The serpent twisted as Kass attacked, arcing over her as if to bite...but as her blade slashed a rend at a bronze joint, the metal twisted and the weight of the construct's own upper half tore the joint free. The head of the thing landed with a heavy clang, crushing bones against the stone floor. The eyes and fangs spit sparks erratically for a few seconds before, gradually fizzling out and going dark, as the coilings of the two halves subsided.<br/><br/>Aria exhaled, "Thank Tymora! That thing bit hard, and I didn't want it to get another chance!" She listened and looked around, but nothing else seemed to be moving or making noise in the tomb; in fact it was rather starkly quiet after the great metal-on-coins-or-stone movements of the thing.<br/><br/>In the treasure room, the center of the hoard now had a conspicuous, circular hole: it appeared that the thing had made a burrowing-hole through one of the cracked, soil-rather-than-worked-stone portions of the floor, and  had popped up into the chamber proper by burrowing upward.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Kass hits; construct destoryed<br/><br/>Want ya to know I really appreciate the message. Want ya to know that I don't mind such frequency gaps as long as I now the other person is still "into it" (if i think they are not it makes it harder to sustain one's interest, yaknow?) When you're not around and posting, I catch up on statting out future NPCs, heehee.<br/><br/>lol, cleavage is a good idea actually, since it would put the light source just 'along' her vision but not in her eyes (like a miner helmet light but under the face instead of over). And double lol b/c a sunrod is somewhat phallic (can't believe I never thought to use it for double entrendes - maybe it's what Lathanderi priests and paladins like to say to their lasses?).<br/>