09/02/2025 Snippet, BRAVING THE MALSTORM.

Small chapters seems to be the smart play, here.

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Turns out Zeke didn’t need to worry about the rampager’s armor at all, for the first shot. Or getting its attention. His bolt skewered it right through the eye, as messy as you please.

Unfortunately, the monster had seven more. And it did not like being stung like that. The next shot Zeke got off merely let it confirm where the stinging things were coming from, and it immediately decided to come over and wreck our days.

The rampager was fast, too. Its scaly legs ate up the distance between it and our warehouse. I dropped another one of my turn-to-mud spells on the ground before it, and for one brief moment I almost got the monster to topple over, but it managed to correct itself with a beat of one of those useless wings. Correction: limited-use wings. Apparently the rampager used them to steer.

Such was life, and I had other spells. Mostly wards and other protective charms, but that was fine. It’d let the actual mage along concentrate on doing actual damage to the damned thing. Teamwork is key for this sort of thing.

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