Klokulf rushes in and braces the knight, chanting words of healing magic.ewancummins wrote:BENN conjures his fiery orb, bringing it rolling over the broken, sunken burrow of the monster and against the beast's armored rump.
The creature leaves off attacking one of the horses and scuttle forward rapidly, coming closer to the wagon even as Dorn struggles to back the horses and turns them and the cart away from the monster.
Sir Clive unlimbers his great sword and hops down, stepping clear of the moving vehicle and its panicky team.
He strides toward the hissing beast and lays into it with his blade. Sparks fly from its scorched, sooty carapace, but it seems little harmed by the knight's double-handed blows.
Kat darts in as the knight's onslaught keeps the monster busy, needling to no effect with her sword—too much plating on this horror!
Sir Clive lands a hasty blow, the blade chopping off a few scales this time.
The monster suddenly leaps up, passing clean over the knight's sweeping blade and crashing down onto the man!
The knight falls amid the clatter of armor and the horrid scrape of claws on steel plate—but rolls clear before the weight of the monster crushes him helpless in the road.He snaps to his feet with his sword lifting back en garde.
The shrieking horses pull so hard away from the monster that Dorn tumbles from the driver’s seat.
The soldier lad lands on his backside right between Sir Clive and the monster.
The team keeps running, hauling the wagon off the road. Alwina falls out into the field beside the road with Benn, but Alain keeps his grip on the sideboard of the rocking cart.
Raen dashes to rescue Dorn. The beast snaps at the wizard but gets more of the wizard's robes than anything else.
With a great rip of cloth, Raen twists free of the horrid jaws and drags Dorn back with him to the shoudler of the road.
Sir Clive hefts his great sword and lays into the beast, making sparks and kicking up dust but doing little harm.
Goaded by conjured fire from the rear and a sword raised before it, the beast leaps again!
Katrin rolls under as the monster leaves the pavement. She stabs upward, her rapier snicking through the underbelly scales and into soft flesh.
The monster is airborne, headed for Sir Clive in a deadly pounce of outstretched claws and massive armored bulk...