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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Binks" data-source="post: 6704466" data-attributes="member: 6775039">With learned poise and the easy confidence that comes with decades of living on my own in the wild, I fight back the Far Realm's mental intrusion.[sblock]Defy Danger (Wis)4, 3 + 2 = 9Success but a worse outcome, hard bargain, or ugly choice.[/sblock]I roll to my right along the steep face, as far and as quickly as I can, to stop from being squished like a bug![sblock]Defy Danger (Dex)5, 1 + 3 (take -1) = 8Success but a worse outcome, hard bargain, or ugly choice.[/sblock]Would it be feasible to get my elven knife out from my boot before I get grappled by the tentacle.Then I slide and roll to my right avoiding two giant smashings of the tentacle on the stone face.  I reach down to grab my Elven Longknife from my boot just as the huge tentacle enfolds around me and picks me from my perch.As it squeezes the life out of me and pulls me up to drop me in its huge gapping maw, I see Rawr tearing away at its flesh and Averandox roars a mighty bellow as he does the same!  This leads to a growl of my own as I stab profusely at the tentacle over and over and over and over again...[sblock]Hack and Slash (Dex)6, 2 + 3 = 11d8 damage + 3 (Rawr) + 2 (Averandox) and Messy tag (Averandox) - 4 armor.  8 - 4 = 4 damage and Messy.I'd like the Messy tag to sever the tentacle just before I'm about to be dropped into Piscaetches waiting maw.I want to then try to land on her body and go to town with my weapons.[/sblock]With my staff in one hand and my knife in the other, I pull myself up onto the tentacle right as it goes slack!  I get a single running step off before the thing falls away from me, piloted by gravity instead of the Far Realm entity.  I leap and tuck my legs in, somersaulting through the air, aiming for the massive body and hoping that the human adage of "when you mess with the bull...you get the horns.." doesn't come through in this instance![sblock]Defy Danger (Dex)2, 3 + 3 = 8Success but a worse outcome, hard bargain, or ugly choice.[/sblock][sblock]1d6 damage (no armor) to me.  5 damage.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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