[i]Were the packets to be so sensitive that bumping against each other when dropped caused a detonation, the ranger would have probably blown himself up long before he had ever met Shashous-Throth. One didn't go leaping about with vials of nitroglycerin strapped to one's body, and even a vial of nitroglycerin could take more than a light tap.

Still, if somehow he did manage to get around with those things, then the ranger would be in for a surprise. Not a one blew up. Not because they weren't volatile, no. They had been gently caught. The monster had come up behind the ranger with a plan of its own. It purposefully made its presence known behind him in the hopes that he would try to jump off the branch. It had only wrapped its tail around the trunk once, and there was still more than enough length to it to seize the elf's ankle if he tried to escape. That had been the original plan, basically. But as he had simply vanished, it was left there with its tail right below where he had been, in the perfect position to catch the explosive packets with remarkable care in the flexible, oozing coils. Certainly no less care than with which the ranger darted around carrying the things. It was like a high level version of someone tossing you a water balloon and, amazingly, you catch it out of pure reaction and it doesn't pop. Even the monster's incredible senses and reaction speed hadn't fully accounted for what it had done. It was just one of those things that happens suddenly and you're all like, "Whoah, did I do that?"

It did not know what they were, but instinct and experience told the Magna Pater that they were dropped on purpose and had been meant to land with at least a little more force than they were normally subjected to.

It knew that its opponent could reappear at any second and could perhaps try to reinforce his attempt at dropping the things by going after its tail. It also knew though that in doing so he would make himself tangible, and therefore vulnerable. Even the ranger himself probably knew what was passing through the Magna Pater's head right then.

[b]Chuck the things at the human and see what happens...[/b][/i]