aterat | Dealing With It event log

Who; Harry Dresden, Lauri-Ell, Ignis Scientia
What; Taking down a plant monster
Where; The clearing
When; Late September
Warnings; Violence? Trash talking plants?

The key to any taking down of a big nasty was preparation. Sure, they had a flower-obsessed battering ram on their side, but having a bit more firepower when going up against a giant, man-eating (if his luck proved correct) couldn't go wrong, and Harry Dresden intended there to be plenty of firepower. In the days following Watts' update, he'd set about finding others who'd be willing to go toe to toe with the big nasty, and he hadn't been disappointed.

He'd spent the last two days making protection bracelets for each of them. They wouldn't keep anything from hitting them, but it would soften a blow well enough, and he'd brewed a speed potion for each of them, too. He'd made sure the enchantments on his coat were strong to provide himself additional protection, packed the additional braided leather protection bracelets for his new comrads in a sack with their speed potions, and headed toward the path leading to the plant monster that needed pruning to wait for them.

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Well, she doesn't know what a movie is to judge whether that was a good or a bad thing. But what she did know was fighting. And this was clearly a fight. Her attention moved briefly to Harry and his blast, but then there was more to consider with the roots. One came lashing out toward her feet and Lauri brought the hammer down with expert timing to crush it to the ground along the way.

"I do not like that it can move," she announced needlessly. It would be bad, if this massive thing could move. But there was clearly no good way to pin it. "Perhaps we can remove the roots?"

Ignis at this point was making sure the thing didn't snag the daggers out of his hands. Already the plant had tried to bite his hands and it was making him mad. He got out of the way for Harry with the Fire, and wanted to keep clear.

Hearing Lauri-Ell state that she didn't like that it could move made him smile because he would have no idea what to do with a stationary adversary. But he had made a few swipes with his ice daggers and was getting ready to switch to his polearm. While he had no plans to come up on its head as he'd done previously with another troublemaker, it would give him the reach.

"That was a thought I had." he acknowledged to the Kree. However, this thing kept snapping with those damn teeth and he was being watchful for patterns.

"Or at least make them hard to use." He wasn't sure it was something he could pull off, but he knew one thing: he needed some time if this admittedly crazy plan was going to work. "What I'm going to try is going to need a lot of ice and I need a few minutes to work without an interruption. He looked between the two of them pointedly before he gave them a two-fingered salute and fell back to find an area of the ground to clear of vines.

He needed to draw a circle and fast.

Hard to use? Yes, that seemed good. Though she did glance at the others and found herself impressed by their skill so far, she wasn't certain how they were supposed to manage this idea of slowing the beast. The ice that Ignis had on his blades was so limited, and Harry...

WEll, she didn't know what Harry did.

Oh well, she let that be and moved to Ignis's side briefly, slamming her hammer to the ground to generate a force field to create a barrier between him and a vine covered in thorns that had risen up to try and strike at him.

"Can you keep it vaguely distracted? If he needs to do something without interruption, I need to create a barrier for him."

Ignis turned and looked back at Harry who was conversing with Lauri-Ell. He had no real idea what they were talking about, but he had tried to freeze the roots and he'd had minimal luck there.

But at Lauri-Ell's request, he nodded and dodged that damned mouth shape with the razor sharp teeth. "I can do that."

It was still odd in his mind to be fighting anything without Nida or the lads with him, but he did trust in the companions he had. Otherwise he wouldn't be here.

"I've got the barrier, just keep Audrey II over there." He finished clearing the ground of vines, an integral part of his plan, and grabbed a stick laying nearby. It would serve as a means to draw a circle in the sand, so to speak, which could be done with anything, really, and that's just what he did. The actual idea he had forming in his mind as he willed the circle closed around him with a auditory pop just at the end of hearing was going to be a complicated one, but only because the target was moving. He watched the plant for a few seconds, how it was moving, how quickly it could change direction, and how it trundled along on its myriad roots. It was almost like a weird octopus, but it told him how he needed to freeze it.

Because that was exactly what he planned on doing: encase the root system in ice. It was going to take a considerable amount of energy, but there was something ambient hovering around here, something he thought he could wrest control of if he needed to. He just needed a few moments to form his thoughts into the spell he'd unleash when he broke the circle.

He just needed his companions to keep it occupied and away from his circle until then.

Well, if she's being dismissed... Lauri-Ell rushes forward, her hammer swinging to slam aside one of the larger roots nearly as thick as her arm. The way it gave under the force of her strike was very satisfying.

"Ignis," she said. "How are you with going high?"

Because she had an idea that might well distract the thing. Which mostly just involved her using her hammer to partially throw him high up over the creature to strike.

Ignis had no idea what the other man was doing, but the snapping razor sharp teeth weren't giving him much time to ponder anything. But he was getting rapidly tired of the snapping and the bursts of fire he gave from his spelldaggers didn't seem to be doing too much. And as he was considering to change the element, he heard Lauri-Ell.

Turning to her for the briefest of moments, he nodded. "There won't be much to land back on, but that won't present a problem."

Of course he'd have to change weapons, but he could do that.

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