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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 4158674" data-attributes="member: 4441">Many things happen quite quickly.  Oliver storms through the trees, causing a sudden break in the action as everyone, faerie creatures, worm-thing, and dragon, to pause at the interruption.  Kurst's hands glow with eldritch power and he hastily releases a bolt to try to singe the hideous thing.  Unfortunately, in his eagerness, he hits the ground right between them rather than the worm itself.  But that does have the effect of getting the worm-thing's attention.It momentarily lifts itself from the dragon's neck, and you can see one end of it has a toothy, suckery, lamprey-like mouth, red with gore from the horrible gaping wound in the dragon's throat.  Arrgha'n recognizes the thing now.  It's a [spoiler]gutslug, a blood-draining creature that resembles muchly a length of intenstine.  Once used as a kind of weakening agent by daelkyr, they long ago lost control of their creations.  As gutslugs are constantly hungry and grow very fast, the Gatekeepers try to kill them on sight or seal them away to keep them from spawning.  The blood they drain was sometimes used in experiments, if someone could get to the fresh blood quickly.  Gutslugs often attack from hiding, going after their prey when it is sleeping or unaware.  They are vulnerable to to salt, which dessicates and harms it, and alcohol poured on it makes it difficult for it to grapple its prey.[/spoiler]Maavnod, wasting no time leaps forward to grasp the thing in his four hands. Struggle as it may, it cannot resist the implacable strength of Maavnod's hands, and soon the goliath finds his hands full of ten feet of sticky, bloody, strongly muscled toothy intestine.Valerian, looking thoughtful, suddenly begins to dig through his backpack, bringing up a small bag of the salt used to season his meals."Bring it here, this will kill it!" he calls authoritatively.Yatrax, on the other hand, keeps an eye on the four faerie creatures and the wounded dragon.  The little ones start to help the dragon to its feet, while one feeds it what seems to be a packet of leaves.  Immediately the wound in its neck starts to close.  The other three place themselves between the dragon and the party, bows out and drawn towards the worm.OOC:  Kurst, sorry, rolled a 1 for your attack.  Arrgha'n got a 25 on his Knowledge (dungeoneering) check.  Maavnod got a 22 to the worm-thing's 14 on grappling, so now he's the one wrasslin' with it.  Valerian got a 27 on his Knowledge (dungeoneering) check.</blockquote>

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