<span style="font-style: italic">[Glad you appreciated my little abomination ^^ (Definitely Slaaneshi - I love the visual concept for Slaanesh demons). <br/>Anyway, a little note about the rules for everyone: Every time you post you're making one "complex action" or "sequence of actions" or, anyway, playing a part of a scene. In any case, you have to make <span style="font-weight: bold">only one roll</span> - the result will be relevant for every part of your actions. The actual result for each action will be influenced by your attributes and situational bonuses; in addition, if you have to take several different action, I'll interpret from your post if any of them take a greater part of your focus. The roll is not meant just to represent the degree of success of a single action - it represent how well you handle the set of actions you're trying to accomplish, as a whole; also, what your opponents will be able to do as a response depends of your descriptions and result.]</span><br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold"><br/>Jules, Salla, Alyssa</span><br/>The thing greets the swordswoman's assault with another, strangely musical shriek - it sounds like the most talented singer has accurately articulated the most atrocious of cacophonies. It would be enough to break anyone's nerves and concentration, but Salla's furious determination is steely, her concentration flawless.<br/>The duel that ensues is quite a sight, an intricate and spectacular ballet of steel and flesh. Salla leaps and slashes, her strikes quick and precise, her next move always unpredictable, her feints and dodges flawless; but the monster, it moves with unbelievable swiftness. Swaying, oscillating, shuddering, it always manages to contort just in time to avoid the next blow, and to retaliate with sudden lashings of its pronged tail.<br/>The fight is at a very dynamic stalemate - every blow gets parried, deviated or dodged with no effect, in a terribly fast-paced sequence of exchanges...<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Alyssa</span>: You manage to clean off some of the slimy substance, and even if most of it is still covering you - this isn't gonna<span style="font-style: italic">stop </span>you. You're good at overwhelming hindrances, after all - just the time to get used on the weight and encumberance, and you're ready to shoot. The problem is - the speed of the fighters gives you few chances for a good clear shot. Three times you shoot - the first misses as the creature surges towards Salla; the second only scratches its pale hide, but seemingly the distraction provided has assisted Salla in avoiding the next slashing attack from the monster; and the third - what the creature did at the third left you speechless - contorcing with swift certainty, it manages to avoid both your arrow and Salla's slash simultaneously. And it immediately retaliates - in a matter of mere moments, while dodging another quickly paced attack from the quarter-elf, a monstrously long and pointy tongue darts from the bizarre head, elongating for more than fifteen feet to reach you, wrapping around your neck.<br/>In the very moment it touches you, a deranged and somehow alluring voice explodes echoing inside your head:<span style="font-style: italic"><span style="color: #BF0080">Tassssshsty! TAAASsssssh-TY! Come here!</span></span><br/><br/>(<span style="font-weight: bold">Jules, Eilnear</span>- I'm sorry but I desperately need to rest now - I've been trying to write down your parts too but it's not working well. To disclose you a little bit - Jules, you got even more struck as the sticky mass has enveloped your hands too and glued to your chest; and Eilnear ... Well, you're not gonna die already, but you definitely got some serious hex on your dice rolls<img alt="8O" src="./images/smilies/icon_eek.gif" title="Shocked"/>you must have angered some nasty deity for that!)