Captivating Crustaceans for a Big Time Shellebration

30th August 2023

## Adventurers Attending

* Horatio Hammerfell
* Io Aerkeryrm
* Hilda Millgrove
* Creed
* Grrder

## Loot

* Standard Level Xp & Gold
* Bag full of prawns - Horatio

## Rumours

* She was so nice, we should go see Esmeralda the Sea Hag again.
* I hope those crab people don't mind us taking those prawns.

## Prologue

*Took Place within the Downtime Discord Channel*

***Shar**ian passing the mission board has his eye caught by the most recent post on the board and smiles to himself.*

*Hoping to find Hilda, **Shar**ian heads looks around the Guildhall until finding her*

*Hilda sits around the Guildhall, seeing this person eyeing her request, she approaches.*

Hilda:“Hello! Any interest in my request by any chance?”
*Sharian sits down at the table, across from Hilda*

Sharian:"Well I do believe I can help you with it, do you have the cursed sword on you, do you mind if I see it?"
*Sharian holds open his hand expectantly waiting for weapon*

*Hilda holds it out in her hand, clutching it firmly*

Hilda:“You can look at it if you want, I got it from some snake-human creature the other day, I can’t seem to bring myself to leave it where I stay”
*Looking at the sheer reluctance of releasing it and the grimace on Hilda face from the idea of letting go of the blade.*

Sharian:"I've seen things like this before and should be able to love your issue. There isn't anything about this curse you've forgotten to mention the is there like weird cravings, odd rashes, that sort of thing?"
*Hilda breaths a small sigh of relief upon being told there’s a solution*

Hilda:“Physical changes? No. But the first night of me owning the sword it begun to speak to me, telling me to ‘kill them all’ over and over..”
*A shocked look comes over Sharian's face*

Sharian:"And those aren't impulses you normally have? I do apologise, I have to ask these things since meeting Graveltooth."
Hilda:“Nono, before joining this guild I’d never even thought of something like that I assure you, though I’ve had to do my fair bit of slaying since joining here, It’s not something I think of outside of my quests at all.”
Sharian:"I get that, you'll end up doing a lot of things that you would never have thought of doing before joining. I never thought about Turing into a t-rex and chasing someone but here we are."
Sharian:"So anyway you shouldn't need to worry about that if you can hold it off for a while. I can remove the curse for you but you would need to do something for me first."
*The idea of somebody turning into a T-Rex is something Hilda considered near impossible until about a second ago, and her eyes widen (though she tries to conceal it) just a bit as she begins to realise the power of person she’s speaking to currently*

Hilda:“The idea of a cursed item talking to me every night sounds both scary and irritating, what do you need doing, and I’ll try the best I can to get it done. I’m Hilda, by the way”
Sharian:"Well I don't know if you've ever heard of Blue Crystal Prawns before?"
*Hilda notice a slight dilation in Sharian's as the mention of the prawns. Taking a moment to gather himself*

Sharian:"They're from the Elemental Plane of Water and absolutely delightful."
*Hilda can tell Sharian is trying to downplay his love for these things.*

Sharian:"I recently read up in the archives a portal to the elemental plane of water used by the Guild. I'd like you to try and get me a chest full of these creatures."
Hilda:“Never had Blue Crystal ones before, but prawns sure are nice, one chest? I’ll make it two. Anything I should know about this plane before going? Can’t say I’ve frequented many other planes at all”
*Hilda speaks with some slight false confidence, getting some prawns sounds easy, but on another plane? Who knows*

*A large grin spreads across Sharian's face at the sound of the additional chest*

Sharian:"Perfect."
*Waving his hands Sharian conjures images of the prawns in question above the table*

Sharian:"It's an endless place of water as far as you can imagine and then just keep going and you've probably not though of enough water. I'll sort you out with the ability with water breathing but you will only have 24 hours to make it back. The water there works kinda differently than it does here."
"You should find a small team to go with you when you have a spare moment over the next day or two. Come back here when you are ready to go to Emerson Lake."
Hilda:“Sounds good, I hope to see you soon. And thanks a lot once again”
*Hilda makes a mental note of what they look like and begins to stand up*

Hilda:“See you in a couple days I hope”
Sharian:“I hope to see you in a couple of days to, come find me here or talk to Fetch.”
*Pointing up into the rafters of the Guildhall at a strange eye creature.*

“He will let me know if you are looking for me. The name is Sharian Naetris by the way and it's been a pleasure doing business with you.”
*Sharian leaves to take care of business*

## Epilogue

*Took Place within the Downtime Discord Channel*

*Not too far from Ornament, on the side of Emerson Lake, Sharian barbecues some Blue Crystal Shrimp that freshly arrived from the Elemental Plane of Water. Throwing another one on the grill he turns to the rest of the group.*

Sharian:“Does anyone want any more of these delightful little Devils?”
Graveltooth:“too much skin for my liking, tiny wizard. But Graveltooth think it good idea to come out to lake for bbq. Shame that when Graveltooth become Gruumsh, this all be destroyed.”
*Slightly shocked*

Sharian:"Oh didn't see you there in the bushes, did you slip through the portal from the Guildhall I opened a few hours ago?"
*Taken a bit back, Sharian had expected to have seen Graveltooth if he did slip through the portal, as he had been waiting here for several hours for the rest of the group return with the prawns.*

Graveltooth:"Graveltooth hear there was food. So obviously Graveltooth come"
Sharian:"Do you want some cheese on shrimp, I've got a bit to spare?"

## Player Diaries

### Hilda's Diary

> After a small bit of deception (lying to peoples faces) Hilda gathered a group of powerful adventures to head to the water plane with her to get Sharians prawns. The cursed sword Hilda wanted to un-curse begun speaking to her about killing Io, the pestering got more and more frequent aswell as more and more tempting as the day went on.. Anyway Sharian teleported the group to lake with a portal to the plane in, and the adventure begun.
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> Once in the water plane, the group found a large mass of coral, that Io found out had a hag in. As usual, the hag was into kidnapping children and turning them into hags, but Io seemed to be having too good a time fraternising with the enemy, so ending the hag wasn’t possible. The hags pet/assistant eel led them to a civilisation of crabs who apparently had tons of the prawns they needed, but before the eel could even react, Creed and Horatio killed him.
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> The group entered the crab settlement and had planned to try and do some trade for the prawns, but Io decided to threaten the lives of the crab people after the first trade offer wasn’t accepted, which begun a series of prawn hunting and crab killing shenanigans.
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> Eventually the group killed the crabs attacking them, and recovered two chests of prawns as requested by Sharian. They then headed back to the lake where the curse was lifted on the sword, and a seafood BBQ was enjoyed by maybe all (Hilda didn’t check if people liked the prawns or not).
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### Io's Diary

> Right, so, wtf. Hilda come up to me and.says we need to go get some prawns. Cool. Fine. Let’s go. Only it’s not from the market, it’s from the plane of water.
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> Basically have to bully everyone into coming with us. Which to be fair wouldn’t have needed to do if Grrder or Sharian had just removed the curse. I’ve seen them do it before, can’t be all that difficult.
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> We eventually get there through the same lake that has both a portal to the shadowfell and the fey wild? Then I’m the only one that can actually communicate with anything!
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> I end up in telepathic contact with someone I’m pretty sure is a sea hag. We should just run, get out of here, says I. Nooooo we need to kill her if she’s stealing children Horatio says. So Grrder and myself go into her house.
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> Let me tell you, that woman was nicer to me than anyone in the guild has ever been. Palma violet gin, talking about crochet. An actual delight of a woman. So, yes, kidnapping kids is wrong. But her and Moray (her eel friend) assured me the kids had a choice. Ive talked to enough people to know parent child relationships aren’t all that (small drawing of Creed).
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> Anyway the others killed Moray, who Id been having a lovely conversation with. Horatio ATE a bit of him. And they expect me to be alright after all this?
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> We get to these crabs that apparently have the prawns and once again, I’m the only one who can talk to them. Only they don’t like telepathy, won’t tell me what they want in exchange for the prawns, Horatio and Creed are throwing chunks of Moray in the floor as an offering.
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> I lost it. I was utterly beyond broken at this point: I end up trying to intimidate them into giving us some prawns, because you know everyone else is all let’s go murder people and eels and things that are nice to Io.
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> I just started pinging off telepathic messages to give us the prawns. Knocked out a giant crab…. I’m so done with this whole experience. My head hurts.
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### Creed's Diary

> Goddamnit Io.
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> So Grrder and I were chilling in the forge when Hilda and Io ask us to join them at the fishmongers for a barbecue, we somehow ended up hag-haggling for info in another plane of existence so we could find magic shrimps for a wizard.
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> Io seemed to like the hag, who told us she kidnaps kids, and was very distraught at Horatio and I wanting to kill her for her crimes saying she was doing the right thing.
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> The hag's eel familiar/butler (I'm not sure which) took us to some crabs to barter for some shrimps, we killed the eel just in case. Io theatened the crusty community's lives instead if bartering so naturally a fight broke out.
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> It was a little hard to focus as first as Io had a mental breakdown and kept firing *"just give us some bloody prawns!"* into my head but after I obliterated some crabs with Horatio we found Hilda struggling with a chef. Io stole her kill and filled some chests with the shrimp for Sharian.
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> Need to go back there soon and finish of the hag too...
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### Grrder's Diary

> Creed and I were hanging out at the forge when Io said we had a mission. I met Horatio outside with a guild member named Hilda who I hadn't met before. Apparently Sharian wanted to send a party to get some blue prawns from the elemental plane of water. In return he would uncurse a weapon that Hilda found.
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> For some reason Creed felt that I could just uncurse the weapon and we could have stayed at home. I think he doesn't really understand how I operate even after all this time.
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> Arriving at Emerson Lake with Sharian's assistance we went to find the portal I had used before. Passing through it I made sure we could all speak telepathically. Io caught some fish and we found a coral bed.
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> I didn't hear the conversation that started this but a large eel did direct Io and I into a hole where a hag was. The rest didn't want to join. Io drank something the hag offered and appeared to be charmed by whatever it was. She got very flirty with the hag. The hag stayed she likes to kidnap children and Io seemed to think this was charming. After a negotiation the hag sent her eel to guide us to where the prawns were. Of course, Horatio and Creed turned the eel to sushi on the way.
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> We entered a crab colony. Io threatened them and then there was a lot of chaotic fighting. I heard a lot of it but saw very little. Except a chef trying to attack Hilda but neither of them doing much except swordplay. Io killed this chef in the end after disappearing for the majority of the battle. We found the prawns and returned to Sharian. I uncurse the weapon and Sharian banished whatever was cursing it. Which I could have done too but it was more fun not to.
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> A successful mission and probably a hag to go back and kill at some point.
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### Horatio's Diary

> Must remember to never offer to do Sharian a favour. He sent us to get some prawns he likes eating or something, met some awful hag kidnapper that obviously Io immediately took a liking to, killed her minion, but didn't get a chance to finish her off, (must mention this on the job board). The next bit was fairly standard in fairness, stand in the missile of a corridor shooting crabs until they stop coming at us, whilst Hilda and Grrder had a fishy food fight with some chefs further along. Must say Creed is a remarkably efficient fighter, did good work behind me in the corridor. Eventually they ran out of crabs and we found the prawns and returned them to Sharian.
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> P. S. Eel is surprisingly tasty, not normally a big fish guy but this was good when cooked.
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> The coral house of a hag not quite such a delecacy though.
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