"Watch out!" Tom calls to her.

She looks in the direction he's pointing and startles and dodge rolls away. From, uh, again, nothing at all.

The snake takes the opportunity of both of their distractions to body slam both of them. A lot more weakly than it would've were it not slowed, granted, but it's still huge.

"How many fucking heads does this thing have," she growls.

The lightning bolt goes off, though, and the snake gets paralysed and starts to twitch in place.

"It only has two fucking heads! Are you both high? Chris, bisect the damn thing now!"

"...right, just two, why..."

"Chris!"

She blocks.

This time it's a real blow.

"Stun!" she yells, hitting the snake with the flat side of her axe on the head.

It gets obligingly stunned.

Alright, she'll try to bisect—

She can sure fucking try but this snake's hide is not any less thick than that of the other monsters in this dungeon. Which means she gets a few inches in and might get further with more hits.

Elisabel is gonna get on drawing up an oomphier lightning bolt. It's spendy but she was expecting slightly more help. What is Tom even doing?

Limping, mostly, but at the same time he seems to be channeling something into his two pistols, muttering under his breath as he does.

The monster starts recovering its ability to move.

Chris jumps to the side as if something just startled her then turns back to the snake to keep hacking at the same location.

"Are you seeing things?" Elisabel exclaims, zapping the monster again.

"—fuck I am—except—not seeing—"

One particular violent spasm by the monster sends her flying at the nearest tree trunk, hard enough to crack it and bend it a bit.

"Fuck you!" Tom cries, and something that looks like a barrage of laser bullets shoots from both of his pistols at the weak spot Chris has been creating.

(The thing you say out loud when using a skill doesn't need to sound like a skill name, after all.)

It starts stirring way more quickly than after the first lightning bolt, though, and its heads start to cast things menacingly.

"Fucking—ow—" Chris peels herself off the tree and tries leaping towards the monster again, but the leap is noticeably underpowered.

Why did the second larger bolt not last as long, does it have some kind of adaptive shit. She will try a force effect instead this time.