<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>GM POSTING</strong></span></div><br/><hr/><br/>The large crab snapped it's claws angrily into the air at those it could see speeding towards it, a challenge of the basest kind if there ever was one. First up seemingly was Valoren. The green was spotted and the creature prepared to defend itself. It did not however, expect the bout of acid to spatter across it's backside. A screech of pain that could only do a creature of the sea proud was issued from its alien mouth as the stuff slowly ate through a bit of it's shell to drip into inky blackness. Enraged, it reached up with a claw, and managed to snap it shut on the end of Valoren's tail. The speed in which the emerald had, combined with the scales saved him from having a sizable portion of the fifth limb removed. Instead, the beast only managed to rip off a section of the protective scaling. The raking of claws seemed to do next to nothing.<br/><br/>Before it could reset itself, the world seemed to go black, causing yet another screech, this time one of rage. Claws snapped wildly about, hoping to catch ahold of something alive and scaled. Utterly blind, and now in pain, the creature backed up a bit, sharp legs coming into contact with the water and sizzling harshly. It's retreat was further staggered by the beam of light.<br/><br/>Whereas the others had blindly attacked the creature thinking of it as a whole, Safiya's reasoning and tactics seemed to pay off. Like a sledge, the beam of light connected to the thinner, weaker joint where the leg met the body, and rocked the enormous body. Its first foreleg quite literally exploded from its body in a shower of inky darkness, sending the offending limb to spin off into the water.As soon as it touched the water, it seemed to lose shape and form, becoming nothing more than a dark stain in the water.<br/><br/>So effective was the attack, that the leg immediately behind it was visibly weakened as the beast sagged to one side, body sagging under its own weight and the loss of support.<br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC Comment: Aribeth</div><div class="spoiler_body"><br/>Ari, I wasn't entirely sure as to whether your character had attacked with the others or not, so it was left out of the above post. After reading your post, all I saw in there was that she followed the others into a dive, and no other actions were taken. If I missed something, I apologize, and will add it into the next GM posting.<br/></div></div>