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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jon Potter" data-source="post: 3817770" data-attributes="member: 2323">[PLAIN][Realms #409] Eyebeams for Everyone![/PLAIN]It gets better! At least briefly so...---------------------------------------------The beholder-headed-giant looked down at the smiling Ayremac with something akin to confusion on his alien vissage."Giant, it is a great pleasure to see you!" the holy warrior grinned back. "I have been traveling many days with a group of... well, heroes, if I may say it plainly.""Heroes," the giant rumbled, licking his lips. "I like heroes.""And I'm quite certain that they'll like you," Ayremac told his old friend. "Let me tell them it is safe to pass." He raised the Ring of Communication to his mouth and began speaking into it."Holy crap!" Huzair gasped, his eyes wide with surprise as he stared at the giant. "Look at that!"Karak shaded his own eyes and squinted across to the other side. "I can nae tell fo' sure, but it seems that Flyboy is makin' nice with the giant! Hrmf, that be interestin'," the dwarf said. "Well he be no match for a beholder wearin' giant that be fo' sure. I mean I just be teachin' him how to fight and we had not gotten to methods o' fightin' monstrous creatures yet. Well my path seems clear.""Me too," Huzair said and he muttered a few magic words as he hurled a ball of bat guano and sulfur at the giant. The tiny ball had just left the wizard's fingers, streaking away toward its explosive conclusion, when Ayremac's voice spoke from the Ring of Communication that the mage wore."Huzair, Good news! The bridge is clear... you may pass straight away," the Officer of Umba said cheerily. "I have actually bumped into a good friend here... Come quickly!""Oops!" Huzair said.The tiny bead that the wizard had thrown glowed with magic as it streaked across the gorge, struck the side of the tower behind the giant and exploded, engulfing the huge figure in an enormous Fireball. The giant roared, staggering forward with smoke and flames rising from his blackened hide.The edge of the Fireball licked the air a few inches from Ayremac's shoulder, but left the holy warrior unhurt.Morier drew Stoneblade and darted forward, a look of grim determination on his face. Huzair called after him, "Hey Morier! Buff now, unless of course you want to wait until you are in hand-to-hand combat with cyclops over there." Scowling, Morier skidded to a stop after 30 feet and empowered his muscles with a Bull's Strength."Morier has got the plan! Go with it!" Karak shouted into the wind as he began hustling after the albino. "I'll be a distraction!"Shamalin, meanwhile, had drifted insubstantially across the gorge, and once she and Ixin were across the gap the cleric dismissed the Wind Walk spell, returning the two to their corporeal forms. Ixin was prepared and she inhaled deeply and then breathed on the giant. A cone of dragonfire enveloped the creature, but after being hit with Huzair's magic he seemed better prepared and was able to twist away, avoiding the full brunt of the attack as he did so.He could not avoid the arrow that Anania sent into his left thigh just above the knee. The shaft buried itself in his flesh up to the fletchings, staggering the giant and ripping another shriek of pain from his unnatural maw.Ayremac was stunned. Why were his allies attacking his friend? "Stop shooting!" he cried into the Ring of Communication. "For Lisori's sake! Stop shooting!" Then he called on Umba's Sacred Healing, hoping to ease his friend's suffering if he could.His "friend", however, wasn't interested in the easing of any suffering. He was interested in inflicting some and Ayremac was struck broadside by a two-handed blow from the giant's greatclub. The impact stove in the side of the holy warrior's helmet and filled his vision with exploding stars. Rubber-legged, Ayremac dropped first to his knees and then to his side as darkness threatened from all sides. Instinctivally, he raised his shield as the club came around again and he managed to deflect the blow, sending it ineffectually into the dirt beside him.His shield was no defense against the ray that stabbed at him, and he was so shaken by the bludgeoning that he could not resist the power of the eyebeam and he felt the world speed up around him as his own actions were Slowed.Another ray struck Ixin, and although she tried to muster her willpower to resist, she felt an undeniable wave of force slam into her, knocking her down and onto her back.Another pair of rays struck Shamalin, and she was able to overcome the power of the Fear spell that washed over her, but could do nothing to resist the flesh rending Inflict Wounds spell that cut a bloody swathe across her cheek. She cried out in pain."Ouch!" Huzair winced on the opposite side of the bridge. "Targeting the cleric? That's dirty pool!" He cast Pyrotechnics on the tiny fires that continued to burn on the giant's back and shoulders and grinned as the fire exploded in flashes of dazzling light. It was the kind of spell that would have ended the fight right then and there... if it had worked. The giant was clearly annoyed by the flash of light, but not otherwise inconvenienced.The pair of red-tailed Magic Missiles that Ixin sent into its side irritated it, however. And the arrow that Anania planted in its neck made it roar in frustration and pain. Of course, the Holy Smite Ayremac directed at it thereafter made it forget all about those minor injuries. Umba's power washed over the creature bringing pain with it and leaving only darkness in its wake.Blinded, the giant stepped back, firing its eyebeams without direction and without effect. It bellowed in frustration, but that only lasted a moment before, Huzair dropped a Snowball Swarm on it. It retained its feet for a few seconds before Morier charged up and buried Stoneblade up to the fuller in its exposed belly. Lightning exploded from the impact point, arcing momentarily between victim and attacker before the giant stiffened and collapsed backward awkwardly against the tower foundation.</blockquote>

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