>>5579708>Critical failureYou charge into the apparent breach in the enemy’s defence, but when you open your mouth to roar and appropriately bloodthirsty battle-cry, you instead catch the man’s shield to the mouth. He wasn’t raising his shield to protect his eyes after all, but instead to drive it into your draconically-elongated snout! You stagger back, disoriented, your mouth full of blood, and spit out a tooth…
>DC to hit you: 15, normally>Raised by 2 thanks to your shoggoth armour>Lowered by 1 because of your crit-fail>Raised by 1 because of your aura blinding and searing the Green Knight>>16 vs. DC 17Only your wise decision to retain the shoggoth-shard in armour form rather than converting it to its original blade-shape saves you from a lethal swing of the sword. This ‘Kinslayer’ blade cuts through the organic carapace, very nearly cutting to the core of you… But the shoggoth-armour is a living thing,a nd it does not take this assault upon it lightly or passively. Its material shifts and reshapes to better armour the area of impact, absorbing the blow and attempting to entangle the sword. Across your torso, a dozen hatefully-staring eyes open and glower at the man who struck the blow.
The Green Knight releases his sword, leaping back and staring with horrified expression upon the aberration which you wear as raiment.
“By all the Gods and Archdevils alike,” he murmurs, and then adds, “what the FUCK is that?”
His floating sword struggles by its own volition against your armour’s clutches, attempting to free itself; you suspect it will, given another instant. However, even as you consider snatching it up for yourself, you see the blade’s master skillfully kick his other, more mundane blade back into his hand from where he dropped it while being crushed by your <Wall of Stone>. He assumes a warrior’s stance, and with a war-cry he charges you anew. His skin steams and eyes water at the shining, burning light of your <Radiant Aura>, but still he comes!
What will you do?
>Snatch up Kinslayer and swing to kill—IF you can overpower the magic sword’s own adversarial nature…>Release the sword and leap back to dodge—then, when his effort is wasted, you can torch this man with righteous dragonfire!>Hold steady! Parry the blow with your sword, and deliver an impact with fist or tail to topple and daze the dastard!>Duck, dodge, and dash—you can gain some distance if you make for the xit,a nd maybe even lay a trap for this surprisingly-tough mammal!>Write-in 