<div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/E7QXyYp.png)</div><br/><em> "Take that thing's arms off if you can!  We'll be able to beat it far easier if it can't fight back!"</em>Zerxel cried to Bo, who simply nodded, not finding a great opening to do so.<br/><br/>Bo managed to parry and dodge most of the golem's attacks, though occasionally a blow did get through her defenses.  It seemed the golem was focusing on the dwarf, only swinging at Zerxel enough to keep her on her toes and keep the pressure off as much as possible.  That might have been a mistake however as Zerxel's blades found purchase in the golem's pottery like surface more and more often as she grew to anticipate it's pattern of attacks.  She heard Bo grunt and get knocked from her feet as a backhand struck her in her shoulder, sending her spear spinning away on the courtyard flagstone.  But Bo rolled with the blow, taking her out of the reach of the golem before standing and again calling to her spear,<strong> "Avuz otad!"</strong>which brought it to her hand.  She used it to push herself up, and away from the golem which was stomping closer, bringing it's arms up for another attack.<br/><br/>Shugar gasped as her finger stroked her slit, summoning forth the power that she had stored inside her womb, the power contained in the dogmen's seed.  Then throwing her other hand in the direction of Bo, released some of that power.<br/><br/>Bo felt bruised, possibly broken, ribs instantly feel better.  She took a deep breath and ducked under the golem's blow.  Shugar's healing had come at the exact needed moment.  She laughed in the golem's face,<strong> "It's gonnae take more than that ye poor excuse fer a piece o' crockery!"</strong>The golem came in again, and it was unclear if it had emotions and was responding to Bo's taunts, or if it was just pressing it's aggressive attack.  But it brought it's arms up in a mighty overhand smash, preparing to bring them down on the dwarf even as it stepped forwards.  Bo winked at Zerxel who was dashing around behind the sentry, slashing across where she could.<br/><br/>Bo had opened up the perfect opportunity to strike for the drow.  She yelled out<strong> "Korhaz!" </strong>again, summoning the defensive properties of her armor just as Zerxel launched inwards at the golem's back.  The golem's attack was so focused on Bo at that moment there was no way it could defend itself.  She literally launched herself at the golem, and planting a stocking clad foot on the buttocks of the golem, launched herself straight upwards, her scimitars flashing outwards, across, and back in, all in the time it took for her other foot to kick off the back of the golem's head, and launch her safely backwards away from the creature.  Left right left right left right, Zerxel's scimitars slashed out and upwards at the massive golem's, across, and back, each blow shattering hardened clay across the golem's arms.<br/><br/>She flipped over backwards mid air and landed on her feet, bringing her scimitars back to the fore, ready for the next attack.<br/><br/><hr/><div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/vAfmx1a.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Dothenburg</span><br/>Present time<br/><br/>Annata sat cross legged on her bed, the heat in the room completely forgotten as she watched the eyebots stream a truly remarkable battle.  Annata didn't have much in her life, her apartment was small, only two rooms and a tiny bathroom.  She had few friends and an occasional lover.  But the one thing she did have, and the one thing she was proud of, was a large Æthertube.  She'd saved every penny for over two years to be able to buy it.  Every day, working six days a week at the Dothenburg's academy magitech manufactury shop.  Weaving powerful enchantments until she felt like her eyes were going to burst from the constant spellwork.  But all of that saving, scrimping on things in her life, it had all been worth it to her.  Because this was the first year of the dungeon that she could watch the dungeon how she wanted, in total privacy, with no one switching the waves on her.  She could sit in her small apartment, her heavy curtains closed blocking out the meager light that filtered in through her windows, and watch on a screen so big she felt like she was there.  She'd been fascinated by the half bugbear Shugar since the outset of this year's contest.  But when Shugar had been freed by Zerxel and Bo, she started switching around the Ætherwave to watch the waves that came from the eyebots that followed those two as well.  The three of them were a very unique, very interesting party.  A dwarf, a drow, and a bugbear... it sounded like the start of a bad joke.<br/><br/>She'd masturbated furiously as the trio had gone through the sexual healing ritual, and made her breakfast while they walked through the city.  Her apartment so small and the Ætherscreen so big that it was no problem for her to keep one eye on it, listen to the contestants talk, as she made and ate a meager meal of cooked oats.  Then she was back, sitting cross legged on her bed, clad in only in panties.  They were clean, but she was running out of clean ones, she'd gotten dripping wet so much already watching Shugar's run.  It was fine, as long as she saved one clean pair for work tomorrow... god she wished she could take more time off, but everyone had gotten two days off during the start of the dungeon, and she had been lucky enough to get two additional days beyond that.  The benefit of being a hard worker and putting in for them almost a year ago.  She couldn't miss work tomorrow.<br/><br/>Thankfully she had the whole rest of the day to watch, and this combat against the clay golem was intense!<br/><br/>She held her hand over her mouth and gasped as the eyebot tracked the drow's running leap up the golem's back, and her eyes couldn't even follow the scimitars, they moved so fast.  But then she gasped for a different reason.  The golem's wounds began to glow with a bright white light.  The light flooding from it's wounds accompanied by a fine mist of murky steam.<strong>"Oh no."</strong>she muttered,<strong>"Oh it's one of those golems.... this could be bad.... oh... oh no...." </strong>Her fears were confirmed as she continued to watch, her hands wringing together hoping that this trio would be able to handle the new situation that she knew was about to happen.<br/><br/><hr/><div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/w5NFR74.png)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">The Dungeon, second floor</span><br/>Present time<br/><br/>Bo prepared to accept the double overhand smash, having called upon her magical armor, and accepting the lust that flowed through her body each time she did so.  But instead of that overhand smash coming down the golem paused.  Bo saw Zerxel flipping high into the air behind the golem, and watched as it seemed to freeze in place.  Then it began shaking.  Bo took a step back, bringing her spear at the ready.  A glowing light was coming from the wounds, the damage, that they'd caused in it's body.  Now a dark mist was steaming out from the wounds like steam from a tea kettle.  Bo took a second step back and prepared to thrust into the unmoving golem.  She could see Zerxel beyond, preparing to use the momentary lapse in the golem's movements to strike again as well.  So Bo launched forwards putting all of her weight behind the blow and driving the spearpoint into the Golem's chest.<br/><br/>At almost the same moment, Zerxel came in again, a spinning low whirlwind of steel scimitars.  Shugar's teat milk magically infusing the blades, Zerxel cut double lines through the clay golem as easily as if she were slicing through a rotting mushroom stalk.  But her blades left glowing wounds which immediately began pouring forth the murky steam.  She had only a heartbeat to begin to withdraw before the quivering golem, shaking and trembling, still frozen in place with it's arms in the air exploded.<br/><br/>In a violent explosion of noise and flying razor sharp jagged shards of pottery like clay, the golem burst from the inside out.  Both Bo and Zerxel were thrown backwards from the force of the explosion.  Bo's magical armor protected her from the razor sharp shards that flew in her direction, a yellow glow showing around her body for a moment before shattering.  But the force barrier did not protect her from the explosive force, throwing her back several feet to slam into the wall of a building at the edge of the courtyard.<br/><br/>Zerxel was not so lucky, and cried out even as she flew through the air, several shards of pottery piercing her skin.  Dozens of tiny wounds opened on the dark flesh where her enchanted lingerie did not cover.  She hit the ground and rolled with the force, rolling away from the explosion, ignoring the slivers of pottery that pressed into her skin and finding her stocking clad feet beneath her.  Then even as she was blinking her eyes to clear the after image of the explosion, she felt a wave of warm calm wash over her.  The dozens of tiny pin pricks of pain on her flesh vanished, replaced by a warmth, and a feeling of calm and serenity.  She looked over at Shugar, several feet away and injured herself from the exploding golem, but choosing to heal Zerxel first before herself.   The bugbear nodded at Zerxel, two fingers inside her own cunny as she weaved her sex magic, healing Zerxel's wounds and giving the drow a renewed sense of hope.<br/><br/>Zerxel's vision sharpened and she looked to where the golem had been, only to see a new threat standing in it's place.  Amid the ruins of the broken clay pottery stood a smaller, thinner form.  It moved with a much more liquid grace, not clunky and firm, but smooth.  She could see it's skin rippling slightly, like wet mud.  No, wet clay.  Of course this was the same creature.  In that instant Zerxel realized this was the same golem, and all they had done was shatter it's outer shell.  While the outer shell had vaguely resembled a woman, there was no doubt this was crafted in the form of a lithe, skinny, and no doubt much more agile woman.  It stretched it's clay arms and looked around, marking Bo and Zerxel as it's targets.  Zerxel could see malice flickering in it's red eyes as it glared and turned towards her preparing to charge at her.  As it took it's first step towards the drow, she could already see this incarnation of the golem was faster, much faster.<br/><br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">ooc</div><div class="spoiler_body">Round 3 went well for the party, and that's what broke apart the golem's outer shell.  However now she becomes more dangerous.<br/>So it looks like this so far:<br/>Round 1 - you hit it<br/>Round 2 - tied<br/>Round 3 - you hit it and shattered it's armor<br/>Round 4 - it is charging Zerxel and it's now your roll.  It rolled NINE successes though, so don't be afraid to use your magical items if necessary.  Or even take a 'hit' and hope for a worse roll from it on the following round.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Summary: At 2016-08-18 23:44:10, rhev (uid: 25855) rolls: 6d6 Result: 22 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=93383)<br/>Full Result: rhev rolled: 6d6 + 1 auto success<br/>Comment: Golem combat roll -<strong> round 3</strong><br/>Result: 2, 4, 1, 5, 5, 5, <br/>Total = 5<br/><br/>Summary: At 2016-08-20 21:21:12, rhev (uid: 25855) rolls: 6d6 Result: 28 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=93428)<br/>Full Result: rhev rolled: 6d6 +2 auto successes<br/>Comment: Wet Golem combat roll - round 4<br/>Result: 4, 4, 5, 4, 5, 6, <br/>Total = 9</div></div><br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Zerxel's Stats</div><div class="spoiler_body">Zerxel's Stats<br/>Attributes:       Traits:                  Hits:<br/>3: Body               Acrobatic          0<br/>4: Mind               Calculating         0<br/>3: Soul                Diplomatic         0<br/>2: Minimum Lust       <br/><strong>2</strong>: Current lust<br/><br/>    Skills<br/>2:       Swordswoman<br/>1:       Rogue<br/>1:       Dark Elf<br/>1:       Mage<br/>1:       Seductress<br/>1:       Fiendish Corruption<br/>    <br/><br/>Current items of note;<br/>Compass / watch<br/>Two plain but sturdy scimitars<br/>Zerxel's Enchanted Lingerie<br/>Pale amethyst nipple rings of protection<br/>Two small meals<br/>Map of level 2<br/>Healing potion<br/>Brace of throwing knives<br/><br/><br/>Current spell effects;<br/> <strong>Shugar's "Blessing"</strong><br/>As long as a bit of Shugar's juices remain on Zerxel's skin, and they are within line of sight of each other, Zerxel gains one automatic success on any roll.  This blessing will fade in time unless 'reapplied.' <br/><br/>See the OOC thread (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=234676.msg11913405#msg11913405) for further details</div></div>