Beyond the Boss by Drew Seren

Author:Drew Seren [Seren, Drew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mystichawker Press
Published: 2018-12-17T00:00:00+00:00

They made it to the top of the next hill, leaving a swatch of smashed lichen across the tundra. Tufkakes dashed up from the other side, huffing.

He paused and put his hands on his knees, trying to catch his breath. “We’ve got critters all over the place. Mostly bears.”

“Bears?” Horc asked.

“Yeah, massed at the base of the next hill over.” Tufkakes took a long breath, as if to still his breathing. “I’ve never seen that many critters gathered together in a game before. Has to be twenty or thirty of them, just standing there like robots who are waiting for the power to be turned on. Kinda creepy. I’m also getting tired of physical exertion impacting health. I lost a quarter getting back to you guys.”

“Here.” Stanoran’s hands glowed blue, and in the party icons, Tufkakes’ health bar filled.

“Thanks.” Tufkakes gave him a quick grin.

“Seems like no matter which way we go, we’re going to encounter resistance,” Titanya said. “Which do we think will be easier, critters or NPCs?”

“Critters,” several of them said at once.

Horc wasn’t sure how he felt about beating up on a bunch of animals to get across the landscape, but then he reminded himself they were just bits in a computer program. They’d come back as they were originally meant to be. It wasn’t a huge deal.

“Okay. Let’s take out the bears and friends.” Horc looked up to the hill. “I might even have an idea. It’s something I haven’t tried before, but I see it here on my spell list.”

Baladara looked at him and rubbed the pommel of her short sword. “What are you thinking?”

“Traps,” Horc explained as he started walking toward the next hill. “I’ve got a couple of different trap spells I can set. Maybe if I put them in a line, we can have a couple of people go down and get the bears to charge up the hill and get caught in the traps.” He selected a Blazing Pit Trap and looked at its information. “Says in the trap description that they immobilize anything caught in them for five seconds.”

“That’s not much time,” Rambull said from behind Horc. “But if the rest of us are ready with our attacks, it might help take an initial amount of damage off them. Does the spell impact just one mob, or is it an AOE?”

“Area of Effect,” Horc said, then checked the two other trap spells he had but hadn’t used. They were similar, but with different results. One was ice, and the other was concussion. The Concussion Trap had a longer time than the ensnared were immobilized, ten seconds.

“Can you cast multiple traps at one time?” Theodore asked.

“I think,” Horc read back through the spell descriptions and it wasn’t clear if they could be active at the same time or not. They all only lasted up to five minutes, more than enough time to lure some bears into them. “Won’t know until we try.”

“Exactly.” Baladara said. “I’ve also got a couple of delayed spells we can try.

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