[Liem too has experience with creatures from the lower planes, and frightful though this beast appears, he still prefers dealing with a creature like this to fighting divs and other extraplanar monsters. At least, as far as he’s been able to tell, the monsters that stalk Alenroux’s woods don’t tend to have any great intelligence or complex plans for their victims. It makes hunting them simpler, as well.
Though this particular monster is putting up a rather spirited fight.
Liem takes Akua’s warning to ready himself, aiming his crossbow at the beast as her spell’s formula blinks in an out of existence. He watches the air around the being shift and shimmer, then explode, and he firms his grip on his weapon, ready to shoot the moment the cluster of explosions dies away—
But before even that, the monster howls and vanishes, in a move that is so familiar to Liem that he grits his teeth.]
It can teleport. No wonder the soldiers were at such a loss to pin it down.
[Liem scours the surrounding woods for the beast, pricking his ears to the hint of movement deeper into the trees. It is somewhere to the west of them, remaining mostly still.]
It’s somewhere to the west of us now; still close by. Could you snare it again, or lock down its teleportation? I have some yet-untapped magic I can add to my shots, to finish the job.
[He nods in the creature’s direction, listens for another long moment, then stalks a little further through the underbrush, gaining some distance from Akua before he strips the glove from his right hand and incants a spell to quicken and empower himself. Now, all he needs is a clear shot.]
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Though this particular monster is putting up a rather spirited fight.
Liem takes Akua’s warning to ready himself, aiming his crossbow at the beast as her spell’s formula blinks in an out of existence. He watches the air around the being shift and shimmer, then explode, and he firms his grip on his weapon, ready to shoot the moment the cluster of explosions dies away—
But before even that, the monster howls and vanishes, in a move that is so familiar to Liem that he grits his teeth.]
It can teleport. No wonder the soldiers were at such a loss to pin it down.
[Liem scours the surrounding woods for the beast, pricking his ears to the hint of movement deeper into the trees. It is somewhere to the west of them, remaining mostly still.]
It’s somewhere to the west of us now; still close by. Could you snare it again, or lock down its teleportation? I have some yet-untapped magic I can add to my shots, to finish the job.
[He nods in the creature’s direction, listens for another long moment, then stalks a little further through the underbrush, gaining some distance from Akua before he strips the glove from his right hand and incants a spell to quicken and empower himself. Now, all he needs is a clear shot.]