The blackness was only momentary as Gereed's body recovered from the initial shock of injury.  Fuck!  His body had been run over by a summoned Basilisk!  He was lucky that he wasn't dead!  Still, he was quite hurt.  The summoned creature must have thought him dead as it had ignored him to the point slithering right next to him....<br/><br/>Gereed had managed to maintain his grip upon his hex-crafter staff.  From it he called a loaded spell, 'mana-hemorrhage', if he could successfully touch the construct, the mana holding it together would pour out of it like an open wound.... (roll)