[@Wraithblade6] Oh yes, I'm challenging anyone who cares to accept, to convince me of true goodness.
Back to the main point, I had no way of knowing that the spirits were controlling the whole body only by the tongue, my view on possessions was that the spirit needed to control a part of the body if that part was to be moved, so I thought that the spirits were spread throughout the body, add almost impenetrable scales and I got stuck. 

I don't wanna come out as "all knowing"(deja vu) but my character would at least sense an immense spiritual concentration in the tongue.{I'm really regretting building a character based on souls..., should've just gone with a common preacher damn it :P} I mean, MY NAME IS BISHOP, I could very well play the bishop with holy powers and having the power to reincarnate or disintegrate souls like in *Dante's Inferno-PSP game*(same mechanics for all consoles I guess).

[@The Grey Dust] On a side note, when my wires went through the river of souls, the river being solid ice in the physical realm but water in the spiritual one, my wires would have no problem moving through water or pulling the boat up. I just didn't calculate that the river wouldn't let me retrieve the boat and wires since I expected that only the souls of the damned were not allowed to escape it. That was just my logic on how things worked, not a soul expert in contrary to my character.

++Furthermore, I always viewed the serpent as a corpse, with almost nothing of use except the fangs and mouth to attack us. I was half expecting it to fly about or move abnormally for a snake since by my knowledge, the spirits don't need to behave as the beast did when it was alive, because for the beast it was it's only way of movement it's body physically allowed. I hope this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkdrbg4EwGA {0:37-1:28} makes things at least a bit clearer on how I imagined it being. 

Anyway, who is up for slashing it's tongue? Eclipse, would you do the honors? We haven't see you post anything after the beast emerging and attacking us.