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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 1532217" data-attributes="member: 9255">STRIKE FORCE: MORITURISEGMENT 053“12 Heads Are Better Than One”Megamania spins at the 12 headed black and purple hydra and fires at it twice.  Two shots strike two heads making them go limp from being stunned rather than killed.  The Captain raises his shield and steps in such a way to shield the majority of the group.  “Move back Jim, we don’t know what we’re facing!”  Christina looks at the coloration and further states the Captains bewilderment.  “These are unusual color markings for a hydra.  Beware-  it may mean a new sub-type of creature!”  Jim wants to look back and ask what is normal about a twelve-headed lizard but decides to stay quiet.  Vander passes Jean and Christina to move beside a stone column.  He hopes to attack unseen.  Jean begins with ball lightning stunning and frying one head that sizzles and smokes as the other nine coherent heads roar in anger.  Three heads on long necks strike out at the Captain whom easily deflects them to the side and into the oncoming strikes meant for Megamania.  These three strikes thus also miss.  Two other heads open their sharp toothed jaws and spit out black ooze that sizzles as it hits just before Christina.  “Acid!”DM Blackblood smiled in amusement.  “They have no idea what they face.” He says with great pride.  Mygerra will tear them apart and pit their bodies with acid.  Hah-hah-ha!  DM Nomadis nods an approving nod but wonders to himself what these gate crashers are.Megamania draws aim and looks to shot more heads when he notices they are recovering already-  very quickly.  “Uh-oh Tough m*****f*****s ain’t they!”   The Captain senses Megamania has just made an understatement.  “Can any of you tell me what we face and to beat it or escape it?”   Christina moves behind the Captain and tells him all he can from her memory.  She has never faced a hydra before.  The picture was scary enough.  “Most hydras are fire or cold sub-types.  This means they spit fire or cold crystals.  If a head is destroyed it regrows unless burned.”   Vander- tense and becoming enraged, runs around the pillar with his falchion over head.  His psionically-enhanced falchion cleaves greatly through six heads closest to him!  He snarls as acidic blood sprays onto him.  His armor, also psionically enhanced sheds it off but his face becomes red and sore.  Jean, whom has faced hydras before clarifies Christina’s description.  “The regeneration is related to the nervous system.  A head must be cut off to expose the nervous system.  Then fire or acid needs to be applied to the exposed system.  Otherwise-  it regrows- by two!”  The creature snarls and bites as Vander trying to keep him back more than attack him.  It has quickly come to respect his weapon that sings in his mind.DM Furi laughed from its oversized mouth.  “Some of the creatures don’t even know what they face!” Rah-hah-hah-ha.  It wobbles laughing so hard.  It’s not easy being a beholder.Megamania fires a few shots and hits but on head.  The head wobbles with acid dripping out of its maw.  “Vander- keep slashing at the heads- Jean- hit it hard!” yells the Captain not quite realizing what he setting into motion.  Christina Flame strikes the body setting it on flame.  Thick black fumes that may prove to be poisonous billow from its sore.  The heads roar in pain and anger.  Distracted by the pain-  six more heads are removed by Vander whom begins to whirl his blade before him to shield himself from oncoming attacks he knows will be coming.   Jean- realizing Vander is too good at his job yells for him to stop.  She strikes it with a lightning bolt causing more pain and injury.  Pain and misery that begins to heal rapidly.  Also, several heads begin to regrow immediately where Vander first struck.  The sticky wet heads open and close its jaws then blinks its eyes open.  A look of malice is expressed as they take in what they see before them.  Six of the other heads attack Vander. Three bite into him causing him crushing damage through the armor.  He growls and sneers at the heads in defiance.  Others spit at Megamania and strike him.  He screams as the acid burns into his padded kevlar body suit.  He stumbles towards the Captain for cover.DM Shelly closes her eyes in pure ecstasy.  She can sense Megamania’s pain and growing fear.  It is beautiful.  DM Nomadis notes it but says nothing almost wishing he could share in the emotion he no longer feels.  DM Blackblood- what is the record for most heads on a hydra in The World Below?”  “22”DM Nomadis begins to give viewers a colorful description of the action.Megamania steps from behind the Captain and fires.  Zip! Clik-clik-clik  “Oh for crying out load!”The Captain barely notices the rogue’s distress as he cries for Vander to stop.  Christina continues her strategy of going for the body with another flame strike.  Somewhere in the back of her mind she fears how visible that smoke is.  Vander, in a rage, slashes off six more heads in one continuous swing.  Jean, seeing Christina’s idea in action follows through with lightning strikes to the main body hoping to outpace its healing ability while Vander contends with the heads.  Vander begins to notice that there are more heads here now than before as six of them strike at him.  Two biting him successfully.  Other heads spit at the Captain whom easy uses his shield artifact of Truth and Justice to block it… or swallow it?  Unrealized by him, the acid never truly strikes his shield.  The shield's surface becomes a portal and sends it elsewhere.  Another secret for another day.“That shield is truly worthy of a champion.” Thinks out loud DM Nomadis.  DM Furi rolls his one large eye his way.  He knows Nomadis is thinking about more than he is saying.  “HAH! We have a new record!” Howls DM Blackblood as the 23rd head roars to life.Megamania pulls out his last energy clip.  He kisses it and thinks about how much he will miss his energy gun if he can somehow get a new clip.  The Captain, his eyes wide looking at the creature’s newest heads, is now yelling at Vander to stand down in desperation.  Christina lets lose another and final Flame strike at the creature.  Vander, not hearing the Captain continues to swing wildly taking off many more heads!  Jean strikes it again with a lightning bolt.  The hydra attacks Vander with great hatred bites at him.  More acid is displaced as it strikes at the Captain’s shield. “This Mania person and Vander seem to have potential.” Sighs DM Shelly.  “Their raw emotion is overwhelming.  The captain bores me.  We need to open him up.” “Work on it Shelly.  These five are special.  I…we need to work the most out of them.” Says DM Nomadis without passion while in deep thought while staring at the shield.  DM Furi rotates to DM Blackblood to give him a knowing smile.  Blackblood is too busy counting heads.Megamania jumps in on the action.  “Vander-  you stupid a**wipe--   YOU’RE MAKING IT STRONGER!!!!!!”  The Captain begins to ponder what he can do other than give orders that are being ignored.  Vander continue to swing at it.  Thick sweat begins as continues.  The sweat burns at the acid injuries.  “I…WILL…NOT…BE…DENIED!”   Jean unleashes another lightning bolt.  This one staggers the magical beast.  It howls and begins to back up back into the swampy hole it came from.  Vander follows it steps for step.Christina pauses.  The ghost of her mother that follows her everywhere has alerted her to something traveling to them.  It is traveling invisible and incorporeal!Vander strikes at it several more times even as Jean strikes it down another lightning bolt.  Its lifeless body slides into the black swamp water and sinks slowly.“28 heads!  A new record!” screams with joy DM Blackblood.”</blockquote>

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