>>9393163
go for the joints, boo!

the joints!

GO FOR THE EYES BOO THE EYES

>>9393163
rip leg off with your mighty normal claw

>>9393163
Grow METRIC FUCKTON OF KELP TO RESTRICT IT'S MOVEMENT. CLIMB. ATTACK EYES.

SHOOT IT IN THE EYES AND THEN DO A BACKFLIP

don't be a FOOL

this foe can only be slain by WORDS

time for retarded kelp ability abuse.
grow so much kelp in its throat that it chokes to death.
trollface.jpg

You cast GROWTH around the beast. Unfortunately your GROWTH skill is not advanced, so the kelp does little to restrict its movements!

You instruct all units to fire on the joints, and you do the same. Several shots glance off, until one connects properly! The beast staggers for a bit, a cloud of blood escaping its cracked armor.

>>9393196
Actually not a bad idea , channel kelp growing powers to entangle the beast. Assure it you will not harm it.

>>9393214
Claim first blood for Bloodshell.

You pour on the GROWTH until the wounded leg becomes entangled in a sea of kelp! It is temporarily immobilized!

now blast leg off with you mighty cannon

>>9393214
ATTACK WOUND

>>9393234
Leave it intact; we shall have a mighty new ally.

YOU HAVE ENOUGH TIME FOR 2 ACTIONS THANKS TO IMMOBILIZING THE BEAST.
Choose wisely.

>>9393249
Climb Beast
Heroically rip an eye off.

>>9393247
it is a raging beast we have no means of taming it=kill it

THIS MEAT WILL FEED THE BELLIES OF MANY NEW RECRUITS

SHOW NO MERCY

>>9393249
take the joint of it's mighty crushing claw in you own crushing claw, crush said joint

>>9393249
Clamber onto the back of its shell, grow kelp to blind it and strike viciously against its head until it's stunned. Instruct minions to restrain all of its limbs when it is stunned, and then attempt to communicate with it after it is placated by blunt force trauma to the head.

>>9393249
climb up. blast cannon down its throat.

>>9393281
Just blind it with CLAW

>>9393281

mercy will only endanger you!

IT MUST BE DESTROYED

We have many votes for climbing!

You scuttle up the immobile leg of the beast as your troops hold their fire. You are now on its back. The Terrible Crustacean thrashes wildly, hoping to dislodge you from your perch. Its eyes swing around on their stalks. A terrible rage and intelligence burns in them.

>>9393308
remove source of rage and intelligence

tear its eyes off

>>9393308

SNIP SNIP

>>9393308
now lop off its FUCKHUEG claw and attach it to your arm

>>9393307
One ancient crablord on our side would be nice; that doesn't mean I'm unwilling to kill it, I just want to explore that option first.

DON'T KILL IT!!!! This is the mobile crab fortress we've been waiting for!!!! Make him our bitch and we can ride him as our mount into battle and impress bitches!!!

>>9393308
How intelligent is it?

>>9393281
Second

>>9393337
were waiting on a whale for that

>>9393337
no worries, at the rate we're growing "we" will be the giant crab fortress

You go for its eye stalks and blind the beast with a shot of your pistol. Blood seeps from the wound as your warriors resume firing on it. Perhaps you could steer it so that its flank is in the direction of your subjects?

Either way, the crustacean has finally managed a hit on you. Its enormous claw slaps you away, and it rips its leg from the kelp. Your GROWTH ability is both advancing and taxing your strength.

>>9393308
Beseech the powers of Wavemaker's peace, and strike him soundly on the head! Hopefully Wavemaker will hear the plea of peace from his children. We shall use this noble beast in the services of Bloodshell once we have him....

>>9393348
Fuck whales I'm Pro crustaceans and Anti mammals

>>9393365
Damn motherfucking straight.

FOOLS

IT CANNOT BE CONTAINED

YOU CANNOT PLAY GOD

>>9393361
Call out for Wavemaker to help calm this beast and save more of Crabkinds children.

>>9393356
make it turn 180. chew throught its innards via anus

Guys we don't want a whale fortress, we need to keep it in the crustacean family.

Let's weaken him some more and when it's time to FINISH HIM offer him a place in our glorioud empire!

>>9393381
THEN WE SHALL BECOME GOD

>>9393375
i'm pro "us" and anti "everything else"

thus the "join us or die" bit

>>9393381
agreed

>>9393361
>>9393383

what a fucking waste of power, it's been tied up and blinded, it's not going to play nice

You smash against the whale carcass, and opt to hide inside for a moment. What you see next shocks you.

With a speed you would think impossible from a beast of this size, the thing burrows underground! It is completely out of sight now, and only a deep rumbling gives away the fact that it ever existed!

>>9393381
actually one of our future goals was to take on bloodclaw and wavemaker and sieze their thrones

>>9393398
Shit. Assess the situation, how many have fallen?

Keep up the kelp as long as you can to give your troops time to attack it's unprotected flanks

>>9393398
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
UUUUUUU

>>9393398
dig after it, you're a crab, you should be able to do this well

>>9393408
Fuck that, raise kelp walls to screen our retreat. Then, dismantle one of the cannons from the IRON LAIR and return to this fucker.

Suddenly, a gargantuan claw erupts from the ground, clutching your temporary refuge! The carcass is nearly bisected as the enormous claws close in on you. No amount of reinforced armor could save you from such a fate! Your troops charge, desperate to save their leader. However, only the claw is exposed, and they are unable to find and harm the monster!

>>9393417
this

SEE WHAT YOU'VE DONE

YOUR STALLING HAS LET IT GET AWAY

>>9393398
TELL YOUR MEN TO SCATTER GET UP THE WALLS. RUN TO THE CENTER OF THE AREA AND START DOING THE DANCE OF WHAT YOU GOT BITCH.

If you retreat now, you will lose the support of the two tribes that have opted to help you

>>9393430
cavitation bubble the weak joint of the pincer

(really weak, it's how you get to the oh so delicious claw meat)

>>9393445
Well, fuck. Um....grow kelp on our shell, attempt to use it to slide out of the beast's grasp.

Burst from the whale carcass in a shower of blood and gore. Charge up cannon claw like Samus, wait for perfect shot and fire into the joints of the crabby foe!

>>9393452
agreed

>>9393430

Quickly escape it's grasp!

Then bind it's claw with kelp, rending it tethered to the whale carcass!

RAPE GIGANTOR CRAB AND MAKE *HIM* YOUR BITCH

Remember this kelp thing isn't infinite guys! Kelp can only do so much...

>>9393452

okay this instead then

>>9393477
Actually, we're pretty tired by now, so kelp reserves are probably at a low. =\

BREAK THE CLAW, NONE SHALL CHALLENGE OUR STRENGTH!

You fire with the kind of power only a crustacean could muster! One of your shots hits home, but does not damage the beast much. He does, however, drop your hideout. You scuttle out of the decaying piece of flesh as it slams to the ground. Your men appear quite scared.

Suddenly, the beast half-emerges from the sand, grabbing Klawdia, one of your original Claw Coven members! The rest of your army charges, and the sneaky protocrabs throw nets made of bonded kelp over the claw, weighing them with rocks. The beast is once again stcuk, but it slowly draws the terrified mantis towards its gaping maw!

>>9393497

NOW!

STRIKE IT'S HIDEOUS MOUTH

SMASH OUT HIS FLESHY BRIANS

>>9393497
leap into the maw of the crab between it and klawdia, start breaking shit with your clamping claw

>>9393497
Bodyslam the claw and Klawdia away, driving yourself towards the maw with hellish clacking sounds. Attempt to cavitation bubble its mouth, or tear it with your claws, anything!

This >>9393506

With hellish clacking sounds >>9393508

Stick claw right into maw.
Hold maw open with our god-given claw of death.

>>9393497
also, have mantis shrimp attacking its back legs where its claws can't reach

You step between its mouth and your veteran soldier.
YOU ARE THE CRAB KING, AND NONE MAY DEFILE YOUR SUBJECTS!
You drive your pistol into its mouth and fire. It reels back in pain as a stream of blood escapes its gaping jaws. It is not mortally wounded, however. In a rage, it swings its other claw, knocking you away once more. You are dazed slightly. It grabs two of your subjects (non CC) and devours them before retreating to the sand.

HP: 80 out of 120 (you)

>>9393546
dig after it, quickly

Dance the dance of "what now, sucka?!?!?"

>>9393560
Fire into the ground

You dig into the sand with your rending claw, intent on finding the monster. You are blind here, but you dig toward the rumbling. Eventually you strike a bit of its shell, and it rises quickly, throwing you into the air and onto its back!

>>9393576
Attack unharmed eye WITH GREAT RAGE

>>9393576
Swear bitter vengeance upon this crab. No more loyal subjects will fall this day! NO MORE!

>>9393576 Crack its shell open and feast on the innards call on bloodshell to give you the will do go on. This crab is a beast he lacks any and all humanity...crabbity?

This thing isn't fighting by sight guys... it's feeling the vibrations from our scuttling. Blinding it will only do a little, we should concentrate more on damaging it's massive claws and legs.

The eye evades your swipes. However, it provides the distraction for your troops to get behind the beast. Your lobsters get to work attacking the wounded leg in hopes of dragging it to the ground while your mantises scuttle up its legs, intent on joining you.

>>9393576
dig into the wounds we caused when we removed the eyes, try and get a good angle and fire into them to hit the brain. DANCE THE DANCE OF VICTORY ON ITS EMPTYING SHELL

>>9393576
clamp onto its shell with your clamping claw

fire at one point repeatedly with your pistol claw using your new found stability

You fire at the eye while trying to get a grip on its shell. you find no purchase, but graze the eye. It bleeds slightly, but still locks on to you. The crab picks up your subjects by the clawful and consumes them. It seems to know that this bothers you. You swear it would be grinning, had it the proper jaws.

Troop count: 170 out of 200
Protocrab count: 70 out of 70

IT LIKES TO EAT CRAB? WE'LL GIVE IT CRAB!

DIVE INTO IT'S MOUTH

BURST OUT FROM INSIDE

>>9393641
Dive and crab onto the eyestalk shoot it where it joins the shell so it hinges. Then grabbing hold of the tattered remnants of the stalk swing heroically towards its mouth parts before smashing through into it innards.

>>9393687

yes! grabbing into the eyestalk is good!

GOD FUCKING DAMNIT GET UP IN THIS FUCKERS GRILL AND SHOVE YOUR CLAW INTO ITS WOUNDED EYE AND THEN OPEN

THAT
FUCKING
CLAW

You pistol-launch to the eyestalk, firing at where it connects to the shell. It flails at you, nearly catching you in its deathly claws. You swing to its mouth, where its massive jaws attempt to crush you. Your SPINED CARAPACE offers him more than he can chew, and it rapidly attempts to spit you out! However, your spines and rending claw stabilize you. You aren't going anywhere you don't want to now.

>>9393687
eitherway we're infront of it, preventing it from eating more of our minions without dealing with us

>>9393728
Unleash our fury. Vengeance.

>>9393728
fire pistol claw at mouth joints, pull yourself deeper inside

>>9393728
We run forward. 90mph of spined crab tearing through your gut hurts. We'll gut this son of a bitch and use its shell as our summer palace.

this abomination proforms crustannibalism!

it is a monster from the very hights of the dryness!

>>9393728
FUCK YEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!
Time do do some fancy shooting down that crab's mouth hole!!

>>9393728
IT IS HUGE
IT HAS HUGE GUTS
YOU KNOW THE REST

You see several corpses of your subjects, still being ground up by its mandibles. You are filled with rage, and slash with your claw all around. Blood flows freely from the wounds, and you tear open a bigger hole in its mouth, moving down its gullet and into its insides.

It begins to digest you, dealing a minute 5 damage. Staying in here for long will continue to harm you.

>>9393766

You heard the man, can't stay.

TIME TO MAKE A GLORIOUS EXIT

>>9393766
rip and tear your way out of the digestive tract

>>9393766
Look for its heart. Tear it out. Emerge victorious. Display the heart of the Beast for your subjects to see. Rejoice in its death.

You blast with reckless abandon. Its guts are perforated, and you crawl out of its stomach, away from the digestive acids. A thunderous crash announces that the beast has fallen, however, it continues to swing its claws, maiming your subjects. From your position you see more corpses enter its mouth.

>>9393766
The more we get digested the less our bretheren are. Claw wildly, and head for the brain if possible.

>>9393766
Shoot holes in its stomach let it burn to death from the inside.

What would fill our subjects with more pride?

Bursting out in a shower of clawyness?

Or should we invest our new found adrenaline in one last FINAL KELPINING and burst forth in torrent of green vengance?

You rip your way through its inner workings until you come to the heart. Gripping it in your ferocious RENDING CLAW, you tear it free from its place. Blood fills the space around you, and everything goes red. Bloodclaw is giggling like a schoolgirl at your carnage.

Get down to business and claw your way through the roof of his mouth into the brain!!! For great justice!

>>9393789
RIP

OUT

ITS

HEART

Once we've taken down it's nervous control center, burst out with kelp flowing all around.

EMERGE WITH THE HEART

DEVOUR IT INFRONT OF YOUR DEMORALIZED CRABS

>>9393806
claw your way through to the top of the crab and dig your way out the shell to stand on top

dance victory dance

>>9393824
this!

EAT ITS HEART, GAIN ITS STRENGTH!

EMERGE HEROICALLY
EAT HEART AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE
HOLD FEAST FOR WARRIORS AND PROTOCRABS

Walk out its mouth exhausted but triumphant. Show the world you will not stand for the death of another crab.

>>9393847
you just killed a giant crab

>>9393847
Like the one you just killed?

>>9393855
It was a cannibal!

You slam your claw against the roof of its shell.
SLAM
You thrust again, a crack appears.
SLAM
The crack grows, deep red water flows like a glorious river from the opening.
SLAM.
In a shower of shell fragments, you burst forth, heart in claw. You stand before your subjects, doing the "Scuttle of Superiority" and "Dance of Dominance" before feasting upon the heart. Blood stains your carapace, and your troops clack and scuttle in triumph!

YOU ARE THE CRAB KING. THERE IS NO CRUSTACEAN MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU. LET NONE INHIBIT THE EXPANSION OF GLORIOUS CRUSTACEA!

>>9393854
>>9393855
That was no crab. It was a monster pure and simple though it looked like a crab it was more akin to a squid in mind than anything like a noble crab.

>>9393854
>>9393855

SHUT UP

>>9393866
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD SHELL
SHELLS FOR THE SHELL THRONE

>>9393874

I concur! It was most vilely squid-like in manner!

>>9393874
>>9393863
>>9393855
>>9393854
There was a possibility of reasoning with it, but shooting and clawing kinda pissed it off, so it opted to kill off the lesser crabs before it. It's all good, Wavemaker isn't that mad.

>>9393866
FUCK YEAH!

>>9393866
CRUSTACEA!
CRUSTACEA!
ALL OTHER PLACES SUCK!
OUR CRABS ARE BEST!
THEY EAT THE REST!

>>9393866
After we return from battle, and the victory feast is over, summon Klawdia to our chambers. Let her know that in that moment she was almost consumed, we felt great fear for her. Tentatively, shyly, stroke her carapace. Gaze deeply into her eyestalks.

ALWAYS, I WANNA BE WITH YOU~AND MAKE BELIEVE WITH YOU~

>>9393896

It was clearly under some strange form of "crab madness"

I truely believe we were doing it a great service, freeing it from the blind rage that had overcome it.

Truly a terrible loss but I feel in my crabby heart that it now watches over us, thankful for freeing it from such a terribly curse.

>>9393896
parade giant crab through villages of non-allied protocrabs, gain further allies

check on dead and wounded

when you arrive back at your fortress, use giant crab as an archway for the enterence

cover it in kelp as decoration

>>9393896
Meh. That's not how the media will see it.

>>9393921
Now that you put it that way, I hope we don't catch the madness after eating its heart. The troops did need the pick-me-up though.

You clamp the joint of its titanic claw, firing and squeezing at it. The claw eventually comes free.

You Obtained a new trophy!

>>9393928

Of course not, we and all our troops are clearly immune, we have the blessings of the gods upon us.

>>9393925

There ya go?

See, the Body Politicrab has this all wrapped up. Don't you worry about a thing.

>>9393943
Ah good. We ought to make an extra tribute/prayer to them in thanks.

The other protocrab settlments flock to the site of your great battle. Your triumph has earned the support of all but one tribe, the one living farthest to the North-East.

They refuse to give up their ways for you.

steamroll with newfound army

>>9393934
Prayer for the spirit of the mighty crab and thank it because of its sacrifice the the protocrabs will join our cause. With out its death we would not of been able to unite crabkind. May it swim forever in the gentle wavepools of Poseidon's kingdom

>>9393976
agreed

we must all unite as one if we are to take over

any tribes that do not ally, take up valuable resources we could be using to power our empire

>>9393976
Leave them to their misguided ways, but take away all resources near their tribe.

>>9393970

We must not let this turn into bloody conflict.

It will hurt us in the end. No, we must let them be for now. Perhaps in time they will come to see the wisdom of our ways.

We shall send them a portion of the feast, in good will and a message of no hard feelings.

>>9393970
Let us travel to them, surely a compromise can be reached for their co-operation.

>>9393970
AN EXAMPLE MUST BE MADE OF THOSE WHO WOULD DENY THE WILL OF THE CRAB KING

Since I desperately need sleep, I will indulge in minor railroading and say you return to your LAIR with trophy and army in tow.

You can now molt for six points at thecost of three days.

>>9393976
>>9393987

NO, NO!

>>9393990 has the right of it!

>>9393970
Meet these strange out castes ask them why the refuse to add themselves to the glorious Crab Imperium.

>>9393995
Sweet.

Bloodclaw has given your Pistol a permanent +2. Bringing you to 7 points in LRC.

>>9393995

Good night and sweet dreams, o crabby keeper

>>9393970
set up kelpfields near the giant crabs lair

order the various tribes to work the fields together and set up a fortress in the cave for defense

>>9394011
I'm sticking around for upgrades and archival. I've archived the last four threads, so i'm beseeching my crabby followers to do this one for me, please.

>>9394002
SOON WE SHALL BE THE GOD EMPEROR OF CRABKIND

>>9393990
we have 10 defense
10 cqc
7 lrc
10 speed
10 int


3 lrc and 3 int?

>>9393995
+3 range
+3 int

>>9393995
Rest well Crab Lord you storytelling has done much to bring joy to /tg/ this day/night.

LRC and INT seem to be the favorites so far.

>>9394037
second

Your pistol claw elongates and bulks up to form the CANNON CLAW. Capable of firing astoundingly powerful shots at a range of up to 200 feet, this will come in handy!

Your brain swells with intelligence. You understand more complex machinery, and even know how the explosives work on your ship! Furthermore, your agriculture will be more efficient, and a LARGE KELP FIELD will easily supply food at a stable rate for 1000 subjects.

sorry crabmaster i cant archive. suptg is being bitchy and i cant connect

>>9394050
working on archive

so guys lets plan our first move for next time. what do you guys think?

Now I'm headed for bed. Fuck it's 4 in the goddamn morning. Oh well, this has been most excellent! Look for Crab Quest going down around 7 or 8 PM Eastern Standard Time (I figure that's 5 hours from GMT)

>>9394101
thanks crabmaster!

archived here
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/9393163/

>>9394115
It has been a pleasure, my good man.

>>9394118
Many thanks, sir!

>>9394121
goodnight, and thanks for the awesome quest