⇨ SHINIES

[ringleaders]

Who: Anyone who wants to pick on Tamatoa.
When: Day 45 onward.
Where: In and around Tamatoa's lair.
What: People getting up into Tamatoa's grill for some reason or another. Anybody is welcome to participate, but please communicate with the mods first so that we can discuss how to set up the thread and what your characters are attempting. Tamatoa may attack people outside of his lair, too, but you'll need some kind of narrative hook to prevent him from just eating you if you want to engage him that way.
Warnings: Crab related violence.

TAMATOA'S LAIR↴ Tamatoa lives in a giant clam shell, inside of a mysterious cave that lies about a half hour's swim away from the city. This is also where he keeps most of his loot - either stashed somewhere in the lair or (mostly) sitting on the back of his shell. He hangs out in this cave most of the time he isn't stomping around looking for sunken ships. Tamatoa is gigantic. In fact, he's even a bit more gigantic than he appeared in the movie Moana - and those combating him will find that he also seems to be somewhat resistant to magical affects. A human is the relative size of a pen cap in his claws, and he could crush a normal person will trivial effort. He could also pretty easily toss them into his giant mouth - which he usually will, given the opportunity. Facing Tamatoa could come with great reward, but with equally high risk.

Comments

[mirrortide]

Lapis is sort of expecting a little more than for him to be mildly inconvenienced by the currents she'd whipped up? She's about to try something else when Steven shouts for her and Peridot to make sure the van makes it down fine? And then him and Amethyst are crawling out of the van and-

Oh. Fusion. Everything else just kind of. Stops for Lapis for the moment.

Sorry, Peridot. This one is all on you. Lapis is busy having A Moment or Several.

[periphrasing]

Peridot is pretty transfixed by the sudden fusion as well, but Greg's screaming gets her attention right quick.

As quick as... Well, a startled squid, she shoots out the open door and swims around front, where she tries to focus her powers around the falling van.

"Don't worry, I've-- got this--" she grunts through gritted teeth. As long as no weird ocean currents come along, she actually seems to have a pretty good grip on the thing?

[npcarnival]

Tamatoa is just entering his lair when the bubble explodes, sort of hurting his claw? Mostly it feels like having someone slap someone out of your hand, which is both annoying and also sort of rude? He lets the van go, shaking his claw as if burned.

"Ow!" he says, obviously offended. And then the yo-yo smacks him in the face. He puts a claw to his cheek, stunned. "OW! Where did you come from?"

He focuses on snapping his claws at Smoky, since obviously they are the one causing all the problems right now. The van is free to sink at its own pace - he can get that later.

"Get... back... here!"