[ooc] dang, lmsw got his in ahead of me. will have to edit mine to fit his. give me a few mins.[/ooc]
The Needle Arrows that this forest's magic produced were having no effect at all on the ghouls. They seemed to not notice the small holes that went right throught their dead bodies.
Gwyneth concentrated with all her strength to make the arrows thicker, but even at a full Inch in diameter, the holes she was piercing in the ghouls were having minimal effect. After filling one ghoul full of holes, and only being able to disorient it and not kill it, Gwyneth decided that she was wasting her time on the Ghouls.
Maybe she'd have better luck with the Lich.
She camouflaged herself as much as possible, to prevent a quick response from the Lich and while her cloak was growing to match the immediate surroundings, she watched the Lich's fight with the others. It seemed that any attempt to KILL the Lich, magical or otherwise, only made the thing stronger. Like it was absorbing the "Death" that should have finished it's existance.
Then, just as Gwyneth was ready to shoot her first arrow at the Lich, Adriana sliced at the Lich's knees and Gwyneth was surprised to see that such a seemingly simple attack was so effective. The Lich's legs below the knees disintegrated and it was standing on its knees (literaly).
Gwyneth decided, that it was becuase the wolf had tried to HURT the Lich instead of killing it, that the attack had worked so well. She didnt know that Adriana could cut thought magic, and so came out with a simplistic explanation of what had happened.
Gwyneth forced her arrows to grow flat, wide and sharp. And fired one at the Lich's elbow, trying to sever the things right hand. The Lich swung its sword just at the wrong moment and the arrow barely nicked it. Shooting another arrow, this time at the other elbow (hoping it didnt move as fast) Gwyneth hit her mark, and the arrow went right thought the elbo. To Gwyneth's amazement the arm that should have been completely severed, stayed right where it was, and continued to be used by the Lich.
Getting mad at being so useless against these monsters, Gwyneth grew another arrow into her bow, this time she decided to add something to the arrow. She concentrated with all her mind on putting as much energy as she could into the tip of the needle arrow and it burst into flame. She fired the arrow at the Lich, hit its shoulder. The monsters clothing, all rags now, cought fire, but still the thing fought on as if it didnt even notice. As the rag on its shoulder burned off, the flame died down, natural fire was unable to burn the unnatural flesh of the Lich.
The though crossed Gwyneth's mind that what they needed was a sorcerer stong in white healing magic to counter the Undeath spell that made these things come to life in the first place.
That though gave her an idea.
Gwyneth grew another arrow into her bow, and again pumped magic energy into it, but this time she was putting the life of the forest into the arrow. Shooting the arrow at a Ghoul (the Lich had moved to behind a tree in its fight with the others). As the arrow passed though the ghoul it released its magic and fungus started growing from within the wound. In about 5 seconds the ghould was on the ground with fungus, grass and vines growing out of its corpse.
Extatic at her creativity Gwyneth started filling the next arrow with the forest's life.....
After 2 more dead ghouls, Gwyneth noticed that the growth next to her had started to wilt. The flowers were droping their petals and the tree next to her was showering her with dead leaves.
She realized that the magic she was drawing into her arrows was coming from the life around her, and decided that she would break her training and move around while gathering the magic, so as not to drain any one area too much.
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