Both Siri and Twig find their marks. Both tentacles begin to withdraw but even more start coming up the sides of the bridge. The two goats run for it and make it safely off and halfway up the hill.
Gades reaches the still unconscious sphinx.
There are at least ten tentacles coming up from beneath the bridge: four on one side and six on the other that you can see.
[may as well keep plonking away at it - it's bound to run out of HP eventually]
Twig sends another arrow into the mass of tentacles.
[18+16=34; damage=8+8=16]
[to Gades:]"Just hog-tie the thing if you're worried about it waking up. We have another beastie to worry about."
[hit: 20(!) +8=28, aaand 11+8=19 to confirm
damage: 8. I don't entirely understand crit: if it doubles the result on the dice, it's 14. If it doubles all the weapon damage (including STR and magic bonuses), 16.]
Two tentacles sink beneath the bridge, one looking particularly bad. Several more start up as the existing eight begin to writhe around on the bridge deck. One finds a spindle and yanks it out then pulls it under the bridge.
[Spot checks, please! And yes, you can keep right on attacking the thing. ]
Twig 'kills' two more tentacles and they retreat. Gades notices that one of the tentacles coming up from the water has an arrow already stuck in it, yet it doesn't seem overly affected. Several more emerge, they all seem to be blindly searching the bridge.
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