Bellicious brandishes his sword, and a bolt of glowing energy shoots out to strike the creature's head marginally wounding it.<br/><br/>START THIRD ROUND<br/><br/>The creature roars furiously as Gwahir<span style="font-style: italic">pecks</span>at it. But of you all, it's Alizome who's hurt it the worst. Alizome who was the first meal to slip from its jaws. Alizome who's still flavorful blood draws its nostrils to her scene like a bloodhound. It's jaws snap together, it is seems like they should close over the elfwoman - yet when the blinded creature's mouth pulls back, it's clear that she's trembling but unharmed, though she'd come within a heartbeat of being swallowed. It moans its frustration, and for a moment it seems almost pitiable - its far from home, and all it wanted was a tasty, rejuvenating treat. Was that so wrong?<br/><br/>For an instant is seems that it will slip down the slope<span style="font-style: italic">Swiftwind's</span>deck, and drop beneath the waves, then, its own sea-anchor bulk turns the ship broadside atop a wavs, and as she slips down into the trough between them, the weight of the dinosaur balances the slope of the wave and it takes the chance to surge yet further aboard, its tail and powerful hindflippers forcing it forward through the water, its forefins scrabbing up onto the deck. You can see the next wave rising beyond, when in moments the upward slope and the pulll of creature's bulk will work in tandem and put<span style="font-style: italic">Swiftwind</span>in very real danger of rolling.<br/><br/>Running damage total<br/>Creature 68, creature is bloodied (i.e. below half hit points)<br/>Alizome 10<br/>Xarces 22<br/>Acted Second Round: All<br/>Acted Third Round: Creature, Still to act Second Round: Everyone else