A wall of players rushed forward into the fog as Muriel arrived, every man woman and child raised their arms in combat and began their push. Many did stay back though, whether out of fear or tactic, with a sense of anticipation for the first wave of players to meet Muriel. Arinda and Hatsu led the charge a decent distance ahead of the horde, but to a lack of heavy support it would be nearly useless. Muriel emerged from the thick of the fog before Arinda and Hatsu, smashing her massive claw to the ground like a chitin wall, while her feminine figure spun the trident around her upper center and then cast one of the trident heads downwards at the pair, leaving the other end standing tall and upright in the air like a signaling flag, while her smaller claw whipped forward at a small group of players that had caught up to the halted pair. The heavier units threw up a defense against the smaller arm, but it still whipped with enough force to send one of the lighter shield units flying back several feet, and was then left bracing against the arm and trying to push back on it while Muriel used it to distract that small group. She lifted her double-headed trident once more and began unleashing a flurry of pool stick-like pot-shots at the horde of players around. Several of these shots killed the lighter players in a single strike, and several of these shots were met with heavy armor or heavy shields. She began to focus her trident strikes on the more easily dispatched lighter players, while occupying the heavier units with her massive claw, which she began to use like a massive tank, by sliding it back and forth to push the horde back and away from her position. Her body reared up as the horde began to enclose around her and her legs lashed out with heavy stomps as her body fell back down, and a good fraction of the raid party fell as well. The massive amount of damage she was able to deal with wide attacks, heavy hits, and sweeping tactics caused some of the raid party to run in sheer terror of a frontal assault and maneuvered around behind her. Once there they began to jump onto her back and attempt to strike at her more humanoid-half. This was a general failure though, because the moment any of them jumped onto her back she would began to cycle her trident around her figure and either kill the players, or at least fling them off of her once more. Everything seemed faulty, frontal assault, attack from behind, flanking, it all seemed useless, but even with her attacks several smaller groups were able to get hits in as she would be preparing to start another attack. That was her biggest weakness, her moves could decimate the grand majority of the payers in single hit without a good defense to stop them, but her moves were slow to initiate and left small windows open between each strike or movement. 

Rorik had launched himself just to the side of Arinda and Hatsu, his body beside their, but his shield before them taking the initial strike Muriel had cast at them. The massive trident slid off of Rorik's defense and into the ground and then he slid himself in front of them with his shield ready, while he raised his hammer over his head and then dropped it on the wall of a claw she had dropped before them. His hammer impacted thick shell and then bounced off leaving little more then a skid mark in it's place. He gritted his teeth and braced his body, while a few other heavy units joined him and prepared their shields for her enlarged appendage. They stood stalwart as she raised her body up into the air and flailed out with her legs, one of which connected with Rorik and caused his foot-hold to slide back a short distance, but he quickly stepped forward and back up to the line where he unleashed another hammer strike at her settling leg, which collided with the curled joint and created a small burst of red light to flash and remain radiant on her form. He then quickly braced again as her trident shots had made their way from one side of the horde to the other, and then began to go back once more. None of the shots were ever aimed at Rorik, but they did hit and kill a few players at his side, which thinned the shield wall occupying the large claw.

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Muriel the Queen of the Bog
Classification: Savage Beast-Humanoid
Hit Points: 39,500
Armor Rating: 650
Strength: 200

Combat Personality: Aggressive Defensive.
Combat Tactics: Perimeter Sweeps, Wide Pushes, AoE Environmental Attacks.[/hider]