The centipede you're facing proves little challenge, and you turn back to the main party with hands and mouth covered in foul-tasting slime. The smell from the emerging creature is growing stronger...
John, Baldwin and Sallrana, you are close enough to the new creature to be shaken by tremors of its arrival - - but you get a good look at it as it bursts from beneath the overhang. Roger, your attack is a success, and you sink your blade into the front of the creature as it shakes itself free. .
Hexquin also picks up movement from behind you - green-skinned figures are running quietly toward you in the darkness, moving around the larger form of Jack and paying him little heed.
"This creature navigates by sound and vibration, a large sound or vibration may stun it, what the.."
::"John HexQin just spotted a number small green humanoid coming my, they seem to not want Jack but me or you, I'm going to get out of their way, until I know what they wan't please don't be alarmed.::
Lady Sallrana looks around then looking like she's Concentrating life's of the ground with out a sound.
Baldwin doesn't know what this thing is, but he moves to attack it again, staying a good enough distance away that he's not right next to it, but his hammer can still hit it.
"Good evening my friends! Your hunt has led you -inadvertently I am sure - into my camp - and well met! Sadly I am currently cohabitating with Man - I apologise for skipping courtesy, but if I do not soon tell them you are friends they may well attack you out of Man fear"
, you lift into the air, giving you a better view of the battlefield...
, the bite doesn't come - instead the creature turns ponderously in your direction and sprays a noxious acid from its lumpy stomach. You take points of acid damage from the liquid , and feel the clothes on your back start to dissolve.
As you stand, wiping the foul concoction out of your eyes and ignoring the pain coursing through your exposed skin the creature lunges forward, , but the stubby mandibles fail to do anything more than lightly scratch you, despite the creature's weight and size. Your blow in response is far more deadly, leaving a leaking wound on the left flank of the beast and causing it to hiss in pain.
, you fire too, your bullet breaking directly through one of the eye-pits of the creature - a decent shot for sure. Before you can line up another though, you feel a disturbance in the air by your head and an arrow thuds into the maggot thing, having missed you by no more than a few inches. Turning you see a band of skinny orcs sprinting towards you, and hear Jack shout in a language you don't understand.
, the beast has its attention on Roger now, and you think you can see a potential weak point at the rear of the thing - if you can strike it, you're reasonably sure that you can tear open the beast's stomach completely.
, an orc nearby you calls out as he passes, his dialect unfamiliar but most certainly in orcish. 'Fortvil ikke, hud-bror - dine sveklinger er ikke vår byttedyr i dag, vi jakte på larve av honning jorden!'
, you see the weak point but don't manage to turn your swing in time, the hammer cracking one of the greyish plates covering the squirming thing. The sweet smell is almost overpowering, making you feel light-headed.
, your acid drenches the creature but seems to have no effect whatsoever other than to draw its attention towards you.
In a burst of nimbleness quite unexpected from such a large man, your thuggish rogue ducks under the spray of acid so that the worst of it misses him. , you have a few burns where droplets hit you, but are basically unscathed.
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The lady Sallrana looks at the Orcs then at jack when he talks.
Well they they wanted us dead we would all ready be dead, so some other thing is in play here, could it be the thing we fight is more there target,
"But I have no idea whats going on, hummm I think I best get into this conversation
Wile pointing her Gun and the maggot and firing
"O stor leder Jack, gjøre you'r modig kar Orcs søker å bekjempe s eller søke å hjelpe oss med å drepe monster fra jorden?"
"O great leader Jack, do you'r brave fellow Orc's seek to fight s or seek to help us slay the monster from the earth?"
She asks this of jack not the orcs.
how to explain the complexities of the situation? That we trespass upon their land, and while they do not hunt us they would be justified in doing so? That there is still hope we can be friends?
Then to Sallrana
followed by booming laughter.
"I trust that we are not interfering in your hunt by attempting to slay your quarry? I can call off my people if we are dishonouring your hunt, but I fear that the longer it lives the more chance one of them may die!" - this last being an attempt at a humorous restatement of an orcish proverb
'Hedre? Det er ingen ære her, bror, lagre for det som ble stjålet fra oss - og at vi har tenkt å gjenvinne tidobbelt!'
, it takes very little time for it to click inside your mind, although the warrior's speech is vague at best.
, the creature seems to be weakening as the orcs muscle in amongst you, pushing their wiry frames forward into melee and hacking at the creature with crude axes.
, your shot penetrates just under the creature's armour plating, striking true amid some indefinable organic slurry. The beast lurches toward you, sloughing off orcs as it palpates straight at you, a seemingly unstoppable mound of chitin and flesh.
, the creature sinks it mandibles into you and you feel claws score your skin in multiple places. A great cry goes up from the attacking orcs as you feel your feet leve the ground, the creature attempting to lift you bodily into the air.
, the orc that had answered you smiles grimly in your direction.
'Det synes vi er riktig bare når vi ønsker det ellers.'
You recognise the words as another proverb spoken in acknowledgement and return as the orc charges in to aid John.
what are they saying shallrana?
::They respect Jack, I have said he is our leader, they call him their brother, I think they want the Magget dead, some thing about getting what was taken back, what that is I have no idea, show them respect and Jack as well, just follow Jacks lead::
:: O HELLS John I need to kill it fast or your dead.::
Lady Sallrana lowers back to the ground, HexQin glows green with light has dos Sallrana's Then the maggots head as she melts hits brains.
If he get away she will stay in the air where she is.
, a deafening cheer issues forth from the orcs surrounding you as you pull yourself free from the creature. One orc, slightly larger than the rest (though still wiry compared to the specimens back home, and positively frail compared to Jack) claps you over the shoulder and bellows as you recover your footing.
'Vår bror er erstattet! Hans ånd er overført! Dyret svekker!'
The orcs swarm the armoured maggot, hacking and laughing as it twists and squeals.
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As the creature moved Baldwin swings his hammer again, hoping to do some more damage.
"Do not steal the kill. Back away quickly." Jack warns
I only hope I am not too late for John
Roger looks at Jack confused and says"what do you mean, steal the kill? This thing is trying to take our lives. I have a policy in that regard: something tries to kill you, you kill it right back! besides, I hit it first!"
Baldwin, the tip of your lucerne scrapes a furrow in the side of the creature as it passes, but it's too intent on John to notice.
::John he said 'Our brother is replaced! His spirit is transferred! The beast weakens!' they seem to think you a good fighter, I think that may be the leader, and was that a heal, patton you just used the john?::
Stays in the Air
She clicks open her Revolver taking taking a new chamber cylinder from her gun belt she Reloads her gun.
Wile doing this she says
"It seems the target of their hate is this maggot, something about it stole something. Jack knows best they respect him. If we wish to look good in theirs eyes, we should treat Jack as our warband leader wile around them, Roger that go's for you as well. Jack if you kill it I feel you would look even better, they seem to be having problems doing so. Roger come here and Ill wash that acid off and get you fixed up as best I can"
::A cure 'Spell' such an antiquated way of putting it, I am surprised John. But I digress, Yes we must be Careful her, we can work this to our advantage if we are.::
"What do you mean treat Jack as warband leader. I am leader!"
Jack wades in to get his colleagues out of danger
just like a nob to sit in the back and tell you how to fight. Roger Swings his blade again at the huge beast, ignorant to the cries to do likewise.
"I agree whole-heartedly. Let's end this this as quickly as possible."
Baldwin swings again, hoping to do more damage this time and trying to ignore the scent coming from the beast.
Takes aim and shoots from above
"Well that is IF we can kill it"
Her last few shots doing nothing to the thing.