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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lazybones" data-source="post: 1759693" data-attributes="member: 143">Chapter 222The world was flying around her... no, she was flying, picked up by the peristaltic wave rippling down the corridor and tossed roughly forward.  Her eyes widened in surprise as she went flying past the giant, who size and bulk allowed him to weather the pulse as it passed, narrowly missing an armored elbow that jutted out into her path.  Then she was falling again, and she barely managed to get her feet out under her again before she hit the ground in the wake of the wave, and rolled, coming to a stop a good fifteen feet from where she’s started, now on the opposite side of the giant from where she’s started. She looked around in confusion.  The shape of the battlefield had changed.  The wave had passed, but everyone had been shaken by its passage, and almost everyone was down, a few feet or further from where they had started.  The giant was up, and looking for his sword, which had been jostled now almost ten feet away from it.  Arun was standing as well, and as the giant started toward its weapon the dwarf charged him again, his sword forming a bright arc of light in his hands as he came.  But the giant, his reflexes enhanced by the haste spell, was ready for him.  He turned to face the dwarf, and met his charge with a fist that slammed into the side of his helm with enough force to dent the metal.  Arun staggered, seriously injured by the blow, but stubbornly refused to stop, stepping forward and tearing another gash in the giant’s leg with a powerful sweep of his sword.  Blood was now pouring down the mangled limb from the two deep cuts, but Arun in turn paid the price for his attack as the giant’s other fist came around and slammed with a meaty thunk into his face.  The dwarf went down like a sack of potatoes, struck unconscious by the sheer force of the blow.The giant turned back toward its sword.  The other companions were already rising on unsteady feet, trying to shake off the effects of the tunnel wave, and quickly leapt to the attack.  Zenna cast another spell, firing off a color spray into the giant’s face, but luck was not with her this time, and the huge warrior shrugged off the effect.  He ignored a feeble thrust from Hodge’s spear, which glanced harmlessly off of his breastplate, and bent to reach for the hilt of his sword.  Once again a tiny figure shot out from the shadows.  Mole leapt up onto the giant’s outstretched arm, and even as the giant reared back in surprise, ran up the extended limb to its shoulder.  The giant tried to swat at her with its other hand, but the nimble gnome darted forward and under the stroke, and as she ran across the top edge of his breastplate, she flicked her knife into his left eye.  The giant screamed in pain, and staggered violently, dropping Mole to the ground to roll out of the dangerous and chaotic stomping of his feet as he clutched at the hilt of the knife jutting from the ruin of his eye.  The giant never even saw Dannel and Morgan run forward, but it felt the consequences as first Dannel drove Alakast into his already blood-slicked knee with enough force to shatter the bone beneath the joint.  Then Morgan stepped forward, and with a shouted cry to his god slid four feet of holy steel up through the gap at the base of his breastplate into his chest cavity and the soft organs beneath. The sound that the giant made when he fell was catastrophic, echoing up and down the tunnel.  Zenna watched the giant fell, but even as she felt a thrill of excitement flush through her, knew that another dangerous enemy still lurked for them.  But even as she started to turn around pain exploded through her head, and she staggered, lights flaring in glorious bursts across her vision.  Danger! screamed a voice in her head, but she was unable to clear her mind in time to react before a second impact caught her solidly, and she toppled forward.  The tunnel floor rose up to meet her again, this time embracing her in merciful unconsciousness by the time she struck the stone.</blockquote>

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