<strong>Diadra Starborn</strong><br/><br/>The death of yet another monster filled Diadra with hope for a moment, and then her lack of attention made her pay as the scorpion-creature hit her from behind.  The two claws went for her arms unerringly, trying to grab her and hold her in place while the stingers plunged into her back.  Fortunately her back-plate made both bounce off...but one bounced downward, the stinger slamming home between her leather skirt and the breastplate.  With it threatening her kidney, Diadra struggled free, fighting off the wave of nausea that accompanied the foul liquid that had been poured into her wound, shaking her head as the pain cut through her adrenalin.  But she knew better than to let it stop her.  An instant taken to whisper a soft prayer and she was on the attack once more, trying to crush the scorpion before her. "Goddess, grant me strength..."<br/><br/><em>Feringale</em>struck like a ruby serpent, the movements graceful and deadly in her hands.  Yet the creature before her was swift as well, and she was still in pain from the spores, which she could only wish she had time to remove from her body.  Three strikes at the main body of the creature went out with her hopes to kill the thing<em>quickly</em>.<br/><br/>((Take 2, heal 1.  Fort 10+11=21.  HP: 90/168, AC 23.  Power attack and 5 ft. step.  Attacks: Botch, 33 and 25.  Damage: 32, 4 fire, 4 holy and 37, 2 fire, 8 holy.))