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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jon Potter" data-source="post: 1896942" data-attributes="member: 2323">Vade let out a frightened squeal and fumbled a vial of alchemist's fire free of his belt pouch. He'd drawn back to throw when the thing flowed at right angles to the halfling and still managed to bite at him from behind. Vade's nerves were operating on the raw edge, however, and he dodged the attack uncannily. The toothy maw snapped shut beside him and he tossed the flask at the writhing mass of chaos that he assumed was the rest of its body. To his horror, the creature flickered and the flask sailed completely through its body and exploded against the blue green tile on the far edge of the pool.Grisham roared in pain as liquid fire splashed across his back.Morier seized the opportunity to get to his feet. There was little strength left in him, but he intended to spend what there was chopping this horror into tiny pieces. His hands clasped down on the grip of his silver greatsword and with a roar borne of equal parts rage and frustration, he unleashed the power of the storm that lurked within him, bringing the electrified weapon up in a glittering arc that split the lumpy mass before him. Lightning arced between the thing and Morier and then the creature's body collapsed back into the pool. The smell of ozone filled the room and acrid smoke rose from the sizzling corpse, competing with the unwholesome stench that already pervaded the chamber.Grisham shrugged free of his smoldering cloak and drove his longsword into what he thought was the creature's head. "Come! Gut the thing! " he urged. "Quickly! They may yet live within!"As if to lend credence to his statement, a concussive roar issued from within the thing and a gout of flame licked from between the creature's closed jaws. A swollen lump appeared amidst the lunatic coils, and stretched as if something within desired freedom."There!" Grisham bellowed, gesturing with his handaxe at the lump. Vade jumped on it at once."Out of my way, you biggins!" he cried, brandishing his shortsword. "I need to save Feln and the rest of the party!" He stabbed his shortsword home, tearing away a chunk of indescribably flesh and revealing Ixin's acid-ravaged arm. Morier grabbed her hand and pulled her free with a wet slucking sound. She landed in the pool with a groan and a splash.There was a supernatural light burning in her eyes. Smoke still rose from her open mouth."None of you are any fun to get into trouble with... what would I do without my good buddy Feln?" Vade was saying as he continued to work on the corpse with his sword. Grisham joined him, widening the rent with double-handed blows from his handaxe. Karak's foot appeared and Morier grabbed it and pulled, yanking the dwarf free after a bit of tugging. His body was limp from paralysis, but his eyes were still alive and blazing with divine fervor. His craggy features had suffered greatly from acid burns, but he was incredibly hardy and in no great danger from his injuries. Morier propped him up against the side of the pool.Ixin sucked down a healing potion and got to her feet, feeling the ice water rush of healing suffuse her."Well, I do like the rest of you... well... most of you," the halfling was saying as he worked feverishly to split the beast open further. "But no one deserves to be eaten whole by a creature like this!"Without a word, Ixin moved up to lend her sickle to the process begun by Grisham and Vade and between the three of them, they soon had Ledare's armored feet exposed. Morier grabbed hold of her ankles and dragged her free of the beast's foul innards. She horribly disfigured by the creature's caustic secretions; whole patches of skin and the flesh beneath were burned away, leaving red and dripping wounds everywhere on her body. There was very little life left in her and Morier poured two potions of Cure Light Wounds down her throat before he felt that she was stable enough for him to turn his attention back to the work of the others.They were making good progress. Vade in particular seemed possessed as he worked, and he ranted as he sliced... and sliced... and sliced. "No one deserves to have their finger chopped off for looking at a pretty necklace or put in a yucky jail for almost three years!" he screamed as his blade hacked away chunks of foul-smelling meat. Tears began to squirt from his eyes. "What a horrible world this is... I want my mama!""There!" Grisham gasped, pointing further into the thing's ruptured belly. There was Feln's foot, the heel of his elven boot eaten clear through. Morier moved in, grabbed it with both hands and heaved.The foot came free, trailing a length of liquifying bone and dissolved flesh. Morier landed in the water, holding his grisly prize in horror.Vade began to wail and for a moment that was the only sound audible in the chamber. Then Grisham grunted and looked unbelievingly at the brutalized corpse of the impossible creature. He stepped quickly forward and jerked his longsword free of the body."By the Wolf Spirit! What manner of hellspawn is this?!" he said, his face gone nearly as pale as Morier's. "I think it's still regenerating!"</blockquote>

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