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delight_in_wtWe were near the snag again well before the others finally decided on a plan. At last, they settled on one idea and sent Chain Lightning and Windchime off with the Eyes for the Far talisman from the Charger. The ulgrane flew way way up high and to the opposite side of the snag from us. They ended hovering maybe a tenth of a mile above and trunkward of the snag, then Chain Lightning started throwing lightning bolts down on the bandit mewellicap watchers.
See, the thing about Call the Lightning is not that it does SO much more damage than your standard fire spell (it doesn't although it's really really hard to cast so anyone who can cast it tends to do a lot of damage with it just because they're THAT GOOD) but that it's got MUCH better range. The mewellicaps can't throw their tail spikes anything like that far. The Cani watcher had a bow and took a few Reluu Guide It shots but they didn't even come close to the ulgrane. After a moment a bunch of mewellicaps swarmed out after them but the ulgrane were faster and Chain Lightning could fly away while still pelting them with lightning bolts. After a couple of mewellicaps got fried (and bounced back to life) the mewellicaps flew back to the snag to take cover inside. A Cani shouted at the ulgrane, "What by Gnarn do you want?"
"We have returned to drive the foul, unclean mewellicaps from our beloved ancestral home of Hanorill Snag!" Chain Lightning shrieked back. "And you too, groundcrawlers! What right have the wingless to our world-wood tower in the sky? None! Begone!" He zapped a mewellicap who'd poked its head out a little too far out of shelter and been spotted.
While the ulgrane were distracting the bandits, the rest of us flew in from below with the camouflage-canopy Mirhandrax and I had made earlier held above us. We didn't go for any of the entrances. Instead we flew to a level where -- according to both Summer Sky and the Cani bandit we'd interrogated -- the snag wall was less than ten feet thick and on the other side should be the kitchen. I teleported through the wall and scattered four colored beads on to the kitchen floor as a Khtsoyis chef was saying "Who the dashitzie are you?"
On the other side of the wall, Purrzhon, Mirhandrax, Nightbloom, and Trust triggered their bound Change Places spells and zapped to where the beads were.
The Khtsoyis had lifted two frying pans like clubs and said to me, "Night and Day why yer here or I'll send ya back through that wall without "Here"'s help'!"
Then Mirhandrax brushed the toque off his head with the side of his battleaxe and rested the edge against rubbery Khtsoyis skin. "Yield," he advised. Purrzhon pounced on a Cani girl who was running for the door.
The cook lowered the pans slowly, while one of his tentacles tried to snake casually towards the nearest wall. Nightbloom chopped down on it with her sword, nearly cutting it in half.
Which did stop the chef from triggering whatever he was going for. But it also started him howling in sharp, pained gasps.
"Very stealthy," Purrzhon sneered at Nightbloom. The Herethroy looked apologetic.
Mirhandrax stuffed the cook's hat in the Khtsoyis's speaking mouth to shut him up but it was already too late. We could hear bandits running or flapping towards the kitchen.
Mirhandrax took station before the open doorway with battleaxe at hand, filling it up. Nightbloom shoved a stool over behind him and stood on it so she could reach over Mirhandrax's shoulder with her spear (yes even if she stands on two legs Nightbloom is still shorter than the Gormorror that's how BIG he is!). I stood on a table so I could see over Mirhandrax's other shoulder.
Then we started taking bandits out as they came at us: Mirhandrax hacked them, Nightbloom stabbed them, and I banished them to Nowhere while Trust patched up any injuries that Mirhandrax took. I don't remember what Purrzhon was doing; keeping the cook and his assistant from acting up maybe. We took out several bandits in quick succession before they figured out what a terrible terrible idea a frontal assault against our Gormorror was. Of course most of them didn't stay dead because they had a healer too. Not as good a one as Trust though.
Then their mage showed up and turned Mirhandrax into a pocker and the fight got much harder.
See, the thing about Call the Lightning is not that it does SO much more damage than your standard fire spell (it doesn't although it's really really hard to cast so anyone who can cast it tends to do a lot of damage with it just because they're THAT GOOD) but that it's got MUCH better range. The mewellicaps can't throw their tail spikes anything like that far. The Cani watcher had a bow and took a few Reluu Guide It shots but they didn't even come close to the ulgrane. After a moment a bunch of mewellicaps swarmed out after them but the ulgrane were faster and Chain Lightning could fly away while still pelting them with lightning bolts. After a couple of mewellicaps got fried (and bounced back to life) the mewellicaps flew back to the snag to take cover inside. A Cani shouted at the ulgrane, "What by Gnarn do you want?"
"We have returned to drive the foul, unclean mewellicaps from our beloved ancestral home of Hanorill Snag!" Chain Lightning shrieked back. "And you too, groundcrawlers! What right have the wingless to our world-wood tower in the sky? None! Begone!" He zapped a mewellicap who'd poked its head out a little too far out of shelter and been spotted.
While the ulgrane were distracting the bandits, the rest of us flew in from below with the camouflage-canopy Mirhandrax and I had made earlier held above us. We didn't go for any of the entrances. Instead we flew to a level where -- according to both Summer Sky and the Cani bandit we'd interrogated -- the snag wall was less than ten feet thick and on the other side should be the kitchen. I teleported through the wall and scattered four colored beads on to the kitchen floor as a Khtsoyis chef was saying "Who the dashitzie are you?"
On the other side of the wall, Purrzhon, Mirhandrax, Nightbloom, and Trust triggered their bound Change Places spells and zapped to where the beads were.
The Khtsoyis had lifted two frying pans like clubs and said to me, "Night and Day why yer here or I'll send ya back through that wall without "Here"'s help'!"
Then Mirhandrax brushed the toque off his head with the side of his battleaxe and rested the edge against rubbery Khtsoyis skin. "Yield," he advised. Purrzhon pounced on a Cani girl who was running for the door.
The cook lowered the pans slowly, while one of his tentacles tried to snake casually towards the nearest wall. Nightbloom chopped down on it with her sword, nearly cutting it in half.
Which did stop the chef from triggering whatever he was going for. But it also started him howling in sharp, pained gasps.
"Very stealthy," Purrzhon sneered at Nightbloom. The Herethroy looked apologetic.
Mirhandrax stuffed the cook's hat in the Khtsoyis's speaking mouth to shut him up but it was already too late. We could hear bandits running or flapping towards the kitchen.
Mirhandrax took station before the open doorway with battleaxe at hand, filling it up. Nightbloom shoved a stool over behind him and stood on it so she could reach over Mirhandrax's shoulder with her spear (yes even if she stands on two legs Nightbloom is still shorter than the Gormorror that's how BIG he is!). I stood on a table so I could see over Mirhandrax's other shoulder.
Then we started taking bandits out as they came at us: Mirhandrax hacked them, Nightbloom stabbed them, and I banished them to Nowhere while Trust patched up any injuries that Mirhandrax took. I don't remember what Purrzhon was doing; keeping the cook and his assistant from acting up maybe. We took out several bandits in quick succession before they figured out what a terrible terrible idea a frontal assault against our Gormorror was. Of course most of them didn't stay dead because they had a healer too. Not as good a one as Trust though.
Then their mage showed up and turned Mirhandrax into a pocker and the fight got much harder.
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3lz, 5t, sold Doomdrifter my old travel hat
Expenses:
5lz, bought new hat
1lz, 3t dinner delivered
Well, the old one weren't no great chattybasher, but it'll keep the sun off Drifter's brainbag better than that dashitzie-loving riverbum fishnet he called a hat. I was about due for a new one anyway, so I took a riverbum out to dinner and she wove me a new hat out of reeds and a bit of ruloc. Sweet girl, that.
In weirder news, I letter came for me borne aloft by the ether and got slipped under my door. An interdimensional monster claimed he wrote it, and he told me via this "e-mail" to tell Delights-in-Justice that I might not be available tonight, since it's Mother's Day... week. Look, I'm just repeating the thottywringer he said. So Delight, if you're reading this again, I apparently may not be available tonight. He said YOU would tell ANOTHER interdimensional monster that I might not be available tonight, and to not wait up if I'm late. Do you know something about this tadgrabsy futchuckery, Delight? This isn't something having to do with your Here-busted time-scroll, is it? Cause you're cute as the dashitzie but I'm not even sure if I'm floating the line with gatewaying or not. Does it count if I'm letting monsters into my time? It's a mammalark and all, I just want to keep my triune together, is all I'm saying.
I don't know what the dudgenumbing blit I'm going to potentially be late for or miss, but it can't be any weirder than playing lurd-loving go between for demons from outer space. Either way, my blass is staying home tonight and I'm sending out for dinner. Be a nice vacation anyway, catch up on my reading, not get blood on everything.
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