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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tecklenburg" data-source="post: 6548670" data-attributes="member: 6781356">I'm crouched hidden nearby behind one of the many barrels in this basement, so when the creature comes out, I can pounce immediately.[sblock]ITS A TRAP! (Int)6, 6 + 3 = 15.The plan goes off without a hitch.[/sblock]I pounce with a flurry of steel, magical force and nethermancy.[sblock]Flawless Bladework (Int)5, 4 + 3 = 12d8 damage and 2 techniques. 4 - 1 armor = 3 damage.Burst: Your attack deals an additional 1d4 damage and gains the ‘forceful’ tag. Rolled 2 damage.Soul-Siphoning: Your attack heals you for 1d4. Heal 1d8 instead if this attack kills your target. Rolled 2 HP returned.[/sblock]For Burst, I don't want forceful to push him out of the glue.  I want my force magic to smash it into stone floor and the glue trap, keeping its body stuck and hopefully trapping all of its tentacles.I've heard stories of elven blademasters earnestly seeking The Song for centuries and not finding it.  I've heard stories of those who possessed it attempting to pass it down with a failure rate so high that it was believed that it couldn't be taught.  I now believe that to be correct.  I think Correlon instills very few with his mysteries.  Why he invests them with this divine spark, this insight into the cosmic rhtyhm that binds sword to spell, can only be guessed at.  I will not guess at the reason.  I will simply honor this gift, using it in defense of all of Correlon's children, his allies, and his principles.  I will lay his enemies low and let him reveal his purpose as he might.  This I swear to myself silently, knowing he will hear it, as I vanquish the Far Realm taint before me.If I end this creature's miserable life, I'll end its sway over the goblins and won't have to risk harming them.  I trust myself and The Song to finish this.  I don't break the trance.[sblock]Flawless Bladework (Int)6, 6 + 3 = 15d8 damage and 2 techniques. 3 - 1 armor = 2 damage.Burst: Your attack deals an additional 1d4 damage and gains the ‘forceful’ tag. Rolled 2 damage.Soul-Siphoning: Your attack heals you for 1d4. Heal 1d8 instead if this attack kills your target. d8 damage as its dead.  Rolled 3 HP returned.[/sblock]With the creature slain, I quickly turn to the the goblins and hold out my arm to catch them before they awkwardly run into me or fall into a heap themselves.  As their senses return, surely they are wondering what they are doing in the room and charging me when their last thoughts were of cowering on the stairwell.  With all the contact that cavern dwelling creatures have with mindflayers and other creatures of that ilk, surely there is a word in the goblin tongue for "mind magic."  I simply say that to them and return my attention to the ruined aberration before us, inspecting it and culling my mind for the answer as to what it might be.[sblock]Spout Lore (Int)2, 3 + 3 = 8.the GM will only tell you something interesting, it’s on you to make it useful.[/sblock]I have never encountered the creature.  Our people encountered their terrible inversion of all that is natural so long ago that confirmation of their actual existence is now scarce.  Their legend runs deep as horror stories for our people.  Mothers use them in precautionary tales.  Friends use them in campfire tales.  The mind magic and the anatomy stoke my memory.  They are here harvesting mortal creatures to renew their species.As the goblins crowd around, I stand up and, without my eyes leaving the corpse, I flatly say "get your king" in their tongue.</blockquote>

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