One Long Arm, One Big Problem

"Where's your weapon?" Erchus had retrieved his hammer from the broken car. The monster had taken a couple clubbing swings with his arm but they had been mostly unsuccessful (I say mostly because he did destroy the crap out of the car).

"I am my weapon." The creature coiled back its arm to launch it again and I unleashed my magical rage, which it promptly ate. I don't mean it disappeared or something, I saw the mouth on its chest open up and swallow my magic. Which is never a good thing.

"I hope you have a plan B!" Erchus pulled back his hammer and charged at the creature. For a fisherman he sure swung that hammer with authority. The blow connected just above the weak arm (its left arm) and I swear I heard a crack but the creature swung around and slammed Erchus and he went flying. I heard him land with a crash and a groan and then it turned toward me. Ordinarily this would be when I used magic, or said a line, or fired a pistol or something. But my magic was useless, I didn't have a pistol, and I remembered the exact place I'd left my sword and was all the sadder for knowing it (you ever forget something you'd really need and then remember exactly where it is when you need it? That's what happened with me and the sword). I feel stupid now, but all I did was stand there frozen in place.

It happens sometimes, you're placed in imminent danger, and yet you can't get your body to move. You can't bring yourself to do anything, because your brain has decided its going to die and do nothing until that happens. So you look like a damned idiot standing there awaiting death like I did with a huge clawed assailant about ready to gore me. I was actually saved by my cowardice, I fainted. Seeing death coming as I did I just passed out. The creature's arm shot past me and collided with the ground and Erchus who has regained his composure attacked with savagery.

Like I started to doubt his claims of being a fisherman with how he swung his hammer, first he attacked the creature's knee, and brought it to the ground. And then once it was on the ground he smashed again and again on the creature until its guts and blood were smeared all over the landscape. He tried to talk to me, but I was out of it, too afraid to move, or so I thought. Funny thing I thought I was a coward, but it turned out the creature had a bit of a paralytic in its arm and I'd unknowingly stepped into it, when my legs gave out it saved me from my fate.

So all that talk about people too afraid to move? That was just for other lesser people, me I was paralyzed! Unfortunately for me it was a long term poison, which mean I was left up to the care of Erchus, and he was terrible just terrible. But that's the next entry you knew that already.