Docus grinned at the result of their handiwork and tapped into the power again. Three dingos were threatening Argath; he hoped they could even those odds before his newfound ally (?) was mauled to death. So fire at was...

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Fire on dingo 3

As he tried to defend himself from the retaliating Dingo, the weight of Prasad's unlucky roll came over him and Argath winced in pain as the beast's teeth tore into the arm he raised to defend himself. He shook his arm to throw the beast off, but the damage was done, his arm was bleeding heavily.

Smelling fresh blood, the two remaining Dingos as well as the one that attacked him surrounded him. It did not look good at all. He couldn't reliably jump the ones in front of him, so he'd have to try to get another one and trust his allies to hold their own. Prasad was helping Jade with her Dingo, and Caspin ate the wounded one alive, leaving... crap.

It was either attack Vera's Dingo or get mauled by his three Dingoes. He was seriously considering getting mauled.

With a growl, he drew on his training and jumped with unnatural strength into the air, a flying arc of blood following in his wake. Soon, his upward momentum gave way and he fell, spear first, at the Dingo threatening Vera.

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Jump on Dingo 2.

As the mages began their spells, Argath, realizing he was outnumbered launched himself in the air, leaving the dingos near him momentarily unsure of what to do. However, after a moment they made their decision, breaking off, each charging toward different combatants. Two of them charging toward the mages, while another leapt to the defense of the wild dog closest to Jade, whom had just felt the taste of her steel, and the bite of Prasad's bullets, and was barely able to continue to stand.

Vera's blade, too, found purchase in the flesh of the dingo who had been facing her, her blade cutting deep across its ribs as she dodged out of the way of another attack.

As the injured Dingo before Jade balled up and prepared to pounce, however, a horrible roar shook the area, and from the trees came charging a great skinless ape, its muscles glistening with the sickly shine of naked muscle, all except its arms. The left being covered entirely in rock, while the right was covered entirely in crystals. It's large hand wrapped about the dingo about to leap toward the warrior woman, and lifted the squirming, yelping dog to its mouth. As its teeth sank into flesh, the dog's body turned to stone, rocks which crumbled from the Udrafresk's massive jaws as cookie crumbs might fall from that of a young child.

Turning toward the group it roared just as Fie's magic was released, but he felt his spell pulled away from himself, and away from the target, the careful weave of magic unraveling and being drawn into the Udrafresk's right arm, even as it was released. Luckily, Docus's spell found itself able to escape burning the creature he targetted quite badly, even as Argath's spear tore through the Dingo before Vera with deadly accuracy.
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PC Round 2, Cont.


Prasad - 14 damage Dingo 1

Vera - 11 Damage Dingo 2

Jade - 13 Damage Dingo 1


Dingo 1 - 8/45 hp.

Dingo 2 - 30/45 hp

Dingo 3- 37/45 hp

Dingo 4- DEAD!

Argath- 14/25

Caspin- 17/23

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NPC Round 2,


Dingos 3 and 5 short range from Fie, Prasad, and Docus. Dingo 6 Short range from Jade.

Udrafresk Short Range from Jade.

Dingo 1 - DEAD!

Dingo 2 - 35/45

Dingo 3 - 43/45

Dingo 5 - 45/45

Dingo 6 - 45/45

Udrafresk - ???/???

Udrafresk Right Arm - ??/??

Udrafresk Left Arm - ??/??

Argath- 14/25

Caspin- 17/23

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PC Round 3

Fie - 0 Damage.

Docus - 25 Damage, Dingo 3

Argath - 21 Damage, Dingo 1

Argath Short Range from Dingo 2.

Dingo 1 - DEAD!

Dingo 2 - 14/45

Dingo 3 - 18/45

Dingo 5 - 45/45

Dingo 6 - 45/45

Udrafresk - ???/???

Udrafresk Right Arm - ??/??

Udrafresk Left Arm - ??/??

Argath- 14/25

Caspin- 17/23

Prasad drew his pistols and took aim at the dingo growling hungrily at Jade, "Hey sword girl, incoming bullets!"

Jade glanced his way with a flash of green eyes and an eager smile and then pulled back her heavy sword. One hand on the hilt and the other steadying the blade, she used the flat of the blade as an imprompt shield for her upper body.

"Hey dingo, DIE!" she shouted, following up the Moogle's kuporiffic shot with a crushing blow from her Buster Sword.

The dingo was on its last legs, and then suddenly it had no legs at all.

Jade's response to having her enemy snatched away, petrified and then messily devoured by a fiend could only be summarised as a mad grin.

"Ahahahah! You're here!" she cried eagerly. She stared into the beast's sunken eyes, ears twitching with glee. "Prepare to be beaten to pulp!"

The tall warrior swivelled suddenly, sighting on the dingo slinking up to attack her. "Out of my way, mutt!" Jade took a step forward, stomping one heavily armoured foot into the ground and chopped down at it with an abrupt, truncated strike.

OOC: Attack Dingo 6.

"Bad day bad day bad day bad day..."

Fortune was clearly not smiling upon Prasad as he watched their bounty leap onto the scene and devour the dingo he'd been targeting a moment earlier. What his party needed was a plan, someone to step forward and take charge, organizing and executing a brilliant strategy and leading them all to victory. That person, that born leader... sure as hell wasn't him.

Seeing two of the dingos coming toward him and the mages, he pivoted around around and unloaded his guns into one at close range, hoping he could find an opportunity to put some distance between himself and the monster lest he himself risk becoming that thing's next meal.

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Attack Dingo 3.

It turns out the born leader wasn't Caspin either, mostly because this scene was a brick shithouse that no one besides the most cunning could organize into something reasonable. So he decided that there was only one real thing he could hope for and ran away. Not all the way away, but he wanted to make sure he could strike at the big bad ape with the same kind of impunity he had shown Argath the other day. That was the power of his only spell, range. He could hit a fly a mile away if he had the telescope to see it with.

And he didn't need any help seeing this big creep.
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Caspin moves to Long range.

Well, that didn't take very long. The Udrafresk arrived and ate a dingo that was threatening Jade. Argath just gave his shitkicking grin. This was going to be fun.

With the Fresk around, some of the dingoes would run away if they had any survival instinct in them, so hopefully he wouldn't have to worry much about the fact that the two Taruts and the Moogle were currently surrounded. Still, it would probably be a good idea to take care of them. "Incapacitate the Dingoes if you can, but don't worry about killing them! The mark will do that for us." He yelled to his allies.

Shitkicking grin still on, he jumped again, flying arc of blood trailing once again, at the motherfucker.

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Jump on Udrafresk's right arm. The magic-absorbing one.

The ground shook as the Udrafresk came through the trees, but Vera had her own Dingo to deal with first.

Vera blinked with surprise as a spear suddenly came down into the Dingo she had been fighting, belonging to none other than Argath.

"Nice shot, Boy." She smirked at him. In the adrenaline high, that might have actually have been a genuine compliment. She lashed forward with her own knife, trying to take down that Dingo, they had bigger fish to fry.

'Turning toward the group it roared just as Fie's magic was released, but he felt his spell pulled away from himself, and away from the target, the careful weave of magic unraveling and being drawn into the Udrafresk's right arm.'

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"Well, there goes that option." Between the Udrafresk's arm and the dingos nearby, it would be nigh impossible to get a spell off, but he wasn't about to retreat. One of them was wounded, and already the moogle had taken aim.

Fie turned to face a creature over twice his size and drew back his staff, ready to put all of his marginal strength into the best thwack he could manage.

"Tarut's not on the menu!"

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Bitchstick Attack on Dingo 3

Another Dingo closing in on Jade stopped to watch the nearby Udrafresk devour its compatriart. One couldn't be certain what the creature was thinking, or if it even was thinking, but Jade's blade ripping through its flesh awoke it from its reverie and sent it charging at the nearby warrior, it's teeth tearing into the flesh of her leg before she could extricate it from her body.

Meanwhile, Prasad fired his guns into one of the wild dogs closest to him, it's body barely moving forward as Fie cracked smashed his staff into its skull, finishing the poor beast off.

The dingo near Vera, didn't fare much better, as her knife cut through it's flesh like butter, leaving it bleeding and wounded, even as Argath leapt away once more, receiving her compliment, or was it a taunt?, on the move. Perhaps she shouldn't have taken her mind off the fight long enough to throw words, however, as she found the wounded creature's claw swiping across her midsection, leaving a deep and painful, wound.

The last dingo, by the mages, however, being currently unthreatened, charged forward, toward the Udrafresk. Perhaps it felt they were the greatest threat? The Udrafresk, for its part, was happy to return the favor... or perhaps he was charging toward the mages whose spells his arm had absorbed? Either way the two neared eachother quite rapidly.

Docus, however, his target slain, had turned his magical attentions to another Dingo, but as the fire prepared to leave his fingertips, once more, the spell unraveled and he found his spell being drawn into the monster's right arm once more, just before Argath's spear fell on it with shattering force, eliciting a roar of pain from the creature, its eyes turning, hatefully, toward the Dragoon.



PC Round 3, Cont.

Jade- 15 Damage, Dingo 6

Prasad - 20 Damage, Dingo 3

Vera - 9 Damage, Dingo 2

Fie - Kills Dingo 3.

Dingo 2 - 5/45

Dingo 3 - BITCH STICK'D

Dingo 5 - 45/45

Dingo 6 - 30/45

Udrafresk - ???/???

Udrafresk Right Arm - ??/??

Udrafresk Left Arm - ??/??

Argath- 14/25

Caspin- 17/23

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NPC ROUND 3

Dingo 6- 8 Damage, Jade

Dingo 2- 11 Damage, Vera

Udrafresk- Short Range from Jade, Docus, Prasad, and Fie. And Dingo 5. Medium range from Caspin.

Dingo 2 - 10/45

Dingo 3 - BITCH STICK'D

Dingo 5 - 45/45

Dingo 6 - 35/45

Udrafresk - ???/???

Udrafresk Right Arm - ??/??

Udrafresk Left Arm - ??/??

Vera- 12/23

Jade- 19/27

Argath- 14/25

Caspin- 17/23

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PC Round 4

Argath- 22 Damage, Udrafresk Right Arm.

Docus- 0 Damage, anyone.

Udrafresk- Short Range from Jade, Docus, Prasad, and Fie. And Dingo 5.

Dingo 2 - 10/45

Dingo 5 - 45/45

Dingo 6 - 35/45

Udrafresk - ???/???

Udrafresk Right Arm- (-23)/?? (still alive)

Udrafresk Left Arm - ??/??

Vera- 12/23

Jade- 19/27

Argath- 14/25

Caspin- 17/23