Darius hefts his heavy hand-and-a-half sword and appears to think about what to do. Raul says, "Darius, don't mean to interrupt your debate, but, uh ... go ahead and kill that thing so we can get back upstairs with the others." Darius reaches a similar conclusion, strides over to the snoozing giant cutworm with floss on its face, and swings his heavy blade down on the nearest thing to a neck that he can identify on the aberrant creature. The 'crawler releases one last prolonged bladdery snore as the blade is descending, and then its head rolls toward the nearest corner.
The great, many-legged lizard that appeared to enter the corridor to the north, deftly executes an abrupt about face and comes back towards whence it came with amazing speed. "The lizard's coming back through!" cries Wally, leaning into the wall of the corridor for all he's worth. Moru looks back, swearing. "Just don't let go and I'll try to slow it down!" he snaps at Wally. Still holding the rope with one hand, Moru snags a pork rind from his component pouch and throws it down the hallway with a Sylvanopterian curse. The rind seems to melt as it hits the floor, and the glistening goo it turns into spreads across the floor in front of and underneath the lizard. The lizard slips on the grease from Moru's spell, but having so many legs for traction, some of which are not in the spell's area of effect, it is able to proceed, although at a somewhat slower rate.
Wally, holding the rope fast, presses himself against the wall as the creature lumbers by him. Rahvin exercises the better part of valor and leans against the north wall of the passage to stay out of its way. Jonas fires two arrows, one of which sails well wide of its presumed mark, but the other one buries itself in one of the lizard's many legs.
Alarion staggers as Bruno hunkers against his legs for security as the lizard rushes by them, but they both escape harm as the lizard hurries by. SoulFetter swings at the down-but-not-out shaman, but his fear of ruining his axe on the flagstones causes him to muff the blow, which glances off the shaman's shoulder guard as he rises. The shaman then executes a truly amazing tumbling maneuver and attempts to somersault onto the lizard as it hurtles by (tumbling check = 25). While he was in mid-somersault, however, SoulFetter's Attack of Opportunity carved a sizeable chunk out of his buttocks and just ruined his acrobatics. The lizard heads on down the passageway without him.
Then, suddenly, Bruno looks up at Alarion and tilts his head to the side as if to say, "Hey! You're not my daddy!" And shaking his head, Bruno ambles back over to get some lovin' from Jonas.
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