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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 2474328" data-attributes="member: 1210">Against Other Wee Folk!Martini gives a cry of pain as spikes slam into him, piercing his chest.  He growls and returns fire, filling one of the monsters with arrows.  It is already wounded from Ari’s assault; now it slumps down with a gentle moan.  But then a small figure moves furitively in the shadows, and there’s a sudden BOOM! as it points a wand and some kind of force blast explodes forth.  “Trouble!” shouts Nara.Then a gnome springs forth, slicing at Ari with a longsword.  He hacks into the halfling’s belly.  “Hey!” Ari bellows, staggering back.  Suddenly one of the other corners of the room reveals yet another gnome, this one female, chanting a bane upon our heroes.  Meanwhile, the remaining spike-tail monster collapses as Naomi blasts it with a powerful mind thrust.  Then she turns to glare at the gnomes.  “Save their noses, they’re a delicacy!” she cries.  With a cry of rage, another gnome pours arrows into her, and she gasps as blood splatters all around her.  Another mind thrust, though, and the tough-looking fighter gnome falls to one knee.  Martini sinks another volley of arrows into the wand-wielder- who proves to be a kobold- and Ari suddenly becomes a bear and starts grappling the swordsgnome.  Jawbreaker moves in to help hold the gnome in the grapple, but he is clearly not going to stop struggling.  He squirms, seeking escape, and Ari loses his temper.  With the strength of a bear, it’s easy to tear the gnome limb from limb; soon the poor fellow’s screams choke off.  But then the cleric throws some sort of flask that explodes in a massive blast of flame!  Though our heroes are clearly winning the battle, it may not be without cost.  Naomi groans in pain, while Erasmuz dances away.  “Hey, buddy, that’s not cool!” he exclaims.  “I agree,” groans Naomi, who is swaying on her feet.  She hits the gnome with a recall agony, but she shrugs it off.Martini’s fingers are a blur as he finishes off both the gnome archer and the kobold.  Then he turns to see Jawbreaker being blasted back as the sole remaining gnome- the cleric- reads a scroll of sound burst at him.  There is a sound like a burst of thunder, but the barbarian shakes his head clear and struggles forward.“There’s no need for this!” cries the gnome.  “I can give you information!  I surrender!”“We talk to skulls,” remarks Naomi with a wicked smile.  Then Jawbreaker swings the flat of his cold iron blade against the gnome’s head.  She sees stars, reeling back, but manages to avoid losing consciousness.  “Let’s take her alive!” Naomi says with a laugh.She groans a prayer to Bleak and touches Jawbreaker, and he cries out.  “Can’t see!  Blind!!!”  He swings wildly, unseeing, but he knows where she is.  There’s a jarring crash as he connects, and the gnome flies into the wall and slumps to the base.  Jawbreaker swings blindly again in front of him.  “You got her, buddy, you got her,” Erasmuz reassures him.“Jawbreaker blind!” wails the Chief.“I can help you with that, buddy- yeah, I can,” Erasmuz offers.“Yes, help Jawbreaker!  Jawbreaker was blind before, for many days!  Had to find stupid water in stupid spring!”  “No problem, buddy!”  Cheerfully, the little bald halfling concentrates, taking the energy he needs, and in moments Jawbreaker can see again.  “What god you worship?” Jawbreaker asks.“What?”  Erasmuz seems nonplussed by the question.“You cleric, right?  You heal?  Cleric have god, right?  So who you worship?”“Uh- yeah, sure, buddy.”  Erasmuz tries to change the subject. “Why you not want to say?” Jawbreaker asks, pondering.  “Maybe- you have god that not want to be named?”“You could say that, yeah,” Erasmuz grins.“Well,” says Nara, “let’s look around a little.”They find something that they never, in a thousand years, would have expected.Next Time: A blast from the past, locked in a cage!</blockquote>

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