(She glances down at the tricorder for a moment, brow furrowed. Poisonous tentacles? Yuck.
The chuul takes its third strike against the shield and Lucretia's attention snaps back to it. She'd been about to make a shrewd comment about its 'sapience', but her magic won't withstand all the blows in the world if it decides to stand there and brute force its way through.)
Okay.
(She's thinking, thinking. Even though it's a nasty looking thing she has an automatic hesitance to kill it, but then again... if it attacks without provocation like this, it's probably better off not being around in future. Lucretia nods, and takes a step forward until she's standing protectively in front of Beverly. When she speaks, her voice is calm, calculating.)
I'm going to blind it. We'll retreat, leave the shield where it is as a decoy and get ground advantage over it so I can use a delayed blast to finish it off. Don't look directly into the light, keep your head down.
(She lifts her palm to cast sunbeam in a wide, glancing arc. It spreads a little wider than she intended but that only serves to fully catch the chuul in its radius and it shrieks, reeling back from the powerful blast of light.)
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The chuul takes its third strike against the shield and Lucretia's attention snaps back to it. She'd been about to make a shrewd comment about its 'sapience', but her magic won't withstand all the blows in the world if it decides to stand there and brute force its way through.)
Okay.
(She's thinking, thinking. Even though it's a nasty looking thing she has an automatic hesitance to kill it, but then again... if it attacks without provocation like this, it's probably better off not being around in future. Lucretia nods, and takes a step forward until she's standing protectively in front of Beverly. When she speaks, her voice is calm, calculating.)
I'm going to blind it. We'll retreat, leave the shield where it is as a decoy and get ground advantage over it so I can use a delayed blast to finish it off. Don't look directly into the light, keep your head down.
(She lifts her palm to cast sunbeam in a wide, glancing arc. It spreads a little wider than she intended but that only serves to fully catch the chuul in its radius and it shrieks, reeling back from the powerful blast of light.)
Okay, go.