Seal-Crab War of Attrition

Cuban Species Annihilation

Sister Ines's warning prevents a crab surprise attack but extends the conflict until both species suffer existential losses.

Story so far

The Red Maníseros Land Crabs plan a sneak attack on the monk seals, but Sister Ines warns the seals. Instead of a fast victory and surrender, the conflict becomes days of grinding mass combat.

Both factions lose devastating numbers, their young become casualties or zombies, and the sea turns red and blue. By the time Samantha scouts the shore, enormous piles of seal and crab dead surround a temporary singing-and-dancing formation.

The death volume attracts divine and infernal attention normally reserved for late Faction Wars, causing the original quest to fail and Demon Eviction to begin.

Appearance

A Cuban coast split between seal and crab armies, both reduced to exhausted survivors around mountains of dead.

Role

The war supplies the concentrated death that breaks the floor's expected supernatural schedule.

Relationships

Sister Ines Quiteria — Her warning prevents the initial surprise attack.

Monk Seal Warriors — They survive the opening but lose much of their population.

Red Maníseros Land Crabs — Their planned rapid victory becomes mutual destruction.

Demon Eviction — The death toll triggers the Cuban event.

Sources — 1 recorded facts, by chapter

Chapter 56

Sister Ines's warning prevents a crab surprise attack but extends the conflict until both species suffer existential losses.