<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Status</div><div class="spoiler_body">AC 18   HP 83 of 83     Skirt &amp; outfit generally damaged, but armour intact.<br/>Spells remaining: 7 of 7 1st, 4 of 4 2nd, 1 of 1 from bonded object<br/>Ammunition remaining: 22 common arrows (+36 more in pack), 15 silvered, 20 cold iron, 3 Tangleshot, 1 Flare (for extraction)<br/></div></div><br/>The half-elf frowned at the silence, but continued normally - until the cry, at which point she switched to a gallop, dashing into the room then stopping, dumbstruck, at the sight.  As the archer watched, helpless, another link disappeared between the girl's lips, and her head was angled back a little further - the tableau was erotic and terrifying, as the little crafter was held by the animated chains... then the monstrous construct opened up, and Rayne found her voice again, though her shock and fear came through clearly: "Grogza!  Big... hurry!"<br/><br/>Now the half-elf raised her bow - yet how inadequate her arrows seemed, faced with such a massive iron construct!  She wavered... then dashed forward to scoop up the dropped scroll.  "Lizzy, hang on!"  The inside of the thing could have been worse - Rayne could think of few things worse than to be impaled by the mass of sharp spikes one would normally face in a device such as the thing more and more resembled.  Yet on the other hand... Lizzy may have expected death, may have encountered it here or elsewhere, though possibly not here considering how she came to be a player.  But what this thing now threatened... she was surely, utterly unprepared for.<br/><br/>Counting on Grogza to arrive, and maybe to slow the thing down, perhaps to hold Lizzy back, Rayne put her hopes in the scroll.  It worked wonderfully on the inanimate stations, she just hoped this thing resembled them enough to be susceptible.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Knowledge Arcana: 1d20a9 Result: <strong>18</strong> (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=67159)  Oh, not great.<br/></div></div>