[IC] Yami and Doc vs Cruallassar and Lunar

[Lunarlord34]

James seemingly managed to once again break free from the shadows. He stumbled and rolled on the ground as he looked up in a daze. He had no idea where he was, last time he had checked he was in the forest. Now he was in a strange cave-like system. Several runes on his sword lit up as he gripped his sword tightly.

[Cruallassar]

The Ranger materialized. The Ranger loosed the three arrows at his enemy. The Ranger got hit with a net full of rock shards that he barely saw before they hit him.
Nothing could have stopped him from firing the arrows. He came out of materialization with them already most of the way to firing, and since he could draw and loose an arrow accurately within the blink of an eye...literally...even without the speed enchantment he had never quite relaxed all the way, due to the constant unexpected needs of it, not even the monster's cunning attack could have prevented the shot in time, nor impeded it from the low angle from which the attack came from.
But without his speed enchantment at at least half strength, or his regular keen sight to spot the creature's attack before it hit, he could not react to the whip-crack net in time. It was to his good fortune that it was not a more deadly strike. The stone-encrusted strands of the net flicked up and at him, though luckily the armor plates on his forearms and lower legs protected those parts of his body from the assault. His arm also protected his face, being as it was outstretched to fire the shot from the bow, upon which his grip is maintained...losing one's grip on their weapon merely from a surprise impact is a short road to a grave. However, his unprotected left thigh, torso, and upper arm are hit hard, the chunks and shards of rock stinging, scraping, and at some points tearing through the light, though sturdy, cloth and into the vulnerable skin below, eliciting a grunt of surprise and pain from the elf. Scarcely had a drop of blood hit the ground though, before the Ranger turned ethereal once again, the shadows of his form swishing into the wall as he had previously planned. His left side is wounded, with bruises, cuts and scratches lining it...but other than the pain, he is largely unimpaired, though he will be slower and have less use of that side.

[Doc Doctor]

Seeing as the monster planned its assault to coincide with the ranger's appearance and not his immediate firing thereafter, hence the premeditation and measures taken to do so, and as the it was not a complete oaf that screwed up timing or was subject to space/time fluxes, chances are the unseen blow would, as heavily intended, fuck shit up. It was quite fast itself, and made up for any shortcomings with timing. That is to say, should any other practical form of physical retaliation exist short of nuking the elf's tent as he's sleeping, this would be it.

Furthermore, considering that a five foot flail is nothing to scratch at, and how the one the ranger was being subject to was attached to twelve feet of pure muscle at the end of which resides a thousand year old beast which literally sleeps on a mountain of skeletons, well... Not a deadly strike to an elite reality warping ranger, but certainly one which could extinguish most mortal creatures and dreadfully wound those that survived, hence the previous expression of it being powerful enough to "absolutely clobber" the target. Armor would do little good, especially since the ranger's arm would not protect him. The attack was an uppercut, and his arm would obviously not be underneath his chin. It had not come at him from the left as would have been most convenient indeed, but from directly below.