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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 894157" data-attributes="member: 1210">Against the Nematodeans, part oneSeveral of our heroes are only taking defensive stances; what else can they do, with no way to really hurt the beasts?  They’re just distractions for the worms, someone other than the spellcasters for the nematodean- no, nematodeans- to attack.Thrush and Sybele are in that boat.  Sybele has an acid flask or two, but....Angelfire’s sort of in the same, but he's got some potions of fire breath (to go with his fire shtick) that he bought not so long ago.  Still, at the moment he's being crushed by the incredible strength of the nematodean’s coils, and he can’t seem to struggle free.  Well, at least it's distracted.  And since Angelfire's a fire creature*, the party members who can use fireballs do so with no worry of harming him.  But enough's enough.  Angelfire uses psionics to dimension door free, and Sybele hurls her acid, then backpedals away from the worm.  The other worm rushes towards Angelfire, but he's far enough away that it doesn't yet reach him.  The nematodean that he escaped from thrashes at Sheva, moving in and lunging at her with a bite that deals savage damage.Orbius still has a trick or two up his sleeves.  He casts a maze on the monster rushing Angelfire, then fires an arrow of acid at the remaining one.  "He’ll be back!" the Eye warns loudly as the mazed worm vanishes.Habiskis keeps trying to use the wand, but he's not a sorcerer, he's trying through sheer force of personality, and it seems to fail almost as often as it succeeds!  The little imp does a dance of frustration and tries again.  The nematodean grabs hold of Thrush and gives him a mighty squeeze.  The fighter roars as he pushes back, trying to break free- and succeeding!  Teeth grinding, thews bunching, he forces his way from the beast's terrible coils!  Sheva tumbles up and lays a spell upon him, and some of the damage heals.Acid arrow after acid arrow fires from Orbius’ fingers.  There are now four of them burning into the monster.  Thrush has taken up a torch and is rushing in fiercely, burning the worm.  Another acid arrow springs from the Eye.  Sheva calls out loud taunts at the swaying worm, trying to distract it.  Another fireball blasts it from the imp’s wand; Habiskis has moved near Orbius (which makes the Eye very nervous, but this time Habiskis resists the urge to try to pickpocket him).  The creature strikes, smashing the ground near Sheva, but she’s rolling fast to stay away and it misses.  And Thrush rushes in again and strikes a final blow with his torch- dropping it!Breathing heavily, the party exchanges glances.  Many of them are wounded, and the nematodean's constriction was deadly.  They've shot their wad of spells.  And there’s another one in the maze, due back... any time, depending on the intelligence of the worms.*A long time ago, via Chaos effects, Angelfire got the fire subtype.Next Time: The party fights nematodean #2, low on fire, acid and cold!  Nothing like attacks that do one point of damage at a time! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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