Unfortunately, neither the words uttered nor the spell cast seem to dissuade the pack of unfamiliar provenance, the latter drawing a yelp of pain and a splattering of blood against the floor from one of the canine humanoids, but a snarl from their packmates as they reprise aggression and bloodshed with aggression and bloodshed.<br/><br/>Barking back and forth to one another the alien canines move to attack, clearly in communication but not in a tongue any of the defenders are able to decipher in the heat of the moment, each seeming to pick a target.<br/><br/>Their jaws and teeth prove far more lethal than those of the gnolls they distantly resemble, as<strong>Eidolana</strong>is first to discover, though they also draw blood from<strong>Ming-Fu</strong>and<strong>Kali </strong>as a pair of them move to flank and threaten. Among them, only<strong>Lexara</strong>'s defenses are untested, and though one of the dogfolk draws close enough to menace her, before he can get close enough to deter her, she make sure the alien that injured the dark elf gets dinged in the head with a metal platter, grabbed from a strange metal table nearby, tiny wheels at the feet of its thin legs.<br/><br/>Even the fanglord<strong>Khan</strong>'s blood is drawn, the disorientation of the strange situation preventing him from mounting his usual defense which would have fended off such an animalistic attack with ease. Another of them barrels towards<strong>Zelthos</strong>, charging the dhampir, bloodying him, but leaving his assailant open for reprisal.<br/><br/>The weak link in the chain, as it were, is the pup that tries to attack the feline aasimar Liliana, as, in his eagerness, his jaw snaps shut before his teeth find their mark.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Eidolana</strong> takes 6 damage (unless <strong>Liliana </strong>spends an immediate action to Defend Other and accepts the damage in her stead, in which case Liliana takes 6 damage in her place).<br/><br/><strong>Ming-Fu</strong> takes 7 damage.<br/><br/><strong>Kali</strong> takes 11 damage. <br/><br/><strong>Khan</strong> takes 7 damage as his shoulder roll fails.<br/><br/><strong>Zelthos</strong> takes 9 damage.</div></div>