Gazing down the gullet of the mermaid approaching him, Xarces takes a moment to admire the beauty of the moment, the hypnotic manner in which the water cascades over her open lips, washing down the slick and slippery tube of her gullet. Perhaps under different circumstances he'd of taken pity on the pretty creature....but the lives of the ship's crew where at stake, the lives that would be needed to ferry him and the others to and from their destination. As such before she can reach him, he slips to the side, ending her life in but a single swing. "A shame...these mermaids don't seem to be able to put up much of a fight." he exclaims, looking around at the battle as a whole. It seems that not only had he been able to slay two of them without so much as breaking a sweat, but that the only other mermaids he could see where either eaten, about to be eaten, or tangled up in tentacles unable to escape. Judging from this he concludes that the risk to the crew in the water was minimal at best. The others would have no problem cleaning things up and that he need not waste his time slashing apart those mermaids already doomed to be defeated.<br/><br/>Recalling how he'd seen at least one of the sailors be swallowed down, he hadn't noticed any plump mermaids being taken out by any of the others. The thought also occurred to him that some of the sailors may have begun to sink even. Though he'd not seen much beneath the water's surface when last he was down there, Xarces ducks beneath the waves. Swimming down while looking around. Searching to see if any threats loomed below, and if any of the ship's crew hadn't found their way sinking towards the ocean floor.<br/><br/><br/>Xarces<div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">Not much else for him to do at this point, save for slash away at defenseless mermaids, so he's going to have a look underwater. <br/><br/><a class="postlink" href="http://orokos.com/roll/221398">swim</a>: <span style="text-decoration: underline">1d20+8</span> <span style="font-weight: bold">20</span><br/><br/><a class="postlink" href="http://orokos.com/roll/221403">perception</a>: <span style="text-decoration: underline">1d20+9</span> <span style="font-weight: bold">23</span></div></div></div>