The pair of them stand motionless by the cavern entrance, arrows nocked and bowstrings drawn, as the shinning pebble disappears into the hole and then clatters down the side. Kibeti stands between them, as taunt as a bowstring himself.
For many seconds nothing happens, until Penny actually lets the tension off her bow and turns to Kassus as if to say something, but then the soft rustle of a breeze starts pushing out of the deep pit. Penny turns back to the centre of the cavern, staring at the hole in puzzlement as the gentle wind increases into a stiff jet of air, and then quickly increases again into the roar of a tornado. The air smells sickly sweet, like corroded iron bars mixed with rotting flesh and toxic chemicals.
With a deep throated roar a mighty beast covered in corpulent pustules throws itself out of the hole - its girth is so wide that it fills the hole almost like a cork in a bottle and it was pushing the air out in front of it as it ran up the shear walls of the pit. The beast roars again, and waves its two feathered antenna as though trying to sense something. Kassius realises that it IS a rust monster, just one so covered with sickness and filth that it is almost unrecognisable as such. And it is huge. As big as a house.
http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs7...y_evelar-d4um3a5.jpg
I won't post the picture here because of copyright, but this link shows what this beast looks like coming out of the hole.
"Well!" chuckles Penny quietly.
"I call that mission frakken accomplished! If this isn't the Kogoloxen then I don't know what is. Let's get back to town and tell the crazy old man that his days of impotency are as good as finished!"
Sitting astride its burrow, the antennae of the creature swivel with lightning speed and point at Penny. The feathery tips vibrate up and down its sensor stalks like an oscillating wave and then stop frozen. Kogoloxen bellows and begins its charge.
"Frak me!" screams Penny as she turns to run, arrow dropped forgotten at her feet.
Initiative please
22:29, Today: Dungeon Master rolled 8 using 1d20+3. Kogoloxen initiaitive.
22:29, Today: Dungeon Master rolled 17 using 1d20+3. Penny initiative.
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