Olus moved forward and swung his maul in a downward diagonal arc at the latest threat. He chose not to answer the beast, best not to give the Dryad away.
Squid - "It is preferred, yes sir! I can do fresh if I must but it's often a bust~. Haha, any of you interested? I'd be so kind as to help you into the city if I could add some new spells to my repertoire...
**The golems refuse to be ignored, but after what felt like days of battling Olus and Laghairt take them down. The Ogofta, now standing upon the ships, are only steps away from being within range of the smaller tentacles.
The endless wave of bears that were after Smalls and Co. have begun falling like clockwork beneath a constant barrage of plant vultures, stones, and a regenerating Dr. This latter group reaches the ring of overturned ships as well.
Kaga arrives just as Esyltt has her legs swept out from under her by one of the larger tentacles. The other is trying to grab Kaia's hilt with its many limbs but has yet to succeed.**
Squid - "Are all of you of that mind? I only need one; you needn't form a line!"
**The colossal squid rests in the middle of the deeper slush - there are no overturned boats within 30ft of it (the reach of its eight <relatively> smaller tentacles).**
"Kaia, be careful, don't let that thing grab you. Return if that's all you can do." Kage says as he catches Esyltt while using the Piercer to slash at the tentacle, having it expand if it makes a strike.
**Both set of attacks make deep gashes in the monstrous tentacle, but any followup attempts likely found themselves thwarted by the monster suddenly pulling its limbs back to itself as a massive briar cage grows out of the slush and begins to form a barrier around the creature.**
Squid - "So be it!"
**Kaia begins to zip across the slush upon noticing the cage.
Arl had taken to gliding across the waters, allowing her to be just about caught up with those already standing on the inner ring of ships.**
**It would be nice to keep moving since the site has been so slow lately. But I'm not really one of the fighters in the group, and don't want to deny them their potential fun.**
Okay. I hope no one minds me fast forwarding this to an important point near the end of the fight. It might not have gone exactly like this, but I imagine it would be close in any case. I hope I didn't misremember anyone's location!
**And lo, did the battle continue!
The thorn barrier was set aflame, but such damage was miniscule compared to the self-inflected blows that came about from the monster calling down a constant deluge of lighting strikes down upon the thorns and surrounding waters.
A combination of reflection abilities and vast amounts of healing magic sees the party through, however, and the assault on the thorns continue.
The monster, having also moved undrgound beneath the thorns via earth magic, watched the group’s survival (via spirit magic), and determined that Esyllt was the source of the most interesting healing spells. It started to move its invisible projection over to her location….
…and suddenly found itself forced out of the temporary earth pocket by Kaia consuming all of the magic in the area. Those on the thorns found it easy to launch surprise attacks as they fell upon their rising foe, immediately taking out many of the assimilated spellcaster bodies. Some attempts to spare the individuals might have been made but they weren’t really in any condition (they weren’t even whole bodies) to be saved. In anycase, the monster found itself without many of its magics; perhaps only retraining the storm magic whose bearer was safely held in the protected, unusually hard, coral embedded in its ‘head’.
It flees in a whirlwind, taking more and more blows as it tries to land near Esyllt (or rather, to quickly snatch her up before continuing its flight). The dryad, for her part, was still a fair distance away from much of the group. Kage might still be near her.**
Kage, having never really left the one person that could keep everyone else alive reliably, was quick to notice that Tentacle Thing had chosen to try and attack her. Not knowing what TT had left really, and not wanting to find out first hand as he was quite fond of his body not being mutilated, grabbed a distracted Esyllt and began half pushing half carrying in a direction away from TT's path of travel. "It's trying to get you! Can you your sister shoot it while you run?" Kage asked as they moved.
**Rowena drawing her string answers Kage's question well enough.
Esyllt herself snaps to attention at the pull/carry, running alongside Kage after a slight tug in the direction of the large overturned ship they had been staying in earlier - specifically, the hole TT had made earlier. She starts pulling something out of her pack as well, letting her back up bow fall to the ground for now.
TT alters the course of the whirlwind - it is very clearly aiming for Kage and Esyllt.**
Kage again makes the note to himself to get some kind of ranged attack. He casts shadow nets backwards hoping to somewhat slow TT maybe. He continues heading to the ship, thankful that he had previously ensured it wasn't infested or damaged to the point of not being seaworthy.
Laghairt used his incredible strength to climb towards the coral prison built into the monster's head. His blazing shield blocked much of the wind ahead of him and his left hand, having absorbed the Lavaforge Pole, made for a good anchor in the Tentacle Thing's flesh.
(BP: 253)
**The wind suddenly ceases to beat into the Ogafta's face; the monster was within striking distance of its prey! It lashes out with a multitude of corpse-tendrils only to find most of them blocked by the sudden appearence of a steel.. umbrella? But most is not all! Others still fall upon Esyllt from either side of the umbrella lance to snatch away the dryad. Could she move fast enough?
The world will never know thanks to Kage's nets covering what the lance had not. By the time a tentacle manages to even reach Esyllt's floating shield the fleeing pair had reach the hole leading into the overturned ship. Also, Rowena shot stuff. She really was trying to be a good distraction, but TT just wasn't paying attention.
Laghairt reaches the coral 'prison' embedded into TT's body. He also feels TT finally noticing his presence.**
Squid AKA Tentacle Thing(TT) - wha.. WHERE DID YOU COME FROM?!
**The blow glances off the coral but serves to ensure Laghairt has the monster's full attention. Several body tentacles whip towards the Ogofta in a frantic attempt to rip the warrior away from the protected area.**
**Laghairt cuts deeply into one of the limbs and scratches another but several more grab the warrior and rip him away from the monster's 'face' and into the water. The beast lets go, surprisingly enough.
Another whirlwind begins then to form... perhaps the monster has decided to cut it's losses and simply flee?**
Laghairt threw his fiery blade at one of the golems to keep it preoccupied as he tried to move towards the giant squid monster.
(BP: 250)
Come on and check it out. You know you want to.
Go ahead and run, you'll only die tired.
Those who might never meet are pooled together
**The golems refuse to be ignored, but after what felt like days of battling Olus and Laghairt take them down. The Ogofta, now standing upon the ships, are only steps away from being within range of the smaller tentacles.
The endless wave of bears that were after Smalls and Co. have begun falling like clockwork beneath a constant barrage of plant vultures, stones, and a regenerating Dr. This latter group reaches the ring of overturned ships as well.
Kaga arrives just as Esyltt has her legs swept out from under her by one of the larger tentacles. The other is trying to grab Kaia's hilt with its many limbs but has yet to succeed.**
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Laghairt took his fiery blade and Lavaforge Pole in hand and looked for a possible path closer to the monster.
Come on and check it out. You know you want to.
**The colossal squid rests in the middle of the deeper slush - there are no overturned boats within 30ft of it (the reach of its eight <relatively> smaller tentacles).**
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Acelin's Characters (since her sig won't work).
(BP: 251)
Come on and check it out. You know you want to.
Squid - "So be it!"
**Kaia begins to zip across the slush upon noticing the cage.
Arl had taken to gliding across the waters, allowing her to be just about caught up with those already standing on the inner ring of ships.**
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(BP: 252)
Come on and check it out. You know you want to.
Go ahead and run, you'll only die tired.
Those who might never meet are pooled together
Acelin's Characters (since her sig won't work).
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Acelin's Characters (since her sig won't work).
Come on and check it out. You know you want to.
**And lo, did the battle continue!
The thorn barrier was set aflame, but such damage was miniscule compared to the self-inflected blows that came about from the monster calling down a constant deluge of lighting strikes down upon the thorns and surrounding waters.
A combination of reflection abilities and vast amounts of healing magic sees the party through, however, and the assault on the thorns continue.
The monster, having also moved undrgound beneath the thorns via earth magic, watched the group’s survival (via spirit magic), and determined that Esyllt was the source of the most interesting healing spells. It started to move its invisible projection over to her location….
…and suddenly found itself forced out of the temporary earth pocket by Kaia consuming all of the magic in the area. Those on the thorns found it easy to launch surprise attacks as they fell upon their rising foe, immediately taking out many of the assimilated spellcaster bodies. Some attempts to spare the individuals might have been made but they weren’t really in any condition (they weren’t even whole bodies) to be saved. In anycase, the monster found itself without many of its magics; perhaps only retraining the storm magic whose bearer was safely held in the protected, unusually hard, coral embedded in its ‘head’.
It flees in a whirlwind, taking more and more blows as it tries to land near Esyllt (or rather, to quickly snatch her up before continuing its flight). The dryad, for her part, was still a fair distance away from much of the group. Kage might still be near her.**
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Esyllt herself snaps to attention at the pull/carry, running alongside Kage after a slight tug in the direction of the large overturned ship they had been staying in earlier - specifically, the hole TT had made earlier. She starts pulling something out of her pack as well, letting her back up bow fall to the ground for now.
TT alters the course of the whirlwind - it is very clearly aiming for Kage and Esyllt.**
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Acelin's Characters (since her sig won't work).
(BP: 253)
Come on and check it out. You know you want to.
The world will never know thanks to Kage's nets covering what the lance had not. By the time a tentacle manages to even reach Esyllt's floating shield the fleeing pair had reach the hole leading into the overturned ship. Also, Rowena shot stuff. She really was trying to be a good distraction, but TT just wasn't paying attention.
Laghairt reaches the coral 'prison' embedded into TT's body. He also feels TT finally noticing his presence.**
Squid AKA Tentacle Thing(TT) - wha.. WHERE DID YOU COME FROM?!
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Laghairt held onto the Tentacle Thing with his right hand and smashed downwards at the coral with his Lavaforge Hand.
(BP: 254)
Come on and check it out. You know you want to.
**The blow glances off the coral but serves to ensure Laghairt has the monster's full attention. Several body tentacles whip towards the Ogofta in a frantic attempt to rip the warrior away from the protected area.**
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(BP: 255)
Come on and check it out. You know you want to.
Another whirlwind begins then to form... perhaps the monster has decided to cut it's losses and simply flee?**
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