good people will climb ? going 100 and getting bronze 5 is normal amirite <| sep |> I like nipples <| sep |> That ' s about the level of logic in your comment . Unfortunately , that ' s not how the court of law sees it . <| sep |> They believe they are kraken souls , and are fulfilling their mission of protecting the seas and stealing cargo for their hoard . They believe they are serving a kraken , but it ' s really a deposed god . They believe they are serving a deposed god , but it ' s really a kraken . They believe they are serving a kraken , but some of them have figured out it ' s a deposed old god . But it ' s really a kraken playing a really long con . They ' re actually the cult of the Sea Hags , who are lying about the kraken , who has no idea it has a cult following . They are trying NOT to awaken the kraken , and attack ships that get to close to itthey believe are going to get too close to it . And never forget the tried and true Sea Creatures Just Really Hate Land Creatures and Sailors In General . edited for extra thoughts Sometimes it can be fun to have Evil Just For The Lols , aka , the Joker . Maybe the krakencult leaders have no real motivation other than Fuck the airbreathers and have convinced a bunch of gullible cult members to go along with their whims . What can make this a lot of fun to DM is that within the cult itself , you can have wild , contradictory theories and plots to throw everyone off every scent as your party tries to figure out what ' s real and what ' s a red herring . Evil For The Lulz can also be devastatingly powerful . No loyalty , no motivation , no real plans . Just whims and fancies . Imagine the cult when , at the worstbest moment , the kraken says Fuck this ! and leaves them on their own . Disorganized , confused , abandoned , individual factions within the cult start trying to make sense of what just happened and the cult frangments and explodes . Now instead of one , singular cultish entity , you have dozens or hundreds infighting , vying for power , and generally fucking everything up . If the For The Lulz goal is chaos itself , this becomes a dangerous battlefield on which the PCs are desperately trying to weather the storm . In other words , maybe some krakens just want to watch the world drown .