The Crystal Sslugs of the Test

[Volatilus]

Well a distraction is still a distraction! At least my pack can find a flank to access.

[Great Thrash]

How does one stop the repayment of a more ordinary favor? Maybe that will give us some ideas.

[Yerkan of Elish]

My thoughts are still on the tawny creature...

There is a great deal of power in that being, possibly enough to give us a distinct advantage in fighting the sslugs. It is dangerous, but I am considering seeing what manner of help it is offering. If it wants to shake things up, perhaps it will be happy with a risky advantage to our side. So long as whatever we do is interesting and humerus, there is a chance that it will go along.

[Great Thrash]

Do it! If it should turn on you, we will rush to your defense.

I think it has a bit of a liking for you and Volatilus.

[Yerkan of Elish]

In the guise of one of the gardeners, I follow one of the large cattle-beasts into the arboretum. As I near one of the places where the tawny creature was last seen, I stoop down and write a message in the dirt using the tip of the Estoc: "Meet me On High --Enuma Elish".

I vanish into the darkness of the arboretum and return to the battlefield, where I climb once more up the mountain that Thrash and enter into a small cave near the top. There, I will wait, after I whisper a few words to Thrash.

[Great Thrash]

I pay 20 DM Favor to create a temporary Refractive Facet prison for the creature should things go badly in that mountain. It is a place of lava and pent-up forces - should treachery occur, the forces automatically explode, blasting their steams at the Citadel. The tawny creature will be entombed within and buffeted by the forces to wear him down, then contained.

[Diamond Master]

A running prattle and chortle precedes a puff of smoke. When the smoke clears, the tawny creature is there at the top of the mountain.

"So! Whaddya need help with? The Citadel, huh?"
He picks up a boulder in each paw.

"Tell me when we're ready!"

[Yerkan of Elish]

"Ah! Welcome!

"Yes, I was indeed seeking entrance to the citadel. You know well what I'm getting at - whoever brought the sslugs seems to care quite a bit about that citadel; they certainly don't want me in there. I was thinkin' if I could get in there and snatch some plans, steal a valuable item, or destroy something, we'd all get a laugh out of it. To put it in your words, "shake things up a bit.

So... yes. I am ready."

I give the creature a quick nod. I'm ready to escape into the caves if treachery occurs and to react to whatever the creature's planning.

[Diamond Master]

Arrows begin pouring from the Citadel, but the creature lofts one of his boulders at it and rips up another.

"And what are you going to be doing all this time? Want me to open a hole, or provide a distraction? I can do this all day."

The force of the blow spins the Citadel about its axis, but the arrows just rain all the harder as it swings back around.

[Great Thrash]

Let's do it! I'm tired of waiting!

I set up a pellet gun of boulders from the mountain itself. Pressures from within build up, come to a narrow spot, and expel the boulders placed within.