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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snipehunt" data-source="post: 1182342" data-attributes="member: 13142">Round 1Ivar runs to the corner of the building, and calmly appraises the situation, but . . .Karthak, with a vastly different temperament, charges forward to the belly of the beast.  However, it is too far for him to strike this round (Use that as your first attack nest round, unless . . .Aesa (Init. 14) runs around the corner of the buildling, and takes position with her bow, ready to fire except . . .Horatio begins to sing, summoning courage and strength with a well-known (in his land) ballad of a dragon slayer who, against impossible odds, destroyed a great red wyrm terrorizing the lands.  However, in the middle of a line describing the dragon as "Old as the water deep underground/ Dark, dark red as a Moonstar found," he sees the creatures, and . . .Drevan and Osric charge forward at almost the same instant, inspired to great deeds by Horatio's song.  As they round the corner, however, they . . .see a monstrous creation.  A huge snake-creature, rings of red, black, and yellow alternating down it's flanks, menaces the soldiers of Thristleton.  A horribly enlarged and misplaced human head sits like a pumpkin atop the neck of the creature, but a head with the slitted, perfectly round eyes of a snake, long, needle-sharp fangs, a long forked tongue, and a shock of bright-red hair falling in long, loose braids down its back.  Rearing, it turns yellow-green eyes at the charging companions. As if this were not horrible enough, they see two shriveled arms with perfectly formed human hands jutting from the body.  In a grotesesque parody of human emotion, the hands rub together in what would be nervousness in a human, but must mean something else entirely to this creature.Then it speaks, in the pathetic, wavering voice of a human child, saying "Why doesn't anybody place nice with me?"This horrific spectacle reaches deep into the soul of everyone; however, the adrenalin of combat overcomes the horror somewhat.  Make a DC12 will save (fear), add the +2 from the song o' courage.</blockquote>

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