oh god I choked on my non-crabby soft drink

Expect human teams to be dispatched to check out your LAIR every so often.

West lies uncharted land,
South is Squid Country
Far north is Fish and Sharks
North and East lies the great CRUSTACEA!

Chiming in for speed.

>>9391697
agreed

>>9391704
That is indeed the final step for INT

So have you decided upon invading the protocrabs that may or may not be to the west?

invade protocrabs and add them to the glorious imperium of crabkind

>>9391730
yus

Don't necessarily invade the protocrabs, just knock on their door with lots of troops and ask them to join the great crustacean empire under your rule, and if they refuse... RIP AND TEAR!!!

You gather your warriors. 50 mantises, 50 pistols, 50 lobsters, and 50 warrior-crabs.
Would you like to bump up the numbers of your Claw Coven? These elite warriors are armored in the remains of your own shell, and are the most vicious of your subjects. The most loyal also.

>>9391714
Let us set up an outpost in Krakens old lair to warn us of squid attacks also we should instruct out crabs to work the soil till it may feed us and our great empire. Fun fact apparently pistol shrimp work with guppies because of there superior eye sight. Should we not also use these lowly creatures to help us expand our empire

>>9391758
yes since we have plenty of molted shell lying around

>>9391758
yes,10 of each species currently serving us

keep it equal so none of them feel too left out or anything

>>9391782
esp. any survivors of our original 13 mantis shrimp bull warriors

>>9391759
agreed after we add protocrabs to empire.
and give oupost radio comms to give early warning to the IRON LAIR

Gortram and Gorrum, two brother lobsters, have shown exceptional promise.
There are twelve mantises that followed you to fight the Kraken, they fought with exceptional bravery.
Shootrimp is your best pistol shrimp, and is an excellent hunter.
There are no crabs yet worthy of the coven.

Furthermore, you can send any number of subjects to the Kraken's Den to harvest iron and shit and turn it into an outpost.

>>9391798
get shootrimp to find potentials among the populace for elite sharpshooter squads

>>9391798
Then add then to our coven and make them dance The Dance of crabbrotherhood.

>>9391819
You will always be notified of any crustaceans worthy of the Coven.

>>9391814
this. while we incorporate protocrabs into glorious empire.

>>9391833
agreed

>>9391814
Crabs to work the earth Lobsters for construction and Mantis to guard it, Didnt we also get some new guys who where awesome at using tools.

This looks incredible... I'll have to read the archived threads tomorrow and get into the swing of things.

>>9391833
yes more elite bodyguards

It takes about an hour, but your new initiates are armored and ready to die for you!

A contingent of 1000 subjects (mixed) are off to the Den to fortify it. You use growth to begin a kelp field.

You hop on your steed, which has since grown to Twenty-Five feet, and head west, soldiers in tow.

What you find is an expansive labyrinth of rocks and coral. You hear foreign moans and cries from beyond.

>>9391875
suddenly. ZOMBIE CRABS FROM FUCKING NOWHERE!

>>9391869
There is only one step to the Crab Cycle, and it IS crab.
Feel free to throw in suggestions on what to do, man. I'm fairly open and lenient.

Keep a sharp eye out for ambushes! Have the soldiers on high alert!

Your men are on guard. Your Coven moves ahead of you, prepared to take the brunt of whatever may attack. The incessant moaning is nearly maddening. Up ahead you can see enormous bones and crushed shells jutting out of the rock maze.

>>9391875
hold b and run across the gaps

>>9391875
Foreign moans like a Norwegian back packer in heat or foreign moans as in an iraqi who just had his leg blown off?

>>9391935
Haw.

Has this thread reached the bump-limit? If so, would anyone mind archiving while I start a new thread?

>>9391921
SHELLS FOR THE SHELL THRONE

>>9391946
doesn't look like it

>>9391956
>SHELLS FOR THE TROPHY HALL
Fixed. The Shell Throne was dismantled to make armor for the troops, as it was too VILE and not BENEVOLENT.

Will you enter the ROCK MAZE? It looks wide enough for you to squeeze through. Your pistol claw is also capable of shattering rock and metal.

>>9391968
really? crap must have missed that bit.
oh well subjugate new enemies as planned then i guess.

>>9391977
make rock maze bigger with claw. flank enemies with entire army.

>>9391977
i would like to point out that this is still level 1

i have no idea what level 2 or 3 will be, but it seems like awesome

prioritise intelligence and have long range combat as a secondary?

>>9392002
agreed as our cqc is already godly

You decide to take point LIKE A BOSS and go through the ROCK MAZE. Your troops marvel at your bravery, and you perform the "Glorious Scuttle" to bolster their morale.
A few minutes brings you to your first fork in the path.

Right or left?

>>9391968
Let a great booming cry echo out letting all know the Crab King is here if there is a beast inside there he will emerge and we shall slay it. If it is our protocrab brothers then we offer them kinship

>>9392014
left

left for justice!

>>9392019
fairly certain we can't speak

if we can i feel cheated as there are all sorts of epic moments where screaming would be great

such as our attack on the krakens eye

>>9392014
Through, charge up our crab cannon ,we decide where we go not some pathetic rock formation.

>>9392014
Left, just to push this along.

You head left and come to your first clearing. The rocks seem to stretch to the surface, they are so high! Massive holes line the rocks, also, and your army can comfortably fit in here with you. The clearing is about a hundred feet across and long.

You perform the "Scuttle of Superiority" to let whatever creatures are here know your intent!

>>9392055
fire pistol claw erratically at the walls

inb4 epic battle

From the holes pour all manner of odd beast. Some of them nearly rival you in size! There appear to be a number of odd, giant shrimp and crabs. They don't attack... yet.

>>9392090
offer them a place in your glorious empire if they will fight for you.

>>9392090

Dance the dance of the ancestors, the first dance of all crustacean kind

>>9392105
promise them food and shelter if they join

>>9392113
corrected to "the foxtrot of forefathers"

You do the "Forefathers' Foxtrot," the steps are difficult, but your SPEED and INTELLECT give you the coordination to perform it. A bizarre looking creature steps forward, and informs you that although you are impressive, the denizens of this clearing will not simply uproot because you say to.

>>9392090
Dance the foxtrot of forefathers. Perform growth on a patch of soil to demonstrate our miraculous powers.

Sheesh looks like the board froze for a sec.

You grow some kelp before their eyes. They seem fixated on it before a few begin to eat the kelp. They appear pleased.

The impromptu ambassador asks if there is more where that came from.

>>9392203
Ask them who speaks for them,if they have a king. These are creatures from who you are descended there knowledge and determination has shaped crab kind with out them ever leaving these caves.

>>9392203
Tell them they don't necessarily have to move, just support you and be allies, and come to our aid in times of need!

>>9392203
Do the growth miracle thing, and explain to them that you are heralding a new era of Crustaceankind, seeking to dominate the Blue, with all crustaceans living in prosperous ecstasy.

The godless protocrabs have no lord or ruler. They exist in mixed and loose tribes. Gather the support of all protocrabs may very well be impossible. Also, the larger protocrabs may lack the intellect to understand you, and might simply attack on sight.

>>9392233
this

>>9392250
crush a few tribes to show dominance then subsume them into empire

>>9392203
"Your heritage has made you mighty and fearsome, I need warriors like you. You may be adverse to leaving the home you have here, but together, the entire ocean can be our home. Join me, we can show the seven seas the power of the crustacean, and bring a new era of order and prosperity to a lawless and vermin-filled land."

>>9392250
tell them of our glory, of our defeat of the kraken

if tribes refuse to join our glorious empire, roll over them with iron claw

>>9392250
Then we must tame them with power and inspiring abilities. These are old lands we shall unite them together be worshiped as a lord for ever more. Who is the worst beast in the land who is their greatest monster.

Updated map. Yellow boxes are tribes of protocrabs.

Slightly out of fear and slightly out of personal gain, this tribe of 30 protocrabs agrees to submit to your will. Their elder, an ancient-looking Mesolimulus, informs you that terrible beasts lurk further west.

>>9392250
Fire our pistol claw into the sky, I doubt they've ever seen anything like it, and will probably consider it another miracle. If we play this right, protocrabs may consider us somewhat of a god.

bump for crab quest

>>9392335
Venture farther west, slay terrible beasts.

The protocrabs are also awed by your pistol, a sheer miracle of evolution and adaptation. They know you are no god, but they respect you as a fearsome warrior-king.

The elder updates your map, giving you her knowledge of the surroundings. Yellow boxes are tribes, while the large gray blob is the lair of an ANCIENT AND TERRIBLE MONSTER!

>>9392427
Lets visit all the tribes we can while heading west towards ANCIENT and TERRIBLE MONSTER.

>>9392454
I second this.

Only two tribes are directly en route to the AATM. Do you wish to recruit more?

thirded

Tell the protocrabs to send there bravest warrior's and with there help you shall slay the great beast.

>>9392496
make long detour add all of them for the glorious empire

>>9392496
Yes, the rest can gawk when we parade the head of the ANCIENT and TERRIBLE MONSTER.

The protocrabs are willing to join your cause, but refuse to fight the Beast. They consider it suicide and while you are impressive, you aren't impressive enough to make strangers march to their deaths.

However, rallying a few other clans will be helpful. You head to the nearest one. A large proto-lobster emerges from a cave upon your arrival. He asks what business you have here.

>>9392496
no, defeat the anchient and terrible monster first

this will establish our cred and make further conversions easier

>>9392558
tell him of our dream of crustacea, a land where all of us may live in peace without fear of the horrible squids/sharks/[insertnatural predator here]

invite him and his tribe to join us, if they do so they will have food and safety

>>9392558
I seek help in saving you and your children from the AATB, care to help?

>>9392558
tell him of the glories of the crab empire and the defeat of the kraken

>>9392558
Perform miracles, pose heroically. Declare your intent to lead all crustaceans to a golden era and defeat the terrible beast.

>>9392558
Do the dance of haters gonna hate followed by the claw waving of balls of steel.

He ponders your offer as you do the "Informant's Scuttle."

He says that he and his tribe will join you, on one condition. He asks you to go and slaughter the tribe closest to the south. His tribe and theirs have been at war for ages, and he would see them smashed by your might. He will follow you on this mission if you accept.

>>9392642
move the other tribe into other side of empire. tell him you killed them.
trollface.jpg

>>9392655
the crab goes with you

>>9392642

Tell him to have his tribe wait while you inspect the rival tribe in question.
If possible, convince the two tribes to put down theire
differences and fight for you under the same banner.

His tribe is full of brawny warriors, whereas the other tribe is full of skilled hunters and more stealthy crustaceans. Both of their skills would be useful, but it seems dubious that they can reconcile centuries-old rivalry.

>>9392670
crap then this>>9392671

>>9392427

>ANCIENT AND TERRIBLE MONSTER!

I read that as "Soon to be our bitch."

I bet an ancient and terrible monster makes for perfect breeding stock.

>>9392642
accept

we have not been violent enough for proper balance between bloodclaw and wavemaker recently

if this continues too long bloodclaw may take away his blessings

unless the tribe directly to the south is the tribe we've already got with us

>>9392675
fuck it. threaten to steamroll them if they dont join.

>>9392642
"Tell me the cause of your strife,why do you wish them destroyed? My dream is a paradise where is crustacean is supreme, I cannot slay those that could become part of this grand vision without knowing what offense condemns them to death."

Hold on guys, I'm trying to remember how I solved this problem in that one scenario from aoe2 with genghis khan.. Should we give them sheep?

>>9392675
Take fiercest hunter from sneaky tribe battle monster with brawny crab. Have them become blood brothers. Become Genghis Crab

You tell the chieftain that your legions could easily roll in a slaughter BOTH of their tribes. He appears worried.

You head south to the other tribe, the lobster-chief does not accompany you. The chief of this tribe is a small proto-shrimp. You inform him of the situation, and he tells you that if you spare him, his men can lead you right to the Ancient and Terrible Beast, and give you information on how to kill it.

You tell him that you could simply kill him and his whole tribe, along with their rivals. He also becomes very worried.

>>9392696
This. Make them both yield before you. There is no place for petty tribal bickering in our glorious Crab Empire.

>>9392675

Keep investigating the cause of theire strife. Maybe it's trivial, maybe it's something larger than that.
Either way, we'll get both sides of the story.

>>9392729
Definitely this.

>>9392726
damn, seems everybody is all worried about peace now

oh well, we still have the damnbeast to kill later

tell him to lead us to the beast, on our way back through with said beasts head they will join us or die, same with the other tribe

He tells you of a time when both tribes were at peace. They coexisted and hunted the same grounds with one another. Eventually, the AATB moved in and began to make food scarce. The two tribes grew apart because they could not reconcile territorial disputes. When there is no food, hunting grounds become prized territory. Since then their tribes have been warring and decreasing in size.

>>9392729
crabs dont do politics
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD CLAW

>>9392752
Is that it? We can *MAKE* food, and take it from the filthy non-crustacean heathens.

>>9392752
Promise both tribes peace and food - however, vow to take all lands and food around both tribes and starve them out if they don't comply.

>>9392752
solution is now glaringly obvious

Your demonstration of GROWTH convinces the tribal leaders to set aside their differences. Surely a leader who can simply create food is one worth following!

They will aid you in your fight against the beast!
You have:
40 tough protocrabs
30 sneaky protocrabs

>>9392752
go kill beast

use it for food

any protocrabs that don't acknowledge our supremecy when we bring the beasts head around we kill

>>9392752
Deal with tribe with information, go and kill AATB.

>>9392787
no different from>>9392696

Shall we perform one more boss battle before I scuttle off to bed? It's nearly 3 AM for me.

>>9392796
How many tribes are left for us to unite

also, when the hell does autosage start again? we're at almost 300 posts

>>9392796
When we return to our IRON LAIR, let us use GROWTH to cover it in kelp, and surround the outskirts in a kelp labyrinth. We will have both food and camouflage for our lair!

>>9392796
LETS FUCKING DO THIS. Walk up to ANCIENT and TERRIBLE MONSTER and do the dance of "YOU ARE A DEAD MOTHERFUCKER"

>>9392824
Yeah, I think it's usually bad storytelling to begin with a boss battle, isn't it?

>>9392824
YES
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD CLAW

>>9392824
sure

THERE'S THE FIGHTING SPIRIT! YOU WILL PACIFY THE SEAS WITH THE WAY OF THE CLOSED PINCER! BLOODSHELL WILL DRINK DEEP TONIGHT!

>>9392824
also, plan for if it's a giant fucking crab

we sneak in alone and suprise sex it

TO THE BEAST!

>>9392829
Holy shit guys, why didn't we think of this earlier?

The sneaky protocrabs lead you to a secret pass to the north of the beast's den. From here, ranged combatants and perhaps a few troops can sneak in and shoot at / flank whatever lies within this clearing. A massive hole in the ground acts as the beast's resting place. Massive bones of whales, sharks, giant crustacean shells, and other creatures litter the area, providing cover. You even see half of a sperm whale and the corpse of a Colossal Squid!

The main entrance lies off to the east and is big enough for you to fit through. The clearing will hold your whole army.

>>9392872
that would totally have solved the entire arguement

>>9392888
Prayer to BLoodshell for a glorious battle

>>9392872
>>9392898
wait, no

we didn't have it before the humans were attacking

LET'S GET DOWN TO BUISNESS, TO DEFEAT, THE BEAST!
I HEAR LOBSTERS BITCHING, ABOUT THEIR KELP, DECREASE.

>>9392888
Try to get a glimpse of beast

SHELLS FOR THE TROPHY HALL
doesnt sound as cool...

>>9392911
DID THEY SEND ME SQUIDS WHEN I ASKED FOR CRABS

Bloodshell hears your plea, eager for combat! Your pistol claw grows in size, becoming the CANNON CLAW. It has double the fire rate and double the size of your old pistol.

For the record, Bloodshell will upgrade your weakest stat when you pray to him for combat.

>>9392937
fuck yeah. lets do this

>>9392933
You can still cry SHELLS FOR THE SHELL THRONE, as long as you know there is no throne.

>>9392888
have the pistol shrimp and a few mantis shrimp lead by your claw coven wait in the side enterance

have your more heavily armored crustaceans/the rest go through the main enterance

distract damnbeast

have the mantis shrimp waiting in the side enterance flank the enemy after it's distracted with the pistol shrimp there firing at the same time

>>9392937
Charge alone into the center of the area to find the beast. Fucking rape it.

>>9392957
Then make it your bitch.

>>9392937
Do the dance of universal crabhood. Clack your claws to the tune of brave warrior deaths.

>>9392957
this. fuck tactics. YOU HAVE A CANNON ON YOUR ARM!

You scuttle to the center of the opening, your troops waiting in the wings a la >>9392956

You clack your claw angrily, calling to the damned thing. Nothing happens. You clack and scuttle for ten minutes more...
...Nothing.

Then, a nearly imperceptible movement in the sand! It's the beast! Two massive eyes rise out of the sand before you, dwarfing you in size.

>>9392956 here

sure, now when i advocate tactics everybody is all charge in willy nilly

when i wanted to do that against the kraken i got shot down

:(

>>9392994
I followed your tactical sense while at the same time showing your personal ability.

>>9392993
Leap upon it, blasting your cannon at the eyes and then attempt to snap the eyes off.

>>9392993
blast eye out. repeat kraken experience

>>9393004
lol

love your threads btw been here since the beggining

>>9392993
Shoot out one of it's eyes, hop into the hole, cut your way out through it's liver.

>>9393018
Grow kelp over its eyes, blinding it momentarily.

>>9393035
lolwhut?

>>9393018
this

From the sand rises the TERRIBLE CRUSTACEAN! This massive crab dwarfs you in size, easily four times your superior! Its fearsome claws clack with the sound of thunder from the heavens!

His massive and ungraceful legs disrupt the ground with each step! He is approaching you!

Pic related, it's an MS Paint of the beast.

>>9393040
Just 'cuz we got a retarded agricultural ability doesn't mean we can't use it in interesting applications =\

The kelp should provide our minions (notably pistol shrimp) with the cover they need to be possibly overlooked. And since it grows spontaneously, it messes with foes that are used to the terrain we fight on.

If the kelp grows tall enough, we can have mantis shrimp scale it and do DEATH FROM ABOVE ambushes down onto unsuspecting creatures, as well.

>>9393084
The Crabmaster approves of your thinking

>>9393079

Do the "Scuttle of Diplomatic Immunity"!
Convince it to join you!

>>9393079
blow out legs with shrimps and your cannon. lol as it is unable to move.

>>9393079
SHOOT OUT EYE, RIP IT'S LEGS OFF.
BUT BEFORE THAT: PERFORM DANCE OF "YOU ARE A DEAD MOTHERFUCKER".

>>9393108
proceed to raep (litterally)

>>9393101
I supplicate with lowered claws. It is an honor.

>>9393079
CHarge underneath it, its slow we can tear its legs off before triumphantly beating it into submission failling that rip off its eye stalks. This beast is not so different from you.

also, autosaging

You fire round after round into the legs of the titan as it lumbers forward. It's carapace has aged to the point where even your mighty pistol is of no use! (Your pistol is only level one with 8 points thanks to Bloodshell).

Your pistol shrimp open fire, but if you are unable to phase the thing, of what good are they?

Best it in combat: gain a mobile crab fortress.

Bow, and ask for a name. You want to know the name of a fellow crustacean, if you must slay it.

>>9393138
sieze leg in your mighty claw and rip it off

>>9393138
BLOW THE JOINTS MAN

PISTOL THE JOINTS

USE CLAW OF MIGHT AND FURY TO GRAB ON, CONTINUOUS PISTOLEERING ATTACK GO

>>9393138
Think, its just a big crab damnit where is its weak point..........

>>9393163
new thread

>>9393138
FUUUUU-
become avatar of bloodshell via your rage. destroy this motherfucker with your bitching god-powers.

>>9393138
Grow a METRIC FUCKTON of kelp to restrict it's movement, scale the beast and begin to destroy it's eyes.