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[color=FAEBD7][color=ffdead][i]Out of the frying pan and into the fire.[/i][/color] The stray thought inserted itself into Jocasta's head and she couldn't help but think it, even as she drew desperately to nearly her full capacity before Zarina stepped through and took the rest. Ayla was through moments later and using some sort of sonic spell that - surprisingly - Jocasta was not familiar with. 

They were on a rocky plateau in the middle of a wide canyon, surrounded by sand on all sides and there was a creature as big as a building in their faces. The lone tethered in the group had not landed evenly. She could feel her wheelchair dangerously askew, but she had come here for precisely one reason: to get Escarra and his people out.

[color=ffdead]"Cover me!"[/color] Jocasta shouted, unable to move without using magic but already pulling on the threads of space and time to get a portal up and the rangers out. Yet, it seemed Ayla was already on the case. Whatever she had cast moments earlier seemed to have... distracted the colossal dragon.

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The sand wyrm was going to eat, and it was happy! The weather was good, its prey seemed utterly unable to harm it or at least uninterested in doing so, and it was going to eat! On some level, the wrongness of the entire situation struck the creature's simple mind, but now it was here and... it was not actually hungry. It had been frightened by the dark thing and fled, but then there had been an easy snack, and now the snack was shooting at it and... wait. Why did it want to eat these little humans again? Humans weren't even that tasty!

The enormous beast paused and regarded the pesky things stinging it with bullets and magics. They were rather appealing and colourful, actually, and it could tell that one was from the strange red stone where they rolled instead of walked. It decided that it was rather fond of them, in fact. Now, the dark thing, it definitely [i]wasn't[/i]. That was both paradoxically delicious-looking and terrifying. Perhaps these human-creatures were also not fond of the dark thing. So, only a couple feet in front of them, the Royal Sand Wyrm tilted its head to one side and issued a [url=https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxMrNlHVnNIEFB0dWVghCzUoWdf2UNdQuc]friendly greeting[/url], seeing how the tiny animals would respond. They still looked somewhat tasty... 

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She was almost there. [color=ffdead]"Warden!"[/color] Jocasta called, [color=ffdead]"To me!"[/color] The wyrm was acting strangely but she didn't have the luxury of worrying too much about it unless it was attacking. Escarra and the others scrambled around the rock face, ready to dive through the moment that the portal was active. [color=a36209]"Momento!"[/color] the warden called. [color=a36209]"The dragon! He is -"[/color] Then, there was the flash of another portal and, from it, erupted Desmond, Tku, Fiske, Evander, and... Benedetto. The last of the group wasted no time whatsoever, ready to launch an atomic blast at the monster's face. [color=00a99d]"Eat shit, Worm! The [i]cavalry[/i] is here!"[/color]

They had mere moments to gauge the situation and make a decision. Would it be fight or flight? Dragon breaks, dragon steaks, or how to tame your dragon?[/color]

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[hider=Action Opportunities]Welcome to our brief chapter two of Primitive: Fight or Flight. You can find some action opportunities below. 
1) Anything you notice? Any interactions?

2) This is all about your decision. If we choose not to fight, things can proceed rather quickly, with a potential large boon and some information gathering. If we fight the Sand Wyrm, then we'll play that combat out and potential rewards will be disbursed if you succeed (warning that this is a very dangerous fight).
 
3) Either way, please coordinate over discord.

4) If we get some quick responses, this will act as a mini-chapter and I'll have an update up later this weekend.[/hider]