[@Cruallassar]
Regardless of his aiming stance, an uppercut is an uppercut. Nothing is under his jaw and the rocks aren't coming from the left. 
Crual's flank is to the attack, but he is still looking forwards with the bottom of his chin unguarded. Yes, yes it is unguarded. Nothing at all is beneath it, having his arm reaching forwards means only that his arm will get nailed too. Note how the chin of the man in the following picture is not protected from below. Very easily struck by a jumble of stones strung together. Hell, look, it might even hit the shafts of his arrows and soil his aim, or perhaps make the sensitive explosive one blow up. In fact, that's a good add on. Let's include that.

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If you'll pay more attention to the earlier movements the rock was initially thrown so that when Crual appeared it would end up inside his head, meaning it was chucked long before he materialized. The tail attack was in progress too, and I implied that it was going to be an attack rather than outright stated to prevent metagaming. The swing would come in a timely manner [b]as Crual materialized[/b], after the rock was already thrown, but the tail had already been on its way to coincide with the distraction. The tail wouldn't reach in time because it lacked reach, which the improv rock whip made up for. It was a trick, you see.

I have not in the least contradicted myself, just read my posts more carefully.


The size of the rocks depends on how much stone one could jerk out with a cable that can withstand a quarter ton of force. I'm no scientist, but my first description of them was "chunks". A very loose definition, but keep in mind how when Shash attacked, I said, and I repeat, that there was enough force to clobber Crual. That's my descriptive intent on the force put into the attack, and is the final weigh in. Telling me I'm wrong about saying an attack my character made was less powerful than I claimed it to be in light of past feats is powerplaying. The rocks could be the size of marbles for all I care (they are likely bigger), but they do in fact have "clobbering" power. I don't say that Crual should suck at archery because a realistic bow takes a good moment to reach full draw, because you already made it obvious that it is in his capacity to fire off shots like how Bruce Lee fires off punches. Shash's tail is crazy strong, just like the rest of his body, and that does matter.

Him being potentially displaced by four inches is irrelevant because its a big "what if" variable, and there is in fact a fat wad of vaguely sized rocks cascading up his body, under his chin, under his arm, and likely upon those deadly arrows. Doesn't take perfect accuracy with those odds.