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<blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 1920153" data-attributes="member: 11574"><p><strong>Do you have an idea for this?</strong></p><p></p><p>Nameroc and Finrod exit the warm water and clamber up the side of a small mud hill. Paquito also removes himself from the water and unto the mud hill the treant stood upon prior to it's death. Benat alofts between Paquito's position and a rather large mud hill behind and to the left of her. The two hill giants remain in the water between Paquito and the two male elves. </p><p></p><p>"Where did it go? I don't see it!" Nameroc shouts</p><p></p><p>"Shut up. The ogre is probably nearby as well." Benat spoke in a hissing whisper</p><p></p><p>Silence fell over the area as the elves kept their eyes gazing on the water, the giants shift expectantly in the water waiting for the enemy to reveal themselves. Nameroc turns to Finrod and motions that he detects nothing in the water, and that's when the crocodile chooses to act.</p><p></p><p>Belching forth in a startling shower of water, debris, mud, and leeches, from the marsh the large reptile clamps it's jaws around the waist of Nameroc and quickly drags him back into the water. The large dark form of the croc causes Finrod to slip in the mud and fall backwards as he tried to retreat from the water's edge where the reptile appeared.</p><p></p><p>Korg moves up behind Gronar and simultaneously casts enlarge person and shoves Gronar towards the crocodile. The now huge Gronar watches the splashing in the water caused by the flailing Nameroc, and drives the end of his spear into the back of the large reptile. The pain causes the crocodile to rear up and lash it's tail out at Gronar, it misses the hill giant, but Benat uses this chance to hit the exposed rear of the crocodile with both of her arrows. Paquito, now able to see the crocodile thanks to Benat's arrows, sends two <em>magic missiles</em> into it's flank. </p><p></p><p>Finrod gets to his knees, and overshoots an arrow at the reptile, as the arrow pierces the soft earth of a mud hill behind it. The crocodile drags Nameroc further into the water, however the two glowing arrows give Gronar a perfect target and the giant takes full advantage, driving his spear through the back left thigh of the croc. Benat sends two more arrows into the crocodile's side, as the water takes on a rusty color near the crocodile.</p><p></p><p>Fearful for it's life and unable to swallow Nameroc, the crocodile emerges from the water and flings the elf through the air to it's right. Nameroc slams face first into the muddy water twenty feet from the large reptile. Finrod throws down his bow, and leaps into the water next to the crocodile, unsheathing his longsword as he leaps. Gronar extends his arm for another attack on the crocodile, but just out of the corner of his vision, the giant spots a large man on the mud hill behind the crocodile throwing something at Gronar. Gronar's minds processes that the large man wasn't there before, just before the small acorns strike Gronar's chest and explode in a fireworks display across his belly. </p><p></p><p>Gronar reels from the attack, and misses the spear jab at the crocodile. Benat spies the ogre and sends two arrows into his abdomen, and moves over Paquito's position to get a better view.</p><p></p><p>"There's the shaman! Take him out!" Benat shouts out the order</p><p></p><p>Korg places a healing hand on Gronar and helps him out of the muck. Finrod slashes his sword across the reptile's back, but his blade fails to draw any blood. Paquito sends a <em>scorching ray</em> ray into the ogre. The crocodile, presses it's advantage and takes a chunk of thigh meat off of Gronar while it whips it's tail into the head of Finrod, causing his head to tear open like a bloated fish. </p><p></p><p>Nameroc, amazed that he's not dead, plants his feet onto a fallen log beneath him and stands up. Numerous puncture wounds ooze bright red blood across his torso, and already his short time in the water has attracted a couple leeches to his chest. Steeling himself against the pain, Nameroc casts a spell and watches the sky for it's effect. In mere seconds the gray unmoving clouds overhead take on a bruised look as they charge themselves with electrical current. When they can hold no more, Nameroc sends a bolt streaking down onto the large crocodile. The bolt slides off the reptile as it fails to penetrate the spell resistance of the crocodile. Finrod however gets a nice surprise as the residual current sloughs off the crocodile and into the water next to the elf. </p><p></p><p>"The beast just shocked me, I don't think it's natural at all." Finrod complains</p><p></p><p>The water around Finrod and Nameroc turns from a dark rust color to a bottomless inky black color, as dark rubbery tentacles erupt from the surface of the water and grasp both elves with unnatural strength. </p><p></p><p>"Uh oh, I've seen that spell before. I surmise the elves are doomed. No?" Paquito asks Benat</p><p></p><p>"They will be if all you're going to do is stand there and narrate the battle for me." Benat retorts</p><p></p><p>The ogre shaman, stands back and admires his little handiwork. With a knowing smile he waves at Korg.</p><p></p><p>"Why ogre want to be Korg friend? Korg think ogre not very nice to other Korg friends." Korg asks Paquito and Benat</p><p></p><p>Gronar switches his weapon to his greatsword, and powers it's blade through the crocodile, cleaving it's body in two. He then uses the momentum to slice into the ogre, who quickly replaces the smile on his face with that of snarling hatred. Unable to escape the tentacles, both Finrod and Nameroc disappear below the water surface. The angry clouds overhead swirl in anticipation of a relief that is not yet forthcoming. </p><p></p><p>Korg turns to look behind him. "Elfy, Pokey? You hear noise?" Korg asks</p><p></p><p>"Just your yapping, focus on the ogre." Benat instructs the giant, as Paquito shrugs his shoulders at Korg's question</p><p></p><p>"But, Korg sure he hear noise over there." Korg responds waving his hand out behind him.</p><p></p><p>"I didn't hear it, therefore you didn't hear it. Just ignore it." Benat answers</p><p></p><p>Korg pauses and stares at the brownish-gray landscape behind him, then turns his attention back to the battle at hand. Gronar, too massive for the Evard's tentacles to bring down, wades into the writhing mass of blackness and yanks Finrod free of their grasp. He drops the gasping elf onto the mud hill he was on, and looks for Nameroc. </p><p></p><p>"Yay!" Korg celebrates Gronar's rescue of Finrod. Hearing that same sloshing noise he heard just a moment ago, Korg turns around in time to catch the image of a wet sticky web launching into the air at Korg. The web envelopes the giant and holds him fast. </p><p></p><p>"Wha..?" Benat says as she turns to find the source of the web, seeing nothing she flies to the other side of Paquito.</p><p></p><p>Gronar fishes Nameroc out of the water, as Paquito sends another <em>scorching ray</em> into the face of the ogre. The ogre takes a step back and quickly has his body transform into a small stirge. Gronar perceives the buzzing wings off to his right, and slams the flat side of his blade onto the stirge squishing it into the muddy hill and sending entrails spewing through the air. </p><p></p><p>Gronar turns his attentions to Korg and watches as another web shoots froth from the mud hill behind Korg and landing on Paquito who too is ensnared.</p><p></p><p>"I can't see anything there!" Benat shouts</p><p></p><p>"Gronar not see anything too, must be trap." Gronar says. The word trap enters Benat's head and she tells the rest of the party to back up.</p><p></p><p>Gronar looks up at the flying elf as if to ask "why?", suddenly twin blasts of fire erupt from a point behind Korg, the fire sears Korg's flesh and singes Gronar's.</p><p></p><p>"Arrgh! Gronar can't hit what Gronar can't see. Maybe it is ghost?" Gronar offers</p><p></p><p>"It's not a ghost, it must be invisible. Look! there are it's tracks in the mud." Benat points out, kicking herself that she did not heed Korg's warning earlier. </p><p></p><p>"Korg nurture invisible ghost." Korg responded</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: YellowGreen">Gladly</span>." Came two voices in unison, as another stream of fire engulfed Paquito and Korg. Yet it's source remained unknown.</p><p></p><p>Nameroc coughed out last vestiges of swamp water in his lungs, and directed the churning sky to unleash it's endowment upon the ground where the fire originated from. Blinding light rents the sky as the electrical discharge exsiccates the mud beneath that point. A startled shriek emanates from that spot and the form of a large spider comes into focus, curious that it looks like a normal spider, Nameroc begins to look for a rider. Then he beholds not one, but two long necks emerging from the head of the spider, at the end of each neck there sits the head of a dragon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hairy Minotaur, post: 1920153, member: 11574"] [b]Do you have an idea for this?[/b] Nameroc and Finrod exit the warm water and clamber up the side of a small mud hill. Paquito also removes himself from the water and unto the mud hill the treant stood upon prior to it's death. Benat alofts between Paquito's position and a rather large mud hill behind and to the left of her. The two hill giants remain in the water between Paquito and the two male elves. "Where did it go? I don't see it!" Nameroc shouts "Shut up. The ogre is probably nearby as well." Benat spoke in a hissing whisper Silence fell over the area as the elves kept their eyes gazing on the water, the giants shift expectantly in the water waiting for the enemy to reveal themselves. Nameroc turns to Finrod and motions that he detects nothing in the water, and that's when the crocodile chooses to act. Belching forth in a startling shower of water, debris, mud, and leeches, from the marsh the large reptile clamps it's jaws around the waist of Nameroc and quickly drags him back into the water. The large dark form of the croc causes Finrod to slip in the mud and fall backwards as he tried to retreat from the water's edge where the reptile appeared. Korg moves up behind Gronar and simultaneously casts enlarge person and shoves Gronar towards the crocodile. The now huge Gronar watches the splashing in the water caused by the flailing Nameroc, and drives the end of his spear into the back of the large reptile. The pain causes the crocodile to rear up and lash it's tail out at Gronar, it misses the hill giant, but Benat uses this chance to hit the exposed rear of the crocodile with both of her arrows. Paquito, now able to see the crocodile thanks to Benat's arrows, sends two [I]magic missiles[/I] into it's flank. Finrod gets to his knees, and overshoots an arrow at the reptile, as the arrow pierces the soft earth of a mud hill behind it. The crocodile drags Nameroc further into the water, however the two glowing arrows give Gronar a perfect target and the giant takes full advantage, driving his spear through the back left thigh of the croc. Benat sends two more arrows into the crocodile's side, as the water takes on a rusty color near the crocodile. Fearful for it's life and unable to swallow Nameroc, the crocodile emerges from the water and flings the elf through the air to it's right. Nameroc slams face first into the muddy water twenty feet from the large reptile. Finrod throws down his bow, and leaps into the water next to the crocodile, unsheathing his longsword as he leaps. Gronar extends his arm for another attack on the crocodile, but just out of the corner of his vision, the giant spots a large man on the mud hill behind the crocodile throwing something at Gronar. Gronar's minds processes that the large man wasn't there before, just before the small acorns strike Gronar's chest and explode in a fireworks display across his belly. Gronar reels from the attack, and misses the spear jab at the crocodile. Benat spies the ogre and sends two arrows into his abdomen, and moves over Paquito's position to get a better view. "There's the shaman! Take him out!" Benat shouts out the order Korg places a healing hand on Gronar and helps him out of the muck. Finrod slashes his sword across the reptile's back, but his blade fails to draw any blood. Paquito sends a [I]scorching ray[/I] ray into the ogre. The crocodile, presses it's advantage and takes a chunk of thigh meat off of Gronar while it whips it's tail into the head of Finrod, causing his head to tear open like a bloated fish. Nameroc, amazed that he's not dead, plants his feet onto a fallen log beneath him and stands up. Numerous puncture wounds ooze bright red blood across his torso, and already his short time in the water has attracted a couple leeches to his chest. Steeling himself against the pain, Nameroc casts a spell and watches the sky for it's effect. In mere seconds the gray unmoving clouds overhead take on a bruised look as they charge themselves with electrical current. When they can hold no more, Nameroc sends a bolt streaking down onto the large crocodile. The bolt slides off the reptile as it fails to penetrate the spell resistance of the crocodile. Finrod however gets a nice surprise as the residual current sloughs off the crocodile and into the water next to the elf. "The beast just shocked me, I don't think it's natural at all." Finrod complains The water around Finrod and Nameroc turns from a dark rust color to a bottomless inky black color, as dark rubbery tentacles erupt from the surface of the water and grasp both elves with unnatural strength. "Uh oh, I've seen that spell before. I surmise the elves are doomed. No?" Paquito asks Benat "They will be if all you're going to do is stand there and narrate the battle for me." Benat retorts The ogre shaman, stands back and admires his little handiwork. With a knowing smile he waves at Korg. "Why ogre want to be Korg friend? Korg think ogre not very nice to other Korg friends." Korg asks Paquito and Benat Gronar switches his weapon to his greatsword, and powers it's blade through the crocodile, cleaving it's body in two. He then uses the momentum to slice into the ogre, who quickly replaces the smile on his face with that of snarling hatred. Unable to escape the tentacles, both Finrod and Nameroc disappear below the water surface. The angry clouds overhead swirl in anticipation of a relief that is not yet forthcoming. Korg turns to look behind him. "Elfy, Pokey? You hear noise?" Korg asks "Just your yapping, focus on the ogre." Benat instructs the giant, as Paquito shrugs his shoulders at Korg's question "But, Korg sure he hear noise over there." Korg responds waving his hand out behind him. "I didn't hear it, therefore you didn't hear it. Just ignore it." Benat answers Korg pauses and stares at the brownish-gray landscape behind him, then turns his attention back to the battle at hand. Gronar, too massive for the Evard's tentacles to bring down, wades into the writhing mass of blackness and yanks Finrod free of their grasp. He drops the gasping elf onto the mud hill he was on, and looks for Nameroc. "Yay!" Korg celebrates Gronar's rescue of Finrod. Hearing that same sloshing noise he heard just a moment ago, Korg turns around in time to catch the image of a wet sticky web launching into the air at Korg. The web envelopes the giant and holds him fast. "Wha..?" Benat says as she turns to find the source of the web, seeing nothing she flies to the other side of Paquito. Gronar fishes Nameroc out of the water, as Paquito sends another [I]scorching ray[/I] into the face of the ogre. The ogre takes a step back and quickly has his body transform into a small stirge. Gronar perceives the buzzing wings off to his right, and slams the flat side of his blade onto the stirge squishing it into the muddy hill and sending entrails spewing through the air. Gronar turns his attentions to Korg and watches as another web shoots froth from the mud hill behind Korg and landing on Paquito who too is ensnared. "I can't see anything there!" Benat shouts "Gronar not see anything too, must be trap." Gronar says. The word trap enters Benat's head and she tells the rest of the party to back up. Gronar looks up at the flying elf as if to ask "why?", suddenly twin blasts of fire erupt from a point behind Korg, the fire sears Korg's flesh and singes Gronar's. "Arrgh! Gronar can't hit what Gronar can't see. Maybe it is ghost?" Gronar offers "It's not a ghost, it must be invisible. Look! there are it's tracks in the mud." Benat points out, kicking herself that she did not heed Korg's warning earlier. "Korg nurture invisible ghost." Korg responded "[COLOR=YellowGreen]Gladly[/COLOR]." Came two voices in unison, as another stream of fire engulfed Paquito and Korg. Yet it's source remained unknown. Nameroc coughed out last vestiges of swamp water in his lungs, and directed the churning sky to unleash it's endowment upon the ground where the fire originated from. Blinding light rents the sky as the electrical discharge exsiccates the mud beneath that point. A startled shriek emanates from that spot and the form of a large spider comes into focus, curious that it looks like a normal spider, Nameroc begins to look for a rider. Then he beholds not one, but two long necks emerging from the head of the spider, at the end of each neck there sits the head of a dragon. [/QUOTE]
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