Oh Crab!

Those crab humanoids, Craniforms as they call themselves, have a prophecy about us. Very strange indeed. The Sea told them long ago that we would save them from the Sahoolagins who enslave them. I'm not so sure about that but we promised to do our best. They also gave us this Rite of the Sea Mother. Very cool concept, able to breathe air and water and we can swim quickly—no issues in underwater combat.
 
The potion for it tasted and smelled like a bad oyster. That should have been our first clue. But I was so excited I missed it. The ability to move through the deep without magical expenditure seemed a simple choice, especially since Jer'xis seemed to think there were no negative side effects. After a very odd trip through sea-themed hallucinations, I woke up able to breathe water.
Also, I was a little slimy and had a light-up antenna like an angler fish. Very cool. Stilga has little face tendrils and Algar has camouflage, not sure what Kalibek gained yet. Sadly it was not all sunshine and rainbows. We need salt water to live to a degree now. We figured that out when we all started to dry out like a fish on the rocks a few hours into our sail. Very not cool. While useful for now, we need to find a way to reverse at least some of the more negative side effects of our fishy evolution.
 
The craniform kids were easily amused with a little druid craft, I figured it was a cool way to leave our memory with them. They gave up a lot of their toys (very valuable gemstones!!!!) to us easily enough. Not a direct trade, but some little bits to entertain them.
 
Kzanto, one of the Craniforms, led us to a trash chute to get into the Sahuagin city Tzar'grandula. The anenenome? Anenome? Spelling? inside was huge. It paralyzed Algar but we were able to keep moving and Stilga had a potion to fix him. I need to remember to prepare my restoration spell daily. Trying to foresee the kind of trouble we are going to get into is hard. Especially when I cause a good deal of it. I don't think I've ever cycled through so many spells in one week before. Nani would be laughing at me about my whining about being underprepared. Me. Underprepared. "Probably the universe humbling you, Ellie!" Ugh. I could do with a little less of the universe butting its nose in right now.
 
 
I had hoped my shark form would be bigger. I'll keep pushing at the magic. I was not so large as I thought I would be even with the difficulty telling in form. Something to continue working on. The shark form didn't really help as camouflage and only two of them really could hide under my fins. The "Beast" knew we were there and attacked. We took care of it quick enough. Now to enter "the Tooth".