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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 606401" data-attributes="member: 1210">The party springs into action.  Sheva steps forward, one of her greatswords flashing down in a terrible arc and severing the strand holding Angel fast.  She can hear Horbin invoking Dexter behind her somewhere and Alcar moving in, but she's too busy to pay attention.  Suddenly thin, almost-invisible strands are blurring through the air all around her and Angel- and several thwack onto her fiery friend.  He slashes through one of them with his falchion's keen blade; it parts, but more are still attached to him.  A shortspear flies over him from someone further back in the party and he feels himself being pulled forward, jerked almost off his feet.Then Angel hears Alcar cry out, "Don't worry, I'll protect you!" and a wall of blazing orange fire springs up just behind the creature's body.  It gives a terrible cry and writhes, its strands whipping about even faster than before.  One of them slaps onto Sheva's arm, but she whips her blade through it and frees herself, then leaps, rolls, and tumbles in next to the monster, giving it a terrific blow as she does.  The creature turns to face her, its slavering maw opening wide.  Little flames are running along its backside, where the wall of flames is clearing inflicting terrible damage to it.  The beast's mouth gapes open, as large as Sheva's entire head, and it leans forward.  The priestess of Coila braces herself for the blow-And then Angel's blade emerges from the monster, and he's there in all his copper-skinned glory, ramming the falchion's tip all the way through the creature's body.  Another terrible shriek and it dies.Alcar's flying in to attack it, but as he gets close it falls, so he shrugs and flies headlong through the flaming wall.  It tickles as he does so.  Angel, seeing this, hmphs and tumbles through it himself.  The two are in a short hallway with a chamber at the end, and both enter it at almost the same moment, competing to be first.  The room's full of rubble and broken stones, and there's a moment's hesitation as they look for trouble."Maybe I'll protect you," Angel says with a smile, and leaps forward.  Something big's slithering in the rubble... and then it bursts into the open.  A large serpentine head strikes out, biting Angel.  He grunts in pain, feeling the fangs inject venom into his thigh, but then grunts again in surprise as the snake's rear end moves into view- and it's also got a head!  The second head strikes as well, and only Angel's animal-quick reflexes save him from a second deadly bite.Alcar joins the battle with a heavy mace blow, and it goes back and forth for a moment, the two-headed snake spitting an explosive spray of toxic bile at them.  But it's no match for the angel and Angel, and the fiery Coila-worshiper quickly slices it cleanly in half.  "It appears it's two for me and none for you," Angel smirks.  "Who's protecting who?"Next Time: Will Angel stay aheah in the protection scorecard?  And what lurks in the privy?  Find out soon!</blockquote>

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