Glaive moves in to attack, swinging his signature weapon in sweeping arcs. His first blow glances off the side of the beast, doing little damage. He corrects his second swing and cuts along the ribs between the bony plates. He then takes a step sideways, working around to help flank the beast. With a terrible bellow, the horned beast lowers its head, sighting along the massie bony spikes straight at Kraken. Swifter than you would believe, the creature lunges forward and buries the point of the horn in Kraken's chest. The long tip bursts through his back, slick with gore. It tosses its head and hits him again, opening a horrific wound across his belly. Mortally wounded, Kraken staggers but keeps his feet, his indomitable rage is all that keeps him upright from a wound that would have slain lesser men.
Seeing the transformed man disembowl Kraken, Whisper focuses her next attack on the skeletal creature. She summons another flurry of fanged jaws that rip through the creatures body. Chips of bone fly in all directions. Doral directs another blast from his wand upward at the crystal shard and studies it closely to judge the reaction. Midian finishes his invocation and watches as a glowing light appears far above in the ceiling. The rock ceiling glows brighter and brighter until it suddenly melts, like a candle held to a flame. A squirming worm creature emerges and crawls along the ceiling, burning new tunnels and slipping in and out through them. Two of the massive black sinews snap under its touch and the whole crystal sways erratically.
Kraken, fueled by rage, steps in close to the creature and delivers a series of punishing blows. Wtih his final desperate attack, he drives the point of his falcion deep into the creatures eye. With a wordless cry the creature crashes to the ground, its limbs still twitching.
Doral
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Studying the crystal, you can see that as more and more of the crystal breaks, the darkness surrounding it deepens and the shadows seem to move at odd angles to the light sources in the room. Something is being freed from its prison. The energies from the crystal have been snaking down the long tunnels since the man awakened it.
You recall the words of the skull-faced man before he transformed. He mentioned something about "nodes" and you wonder if there are other crystals throughout the beast being awakened.
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OOC
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Kresh Gore Attacks (1d20+16=36, 1d20+11=20)
Kresh Gore crit confirm (1d20+16=32)
Kresh Gore damage with crit (2d6+8=16, 2d6+8=11, 2d6+8=12)
Kraken is at 8 hp, -2 when rage ends.
There are currently no other enemies in sight. The crystal is now about 1/3rd of its original size.
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