Cheerwind,<div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">another option is to use flight.  Can you think of anyone who might be able to help?</div></div></div><br/><br/>On board the ship, while the technomancer crew is moving on to the next repair<div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">(presumably the shields, main engine or propulsion units)</div></div></div>a 6 ft tall praying mantis woman, with compound eyes and four mantis clawed limbs greets the news that weapons are back online with a smile "That's my cue".  She sits at the weapon command console.  "Somebody warn our allies on the beach not to look at the ship or the lasers could blind them!"   "Yes officer Vaath, I'll warn Mneta immediately!"   Vaath pauses and pushes buttons, adjusting the weapons while they make the announcement.  "Power to forward lasers, set focus to wide, set intensity to 90 percent, make sure turret has good range of motion..." she mutters to herself.<br/><br/>Over her com badge Mneta got the warning "Ships lasers are online, repeat ships lasers online, LOOK AWAY FROM THE SHIP, anyone who looks at the lasers risks blindness!"<br/>Mneta pushes the 'talk' button on her communicator "Copy That! (com off) EVERYONE LOOK AT THE OCEAN"  She turns around her self, listening for the attackers. "PASS IT ON, DON'T LOOK AT THE SHIP OR YOU'LL GO BLIND, LOOK AT THE OCEAN, TELL EVERY LANGUAGE TO LOOK AT THE OCEAN!"  She then speaks in Millerite (space goblins) as her allies start turning away.  "DON'T LOOK AT THE AIRSHIP, IT IS FORBIDDEN TO LOOK AT THE METAL SHIP!"  Hearing it in their own language, about 10% of the goblins in earshot turn and look at the ship.<br/><br/>"Officer Vaath, it looks like our allies have turned, but they're being attacked!"<br/>"Then lets draw a line in the sand."  Vaath aims between the goblins and the allies on the beach, aiming for dryer sand.<br/><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">VreeVreeVreeVreeVree...</span></span>screams the ships laser as the continuous beam is focused in a swath about 20 feet wide, but the brightness looks like the sun behind those who are looking to sea.<br/>(GORE WARNING)<br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">Those looking toward the ship scream as the brightness blinds them.  Vaath sweeps the beam across the beach.  Within the 20 ft path the goblins burst into flame, their blackened skeletons falling into the molten glass the sand has become, like insects in amber.</div></div></div><br/><br/>Soon, the few surviving goblins are either blind or trapped between the beach and their enemies, retreat impossible through a 20 ft wide swath of molten glass.<br/><br/>Vaath stops firing, and pivots the gun turrets toward the landward goblins.  Any drow with teleport spells on the beach immediately disappear.  The four male and two female drow left behind, join the remaining 30 goblins and 15 orcs in dropping their weapons, falling to their knees, surrendering and begging for mercy.<br/><br/>Witnesses on the cliff spread the word and soon, the nine drow who can teleport are gone with the drider.  The remaining 7 (4 m, 3 f) begin retreating to the cliffs, away from Thava's troops.  "Retreat", they command, and the enemy tries to escape the battlefield.