From: Doug (gryphon4101_at_comcast.net)
Date: Wed Nov 19 2003 - 08:30:32 GMT
Maerath looks around the room with a big smile on his face, and it grows as he sees his comrades not near as injured as their last battle. He then runs up to Rose and gives a large embrace and then to the group he speaks, "I'll take that battle over the Gnashers we faced any day! Does anyone know what the heck those things were though? Particularly that big creature that shattered? That was strangely odd." He looks around the room at the pieces of the creature trying to figure things out.
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Subject: Earthdawn PBeM BN 6.8 Construct-o-battle
The light gem is unfurled and with a battle cry you see many of your companions rush the two towering figures at the back of the procession. The horror constructs are caught completely by surprise as they catch up with them.
Maerath is the first on the scene, floating slightly above the ground with his air dance he swings his two handed blade at the giant creature. It turns to look at the onslaught and you see it has only one eye centered in its face. Its massive arms ending in two massive claw like appendages gives you no pause as to its purpose. Maerath strikes a heavy blow which is turned largely by the strength of the creatures own hide. Elklisee joins Maerath side by side but with a level of practice that you find unsettling Elklisee slips the length of her blade into the creatures liver, causing a devastating wound. The cyclops staggers but manages to remain standing.
Pean hisses to those around him that the life circle you have left behind would be near the end of its life and he could not guarantee that it would still be there. Instead of turning as Maerath calls out he moves to behind his companions that stayed with him, Rose, Lenora and Shalandra, weaving a thread to a spell. Lenora, Rose and Shalandra make sure that Pean and Temorya are adequately covered and draw their weapons, ready for any surprise from the constructs.
Angavorn lashes out at the second of the lumbering cyclops ghouls. He finds, as Maerath did, that their skin is tough and turns away a good deal of the force of his blow, but he grins as he sees his blow cut into the creatures thigh. Garrott fights at his side, smashing the creature with his hammer. Hearing ribs shatter at the blow Garrott's war cry finally dies out as the Obsidiman grins grimly at the result.
Temorya tips water onto his fingers and flicks it toward one of the cyclops. You watch as the drips turn to ice and marvel as the cyclops roars in pain, part of his body freezing, causing a good deal of damage.
Farli leaps in, her hand changing to a claw she strikes the ghoul that Garrott fights, her "tickle" working just as well against these targets, the creature nearly staggers and falls as it is rocked by the blows. Farli's bear Suskin is but a step behind her but the bear misses poorly with its claws. The cyclops moving out of its reach.
Maerath, Angavorn and Garrott all finding a burst of speed from their dancing on air strike the creatures again. Maerath neatly slicing the side of the creatures belly open, its entrails fall from the wound and the twelve foot creature crumples to the ground dead. Angavorn and Garrott strike the second, Garrott's second blow massive, causing the shoulder to collapse and the body to rip in two as the second of the two cyclops falls to the ground dead.
Elklisee does not stop moving as she shifts stance to strike at the ghoul that turns to face her. The blade strikes deep and the ghoul is forced to the ground as it scrabbles to rise again.
It is then that the ball of bone ahead of the three ghouls shifts on its axis, tilting and turning almost in an instant rolls swiftly toward Lenora, Rose, Shalandra, Todiel and the two mages. As it moves two razor sharp bone appendages almost like arms lash out, one at Rose and the other at Lenora. The arm strikes Rose square in the stomach and the crystal ringlet gifted to her by The Corinthian stops the blow for all but a little damage caused by the pure force of the strike. The second attack on Lenora scythes out, surely to take her head from her shoulders. Her pure instinct comes to the fore and Lenora allows the magic in her to flow. She bends backward, her head almost touching the ground as the blow brushes her with air. Her body springs back up, ready to fight, unscathed.
In an instant, her blade strikes out in retaliation. Many of the bones that make up this creature try to push the blow aside but she is satisfied that the hit struck home in some manner. Shalandra and Rose both land blows on the creature also to varying success though there is little outward sign that the creature is much bothered at the blows.
Temorya, uncertain if the bone creature contains any liquid to freeze casts the spell again but onto one of the Ghouls further ahead of him. The creature lets out a howl in pain as its body freezes.
Suskin and his master both miss the ghouls as they flail about in the midst of the melee. Maerath slashes out with his two handed sword, striking one of the ghouls, knocking it to the ground. It almost instantly rises with the other fallen one and the third lashes out at Garrott striking nothing but air.
Garrott returns its blow, a massive hit that shatters its chest and knocks it down. The creature is resilient though and twitches, attempting to get back up.
Pean throws an astral spear at the being of bone. It travels unerringly to its target and strikes deeply. Satisfied with the result the creature veering slightly from its course in pain.
Elklisee lashes out again, striking the ghoul heavily and knocking it back to the ground. Garrott also lashing out at the ghoul next to him he smashes it with a massive blow but it refuses to yield to his strength. Angavorn strikes at the same ghoul and cuts its head from its body, the body collapsing like a sack of rock. Maerath strikes at the ghoul that got back up from the ground, lopping its head off easily also and watches it crash to the ground.
Shalandra strikes out at the bone creature but the blow is ineffectual. Rose twists in mid air and brings her crystal blade down on it causing it some damage. The bone creature lashes out at Lenora and looks as though it would hit again but Lenora's magic takes over again, forcing her to nimbly jump aside. The creatures other blow strikes Rose again, nut her crystal ringlet deflects a large portion of the blow again. Lenora returns the blow and her blade is driven deep, she sees the rolling creature begins to slow and move in an aimless direction as though unconscious.
As Farli despatches the last ghoul, Garrott still floating on air brings his hammer down on the bone creature. The pieces of bone that make up the creature shatter into hundreds of pieces and spreads out over the Kaer floor.
You breathe a sigh of relief all of the creatures are dead. Amongst the remains you draw out 83 silver.
<Your damages etc will be on your pages in an hour to an hour and a half of this being released>
<You won easily>
<Moves please>
<Cheers>
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