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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 4758576" data-attributes="member: 3285">Serpentine Path: Part 10b – Run for It!Beldin and Vlad slammed into the first wave of barbed tail ss’ressen.  The lizards were hissing and spitting, fighting with terrible ferocity. Vlad smashed into one with his shield and stabbed upwards, but his estimation of lizard anatomy was off.  The ss’ressen batted aside Vlad’s shield with its club.Vlad grunted and whirled, only to see Beldin hack the legs out from one of the advancing ss’ressen.  Kham became a whirlwind of slices and cuts.  He ducked low and high, slashing with his saber and plunging his dagger into a nearby ss’ressen, who staggered backwards. The ss’ressen swung its tail at Vlad.  He blocked the blow with his shield and with a mighty hack, chopped the lizard’s tail clean off.  As it shrieked in agony, he plunged Grungronazharr through its throat.Kham dove and rolled, sheathing his blades as he did so.  When the val came up, he was directly beneath a surprised ss’ressen.  It faced down two pistols…Ilmarė fired arrow after arrow.  Two pierced the eye sockets of a ss’ressen, but it clawed in blind rage towards her. Beldin swung Windcutter in a wide arc before him, knocking two ss’ressen backwards.  Another ss’rsessen to his left exploded up into the air as Kham’s pistols discharged into its chest at point blank range.  It fell backwards into its companions in a bloody spray.“There’s too many!” shouted Ilmarė.  She drew her thinblade and speared the blind ss’ressen through the heart.  Unlike Vlad, she knew lizard anatomy all too well. “We need to clear a path!”Ss’ressen and rubble exploded upwards like tossed rag dolls as Sebastian’s fireball blasted through their ranks.  Shrieks and hisses echoed through the smoke and the charred stench of dead ss’ressen filled the air.”Will that do?” asked Sebastian.  They charged through the opening into the citadel beyond.</blockquote>

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