Not Enough Duct Tape

an adventure starring Mary, Demyan, and Nugh. Companion episode: You Are What You Eat.
==Setting==
The island of Untz Untz City
==Short Episode Description ==
Join Demyan, Nugh, and Mary as they try to fix a ferry and a crabby situation! Can they thwart the imitation crabs before it's too late? Find out in this Everything's Going to Crab actual play episode!
== Non Player Characters ==
* Mihai Abugoch (ferry employee)
* Raluca Tun (ferry employee)
* Neema Bojko (dancing person)
* Yaro Ostachuk (dancing person who embraced crabness)
* Professor Madeline Spark
* Nightshade Lobo
* Sylvie Monteleone (eating contest participant)
* XiaoMao Shino (cannery supervisor / imposter crab)
* Xantho the VII
* Obsidianna la Caldere
* Councilmember Wowor
* Councilmember Behrendt
* Councilmember Hemmi
* Councilmember Qian
* Councilmember Galil
* Fuevo Strongmind: person who bought location of Brachyura's resting site from the council and destroyed the crab's heritage monument park. 
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== Plot Summary==
In this episode, Nugh, Mary and Demyan travel to the island city of Untz Untz for what is supposed to be a vacation. Sadly, their ferry breaks down a hundred meter away from the ferry mooring. It appears that the engine room had been sabotaged and it requires spare parts in order to be repaired, as all attempts to jury rig it on the spot failed. The party uses a lifeboat to get to the island. 
When their boat hits the sand, they notice a commotion on the shore nearby and music playing at the Beachside Community Centre further down the beach. A big crowd stands in the sand, surrounding a thrown on the shore octopus. It is being poked and analyzed by some mad scientist-looking dwarf, who keeps murmuring something about 'perfect sample' and 'need to further experiment'. The next moment he pours some weird red powder all over the octopus - and everyone around it. Nugh seems to be allergic to it, as his eyes quickly deform and pop out, now resembling those of a crab. That doesn't seem to bother him in a slightest, which can not be said about Mary, who faints at such a sight. Nugh seems to know that scientist well. He and Nightshade Lobo have a nice chat - to the extent of Nugh's ability to have a proper conversation. 
After this encounter, the group reaches the Beachside Community Centre. It appears they were hosting a party. Nugh quickly joins the dancing and convinces with his sleek crab moves someone to even reject humanity and embrace the inner crab. Mary and Demyan, on the other hand, decide to grab something to eat. A crab eating contest seems to be a perfect place at first. But they quickly learn that the entry fee is $200, which is a daylight robbery. Thus, they decide to rob the robbers. In the most sneaky-breaky way they storm out of the dining hall, grabbing some crab meat on the way. Demyan reminds Mary that they still have a ferry to fix and suggests scouting the local cannery for spare parts. 
They grab Nugh and the three go to the cannery. The woman in charge seems to be uncooperative for some reason, as if she wants the people of this island to stay. She tries to convince the party to do some prolonged and completely unnecessary tasks, but Nugh manages to sabotage their production line and create enough distraction for Demyan and Mary to sneak outside and look for the spare parts. Moreover, he discoveres that the woman in charge of the cannery is a hidden impostor crab. A short fight begins, giving the other workers enough time to escape. The forewoman makes a slip and tells Nugh about the giant wave coming, which would destroy the island and doom all the inhabitants. That's why she was so uncooperative.
Demyan and Mary manage to find the required replacement parts. Moreover, Demyan steals a toolbox filled with all kinds of instrument a mechanic might ever need. A perfect addition to his collection. The party reunites in the cannery yard, but something seems wrong. While Nugh tries to the best of his ability to tell what he found out, Demyan slowly realizes it first. He finds a sheet of metal and shows it to Mary, who sees herself turning into crab with her eyestalks popping out of her eyesockets. The three of them decide on their next course of action. They come to the conclusion that the best thing they can do now is to fix the ferry and warn the citizens of Untz Untz of the danger.
Demyan quickly fixes the ferry using the spare parts they found in the cannery and inordinate ammount of blue duct tape to hold it all together. Later the party decides to visit the City Hall, which appears to host some kind of a forum at the moment. Being the most human-looking, Demyan is chosen to be the one to do the talking. He warns the city council of the incoming wave, but they decide to put it on a vote, which, of course, fails. Being fed up with such bureaucracy, Demyan storms out and shouts 'Crabs! They are coming! Sound the alarm!'. His crab-looking comrades rush into the City Hall, looking as menacing as they could. But all three of them are quickly caught in the net by some local police. Before they are taken into the police custody, Nugh spots three impostor crabs along the crowd and shouts out to them. But, instead of helping fellow crab-people, they destroy some evidence.
After they are brought to the police station and thrown in a jail, they encounter a little, bluish with a sort of un-alive look girl. Mary quickly recognizes her as Obsidianna la Caldere and seems to have a certain dislike towards her, up to the point of considering to leave her to rot in her cell. Meanwhile Demyan picks the lock of his cell and starts opening all the other cells, Obsidianna's included. He doesn't like the idea of leaving a little girl, whoever she is, die a most horrible death. 
The group still has a mission to warn the citizens about the wave. But first of all, they need a way out of the police station. Demyan takes a folding shovel out of his newly acquired toolbox and ties it to Nugh's hand with duct tape. The three of them manage to dig themselves out of prison in the middle of the police station lawn, just under the flagpole with a siren on top of it. Demyan notices that he can short-circut it, but he needs to get up. Nugh offers to carry him piggy-back up the flagpole. The two of them manage to finally sound the alarm.
Residents of Untz Untz, hearing the alarm, leave their houses and rush to the mountain. That would not be enough to survive the wave of such a size, so Mary uses the PA system to convince the citizens to board the ferry instead. Either it was her charisma, or crab-looking Nugh still with the shovel on his hand, but the people are convinced to take the ferry. Thus, the residents of Untz Untz were saved. Probably they are now untz-untzing on the ferry, rushing away from the wave.
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