Rolled 9, 5, 1, 19, 14, 2 = 50 (6d20)
>>5883755>>5883755“Muffins,” you say again.
The chimera rumbles, shaking his back right leg repeatedly until the soreness is dissipated enough to move normally. He runs towards you, then, as you jog to meet him. You reach out, through the fire of his mane to the floating, half-anchored hot stone ‘skin’ you’ve given him, and haul yourself atop your elementally-infused ally.
The Unseelie watch you do this, booing and hissing, but their Champion, leans on her elbows and beers over the slathering maw and shining eyes of her lycanthropic mount.
“This doesn’t NEED to be to the death, you know?” she suggests. “Give us the moon-stone, cousin. We’ll let you all go, and live. We aren’t here to hurt or kill anyone.”
“But you WILL,” you point out flatly.
“We just want what’s ours by right,” she spits back. “We’ll do what we have to, to GET our birthright!”
“Which is why you don’t deserve it,” you retort.
“YOU lot will kill US lot to protect it!” the Unseelie Champion snaps back. “Why do YOU deserve to walk in moonlight? To be healed, restored? Why do YOU get to be whole, and we don’t? Because you suck up to THEM lot, up there on the moon?!”
“Enough talk,” you say, tamping down your instinctive curiosity to focus on the hard fight before you. “We’re dueling, aren’t we?”
“I guess we are,” the Unseelie sighs, shrugging melodramatically as her audience woops and hollers.
“Come on, my child!” Rudolfo Van Houtzmann cheers you on, shouting over the cacophony as Laskar Endingray begins to play a rapid tune upon an especially-piercing woodwind. “You’ve got this! Give him an injury he can’t shrug off!”
Easier said than done, with the dread werewolf’s rapid regeneration and his equally-abhorrent physical might. Still, it’s the best plan you’ve got.
“Go,” you command Muffins, and with a roar and a caprine battle-wail, he shoots forwards. You clean on for dear life, squinting your eyes against the rushing wind and exhaled smog of your mount as you look for an opening.
[Same rolls as before, but your DC is higher]
