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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 4599677" data-attributes="member: 3285">I Know Thee Brother: Part 4b – I Smell a RatSomething scampered up Kham’s leg.  “The shaman, Gakyi, is invisible, boss,” squeaked the rat.  “He’s standing over there.”“How do you know that?” asked Kham.“You gonna keep asking questions or you gonna shoot?”Kham shook his head in disbelief that he was listening to a rat.  He drew both of his pistols and fired where the rat pointed with one tiny claw.With a curse, Gakyi shimmered into view.  A bronze amulet in the form of a menacing rat hung from around his neck.Gakyi screeched at Kham, saliva dripping from its jaws, and pointed one long talon at him.  Kham leg’s suddenly froze up on him.“Oh great,” said the rat on Kham’s shoulder.  “He cursed you. I’ll go get help.”“Uh, thanks…?”“Skiz,” said the rat, scampering down Kham’s shoulder.  “Hang tight boss, I’ll be right back.”“I don’t think I can go anywhere,” said Kham.Vlad blocked a swing from Hayden with his shield and spun with his sword, slashing the chest of an adjacent ratman wide open.  The wound closed up as soon as his blade left the wound.Ilmarė fired arrow after arrow at the ratmen.  They would drop, shrieking in pain, only to rise back up again as eyeballs, throats, and chests healed. “Our weapons are useless!” she shouted to no one in particular.Petru hurried over.  Skiz was on his shoulder.   “I brought help!”“That’s great.  Hey Petru, mind joining in the fight?”“If I retaliate, Neroth’s blessing vill be revoked,” said the Nerothian.  “But I can help you.” He put one hand on Kham’s forehead.  His legs unfroze.  “Dere.”“Great,” said Kham, “now if you can just tell us how to kill these things.”Skiz hopped the distance between Petru’s shoulder and Kham’s.  He was a nimble little beast. “Got a silver weapon, boss?” Kham slapped his forehead.  “I KNEW I shouldn’t have sold that dagger!” He turned to Vlad.  “Vlad!  Use your dagger!”Vlad was hard pressed to keep Hayden and two other ratmen at bay.  He ferociously counterattacked with a wide swing that force all three of them backwards, then dropped his shield and drew the dagger the senator had given them so long ago.Before Hayden could recover, Vlad slammed the dagger into the ratman’s face. With a shriek, Hayden collapsed, transforming back into the tanner’s original human form.Kham rummaged around in the sack that had served to hold his armor and weapons when he was in the Canceri prison.  “Now I just need two more pistols…”“I’ll get ‘em boss!” shouted Skiz.  The rat dove into the bag and disappeared.Kham had to abandon his quest as Gakyi, spittle flecking his snout, roared into hand-to-hand combat with a longsword.  Kham blocked it with Talon.  Vlad plunged his sword through another ratman, buying him enough time to yank the dagger out of Hayden’s head.  The rat man kept coming, gnashing and spitting.  Vlad speared the rat through the forehead head with the dagger.  With a long, piteous squeal, it expired.Ilmarė danced backwards as two rat men advanced on her.  The arrows were slowly being pushed out of their bodies as the wounds healed.  “I am really getting tired of this.” She drew her elven thinblade.  Kham blocked Gakyi’s frenzied swing with Talon.  “How you doing in there Skiz?”“Almost…got it…” came a muffled voice from somewhere inside the bag.   “Here!”Kham slashed low and high, forcing Gakyi backwards.  He resheathed his blades.  “Now!”The rat dragged a pistol belt out of the sack.  Kham drew the two pistols, whirled, and fired at the ratmen advancing on Ilmarė.  The dropped, twitching.  “They’ll get back up in a second, boss” said Skiz.“Yeah, I know,” Kham drew his blades again as Gakyi closed the gap between them.  “I’m just buying us time.”“Time for what?” asked Skiz.Vlad slit the throats of both of the prone ratmen before they could recover.  He glared up at Gakyi with a murderous look in his eyes.Gakyi hissed.  Then the shaman threw something to the ground and smoke enveloped him.A silvery blade whistled through the air and into the darkness.  When the smoke cleared, the human that was once Gakyi lay face first on the ground, a silver dagger protruding from the back of his head. “That,” said Kham.</blockquote>

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