"Hrmm... A ritual perhaps? Maybe something trying to cast magic? I always thought the magical properties were in blood however, not skin... I don't know, the more I learn, the less I am sure of what this is..." Charles mused.

While the Search and Destroy team sat around discussing things about the monster near it's food in the middle of the night, the creature had spotted them.

In a single leap, the monster jumped fifty yards and landed directly in the center of the group.

None but Vincent could make out the monster in the darkness of the night. It appeared to be a large, humanoid creature, but was pitch black. It had four legs that held it's body five feet above the ground. It's torso was large and about three feet long, with two arms sticking out of the sides. The right arm looked like a claw, while the left looked almost human, but the wrist was extremely large. It's head was impossible to make out in the night. Behind the creature, a long tail dragged behind it (Tail is no where near 7 feet wide).

With a loud screech, the thing lundged towards Blair.

OOC: Detials are poor because none of you can really see it, just some outlines in the darkness.

"YAAAAAAA!" Charles yelled. He fumbled in his jacket and pulled his pistol out, pointing with a shakey hand in the direction of the loud thump. Then there was a screech, and he saw the massive form move forward. He shot blindly at it, hoping to hit it with mass of fire instead of any accuracy, as he back away from this beast.

Ben whipped his Shotgun around with his right hand, taking aim as he popped a flare on his leg, tossing it beneath the creature and illuminating the 10 feet around it.
watch your ass!
He pulled the trigger twice, the semiautomatic action of the weapon sending two explosive loaded slugs into the upper torso of the beast before he hopped back, out of the reach of its arms and tail

As the flair landed beneath the creature, it's tail bent below him and wrapped it's large mitten like tail head around it, then tossed it back. However, before the flare was gone, it was noticable that the creature was pure black and had small spikes all over it's body.

The pistol shots that actually hit the creature harmlessly bounced off of it's torso and one of his legs. The first shotgun slug missed, but the second one hit the creature in the torso. It stumbled back from the side of the hit, but after a moment it turned and lept at Ben.

Seemlessly, Blair swapped his normal slug for his explosive rounds.

He took aim, and dropped two clips into its back, tiny explosions marking where each it.

"Crap, I need to get a bigger gun one of these days!" Charles said, noticing the bullets bouncing off the things hide. The clip was empty, so he ejected it and put a new one in as more of a reflex then anything else. The hard hide would be immune to normal bullets, so it was Armor-Piercing all the way with this thing. "Use Armor-Piercing or Explosive rounds, it's hide is too thick for anything else to penetrate!" He began to get back out of the way, but stayed close enough that he could hollar advise, and keep an eye on the monster and the battle in general.

The explosives that hit the creatures back just shot it at Ben faster. However, this was faster then the creature expected, so it rammed right into Ben, then rolled off of him several feet away. It slowly started to get itself back up, unharmed it seemed.

Ben however was cut all over by the spikes on the creature.

Harrison stumbled back, ducked behind the others, and sorted frantically through his items.

"I'm not sure how much I can do without knowing what this thing is!"