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Smouldering skeletal dreadsteed
Clad in fatigued barding, the skeletal dreadsteed is an ossified vestige of a powerful steed. Bits of dried flesh cling to the bones, but its ribcage is an open ruin that holds a twisting, nebulous orb of phantasmal blue flame. More cerulean fire sprouts from its skull, neck, and hinquarters as an unearthly mane and tail. Its bony hooves are shod in old steel.
Hunting Strategies
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Combat Messaging
- Bite (attack)
A smouldering skeletal dreadsteed opens its skeletal maw and tries to bite you!
AS: +520 vs DS: +582 with AvD: +34 + d100 roll: +67 = +39
A clean miss.
- Charge (attack)
A smouldering skeletal dreadsteed gallops into a deadly charge at you!
AS: +530 vs DS: +595 with AvD: +31 + d100 roll: +45 = +11
A clean miss.
- Stomp (attack)
A smouldering skeletal dreadsteed rears up onto its ossified hind legs and kicks at you with steel-shod hooves!
AS: +520 vs DS: +615 with AvD: +44 + d100 roll: +65 = +14
A clean miss.
- Feint
[SMR result: 159 (Open d100: 90, Bonus: 57)]
A smouldering skeletal dreadsteed feints to the right, you spot the ruse too late as you twist awkwardly to block the blow that never came!
Roundtime: 7 sec.
- Headbutt
A smouldering skeletal dreadsteed charges towards you and attempts a headbutt!
[SMR result: 32 (Open d100: 12)]
You manage to dodge a smouldering skeletal dreadsteed's headbutt in the nick of time!
- Charge Maneuver
A smouldering skeletal dreadsteed scrapes at the ground with a steel-shod hoof, sending off a coruscation of sparks as it glares at you with eyes like burning sulphur. It charges forward at a breakneck pace, leaving fiery hoofprints behind!
[SMR result: 129 (Open d100: 126)]
The dreadsteed barrels into you at full speed!
Your body resists the impacting damage and lessens the severity of the attack!
... 15 points of damage!
Nasty blow to your neck!
You are stunned for 3 rounds!
Roundtime: 10 sec.
Momentum carries the dreadsteed northward, dragging you painfully behind it!
- Flaming Aura (1706)
The flaming aura surrounding a smouldering skeletal dreadsteed lashes out at you!
[SMR result: 188 (Open d100: 165, Bonus: 22)]
Your body resists the burning damage and lessens the severity of the attack!
... 2 points of damage!
Minor burns to neck. Feels uncomfortable.
Other Information
- Appearance
You see a fairly typical skeletal dreadsteed.
It appears to be in good shape.
It has some black steel chain barding (worn).
- Entering
A smouldering skeletal dreadsteed canters in, azure sparks flying from its fiery mane.
A smouldering skeletal dreadsteed canters in, ridden by an infernal death knight.
- Leaving
- Death
You hear a sound like a child weeping as a white glow separates itself from the skeletal dreadsteed's body and rises into the heavens.
A smouldering skeletal dreadsteed's head tosses and it lets out a terrible death whinny that slices coldly through the air. It sags, lifeless, the blue flames of its mane winking out one by one.
The licks of blue flame surrounding a smouldering skeletal dreadsteed flare up one last time before vanishing with a staticky crackle.
- Decay
Cracks spread through a smouldering skeletal dreadsteed's bony form as fingers of rust race to consume its barding. Within moments, naught remains but a commingling of dust, ruddy and pale.
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