((Ref: 8.))<br/><br/>The creature howled in pain as his flame washed over it, then<em>kept</em>howling, as a combination of a blade driving into its back, and the crack of the pistol shot strike it additional times. "Fuck's sake, watch that fire!" Akiros called, clipping the creature again, as it darted away, fleeing from the pack of adventurers, and scrambling straight up the nearby cliff face, leaping deftly between tiny footholds in the rock, barely avoiding Korima's rock slamming into the wall, just as it leaps away, fleeing as quickly as it can.