For a brief moment, very brief, the malice begins to ooze underneath the valve. The pipes it used to reach the surface of the platform were empty, after all! It was a prime way to reach it! Between Zuko stabbing at it with a spear more powerful than it has any right to be, and Sheila handling the valve, it's forced to retreat for a moment, to gather and get enough of itself to burst up the valve or destroy the base of the platform. Zuko losing his balance and tripping gives it the chance to grab him, though. Taking the ankle of the leg without the robot arm attached to it, the malice pushes it, making him slip forward, smacking his forehead against the valve. Zuko falls to the floor, dizzied. Not a concussion, thankfully, but he certainly is seeing double right now. That's going to make things harder for him for a bit!
Sheila will find that yes! She can turn it with her hands! She manages to turn it a little, and when she does...
Many things happen at once. Water begins to leak from pipes on the walls -- metallic pipes, heavy and sturdy -- leaking droplets towards the bottom of the chamber. At the same time there's a hissing in the inner workings of the platform beneath, like air rushing through. It's faint, but it's there. You hear pumps working underneath you.
Sebastian and Bradley may have seen the malice get pushed out of the pillar, the pipes full of wind. It doesn't get to try to get in there again before Bradley fires a, well, fire arrow at it, blazes appearing on the surface of the malice, enraging it! Sebastian over there aims at eyes, hitting it with balls of fire, making the malice retreat before a surge of it leaps forward attempting to reach, but it's useless, they all are too far away right now.
No, this won't do. Attack the pillar again, destroy it so the platform falls and everyone is easy pickings, sneak again into the valve if at any moment the wind and water stops, it wants to reach up there no matter what! Some of the base is ripped apart more, the malice looking for weak points to exploit, anything so it can reach and tear everyone apart!
Given the roll of [1] it doesn't attack them directly, too focused on its current plan to make a secondary attack of any sort at them all.
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Sheila will find that yes! She can turn it with her hands! She manages to turn it a little, and when she does...
Many things happen at once. Water begins to leak from pipes on the walls -- metallic pipes, heavy and sturdy -- leaking droplets towards the bottom of the chamber. At the same time there's a hissing in the inner workings of the platform beneath, like air rushing through. It's faint, but it's there. You hear pumps working underneath you.
Sebastian and Bradley may have seen the malice get pushed out of the pillar, the pipes full of wind. It doesn't get to try to get in there again before Bradley fires a, well, fire arrow at it, blazes appearing on the surface of the malice, enraging it! Sebastian over there aims at eyes, hitting it with balls of fire, making the malice retreat before a surge of it leaps forward attempting to reach, but it's useless, they all are too far away right now.
No, this won't do. Attack the pillar again, destroy it so the platform falls and everyone is easy pickings, sneak again into the valve if at any moment the wind and water stops, it wants to reach up there no matter what! Some of the base is ripped apart more, the malice looking for weak points to exploit, anything so it can reach and tear everyone apart!
Given the roll of [1] it doesn't attack them directly, too focused on its current plan to make a secondary attack of any sort at them all.