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seasong's Light Against The Dark II (May 13)
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<blockquote data-quote="seasong" data-source="post: 765191" data-attributes="member: 5137"><p><em>Note: this happened BEFORE the party arrived back in Theralis from Aglaonis, AFTER picking up Bellos. I forgot to write it in, so here it is.</em></p><p></p><p><span style="color: orange"><strong>Sign of the Times</strong></span></p><p></p><p>Greppa and Merideth were telling more stories about Athan. Bellos was attempting to listen, but really, there's only so many times you can hear about when Athan lifted <em>this</em> big heavy thing or wrestled <em>that</em> big strong thing before it got a bit weary on the soul. It was almost with relief that he saw something moving among the trees, and as he was pointing, the relief turned to fear.</p><p></p><p>It wasn't an earth serpent, coming up from the depths for a look about. It wasn't a black bear. It wasn't anything Bellos might have wanted to point at as a beautiful thing of nature to distract the two.</p><p></p><p>It was a gods-damned hydra. Easily twenty feet in length, with massive, hoofed legs in front and five fawn-spotted python heads, it spotted the trio about the same time they spotted it. Hissing with something between rage and glee, it charged at the group, heads grasping forward as it closed the gap.</p><p></p><p>Greppa didn't pause to think - he scrambled backwards and away from the monster, his hands prepping <em>sun streaks</em> while his legs prepped distance. Somewhere in Greppa's brain, away from all of the action and adrenaline and anxiety, some part of him realized, <em>Damn, Bellos is fast...</em></p><p></p><p>While Greppa was watching his <em>sun streaks</em> sunburn the hide of the monster, Bellos was closing the distance to the hydra, a sling in hand. As he got close enough for a good shot, the sling, whistling in his hand, released the stone with sufficient force to force a grunt from the creature, and Bellos backed off to cover Merideth again.</p><p></p><p>Merideth just waited, hands crackling and eyes steady. And then it was upon them, missing Bellos with snake-like strikes. Bellos just yelled at it, egging it on, daring it to try again as he started to pull out his oversized meat cleaver. Greppa, taking a terrible chance, stepped close briefly to summon a spirit of elemental earth in the form of <em>stoneskin</em> into Bellos. He took a bite for his trouble, but managed it, and retreated again.</p><p></p><p>Then, combat. Not pretty, not fast, just close teamwork between three seasoned warriors to take down an abomination of the gods. Merideth killed the life force of one head after another, occasionally pausing to heal Bellos or herself, while Bellos efficiently whacked off one to two heads at a time. After the first pair grew back, Greppa switched to <em>fire servants</em> to cauterize the wounds the other two dealt and abort the growth of new heads.</p><p></p><p>When they were done, nine heads lay on the ground, and five blackened heads remained. Fourteen necks twitched in death throes, and, just to be certain, the trio whacked the corpse into bits.</p><p></p><p>The spell casters were exhausted, and Bellos was still gravely wounded, but they decided to move on rather than risk facing scavengers. Somewhere in Greppa's dim memories of Hurath's books, he remembered that wyverns were scavengers... They hurried on to Theralis.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="seasong, post: 765191, member: 5137"] [i]Note: this happened BEFORE the party arrived back in Theralis from Aglaonis, AFTER picking up Bellos. I forgot to write it in, so here it is.[/i] [color=orange][b]Sign of the Times[/b][/color] Greppa and Merideth were telling more stories about Athan. Bellos was attempting to listen, but really, there's only so many times you can hear about when Athan lifted [i]this[/i] big heavy thing or wrestled [i]that[/i] big strong thing before it got a bit weary on the soul. It was almost with relief that he saw something moving among the trees, and as he was pointing, the relief turned to fear. It wasn't an earth serpent, coming up from the depths for a look about. It wasn't a black bear. It wasn't anything Bellos might have wanted to point at as a beautiful thing of nature to distract the two. It was a gods-damned hydra. Easily twenty feet in length, with massive, hoofed legs in front and five fawn-spotted python heads, it spotted the trio about the same time they spotted it. Hissing with something between rage and glee, it charged at the group, heads grasping forward as it closed the gap. Greppa didn't pause to think - he scrambled backwards and away from the monster, his hands prepping [i]sun streaks[/i] while his legs prepped distance. Somewhere in Greppa's brain, away from all of the action and adrenaline and anxiety, some part of him realized, [i]Damn, Bellos is fast...[/i] While Greppa was watching his [i]sun streaks[/i] sunburn the hide of the monster, Bellos was closing the distance to the hydra, a sling in hand. As he got close enough for a good shot, the sling, whistling in his hand, released the stone with sufficient force to force a grunt from the creature, and Bellos backed off to cover Merideth again. Merideth just waited, hands crackling and eyes steady. And then it was upon them, missing Bellos with snake-like strikes. Bellos just yelled at it, egging it on, daring it to try again as he started to pull out his oversized meat cleaver. Greppa, taking a terrible chance, stepped close briefly to summon a spirit of elemental earth in the form of [i]stoneskin[/i] into Bellos. He took a bite for his trouble, but managed it, and retreated again. Then, combat. Not pretty, not fast, just close teamwork between three seasoned warriors to take down an abomination of the gods. Merideth killed the life force of one head after another, occasionally pausing to heal Bellos or herself, while Bellos efficiently whacked off one to two heads at a time. After the first pair grew back, Greppa switched to [i]fire servants[/i] to cauterize the wounds the other two dealt and abort the growth of new heads. When they were done, nine heads lay on the ground, and five blackened heads remained. Fourteen necks twitched in death throes, and, just to be certain, the trio whacked the corpse into bits. The spell casters were exhausted, and Bellos was still gravely wounded, but they decided to move on rather than risk facing scavengers. Somewhere in Greppa's dim memories of Hurath's books, he remembered that wyverns were scavengers... They hurried on to Theralis. [/QUOTE]
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