An idea... Zook just needed an idea. It had been over two years since Zook had been in a fight. He looked to the whip at his side. No, that is not where he should start. No gnome came out ahead trying to cause direct harm. Gnomes come out ahead by knowing what their opponent doesn't know. His eyes darted left and right. He couldn't just run for it. Not without finding out what was worth killing the man over. However...<br/><br/>Zook had allies... Allies that are stronger than him, but maybe not as clever. Zook could make use of them. However, first he'd have to convince them that they had a chance of surviving. Zook noticed the effects from his prestidigitation spell still blocking the rain around the corpse that now sat behind the warforged. Zook had his idea.<br/><br/>Zook mimicked casting a spell. He uttered mystic words. He made sweeping arm movements that he accompanied with color changes and glows and tiny illusions of a star-filled night sky that he provided with his prestidigitation spell. Zook needed to make this seem like a big spell as he directed his prestidigitation magic to block the rain more than 10 feet above him. He shaped this blocked area as a large cylinder. He proceeded to draw a line of rain-blocking magic from the spot above to the ground below. With luck, it would look like a gigantic invisible hammer was there, but just to make sure, Zoom tried to give it a slight glow with prestidigitation. Zook made a show of pushing against the nonexistent handle before moving the areas of blocked rain accordingly.<br/><br/>The top came down next to the warforged silently as Zook quickly dried the area and dirtied it up with some soot made in the shape of some cracks. Hopefully, the warforged would be the slightest bit unnerved as it thought it was almost hit by a giant invisible hammer or Zook's allies would feel a bit braver under the belief that just maybe the gnome behind them was a powerful magic user. Either way, Zook would have to switch to the blocked rain being limited to the cracked-shaped soot to prevent anyone from finding out too soon that there was actually nothing solid there.<br/><br/>Now, Zook would draw his whip.