"Damn!" She cursed as she felt the hot flash of pain across her midsection. She had been careless. The dingo was hurt, but it got her pretty badly. Hot blood spilled out of the wound, but there was more to worry about right away, namely, making sure that Dingo didn't get another hit on her.

"I might need some help over here-" She called out to those nearby. She gripped her knife tightly as she jabbed it forward, intent on taking out the Dingo. Hopefully if she didn't kill it, one of her party members would help finish it off.

Argath's spear found its mark as he tore right through the Udrafresk's right arm. Unfortunately, this caused the creature to round on him, looking pissed as hell. Crap, this may not have been such a good idea after all.

"I'll keep it busy! Just take out the dingoes!" He yelled. With an unearthly roar, he jumped into the air again. He only had enough energy for this last jump, and he was putting everything he had into it.

"Chew on this, beastie!"

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Jump right arm again.

The dingo counterattacked Jade, sinking its teeth into her armour plated right leg and gnawing furiously.

"Revenge!" Jade snarled, reversing her grip on her sword and putting her free hand on the pommel to strike at the decayed looking dog with an awkward downward stab.

The urdafresk was getting away. Intolerable!

OOC: Attack dingo 6 again.

His bullets quite immediately dropping the dingo before him to the ground, Prasad breathed a sigh of relief that itself was cut short as the tarut white mage next to him came out of nowhere with a well-timed crack to the dingo's skull with his staff, killing it instantly.

"Now that's what I call white magic!" the moogle grinned as his new tiny bro, eyes shifting about to find his next target. The other dingo that had been attacking them now appeared to be moving to defend his pack from the udrafresk, which is good because Prasad pretty much hated all dingos at this point so a completely suicidal one was fine with him.

What he didn't like was that the udrafresk was now within grabbing range of him, but hopefully he could count on the monster being distracted enough by pretty much every other thing currently going on to risk having it lay a finger on his pom-pom. That left two other threats: the dingo attacking the thief and the dingo attacking the warrior.

Two damsels in distress, only enough suave-ass moogle around to save one. But which one? Suddenly, a plan emerged!

"Hey, kupo over to Knifey McGhee over there and do that staff trick again," Prasad suggested to Fie, motioning in Vera's direction as he took aim at the dingo attacking Jade and firing, "Docus, you might want to get to a safe distance while you have the chance. This is about to get messy. Well... messier."

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Attack dingo 6.

His moogle compadre's suggestion was a welcome one.

"Get away from the beast that sees me as an after dinner mint? Yes please!"

Fie put a hand on his hat to keep it from flailing off and trotted as fast as his little legs could carry him towards the one now dubbed Knifey McGhee in order to do his worst. Or best. Either fit the situation.

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Move to short range of Vera/Dingo 2

Docus swallowed. This was not going well. This was not going well at all. Thank the gods that the thing didn't seem to be intelligent. He saw Fie running towards Vera to help her out, and decided that that wasn't such a bad idea. She was a valuable ally, after alll. Couldn'T let her die.

Not to mention the fact that the Udrafresk was really worrying him. If it hit him, he did not like his chances.

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Docus to move into short range of Vera.

At the time it seemed like his teammates were actually working together for a change, and that was good. It gave him some incentive to cast, but he didn't. The spell took quite a bit out of him and he didn't want to lose it to the arm, that would be a waste. He took a moment to think, eyes staring at the arm itself and going over what he knew about monsters in general. If he could think of something that would help them overcome it short of severing the thing he could cast without trouble, if they severed it the same thing could happen, but more than likely he would bide his time till the little ones were casting again and follow up behind one of their own being absorbed.

Greedy, but he had high hopes the confusing twists and turns and bright explosions of the attack would send the beast reeling into a psychological dismay that lead it to beat the piss out of itself.

It wouldn't be the first time.

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Caspin takes a Monster Lore check on the spell draining arm.

Vera's knife struck quick and through, slicing through the throat of the Dingo that threatened her, even at as it leaped at her once more. The creature's body fell to the ground, with a thud. The blood spray quickly congealed, however, and the beast pulled itself once more to its feet.

A scene that found itself repeating mere feet away on the battlefield as Jade and Prasad cut down another Dingo, only to have it stagger back to its feet once more as its wounds knitted together.

Meanwhile, Argath's leaping away forced the Udrafresk to turn its attention back toward the dingo who was leaping toward it, its teeth heading straight for the creature's throat, but with surprising agility the Udrafresk interposed his left arm between the creature and his body, the dingo's teeth crashing into nothing but rock before the Udrafresk flung his arm out, sending the Dingo tumbling away.

It was merely a moment later, however, that Argath's spear once more landed with incredible force against the udrafresk's crystal covered arm, this time sending bits of broken crystals flying outward as his spear shattered through them and buried itself in the creature's arm.

With a howl of shock and rage the Udrafresk staggered back half a step, nursing its injured arm.

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PC Round 4

Vera- 11 Damage, Dingo 2.

Jade- 17 Damage, Dingo 6

Prasad- 20 Damage, Dingo 6

Dingo 2 - -1/45

Dingo 5 - 45/45

Dingo 6 - -2/45

Udrafresk - ???/???

Udrafresk Right Arm- (-23)/??

Udrafresk Left Arm - ??/??

Vera- 12/23

Jade- 19/27

Argath- 14/25

Caspin- 17/23

Docus and Fie Medium Range from Udrafresk.

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NPC Round 4

Dingo 5- 2 Damage, Udrafresk Left Arm

Udrafresk- 14 Damage, Dingo 5

Udrafresk - ???/???

Udrafresk Right Arm- (-23)/??

Udrafresk Left Arm - (-2)/??

Dingo 2 - 4/45

Dingo 5 - 31/45

Dingo 6 - 3/45

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PC Round 5

Argath- 25 Damage, Right Arm. Crystals cracked

Dingo 2 - 4/45

Dingo 5 - 31/45

Dingo 6 - 3/45

Udrafresk - ???/???

Udrafresk Right arm- (-48)/?? - DOWN

Udrafresk Left Arm - (-2)/??

Vera- 12/23

Jade- 19/27

Argath- 14/25

Caspin- 17/23

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Monster Lore Check reveals that, while, monsters with crystal protrusions (or made of crystal) are quite rare, they are not unheard of. Their ability to manipulate magical energies usually requires on intact crystals. Broken ones, like the Udrafresk's now that Argath has attacked it hard enough, are quite useless.

He smiled as he remembered that small bit about crystals and raised up his hands, his mind remembering the taste of calimari of Achelous, that distinct taste of magical energy that it was made of that it would charge into its extremities. His own limbs began to glow as he stared at the great ape,

"Docus! Fie! That arm isn't stopping us anymore! Let's blast the bastard!"

He pointed one finger forward like the barrel of a pistol bringing his thumb back to set the hammer,

"3, 2, 1..."

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Caspin begins casting Homing Laser. Target Udrafresk body.

Fie perked up and glanced towards the hume.

"Is that so...I'll take your word on it."

Most of the dingos were in no position to fight back at this point. He immediately began the process of gathering the wind needed for his attack.

"Can you keep this overgrown mutt busy? We seem to have bigger fish to fry now."

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Aero on Udrafresk body.