Steady... steady... not yet...

Xireidi held his ground for as long as possible, knowing he had only one shot at this. He could attack a leg like had been done before but how many did it have left? Would that be enough? No, he had to go for broke and strike its body. The creature was leaking goop everywhere, so even if it meant getting splattered by that stuff again striking a present injury was likely to be the best option for inflicting maximum damage.

Almost there...

The wolf was fully standing now, tensing every muscle in his body for one final tackle. He wouldn't waste an ounce of energy in unnecessary movement; wait until the spider was passing by and let its momentum fuel his attack.

Strike!

Xireidi released his coiled stance and flung himself headlong into the charging spider, striking true in a particularly large injury and just hoping that his body weight would be enough to aggravate the wound to a critical level. The caves depended on these last few attacks working. Without the magic of the spire how would they survive?

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"The words I speak"
The thoughts I hold
And the self I keep hidden away
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Kin-Kin’s pride soared as her attack yielded fruitful results, the shattered limb showering her with crystalline fragments. The she-wolf stepped away from it to avoid the worst of the shower, before tightening her grip on the blade and charging after the ‘creature’ for another go. Since her swordplay yielded the best results, it only seemed right that she should strike with it again.

This time, she just aimed for anything she could reach. The spider was growing dangerously close to the Spire, and she didn’t want to sacrifice much-needed seconds catching up to presumed weak spots.

But, her aching jaw failed her, and before she managed to catch up, she was forced to return the object to its sheathe, flexing her sore jaw with a wince.

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"Talking looks like this!"
Thinking looks like this...

It felt the pull of its weight backward, but also the magic here was at its strongest, calling to it; jamming its remaining forward most leg into the ground like a post, it fought whatever was trying to drag it away. A feeling unknown to it seared into the damaged crystal on its back and it writhed as magicka released from the shattered wound, uncomfortable but unknowing of pain at the same time—but it did know that this was depleting everything that it had worked toward. Before it could muster the energy to surge forward and press one last advance, something knocked its remaining back legs out from under it and its body buckled. At the same time, the weak leg holding it up was tackled, and its body collapsed forward.

The remaining essence of it spilled out from its broken gemform body, before quickly evaporating as glowing blue sparks and lights, swept up into the air on an unknown breeze. Its own crystal body was slower to decay in the same fashion, but was silent and unmoving now as it disintegrated into magic glowing dust.

In the distance, the bright red of glowing ruby disturbs an otherwise peaceful scene, but the stag is too far to clearly make out. It seems he may have been there the whole time. He turns and exits through Tunnel N and disappears toward Orion.

Magicka Spider has 0/500 HP.

Magicka Spider is losing 50 HP each Round!

Aries burns into weakened crystal, dealing 11 damage.
Amras tackles a weakened leg, dealing 6 damage.
Xireidi tackles a weakened leg, dealing 17 damage.

The Magicka Spider's health has been depleted!

Xerxes flees due to inactivity.
Remedy flees due to inactivity.
Amras has 80/100 HP.
Eythan flees due to inactivity.
Kallista flees due to inactivity.
Carni flees due to inactivity.
Tukluk has 56/100 HP.
Xireidi has 61/100 HP.
Albeon has 80/100 HP.
Felina has 80/100 HP.
Cure flees due to inactivity.
Aries has 71/100 HP.
Aeroth flees due to inactivity.
Astaroth flees due to inactivity.
Kin-Kin has 95/100 HP.

Event Complete!
Activity Logs will be updated to reflect this and an additional 50 Magicka will be sent to characters who were active in the end (since I stopped awarding it per roll). I'll update all participating characters who helped attack the golem with their achievement icons also. (Thank you for participating in my experiment of 'is this too much HP for a fight' RIP)

The bright blue gryphon breathed a sigh of relief as his target collapsed under its own weight. The spire was untouched; and based on the amount of magic flooding out of the creature there was no telling how much damage it could have done if it had successfully gotten to its destination.

Of course it was possible that it would have exploded from the seer amount of magic before draining the thing fully, but it was also likely that it would have grown even larger to compensate for such a drain. How else might it have gotten to be so giant? They would have to keep a watch out for creatures like that in the future; even if life here was relatively easy this would be a reminder that they couldn't get too comfortable.

Amras descended upon a rock a short distance away and kept silver gaze upon the corpse. It was already showing signs of fading away and he would stand watch until it was completely gone. While a part of him was curious of its nature even he recognized that its body was likely far too volatile to be of use to him.

-exit Amras-

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Pouch 1: Black talc stones x7 (medium)

Pouch 2: Charcoal dust (50 in3)

Pouch 3: Quartz sphere x1 (large, soft glow)

Pouch 4: Charcoal chunks x7 (medium)

Take hold of the power within
"And shape the fabric of reality around you"
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Xireidi staggered a few steps back, vision barely registering what was going on in front of him as he was drenched yet again in glowing spider viscera. He could feel however, ad under the extreme physical fatigue he could feel a quake as the spider fell to the ground. It was done. They had done it. All of them working together had stopped this monster from destroying them all.

The wolf stumbled a few more steps before lying down just out of range of the pool of magic blood. His muscles shivered as though he had consumed a dangerous amount of caffeine, but they were so spent he just couldn't will himself to move any further. He would be okay. He had to be okay. There was more to do here, and more spiders might come one day. He had to become stronger, but first he had to rest.

And so the wolf did, not caring that he was falling asleep right in the middle of the open landscape. Not able to do anything about it even if he did care. It would be a while before he would fully recover, but something told him that things might never be quite the same after what had transpired.

- Exit Xireidi -

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"The words I speak"
The thoughts I hold
And the self I keep hidden away
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The ram jolted as the crystal arachnid collapsed mere inches from the base in a cloud of dust. It was over. Aries breathed a sigh of relief.

That was too close.

He pulled his fore hooves out of the holes he had burned in its back with a sticky, sucking sound. The odd, glowing, blue liquid clung to his legs, and Aries found that it messed with his grip, as his front hooves slipped as he back away from the bleeding wound. Despite this, he effortlessly bounded down the spider, and landed in more glowing goo. Aries crinkled his nose in disgust. "Ugh!" He grunted trying to shake it off his limbs, unfortunately, it had the consistency of blood.

While standing in the puddle, Aries noticed a flood of magicka pouring into his body. It took him by surprise, but all the throbbing of his injuries dulled, leaving him feeling rejuvenated. Aries made his way towards Kin-Kin, cutting his eyes back to fallen golem.

What.. was that thing?" He breathed. "It almost took the Spire!"


"speak!"

@Kin-Kin