Way of the Wicked: Knot of Thorns [IC]

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R1T24: Imogen draws her second dagger again, leaping over the closest snake while it's distracted with Ved. She drives the blade down into it (10 mod) as she lands in a combat stance. In midair, she instructs Kyr strafe the same snake with cursed talons. As Kyr does so, the one attacked snaps at him even as Kyr's talons slam hard against it with a metal clang but don't penetrate. As Kyr continues, the other one snaps at Kyr to hit him in the outer tip of the right wing for 2.

Spoiler: Kyr >>> Imogen

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"The tip of my wing tingles. Poison, but it is too far out to really effect me."

Even though Kyr missed, despite what appeared to be a good attack that was rebuffed by what seem to be metallic scales, there is a strange .... something, almost shadow-like, but not actually affecting lighting .... surrounding Imogen.

R1T22: Lit by one of those ceiling lanterns, the snakes appear to be some type of hooded snake whose scales glint and shimmer brightly as from the finest polished steel or silver. It was a little off-balance from when it attacked Ved but recovers. It spins around and bites Imogen in her left forearm with an incredibly powerful bite (6). The bite threatens to numb her arm, but she was warned of the poison and Imogen quickly sucks blood at the wound and spits it out. Strangely, even though any simple animal would know when it is surrounded and would likely have moved a little, this is truly a dumb animal that doesn't even respond to being flanked.

R1T21: "What kind of snake is this?!" Scathe mutters with equal parts admiration and annoyance. He makes a calculated and dangerous decision and moves past Ved, to which the snakes do not respond much to his movement, and gets into position with Imogen. Seeing how the scales gave Kyr's talons trouble, he goes for precision over power with his bastard sword, but then ends up missing wildly.

R1T20: Saiden, what do you do?