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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jon Potter" data-source="post: 1068886" data-attributes="member: 2323">[PLAIN][Realms #233b] ...They Go Down Fast![/PLAIN]Tears began to squirt from the halfling's eyes and he became a furious bundle of energy. His nimble hands worked to free the strange blackberry sling stone he'd found inside the locked building at the elves' compound, load it into the leather pouch of his sling, and start it spinning. "Get away from my friend!" he screamed as loudly as his tiny lungs could muster and then he let the bullet fly.Whether his accuracy was born of desperation or natural skill was immaterial. The stone flew across the clearing and thudded against the giant's left bicep as it turned to face its two remaining foes. It had time to grunt at the sting and then the bullet exploded, releasing an expanding mass of webbing. One end of the web anchored itself to the standing stone behind the giant and the other stretched all the way to the altar. The rat-headed giant was trapped amidst the strands rather like the center tent pole of a travelling minstrel show. It didn't seem particularly happy about it and it was further enraged when four big spiders swarmed up out of the webs."Good job, little one," Ixin said as she withdrew another vial from the folds of her cloak. Like the potion of Divine Favor (whose effects she could still feel) it bore the symbol of the fey goddess, Rhiannon, but unlike the last this elixir wasn't meant to be drunk. Ixin sprinkled the Oil of Magic Weapon over her crossbow, raised it to her shoulder and fired. The quarrel sailed off into the trees and the mage cursed under her breath.The four large spiders scurried out of the webbing and up onto the giant's rat head. It thrashed around and wailed as it struggled against the sticky mess holding it in place. Two of the arachnids injected their venom into the monstrous creature, but it seemed to do little more than enrage it further. With a mighty roar and the sound of both tearing webs and tearing fur, the creature began to force its way to the edge of the webs.Vade's knees shook as he loaded another bullet into his sling. He was all out of his special, weird bullets and had only those that, while well balanced, looked just like ordinary missiles. The stone made a perfect arc and then pinged ineffectually off of the giant's temple. The halfling let out a small, "Yipe!" and turned to flee through the portal, but with Ixin no longer anchored to it, the archway was filled again with luminous green mist. Vade whined in abject terrorIxin slipped a quarrel free of her case and began the arduous process of cranking her heavy crossbow.The spiders continued to swarm over the giant's rat-like head, but only one of them was able to bypass its naturally tough hide. It showed no signs of succumbing to the spiders' poisonous bite.With a final, defiant roar it burst free of the confining webs."Turn on the door! Turn on the door!" Vade urged, bouncing up and down behind Ixin. "Turn on the door! Turn on the door!""Not yet!" the sorcerer corrected as she gave her crossbow a final crank and raised the weapon again. "Ruze is still under your webs!" She fired and this time the bolt struck the webbing several feet to the creature's right.The giant began going to work on the spiders. It swatted two into pulp on its head and plucked a third off its shoulder with its teeth. It crunched its many-legged tormentor between its jaws with relish."We should go!" Vade implored. "It's gonna kill us! And it's barely hurt! We should go!"Ixin was busy reloading her crossbow, but she shook her head. "We're not leaving Ruze behind!" She glanced to the side in order to catch the halfling's eye, but Vade had activated the Ring of Invisibility and disappeared.The giant clawed the last of the spiders into a broken mess on its neck and let out a roar of such volume that the ground vibrated beneath the sorcerer's feet.</blockquote>

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