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Alzar dives back into the room while they search the crabs and find nothing. The room is big, and Alzar finds a dais in the room. At the top is a huge giant oyster with a bigger black pearl in it. This is the black pearl the captain talked about wanting to come and find. Alzar can try to pick the pearl like picking pockets, and puts on the gauntlets of dexterity to try. He rolls a 81, not good enough. The oyster clams down and misses Alzar’s hand by a bit. He waits for it to open and checks the back hallway. There are ten giant rats that move into this hallway and a blastbones clears them out. It’s still underwater. Alzar now has 7 animal skeletons.
He moves forward and uses them to go ahead of him, and arrives at a door. He opens it and it is another chamber under 5’ of water, with a door at the other end. He moves to it, and a trap fires, putting oil and grease on top of the water, and then igniting it. Alzar stays underwater breathing easily until the fire is out, then he decides to head back without opening the next door. A half hour or so has passed, and the giant oyster is open again. Another pick pockets is attempted for 16 and it succeed and Alzar has the pearl:
3000 gp black pearl
He heads back and joins the group and they go the other way, because Alzar doesn’t want them taking off their armor to swim the big flooded room unless its the final option. They go up a corridor and run into three crocodiles. They have been very hungry from feeding off lizards and such, and they attack the party.
Alzar wins init and misses. Aleigha hits for 2 damage on the third one. One hits Alzar, then misses. Alzar crits the wounded one for 4. The others add 19 and kill it. Two left. One hits Alzar for 7 and clamps down on him. Next turn it will try to spin around and take Alzar’s arm off. Alzar smashes it with a +2 dagger (close range, on hand, drops the staff) for 7 damage. The fighters all miss it 6, 6, 4 rolled The croc tries to barrel roll and deals another 8 damage to the arm and Alzar feels some tears opening up in it as he is spun with the croc. The other one misses. Alzar stabs and misses. The fighters hit just once for 5 damage. It spins and Alzar takes 10 more damage. The arm is about to come off. The other croc misses. Megala and Dryshik swing down ordered in desperation to try and claw the croc. Dryshik crits and deals double damage – 2. Alzar manages to stab it for 4. Est drops his sword, Ale does as well, and Carum pierces it with his magical spear for 6 and kill sit. The final croc hits Alzar and miss (cloak – first time attacking him).
Alzar vamps it for 12 and it dies.
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XP – 250 each
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