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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gray Shade" data-source="post: 2594536" data-attributes="member: 32340">. . . and . . . action!Dentmus speaks the ancient language of flora and requests a favor from all the plants in the area.  Although there are few and they are small at the entrance to a mine, there is enough, and they grow quickly at his appeal.The dragon’s expression stays blank as the grass around the opening of the cave stretches and grows.  It wraps itself around the dragon’s feet and damaged wing without any response or fight.  Luckily, the plants’ grip is firm by the time Haakon begins to yell, “Lars, Kah, use the—” but is too late as Kah slices into the dragon’s flank, ripping through tendon and muscle.  The dragon’s hide and flesh is too thick for her blow to be deadly, but the blood that springs forth and spatters over her certainly hurts the beast.  Its expression changes to surprise and it howls and starts building itself back up into a rage, its muscles twitching with exhaustion and anger.Haakon finishes his shout, and just as he does, The Padre whips his spear end over end in one hand and with the other inexplicably makes “devil horns” at the dragon (Bruce Lee enough?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  ), while between the two adventurers, Lars rushes past, screaming maniacally, greataxe over his head, blade sideways.  As the dragon turns its head to look back at Kah, Lars leaps the last ten feet toward it and, still in mid-air, slams the side of his axe down on top of the creature’s head.  There is a resounding *bwahnk!* and the dragon’s head wobbles, but its body begins to shift and move again.Lars finds himself eye to armpit with the creature as it stands.  Up close, he shivers as something dark runs through his very soul, and everyone sees as the color leaves his cheeks.  (Deuce Traveler: see next post)Kah easily evades the weeds growing to entangle her, and has her choice of simply stepping aside or leaping up onto the dragon’s back (which would require quite a feat of balance, but would prevent her from having to make further evasions and would give her perfect opportunity to continue to strike, although, really, she would run all the usual risks of standing on top of an opponent during combat).*     *     *Technical stuff:The Padre’s spell last round has stunned the creature as its rage faded (now returning), so it was helpless this round and therefore got no save vs. the Entangle and it’s AC was even lower.  Also, I added in the extra damage for Haakon's Inspire Courage.Kah sneak attacks for 17 damage.Lars charges and hits with the blunt side of his axe (even with the -4 penalty) for 16 points of subdual damage. (and, again, see next post)Mist has pinpointed the evil.  See next post for details.Your turns again.  The dragon looks very damaged and very exhausted at this point, but its breathing is speeding up again.</blockquote>

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