The Crustaceous Apparatus

Ach, so that's what it is meant to look like...-Vice Regent Fanakhāti, seeing Elna operate it.The Crustaceous Apparatus of Sir GGG, also called The Crab Tank, was a mechanical eight-legged, two-clawed tank created in the 1500s by the Verdis gnome scientist Sir Gulthar Graham Gubbington. 
It was given to Elna Carrinstoke and her party as a gift from King Ehrouk the Handsome and his court. It had AC 15, and 100HP.
It came with the following instructions:
* This magnificent, formidable gubbin is the culmination of my lifetime's consummations in the contemplation of mechnomancy. I can seldom anticipate the nigh countless utilities this apparatus might accommodate to the sophisticated and dedicated consumer, whomsoever might they be.  
* Though this instrument might approximate in semblance a rotund cylinder, the clandestine treadle-switch concealed on the zenith vertex is all that is obligatory to unclothe the glory of this treasure. 
* The machine, to which I have humbly bestowed the appellation, 'Sir Gulthar Gubbinton's Crustaceous Apparatus', may accommodate a dyad of operators, respectively of median proportion or subordinate. The principal such individual fulfills the performance of pilot, whilst the supplementary of the brace may be of assistance with the operation of the mechanisms and maintenance therein.  
* Assuming the zenith vertex has been properly sealed, the apparatus is impressively impermeable to the external, vouchsafing by much reckon a single bell's respiratory allowance, or a half-bell respectively when accounting for the supplementary operator. Owing to its obligate compactness, the gizmo's habitual circumstance leaves it prone to subaqueous retrogressation. Notwithstanding its mode of buoyancy as later detailed, the apparatus can nonetheless persevere into monumentous fathomage for extended continuance, exhibiting the lack of even an indentation. 
* The gizmo's controls contain an octad of treadles, the functions of which are detailed as follows.
The brachyural decad of appendages extend. 	The appendages retract.
A single chela strikes like a bludgeon. 	A single chela strikes like a pincer.
The apparatus moves larboard by ten feet. 	The apparatus moves starboard by ten feet.
The apparatus moves forward by ten feet. 	The apparatus moves aftward by ten feet.
The apparatus rotates a quarter turn left. 	The apparatus rotates a quarter turn right.
The oculi emit bright light. 	The oculi extinguish.
The apparatus ascends by ten feet in liquid.	The apparatus self-destructs.
The zenith vertex hatch seals. 	The vertex hatch reopens.
Elna used it during the battle of Fort Helena, but she pulled the self destruct to try to kill Lee. This killed Elna, and almost a hundred Bayut soldiers and fort guardia.
It exploded and was lost forever.
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