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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 2279143" data-attributes="member: 508">The torture pit was complete.  The dead kobolds were rotting back at the lair, and the hatchlings were big enough now to feed themselves, using their claws to rip off hunks of decaying flesh.  They had mastered the various forms of sonic attack but weren't yet big enough for her to take on hunting expeditions.  That would come later, after they had grown a bit more.But they were big enough to start learning the fine arts of torturing helpless prey.  That was the destrachan's current goal, to find something she could bring back to the torture pit so her young could gain some valuable practice.  Even a kobold would do for starters; they panicked easily and the taste of their torment was exquisite indeed.She didn't find a kobold, though; she found something even better:  a human.The destrachan had no personal experience with humans, but they didn't seem much different than the other humanoid species she'd encountered in the Underdark.  In fact, this one didn't seem nearly as tough as the dwarves she was familiar with: it was slow, taking little shuffling steps as if afraid of falling; its armor wasn't the metal type favored by the dwarves, either, but rather made of leather from some unknown mammal.  And what was this?  It was feeling along the side of the rough stone wall as it made its painstakingly slow way across the cavern.  It was almost as if the human didn't trust its other senses![14]  Strange indeed!Still, addle-sensed or not, the human could surely suffer as well as any dwarf, possibly even as well as a frightened kobold.  Noticing that the human carried a sword in hand, the destrachan let loose with the first of her harmonic attacks, shattering the weapon in a blast of sonic fury.[15]  The human yelped in surprise and foolishly reached for a second, smaller weapon on its hip; the destrachan obligingly took care of that weapon as well.  It heard the distinct clatter as each piece of shattered blade fell to the stone ground, music to the creature's sensitive ears."Who's out there?" cried the human, fear evident in its voice.[16]  The destrachan answered with a sonic scream of a different frequency, rendering the human thing unconscious in a heap on the stone floor.  With a leap and a bound the destrachan was at her victim's side, scooping it up into a gentle embrace so it wouldn't be damaged on the way to her lair.That would come later.</blockquote>

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