fandomhigh | Rangering!, Friday, Period Five [ 06/05 ].

An astute observer might notice that Minsc was not actually in the platemail that he usually seemed to practically live in. A knowledgeable on might recognize that, in fact, he was in just chainmail, which was ~~a lower armour class bonus~~ just not the same. But someone had taken the liberty to rend his platemail off of him and he hadn't had the chance to get to the Gig to fix it yet.

Not that he was complaining.

Oh, no. Definitely not complaining, which was nice. Last time that happened, it was done by a wyvern, and the results were not quite as nice, but just about as bruising.

Anyway...

"Bad guys!" Minsc started out jubilantly. "We all have them; if you don't think you have them, then you'll probably find out just how wrong you are when you are lying in your bed with a sword sticking out of your chest and wondering, 'how did this get here?' We talked about a ranger's ability to be particularly good at slaying a specific kind of bad guy. My favourite enemy, for example, is the gnoll."

So, of course, now there was a gnoll standing near Minsc in front of the glass. "As I ranger, I have studied these vile and disgusting creatures ad nauseum, literally, for years upon years, so that when they hear the name Minsc, they cower in fear."

He looked at the gnoll.

"I said, they cower in fear!"

The gnoll snarled and cowered.

"Much better. Now because of my research, I know that their sensitive weak spots are here!" He thrust a sword into the gnoll. "And here!" And again. "And here!" He swung his sword high and very neatly decapitated the monster. Neatly until its hyena-like head hit the ground and little spurts of blood went shooting out of the neck, sprinkling Minsc's bald head a little before the body collasped at the knees and the headless corpse fell to his feet. Minsc drove his sword into the back of his fallen enemy, and put a foot up on him in victory, and he chuckled. "Although that last one is most people's weak spot!"

He yanked the sword out, cleaning it off as he talked. "I also know that gnolls typically travel in packs, so it is smart to bring assistance. I know they like melee so I keep so arrows on me in hopes to get a few while they are charging. I can recognize the signs of their recent migrations by seeking out travel patterns, diet hunts, and tracks. I can even pick up their scent from miles away, not that that is hard, because they are smelly, malodorous cretins!"

"These are all the sorts of things a ranger must know about their enemy. To know your enemy is to know how to defeat them! I have asked you to look into enemies and learn about how to defeat them, so share! And, if you like, show up what you've got in encountering them! And then, if you've got some extra time before class ends, take up to sparring or some target practise, and keep those skills honed!"

[[ OCD ~~a'coming~~ has decapitated...your mom. ]]

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It better not be dirty.

Force-assisted jumping was convenient, at any rate, although the trailing end of some webbing snagged Tahiri's ankle, and she yelped as she hacked at it with the sword.

As Tahiri freed herself from the web, a series of clicking communications sparked up between the spiders, but, whatever was said, it was decided that the other two would still remain put while the biggest one tried to shoot another web at the girl.

She didn't speak spider anyway, and she didn't like that the smaller spiders weren't going anywhere.

Maybe she could do something about that -- she gestured with her free hand to exert a sharp Force tug on one of them, hoping to bowl it right into its web-shooting colleague.

That was definitely not what the spiders were expecting. The Force-flung spider let out a surprised sounding squeak as it went flying toward his friend; they tumbled together with a little grunt from the bigger one.

The remaining spider had a second to be confused before it let out a series of clicks and pounced on the girl in revenge for throwing his brothers around.

"Hey!" Tahiri rolled with the attack and got her blade up (not dirty not dirty not dirty) hopefully in time to catch the spider's abdomen. "Not for eating, how many times do I have to tell you?"

Okay, yeah, sword in the abdomen was not fun. As the blade pierced up into him, the spider let out a piercingly screeching sound, legs flailing with the pain of the stab before curling up around the crippling, if not fatal, wound.

The other spiders were not going to waste time waiting for their brother to die before attempting to avenge him. One went to bite the girl's ankle while the other shot a web.

"Not. For. Eating! How dumb are you?" Tahiri yelped, telekinetically pulling the stabbed spider's body into the path of the webbing. She got out of the way of the bite just barely in time, but on the bright side she might not need to trim the toenails on that foot for a good long while.

Well, the whole thing may have started out as just eating, but Tahiri was right. Now it was about avenging their dead brother. With chittering mandibles and scuttling legs, the two spiders circled the girl carefully until the moment when they both tried to attack from opposite sides.

Tahiri barked a whole string of sounds that were actually, if you knew the language, colorful enough to make someone blush, until she realized what they were doing and gathered herself in the Force, ready to jump.

If she timed this just right, and let's hope she did that today when she was so royally distracted, the results could be slapstick but effective.

Like Minsc would ever program something that couldn't be used for good slapstick when the moment arrived. The timing was perfect, and the sound made when the two remaining spiders collided into each other beneath the jump was a thing of beauty, really.

"Ew," Tahiri said as she landed. "I wasn't expecting that to work so well, but ew."

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