Damn unarmored civilian He thought realizing a plasma grenade might not go over so well with the surprise captive. Diving and rolling around the strands of web, Antipas stays low to try and foil the fiends wide field of view. Leaping up onto its back he's only there for a brief second before the queen grabs him telekinetically and throws the undead slayer into the branches of a large tree. Crashing to the ground, his attack seeming to have failed.Azumi Archambault wrote: ↑Mon Dec 10, 2018 7:25 pm (((The Spider Incident )))
"Luke, stop wiggling! You're only making it worse. Hold still. Once we take care of this - ARGH - spider I'll cut you down!"
Azumi quickly dispatched a lunging psi-spider youngling before assessing the queen. She was about the size of a cow, and had a psionic stare that could paralyze. She and Antipas had trekked through thick underbrush, and swung their way through a multitude of psi-spider younglings to rescue their teammate who had found himself at the unfortunate end of an invisible spider web. To their surprise there was a well-dressed elf who was also stuck in the web.
"'Pas, I'm going to draw its attention. Once you get a clear shot, I'm counting on you to take out the damn thing."
Once acknowledged, she slid under the webbing, pulled out her rarely-used laser pistol and fired several shots into the carapace. The laser barely left a mark, but drew it away from Luke and towards her. She felt the weight of the psychic assault and found herself unable to move.
Come on come on come on come on...
He slowly stands as the queen turns back to Azumi. An ear splitting whistle from the atlantean and it pauses it's advance again, turning back to him as Antipas reveals a detonator in his hand. With a click of a button an explosion erupts from the psi-spiders back. Severely damaged but not dead the queen does drop her hold on Azumi and the explosives damaged the web enough to free Luke.
Shaking his head to be rid of figurative cobwebs, he draws the black blade Nemisi for the remaining denizens of the literal ones. "Huh, shoulda used more explosives. Noted."