<div class="floatright">(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v181/Kittenpeeler/Mummys%20Mask/Characters/ghost%20scorpion.png)</div>With the adventurers focused on shifting the enormous wheel out of the way, and peering into what lay beyond, none noticed that the tomb had gained a new visitor... until it struck. Salimah felt a sudden impact against the back of her legs as something large seemed to pounce against them! Her scale mail proved quite functional, deflecting two of the fast strikes that came at her, but another found skin and cloth, pinching, then slicing in for a shallow cut.<br/><br/>Unable to find purchase, her quick assailant pulls back, revealing itself to be... well... probably horrifying! A scorpion the size of a small child faces Salimah, its translucent carapace revealing the network of greenish blood vessels below its surface. Its pincers are up and open, long tail arced over its back and twitching, clearly an aggressive display. The only noise it makes is a soft clicking coming from the clawlike pedipalps that form its mouth. most curious, is the irregular fleshy white mass covering its back.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">map</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v181/Kittenpeeler/Mummys%20Mask/Characters/map4.png)</div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">ooc</div><div class="spoiler_body"> Well, the scorpion had a surprise round, and even with Salimah being flat-footed <em>and</em> flanked, it only got one claw in... for one damage. The poor arachnid is gonna have a bad time, I think. Oh well, that's what it gets for being a brainless vermin!<br/><br/>Now that the surprise round has been over, on to initiative!<br/>Scorpion initiative: 18 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=73587)</div></div>