Rolled 22, 2, 70, 13, 29 = 136 (5d100)
>>5274814>16Your shot strikes true, eliciting another soft hiss and a violent contraction of the big bug’s muscles where your ironwood arrow impacts… In the creature’s side. The tremendous arthropod rears up its front half, resembling a centaur of some despicable mutant breed for a moment in its proportions. Its abominable visage turns to face you, feet tapping and strumming at the string below as it uses vibrations to ping your location. Then, with a terrible resolve and a shocking speed, it rolls towards you, hundreds of pounds of squishy carapace and toxic flesh tumbling and rolling at you like a living rockslide come down upon your stone shelf.
“Just as I foresaw,” you say, a titch smug.
You leap back as the great-worm crashes down upon the rock shelf, shaking it. The impact makes you briefly fearful that the entire ledge with break away and tumble down into the drink—and onto whatever hard stone lies beneath it… But it holds, even as the weight of your adversary and the force of its landing catapults you up a few feet into the air. There, you take aim again as you rise…
>17…And let the next arrow loose at the crest of your arc. This one pierces the bug’s brain, such as it is. It thrashes violently, without coordination. You land, narrowly dodging one roll of its massive girth, and swing of its spike-studded torso. With a triumphant roar, you charge forward to shoulder-check it, adding just enough weight and force to its own flailing to send it tumbling off the ledge.
The great-worm lands upon its own great work—its net-trap—and for a moment it seems to have been saved… But then, still unable to stop its horrid wriggling, it thrashes a portion of the sieve apart and is send spiraling down into the deep darkness. You do not hear a splash—just a thump. It is quiet, distant. You are glad you did not brave that drop, let alone without magic.
>+1 Range CombatYou stand victorious… if, admittedly, a little depleted of your energy arcane. You have slain a threat you your people—one which has claimed the lives of (by your counts) at least 5 other Reptilians. You’ve even acquired a magical item! And, speaking of those unlucky fellow-travelers, it is now time to claim the rest of your prize.
