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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 3269617" data-attributes="member: 11146">At Wyleck's insistance, Yssal drops the spider leg he was bent on chewing and gets up.  His toenails clacking on the Cockatrice's wooden floor, Yssal runs down the length of the back of the bar and, skirts the far corner, moves in to flank the spider.  Wyleck fits another stone to his sling and whirls the projectile at the spider.  The rock misses, bounces off the floor and lands intact in the room's northwest corner.  The yellow dog bares its teeth at the spider and streaks into the fray to attack in tandem with Yssal.  The yellow dog snaps at the spider and bites one of the spider's forelegs, dealing 4 points of damage.   His eyes shining with lethal intent, Baliss hoists his battleaxe and springs at the spider.  The blade of the half-orc's axe whistles clean through the air as it fails to strike the beast.  Arden darts into the fray and snatches the wand off the floor.  Rancid, asleep on the floor with a googe egg on his head where he toppled over, continues to snore and proves no threat to Arden when she runs in to grab the wand.Lowel graps the old man he'd been badgering to leave and hoists him overhead.  The drunk old man tries to swing at Lowel but misses.  The customer firmly in hand, Lowel fireman carries the drunk out of the festhall via the gambling hall's main doors.Dropping his longspear and drawing his sling, Rhys pokes his head out of the kitchen and considers his options.  Rhys looks back at Frane and remembers hearing someone once say, "Poison's a nasty bit o' business.  Most of 'em hit ye hard, an' then hit again after a bare minute er two.  Takes a stalwart man to withstand a bite like that...that, er a healer at yer side ter help."  Frane, by the look of him, has yet to take that second hit from the poison.  Perhaps in another half a minute or so....Phud, who had been staring at the blue-and-purple-mottled spider, jumps when Baliss barks to attack the creature... "Colors...pretty...".  Phud raises his mace a second time and moves in.  Bringing his mace crashing down on top of the spider's wolf head, Phud beans the creature with a solid hit that deals 11 points of damage.  Blood rains down out of the gaping hole in the spider's head and lands with a smoking sizzle on the Cockatrice's wooden floorboards.The spider darts its head and, finding itself surrounded, attempts to bolt for the front door of the festhall.  Phud, however, proves quicker and, taking advantage of the spider's momentary weakness, smashes the fiend upside the head a second time, dealing 12 points of damage and immediately felling the creature.Rowan, still on top of the bar and not to be outdone, shouts, "Surrender now, beast!  That was just a minor spell of my considerable repretoire." The halfling flings a dagger at the fallen spider.  The spider is prone and proves a ready target for Rowan's blade.  The dagger sinks into the spider's gut, causing a font of foul-smelling ichor to roil out as it deals 3 points of damage.InitiativeWyleck 21Dog 18Baliss 17Arden 11Cockatrice NPCs, KularianRhys 9Phud 7Traven 6Rowan 4</blockquote>

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