[quote=@Nimda]
<Snipped quote by Realmatic>

*Quickly draws a rune in the air with my finger and a small dab of gray paint, creating another wall between the creature and myself*
...
*Mixes the gray with a small drop of deep blue and creates a more elaborate series of symbols, each of which is surrounded by a circle, which obscures the vision of everyone in the room with inky darkness*
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*The creature bats your hand out of whack while you make the first rune; its other hand shoots a thin, concentrated beam of destructive energy at your chest; looks for the rune causing the wall*
*The device clatters to the ground, unattended*