Re: Thread V: The fight for the Deathstaff
As she left the tent and turned to the lake, Rain Feather had her answer - a multitude of swimming creatures were surfacing over the lake surface and were swimming toward the beach, although they seemed to be barely half an hundred. They were strange creatures, with a long, scaly muzzle filled with curved fangs, two powerful arms that ended in clawed, palmated hands, and four fins at the back that, alongside their powerful tails, they were using to proper through the water incredibly quickly.
In fact, some where already reaching the beach, but there, the mud slowed down their movements - alhtough it did not stopped them completely.
At Sun Snake's words, the Colonel, who alongside Sabre Fox was standing on the beach, sword in hand, to repel the first wave, motioned to the Magnakai swordman that stood at his left, drenched from head to toe, and said, smirking:
"Don't worry Lord Sour Snake, your idiot is already back on the shore again... the main problem is that these things seem to want him back!"
And with that, he charged forward, easily cutting into two of the beasts, while the other two tried to drag themselves through the mug and assault Sabre.
Sabre Fox, feel free to post again whenever you want! Your two current opponents are as such:
Lake Creature (trapped in the mud): CS 17, END 19
Lake Creature (trapped in the mud): CS 18, END 18
To clarify, the things have a -3 CS penalty for being in the mud - if you'd stopped on a more rocky shore, they'd have been able to propel themselves out of the water like projectiles, and on the rocks they'd be somewhat faster as well.
Of course, fighting underwater they would get a +6 CS bonus, and then there's the several penalties to whomever is fighting for: being underwater, being unable to breath, being unable to see... really, it'd be incredibly hard to face them if they'd been able to push or drag you in the water, which would have been plausible with a camp put near the rocky shore - but thank to the mud, that's impossible for them. :)
So, Rain and Snake, until there's more opponents to attack, you're free to do anything that you believe would give you some form of advantage on the incoming attack - the soldiers, for example, seems to be preapring torches around the campfire.