<strong>The Wilds of Dra Sirdu - The Twisted Garden</strong><br/><br/>While it might be large, menacing and encrusted with fungus, the creature wasn't particularly intelligent, and it snapped eagerly at the proffered poignard. Failing to get much purchase on the metal, it merely wrenched Aeryn's arms with its movements, rather than wrenching the sword from her grasp. Tussling with the giant arachnid, however, was fairly tiring, while it only seemed more active and invigorated by the odd tug-o-war. And, worse still, it quickly grew irritated with its inability to get ahold of the pokey object and gave up. It shook itself (and the unfortunate scholar still stuck to its underbelly) vigorously and turned towards the approaching elf warrior. She would now have to face its<em>Predatory Irritation</em>.<br/><br/>If anything, irritation was too mild a word to describe the thing's frenzied charge towards Eshalu. It did everything in its power: biting madly, then battering and flailing with its immense legs. However, its fury made it<em>Careless</em>, allowing her to score a glancing blow which dislodged some of the fungus plating its back and lightly scored its carapace. She'd likely have another opportunity to strike it before it withdrew.<br/><br/>As it scuttled away, Reliyian's sorcerously manipulated plants rose up to entangle and wrangle it, but it moved too swiftly, trampling some greenery and entirely avoiding others. Another tack would be needed here.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body"><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Physique (+5/Superb) roll defending against Eshalu's attack, resulting in a tie (due to her invocation of Cairn Warder and associated expenditure of a fate point), which grants both a negative boost (<em>Carelessness</em>) to the spider and takes the spider's first stress box: At 2013-05-22 11:54:22, Fungus Spider (uid: 13420) rolls: 4d3a-3 Result: 5 (http://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=46520)</li><li>Athletics (+3/Good) roll defending against Reliyian's create advantage, resulting in success for the spider: At 2013-05-22 11:55:40, Fungus Spider (uid: 13420) rolls: 4d3a-5 Result: 2 (http://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=46522)</li><li>Attack against Eshalu, using Fighting (+3/Good). Invokes both Eshalu's <em>Fading Cacophony</em> boost and its own <em>Predatory Irritation</em> boost, for a net of for a net of 8 incoming stress: At 2013-05-22 11:54:42, Fungus Spider (uid: 13420) rolls: 4d3a-5 Result: 4 (http://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=46521)</li></ul><br/>So, to clarify, the spider has two stunts based on its +5/Suberb Physique: <em>Fungal Bulwark</em> allows it to defend against physical attacks with its Physique, though it takes a point of stress, in addition to granting a boost, on a tie (this is extremely similar to and inspired by the Take the Blow stunt, pp. 119 Fate Core). As we saw above, it also deals a single point of stress when it gains a success with style on a create advantage roll due to its <em>Dangerous Bulk</em> stunt.<br/></div></div>