<em>Your HP is defined by three stats.  Well, two stats and one attribute: Soul, Body, and Tough.  If you want higher HP, you change one of those.  BESM doesn't have "levels" at all-- you just gain more points to spend.</em><br/><br/>The sound of Jude's chanting echoed throughout the room again.  This time, the words seemed more...gentle, for lack of a better word.  Joe felt the mage's power at work less than ten meters beneath him.<br/><em>Healing Attribute used.  Dang, I'm beginning to realize just how painful it is to have only one action per turn.</em><br/><br/>The demon in the middle of the platform spoke.  "I grow tired of these petty games!  You who writhe in darkness, bestir yourselves.  I command it-- FEAST!"  The ring in the center of the platform blazed up again; Joe could feel the demonic energies acting.  In its flickering light, the (uninjured) demon's body was clearly illuminated.  It was still only out of the portal from the waist up.  But more importantly...<br/><br/>The shadows inside the ring seemed to bubble and froth.  Slowly, they took on definition.  A writhing pack of what could only be called "Hollywood Monster Leeches" began to form.  Their bodies were solid black, but their tips opened to reveal circular mouths lined with impossibly long, glittering teeth.  Any normal creature with a mouth like that would slice itself up the minute it closed, but these appeared uninjured...  And hungry.  They began to inch forwards across the ground, spreading outwards in a black ring like some hideous oil spill.  As they moved away from the fire's light (which barely penetrated the darkness at all), only their glittering teeth and the demonic taint that surrounded them like an aura gave away their position.  The demon laughed and laughed.<br/><br/><em>This turn, they move to fill the area in a 3 meter radius around the portal.  The portal's radius is 1 meter.  Joe is 55 meters from the edge, so he's 1 meter from the ring.  As far as I can tell, everyone else is near the disk's edge and not in any danger at all.  If you were near the demon, though, let me know and I'll make the appropriate rolls.</em>