Episode 2

Sizhen
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Sizhen glides in and throws the chain with perfect timing, one time and then again, two heavy loops rattle around the monster's neck just to the right of the chandelier wheel still locked on its back.

Acting quickly, Sizhen jerks the chain tight, eliminating the slack. The chain locks into place, constricting the Golem's neck beneath its wide carved hair rim, digging deeply into the chopped divot on the right side of it head and neck.

The Golem is too strong to be pulled backwards even an inch, but it does seem to acknowledge the constriction of the change. Still holding Trece in its right hand, the Golem tries to reach up with its obstructed left hand. It seeks to grip the chain, but it is wrapped too tightly for the Golem's big fingers to find hold.

The chain begins to bite into the neck, the links sinking ever so slightly into the clay.

Critical success on Pt of Chain Trap, weaponized option.
Unsuccessful on Damaging Hold.

Bryn
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When the chain loops and tighten's on the giant's neck, it steps out in a wide but low stance to shift and try to reach the chain. Bryn sees a real opening.

Raising his knife high over head, Bryn leaps forward and drives the knife down in a fast piercing stab. The blade dives deep into the Golem's right knee, which it has bent at a strong angle. As Bryn angles the knife in and chipping outward, a sizable glob of clay crumbles free from the lower limb joint. A curved block of the knee thuds to the stone floor.

Attack 1 with SA: Hit

The monster shifts awkwardly, pulling the knee back to reset its stance, but feeling the loss of material when it puts full weight onto the damaged let.

The Golem stumbles!

And when it does Bryn drives his other knife right into its low dipping neck, stabbing into the clay just above Sizhen's chain wrap. Another chunk of clay breaks free and splinters out into the air.

Attack 2 Hit

Kray closes the distance and takes hold of the man. With the knife and threats, Kray has the man paralyzed in silence and fear.

Intimidation successful.

Now at the door to the room, Kray sees inside. On the bed lies an old man, painted with costume make-up and wearing a gaudy colorful robe. The old man is making quiet indecipherable mumbling and a younger thin man, an invisible servant, is leaning over him listening and speaking back to him.

The black robed young man jerks his head up to lock eyes with Kray. He also sees the knife. The look on his face conveys his surprise and confusion.

Sizhen and Trece
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When Sizhen pulls back on the chain with all of his might, leaning into the strain, the chain begins to dig into the clay around the Golem's neck, especially cutting into the right side divot that Bryn cut free earlier.

The Golem tries to correct the strain. It cannot reach the chain around its neck with its obstructed left hand and its right hand is committed to manhandling Trece. It seems indecisive as it shift and begins to wind up again to swing Trece into the ground.

And that is when the young Seetan makes his move.

He has already seen the chain cutting into the neck. He has already felt the crack in the structure. He just needs position and leverage now.

When Kray presses the knife to the fat poet's neck and demands silence from the servant across the room, the poet assists. The chubby speaker, wide-eyed and terrified, calls out to his comrade, speaking quietly but frantically.

Kray is so focused on the situation, he cannot even begin to understand the translation from Heshbaan. The servant in the room though freezes at first, his eyes as big as saucers.

Then Ivor walks in.

The young man puts his hands up and backs up against the wall. Speaking not a word. Fully compliant.

The poet, knife still at his neck, turns back to Kray, sweat beading on his brow instantly. In Youric, he says, "We are quiet. We will do what you say. Do not. Please. Please, do not kill me."

Intimidation successful.

Trece
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Trece uses his legs to move to position, gripping with one foot under the Golem's shoulder and the other set on it's midsection to provide stability.

His first strike is a full force hooking strike, coming around wide from the left. With all of the weight shift that he can manage, Trece lands a devastating hit directly into the inner clay core that is exposed by the divot in the right edge of the Golem's neck and hair.

Trece feels the shockwave of force pulse through the structure. Again he hears a dull crack.

Gauging the fault line of the weakness, he sends a counter-angled swing in hard from the right, connecting at the front corner of the monster's jaw. When his fist connects, there is a surge of pain that Trece expects, but the effect is delivered: a visible crack line emerges on the surface of the Golem's neck, wrapping all the way from the right divot to the front and around as far as Trece can see to the Golem's left side.

Hit, Hit

The Golem shudders, and Trece can feel the right arm that is holding him weaken. With only a brief moment to shift his weight, Trece squares his shoulders at the Golem's wide face and unleashes an onslaught of powerful strikes. Blow after blow, heaving with the force of his shoulders and upper body pivoting with every strike, the young Seetan delivers pounding force directly into the heavy head of the monster.

Hit, Miss, Miss, Hit

Hit with a powerful left in the right cheek, the Golem's head twists hard right and breaks on the neck axis. The movement is small though because the head is so heavy.

But then Sizhen's chain crumbles through, sliding in and disappearing deep into the clay. The Golem's head, face frozen now, stays for a moment twisted awkwardly, still sitting on the broad based shoulders.

The body shifts though. As the hand and arms fail, Trece pulls himself free to deliver the next strike already in motion. His right hand connects broadside against the Golem's left temple. With the foundation broken now, the force of the blow drives the head directly backwards, dragging along at the bottom where it sits on the shoulder frame. It tilts off the back, falling off at an angle over the right shoulder. The chain pulls completely free and slides to the floor in a noisy rattle of clay-packed metal.

With a dull thud, the Golem's head hits the floor. Still standing, the body surges briefly and then stops. In the last movement, it was almost able to distribute the weight evenly and stabilize.

But not quite.

The body starts to tilt only briefly at first, but as the weight shifts it picks up speed. Like the falling of a great hardwood timber, the once mighty clay Golem falls to the ground in a loud crash.