Like hell you're going to let him finish the spell. Apart from your own, zappies of any kind have never done you any favors.
You have to dodge the one swinging the stone staff first to geddim, but fuggit: shooters usually shit at melee.
>BB3 (melee) 77HP, 4(x2 from buff)+2 poison melee, 11Dur of 3->BB3 64 vs Toady 86+4>WIFFHe does try several times, smiting the ground. Not that it helps.
You dodge handily past.
The baldy wots still chanting now has to dodge YOU.
>fat charnce>BB4 (mage) 72, 4 poison melee, 17Dur of 3->BB4 12 vs Toady 91+18>HIT -36 -3> -15Dur -7HP>BB4: 2Dur 65HP>Nat1!>Crossfire!The zappy baldy's spell fizzles when you hit him; his kludge keeps you from ripping into him propper, but you chew through the bulk of it. He's left with a belt, shoulders, and a metal collar. You reset.
>finna git yer TENDIES negxt>NYERR!!You almost launch yourself, but there's a tingling you feel that awakens a half-memory. You fling yourself back and up, just as whatever you felt zeroes in on the zappy baldy and earths on him. He eats the bulk of it, double bullseye, and totters smoking.
>HIT -25hp -25hp>BB3: 0dur 21HPYou completely dodge the zappies thanks to your instincts, but you're still too close: when the yellow lightning streaks earth on the baldy, they burst and taze you too!
>ZAPP -10 -10>Toady -4Dur -4HPYou swivel round to where the bolts came from. It's the two weirdlooken centaurs wiv horns. They're kiting: galloping round keeping distance and just shooting into the general clusterfuck.
The blurry slinky things had been their first targets, pretty hard to hit as-is, but the centaurs have been counting on the burst radius to damage them, and it's working: the blurs are wounded enough that you can now make out their shapes: tentacle-cats.
The tentacle-cats have backed off the uglytaurs for now, slinking into the bare shade under the bleachers, looking for weaker prey, so the 'taurs started taking potshots of opportunity. They thought exactly the same thing you did: kill the caster.
"<span class="mu-g">OYY! DURNT STEAL MUH KILLZ YER FUKKS!</span>"
They smile at your angry Gobby noises, galloping off.
Then the burrowing cow-thing bursts out right under the zappy baldy with a <span class="mu-s">B A U N G</span>, breaking his leggz and buggshell, killing him.
The other two baldies get thrown and concussed along with you.
When you're done shaking orf the dizzies, the baldy wot wuz shooting arrows is getting swarmed and slurped by four giant flies, and the one with the stone pokey is getting stomped and torn by the armored digger.
<span class="mu-s">[TACTICS]</span>
>Charge the armored digger. No wun stealz muh killz>Charge the flies still feeding>Pouch sumn (lose one moar trump card; write?)>Disengage here, hunt one of the following:>Injured tentacle-cats x 2>Orc troop x 6 vs lion-frogs x 3>giant wolf-scorpion, alert, angling>Else?[R O L L]
>7d100>EVERWUN>1 for disengage>>6134401>>6134565>>6134591>>6134659>>6134672>>6134677 