"Plan relies on your strength, misdirection. We run at her, you in front, you throw a feint and when she's distracted I follow through to take out the least guarded eye, then you double up and get the other one. Alright, let's do it!"
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Execute operation, "double-team that bitch or something".

Docus grinned as he heard Fie's response. Yes. They were doing this. They were making this HAPEN. The bee would burn. He closed his eyes and spread his arms, tapping into his own, perilously low supply of magical power. He felt tendrils of power flow from his fingertips, spreading, then converging on the spell Fie was weaving, meshing with it.

He sensed his fellow mage manipulating the air around his allies' blades, purifying the air around it, removing those components that would inhibit his Flame. Every time the warriors struck with their weapons, some of the pure air dissipated, but Docus could only marvel at Fie's skill as, every time, the shell was re-formed, without delay or hesitation. Docus could do little to help, but he kept his spell meshed with Fie's nonetheless, maintaining control, supplying power, and, as he understood his ally's intentions, and preparing his own contribution, visualising it, gathering himself. A blast of fire, spread and diluted, but powerful nonetheless would sweep the area in front of him. Its power would ignite the purified air, and then it was simply a question of maintaining and controlling the flame as his allies' made use of it.. It would require focus, so much focus. But, he realized, Fie and himself were strong, they could, would, do this. And he'd prove, to the team, to himself that, howevermuch infighting they did, howevermany insults were given and taken, they could stand together. And if they did, nothing could stand against them. A smile crossed his otherwise serene face as the thought went through his head.

"We will grant you blades of Flame. Prepare to strike."
He didn't even realize that he had spoken out loud.

Pulling out his dice once more, the diminutive gambler was obviously feeling lucky. A feeling that would betray him as the dice rolled six and four before returning to his hands, the blades of the party seeming duller, their muscles more lethargic, their projectiles slower, and their spells less potent.

However, that didn't stop Vera from performing a perfect feint, giving Caspin opportunity to attack. Unfortunately, even with the skill of her feint, Caspin's dagger just missed the queen's eye, glancing away from the armored plates on her face without leaving so much as a knick. Vera's follow up had better luck, her blade burying itself to the hilt in the queen's compound eye, leaving nothing but a gorey mess in its place, and causing the great beast to rear up, throwing Argath onto the ground even as Jade charged at her. Unfortunately, with her blade dulled, and her muscles weakened, she found it impossible, even with her massive blade, to so much as scuff the queen's exoskeleton.

All the same, the huge insect seemed to believe itself in trouble as it hunched down, tiny wiggling caterpillar like creatures climbing from the holes in her back, and rolling about on the ground leaving little slimey trails, before rearing up with sharp vicious mandibles right after birth, just as the weapons of the party all lit ablaze with fire nearly causing Prasad and Capin to drop theirs from the sudden flash of heat, though the rest of the small party was able to quickly adjust.
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PC Round 13

Prasad- Destructive roll, Bust. All damage moves down one damage step until round 18. (STRx1 becomes STRx0, etc, you're attacking with pure dice).

Vera- Stealth Roll against Queen To Complete Feint, success, Damage against queen doubled, chance of blind or reduced ACC.

Caspin- 0 Damage. The roll was terrible and no damage from stats. No blind.

Vera- Crit, 10 damage from hitting sensitive spot, and reducing queen's accuracy by 2 for 6 rounds.

Argath- Fails Dex Check, is thrown to ground.

Jade- 0 Damage to Queen Bee.

Jade- 2 Damage Poison. 2 Rounds remaining.

Queen Bee- (-50)/???

Udrafresk- ???/112-138

Jade- 9/28* Arhra informed me that I forgot about the +1 hp from Jade's shirt.

Vera- 14/23

Argath- 11/25

Caspin- 15/23

Fie- 8/20

Docus- 12/21

Prasad- 23/25

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NPC Round 13

Queen Bee- Spawn three Larvae.

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PC Round 14

Docus + Fie complete buff casting. Everyone gains 1.5x damage, and all damage is fire. All players roll dex rating vs TN of 9 to avoid being burned.

Caspin- 2 Damage from dagger bursting into flame.

Prasad- 2 Damage from gun bursting into flame

Everyone else makes check.

Queen Bee- (-50)/???

Udrafresk- ???/112-138

Jade- 9/28

Vera- 14/23

Argath- 11/25

Caspin- 15/23

Fie- 8/20

Docus- 12/21

Prasad- 23/25

Caspin shot his knife up for the Queen's eye, but as usual unless he had the clarity of mind to be chopping through meat slowly he caught a front to his perfection and missed, but his plan wasn't all shit as Vera got right into the other one. Which was enough to make him feel better. He leapt back and readied to take another swing at it when suddenly his weapon caught on fire.

He had not caught Docus's last little thing about how this was about to happen so his reaction was fairly violent,

"Mother of Fuck!"

He dropped it and stared back at the two mages with a sudden look of blank confusion,

"The fuck are you doing?!"

Dammit it finally happened, they were turning on him. He was going to get burnt to death and offered to the Queen as a sacrifice to let them live. Well he wasn't going down without a fight, those bastards would have to...oh wait. About halfway through his personal ramble he caught view of what they had actually meant to do when everyone else's blades were covered in fire. Though apparently he and Prsad hadn't gotten the memo, he still cursed and decided to screw his weapon for now and grabbed Argath pulling him up before motioning for Vera and Jade,

"Alright I'm sick of this fat bastard and I would like her out of the picture before she starts making too many of those creepy little creeps she just shat out. Can we all agree we hate her more than we hate each other?"
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Help Argath up, begin coordinating teamwork attack.

Fie kept his attention to the magics at work. The influx of mana from Docus' cast had upset the balance, but he had been prepared for that. He took the sudden impulse and held some of it aside, smoothing and spreading gently as he went. With Docus' aid in maintaining it from here, he figured they could sustain it for perhaps a single bout of attacks from their fighters. Aside from that, who knew? The mana they'd spent couldn't last forever.

"Let's hope they make the best of it..."

Fie did take a moment once Docus was helping to glance about the Queen. Had they covered those larvae in lectures?
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Lore(Monsters) check.

Argath winced as he fell on his ass. His plan to screw with her failed when his teammates made her thrash about, leading to said falling on his ass. As he was getting up, none other than Caspin showed up to lend a hand. Much to Argath's chagrin.

Urge to kill rising... He thought, as the Blue Mage tried to be friendly. Fat chance of that, though. He had half a mind to run the bastard through again. Still, with Prasad's botched roll and the queen birthing larvae, it was time they started acting somewhat cohesively.

"No. But I do agree we should take her out now." He said, as he shook off Caspin's hand. "What do you have in mind?"

He noticed Caspin's flaming dagger lying on the ground. "I guess you're not using this." He said, bending over to pick it up. "Hey Vera! Catch!" He yelled to the thief. Then he tossed the burning weapon at her.

... It was a completely friendly, slow toss and he tried to make sure the blade wasn't pointed at her.

He half regretted that, though, and not killing the Blue Mage right now.

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Coordinate teamwork attack, toss Caspin's dagger at Vera.

He watched as Argath tossed his dagger over at Vera and tried not to let the look on his face grow any more disappointed than usual in his actions. Pretty face, but so dumb. So very dumb.

"I'm going to run interference. I'll be going directly for the queen and trying to mount her and cover her remaining eyeball to help the rest of you get in without any trouble."

He pointed at Jade and nodded toward the Queen a moment,

"Jade, your muscles make me look like Docus. So you'll be moving on her right flank while I go to distract her. What I want you to do is knock her over. Whether you do this with your bare hands or if you want to use a rock and your flaming sword to crank her I don't really care. But I want her on her side."

He held up a fist as a show to Jade how much he believed in her amazing powers of STRONGness before turning to Vera and Argath,

"While she is moving on the right, you two go left, and when she tips that bitch over you two go for the birth holes. I'm hoping with Docus's little gift we'll be able to make sure she never makes another kid for the rest of her short life."

He knew just enough to know that the little larval creeps had some extra powerful poison, so while they were weak if they swarmed them they were going to be in a world of hurt. But he'd save that for later,

"Sound good?"
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Monster Lore success and more coordination.

"We hate other?" Jade asked Caspin back, an eyebrow raised. The fighter, in her infinite wisdom, had been at the bar chatting with hunters and getting drunk while various sorts of drama had happened at the inn.

"And bitch." Jade corrected Caspin semi-seriously. "Fat bitch." She'd thought blue mages were supposed to be monster experts!

Jade thought over the plan quickly, idly testing the edge of her sword with a thumb. It felt blunter than a butter knife. She then sucked on her thumb - the sword was still mostly on fire. The warrior made her decision and jammed her sword into the ground point first at her side. Sprinting from that spot, she picked up momentum and flung herself at the Queen Bee with a flying tackle, intending to take on the monstrously armoured insect with her bare hands.

"Nyaaaah!"

Caspin nodded with a grin at her correction. How could he have been so blind? And when she took off it was pretty much set that either he and Jade were going to fail at the plan together thanks to the other two, or they were all going to succeed because they were that awesome.

He ran at the Queen head on and leapt into the air latching onto her face and reacting a bit like an enraged child in the way he was kicking and punching and trying to crawl around on her.

He wanted to get bitten as little as possible after all.
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EXECUTE THE PLAN.

Vera caught Caspin's dagger with a nod, backing around and preparing to attack alongside Argath, as Jade charged forward. The Vera warrior's arms strained against three of the queen's six legs, the two pushed against each other in a deadlock, and for a moment it looked like the plan would fail, until Caspin leapt up at the queen's face. She quickly batted her head around and throw the blue mage back to the ground, but the momentary distraction was all that Jade needed to flip the giant insect onto the ground, her breeding holes facing Vera and Argath, whom both plunged their weapons deep into the birth holes on her back, flame searing through her body and causing her to scream out in pain and rage.

As she thrashed, the moogle took aim and let fire with with his twin pistols, flames streaking in the air behind the bullets as they impacted with the carapace of the queen in brilliant explosions.

The queen rolled around on the ground, struggling to regain her feet, as her larva hurled viscous balls of poisonous slime at their mother's attackers, though none found their mark, instead sizzling like acid on the ground, and killing the grass and shrubs of the forest floor.

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PC Round 14

Docus + Fie complete buff casting. Everyone gains 1.5x damage, and all damage is fire. All players roll dex rating vs TN of 9 to avoid being burned.

Caspin- Leap at face, get tossed aside

Jade- Flip that bitch.

Argath- 9 damage queen

Vera- 21 Damage queen

Prasad- 9 Damage queen

Jade- 2 damage, poison. One more round.

Queen Bee- (-89)/???

Udrafresk- ???/112-138

Jade- 7/28

Vera- 14/23

Argath- 11/25

Caspin- 15/23

Fie- 8/20

Docus- 12/21

Prasad- 23/25
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NPC Round 14

Larva 1- Poison spit Prasad. Miss.

Larva 2- Poison spit Fie. Miss.

Larva 3- Poison spit Argath. Miss

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PC Round 15

Buff depleted. Damage returns to normal.