>>5441785>>5441788>>5441796You wish to protect your allies, of course… But to save the elves from being torn apart, the spell animating these skeletons must be broken… And you don’t ACTUALLY know how to do that. You THINK you have an inkling how to break that connection, but it’s theoretical at best. You don’t have the experience, training, or time and focus to reliably pull it off. What you DO have, though, is the direct mind f a warrior, and one well-known and tested method to resolve this conundrum:
Kill the caster, end the spell.
>1 for enemies, 6 (secondary roll) for Ghoul SupremeYou trace your hands through the air along well-studied courses, adjust your stance, and with a roar and a carefully-choreographed stomp of your mighty foot, you summon an <Earth Tremor> The cavern shakes and rumbles, causing the advancing ghouls to pause and the already-shaky skeletons to tumble and fall. The Ghoul Supreme is distracted from his tracing of your disarmed weapon as well, losing its concentration and dropping the shoggoth-blade unceremoniously upon the ground. It growls and turns its attention back to you—just where you want it.
“That’s my sword,” you hiss in elventongue, that it might possibly understand, “and so are you, mammal.”
The Ghoul Supreme barks, a single laugh, and levitates off of the ground-avoiding the splits formed by your mystical quake.
“Come!” you shouts back.
You don’t disappoint. You charge for the psychic savage, who in turn raises its hand and with spindly fingers directs weapons, coins, and stones to elevate off of the ground in the same manner by which it floats. A hail of such items fly towards you from all angels, with chaotic haphazardness at a glance. You dip, dive, and dodge… Only to realize that, like the great stones before, the damned barrage is arcing in mid-air, course-correcting to target you!
>17A <Wall of Stone> puts an end to that, rescuing you from the onslaught by all-but encasing you in a shell of raised rock. Cowering is not a posture that you are well-accustomed to, though. It does not suit one such as you—a Dragon King—to hide like vermin in a hole. You burst forth, summoning forth your mana for a <Moonbeam>…
…But the Ghoul Supreme is nowhere to be seen.
>20 for the Ghoul Supreme“Mine.”
