Ditto has defeated many Crustaceans, and is back to rescue Rupert, one of the Marleybone adventurers who was trapped by the crustacean bad guys and is in a cage in The Grotto.  Of course instead of asking Ditto to rescue him, he is still obsessed with his research notes or something…  I’d like to rescue these guys some time soon!

Do you ever find yourself in a duel where you keep saying ‘Oh come ON, I can’t believe he just did that!’ over and over again?

So there I was, swimming around in the Grotto, trying to collect something or other from these terrifying Crustacean Clawcutters!  These fights are HARD – they toss out a wild bolt or tempest first turn, or a Stormzilla second turn!  I’m finding myself using a lot of glacial shields lately!  Thankfully, a good strong Fire Dragon with a Fire Blade is enough to take these guys out, so if I can survive the first few turns the fights are over pretty quick!  It’s really very exciting, I have to say!

So here is my first true ‘underwater’ battle, and it was both very hard and kinda weird.  First of all, it was against two Storm school enemies,one of which was able to hit me for close to 900 points of damage FIRST TURN!  That is some amazing early damage, and was very scary!  Thankfully I was victorious, but wow these fights are using every bit of my skill, plus a little luck!

Also, I know I have not been posting as much – I have been pretty crazy busy lately, and it has been kind of tricky to play Wizard 101 and make fun posts – I’m going to try to get at least three posts a week out there, and hopefully more.  I think Carl will help too.

So I have used the ancient and mystical Celestian ‘Underwater Breathing Machine’, which had a lot of pretty lights but hadn’t seemed to do much of anything…  And now I am supposed to trust that this has made me able to breathe underwater by entering ‘The Grotto’…  Seems kind of crazy, don’t you think?  Let’s see how it goes!