<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Progress bars!</div><div class="spoiler_body">Goons AC 7 13/24<br/>Big Worthy (Magical) AC 3, has 12/20 HD<br/>The Ogre swipes at Irina and does 3 points of damage with a glancing blow.<br/>Mob vs Carlos...miss.<br/>Mob vs Jenny...hit for 1 point<br/>Mob vs Soph...hit for 1 point</div></div><br/><strong>Carlos</strong>, you have no problem getting back up and back into the fight, even as the many faceless mud-born minions seek to swarm you.  You're just too fast for them, flowing through their ranks like a Jeet Kun Do master dodging a clumsy amateur roller derby team.<br/><br/><strong>Irina</strong>, you think you got its attention with your blow.  No, you know you did, because it tries to stomp and grind you into the living rock!  Lucky for you, it isn't quite as fast, and you manage to get out of the way without too much in the way of pain.  It bleeds, and what it bleeds smells even worse than the outside.  Possibly toxic fluid of some sort.  As if pollution elementals were a possibility...<br/><br/><strong>Jenny</strong>, you're getting pressed pretty hard.  These guys are grabbier than a roomful of drunken Shriners!  You're still mostly okay, but this is getting ridiculous.<br/><br/><strong>Soph</strong>, the minions fall faster than their master.  It's harder to find a weak spot on this thing than you'd like.  Behind you, the woman on the altar starts cussing a blue streak...<br/><br/>"Coyote fuck it, boy, I told you to stay away from me!"<br/><br/>"Sorry, Mom.  Can't hear you when I'm rescuing people," comes the answer.  It's Alex!  Where the fuck has he been?  And why is he currently dressed like some crazy ancient Egyptian, complete with a weird curvy sword?<br/><br/>And that big swirly hole in space?  It's flickering...making a nasty popping noise every time it vanishes and again when it returns.<br/><br/>"Ny arr ruut ho tep," Alex adds, sounding amused.  "And here I thought it was his<em>name</em>."<br/><br/>