The most important part of that reply was the way it cut off in a hurry! For better or for worse, Popp's quick to act in times of danger, and immediately flies at top speed in the direction of Mithrun's fading voice just in time to get a branch right through his arm. He crashes with a yelp, putting him outside of the ID's threat range long enough for it to get its tentacles exactly where nobody but the ID wants them to be.
This is far from an incapacitating wound by Popp's standards, and he shows up properly to the rescue complaining about Mithrun's aim and also his audacity at stealing Popp's role as the bait, not that he minds fighting but you could have given him a heads up, for crying out loud...
Look, there's smarter ways to do this but first of all he is panicking a little bit because this is very alarming to watch and he would like it to stop, second of all shut up, third of all it's not like the side effects have been that bad just crazy painful for a bit with some emotional trauma every single time - fourth of all see point two, again, he's... not blasting it away with the strongest explosion he's got because it's on Mithrun's head, actually! He's not that reckless!
What he does do is turn his forearms into dragon claws and tears into it like a wet paper bag, which is super gross and not actually the grossest dragon mauling he's been party to! It does start strangling his fellow idiot wizard in retaliation, but a mouth full of paralytic poison takes care of that and lets Popp finish the job!
(...Some may have gotten on Mithrun. It's. It's fine. He's already unconscious he probably won't notice...)
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This is far from an incapacitating wound by Popp's standards, and he shows up properly to the rescue complaining about Mithrun's aim and also his audacity at stealing Popp's role as the bait, not that he minds fighting but you could have given him a heads up, for crying out loud...
Look, there's smarter ways to do this but first of all he is panicking a little bit because this is very alarming to watch and he would like it to stop, second of all shut up, third of all it's not like the side effects have been that bad just crazy painful for a bit with some emotional trauma every single time - fourth of all see point two, again, he's... not blasting it away with the strongest explosion he's got because it's on Mithrun's head, actually! He's not that reckless!
What he does do is turn his forearms into dragon claws and tears into it like a wet paper bag, which is super gross and not actually the grossest dragon mauling he's been party to! It does start strangling his fellow idiot wizard in retaliation, but a mouth full of paralytic poison takes care of that and lets Popp finish the job!
(...Some may have gotten on Mithrun. It's. It's fine. He's already unconscious he probably won't notice...)