There they were!  Chess saw those bright-red bastards about the time the smell was overwhelming... so about a quarter-mile away.  Human corpses, animal corpses... they'd gone to town, the bounty must be a hefty one... and nearly a dozen!  Oh, this will be fun.. for Chess at least as she smirked a bit.<br/><br/>But there, from behind them, that sound, that sight... Chess' eyes narrowed at the sight of Demi, charging in as she was.  There was<em>no</em>way she was letting Bitch win this.  Closing her eyes for a moment, when she opened them...<em>everything</em>about her changed.  Where there was calm composure, there was now rampant bloodlust pouring fourth from her eyes, like her desire to kill had overtaken her entirely.  Indeed, she had learned long ago that she loved killing, loved fighting,<em>loved</em>feeling,seeing, smelling, tasting, and hearing the blood pouring from the deathly gashes of her foes... she may have been a half-drow, but Lolth's nature that was within the blood of every drow, the innate chaos and darkness they were all born with, flowed strongly in Chess' veins.  But she did not fear it, or ignore it as many another had; no, she had harnessed it, admitted it, and where it once may have controlled her, her training in the wilds of the underdark, and at the monastary for all those years, had let her be the one in control of it instead, even to the point that she could channel more of her drow heritage, such as her toughness against spells, into her channeling of her own bloodlust.<br/><br/>Giggling evilly, sadistically, Chess went from a flat standstill into a full-out charge, drawing and 2-handing her falcata as she ran for the nearest red Slaad, her laughter making her seem all the more psychotic as she brought her blade across with force enough to demolish most mortal men several times over.  She was going to win her little bet, and she was going to<em>enjoy</em>it while she did so, it seemed...<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">So, Charging, Raging, 2-handed PowerAttack!<br/><br/>To hit: 40 + 2 - 6 + 5r = 41, Damage: 6r + 26 + 18 = 48</div></div>