Boss attacks: Varick and Mozza Wrap Up the Fight

Varick stood on the snow-covered ridge overlooking the valley. Below him, the crystalline wyrm raged out of control. He couldn’t fight this thing head-on, but the horse also couldn’t just let the beast rampage out of control.

 

    “Oh -squeak-! That thing is huge,” Mozza shouted as the two-foot-tall mouse girl ran beside Varick. Snow clung to the green fur on the engineer’s head.

 

    “Looks like it’s going to tear up the entire mountainside if it’s not stopped,” Varick responded as an idea struck him. “If I make something to tangle it up in, do you think you can make it to launch it?”

 

    “I got something in mind that might help,” Mozza smiled as she set to work. Tools and arcane symbols blurred around the mouse-folk as she began converting a fallen tree.

 

While she did that, Varick began unrolling several bolts of fabric from his bag. Where there was once snow, there now was a rainbow of materials. Each one was stitched to the next with extra strong spell threads to keep the whole thing together. Mozza finished building a giant catapult and sat beside it, sweating slightly. Varick had finished sewing and was piling rocks and any other heavy objects he could find on the fabric. Once he judged there was enough, the tailor folded the fabric in half and sewed it shut.

 

“There, one makeshift weighted blanket,” Varick laughed as he loaded his creation into the catapult.

 

“Just what a grumpy old wyrm needs to lull it to sleep,” Mozza smirked as she fired the siege weapon at the serpent dragon. It was a direct hit to the beast as the blanket projectile flew, wrapping up the crystal menace. As the beast tried to fight off the blanket, it only got entrapped more. Soon the wyrm was in peaceful sleep, held firmly under the improvised blanket.

 

“Drinks on me at the inn,” Varick tells Mozza as the duo starts to walk away with the day saved.

 

    “You don’t have to offer twice,” the Mouse engineer exclaimed as she ran for the inn.