[center][img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/210309/5689b6395b8279d1015505309adaa1f2.png[/img][/center] [indent][indent][indent][color=gray][sub][right][color=#A84B5E][b]Location:[/b][/color] The Dungeon, The City-State of Thorinn, Aetheria[/right][/sub][/color] [hr] [color=#A84B5E][i]She’s doin’ it again.[/i][/color] Rael held a cautious stance guarding the front of the bridge as Alja moved forward, rushing to fight the bat. She had hoped they’d kite the bat into their position, what with it being injured and their being gnolls at her front. Traditionally, this wouldn’t matter, but the game wasn’t acting as intended. This was clear to Rael as she followed Alja to take the left side as she took the right. Rael had gotten hit by tundra glass before. It was annoying and she rarely liked working alongside someone who built their build in such a way. Alja was a capable tank and DPS member for dungeons, though that capability seemed a lot more complicated when the shards of ice splintered like missiles. For the first time since she arrived in the dungeon Rael now understood how painful getting hit by shards of ice felt like. She weaved her head, trying to dodge what she could, but it still got her along her right shoulder and upper-arm. [color=#A84B5E]“性交!”[/color] Rael cursed. Sharp things hurt. Cold sharp things hurt [i]worse[/i]. As Rael took her free hand to remove the shard of ice, the pain remained. Hanako had never felt this kind of pain. She wasn’t an athlete who used to broken bones or mishaps. She hadn’t ever been in a car accident. This was the first time she felt genuine pain, though she had come close in the trap rooms and with the ogre. She spat blood out of her mouth and onto the bridge as Alja moved forward again with the grace of a blindfolded elephant, swing the flail backward to prop for another devastating strike. Rael had managed to get some jabs in with her spear before she got hit but nothing critical. Nothing close. The smell of bat was disgusting, too. In a flash of magic and the force of Alja’s weapon, a surge of ice appeared behind the creature, holding it still; the ice cracking from the bat’s jerking movements. Rael knew it wouldn’t hold it long and she had an idea where it was going to go when it began flapping its half-torn wings, growling in a terrible shrill as it did so. Rael gritted her teeth, [color=#A84B5E]“No.”[/color] She muttered, [color=#A84B5E]“You aren’t getting away from me.”[/color] The red-haired girl channeled magic into her legs like she had done in the first room of the dungeon. In a split second she rocketed herself into the air, gripping her spear with both hands and driving it into it’s back as it attempted to fly away. It didn’t hold. The spear’s blade ran down the bat’s flesh, nearly going right through it. Rael dangled in the air as the bat began flying into a tumble before hitting the chasm wall. As Rael caught sight of the endless void beneath her she had to wonder if she had made a mistake. She was still adjusting her playstyle to the real world consequences by the hack. Her brows furrowed as lightning magic surged around her and she turned the spear to direct the bat as best as she could. It wasn’t listening. She didn’t care. She had one shot to get the bat back on the ground and all it would take is some incentive. She blasted through her spear with lightning magic again before her own vision started to get blurry as it slammed into another chasm wall. This time she couldn’t hold onto her spear and she fell. She fell as the dire bat crashed toward the remaining gnolls. She fell towards the void. [/indent][/indent][/indent]