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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 4763273" data-attributes="member: 3285">Serpentine Path: Part 11d – The Final StandAgamis ss’ressen plunged through the gate opening and Ilmarė’s volley was met with shrill cries. They were larger than the others, with rudimentary wings and a bright green color.  Some of them, females, had blue scales.  Ilmarė notched another arrow as Shining Patrolmen fired past her with their rifles.A wave of Agamis charged towards them, armed with large blades, whips, and clubs. Ilmarė pierced the ss’ressen with her arrows while Beldin smashed another with his axe.  Vlad caught one in the stomach. The Agamis reared back as one and spat sticky globs of sizzling acid.  Vlad’s shield caught one blast, Beldin’s caught another.  Kham easily dodged aside.With a roar, Sebastian extended his fingers and blasted a ball of flames through the ss’ressen ranks. Then he ducked back behind Beldin.Vlad beheaded an Agamis and black blood spewed forth. A large blue Agamis swung its halberd at Kham.  He ducked, and the monster struck a fellow ss’ressen, then another.  Ilmarė fired two arrows into the blue ss’ressen, causing it to reel back with a cry. Sebastian pointed at another ss’ressen and a magical bolt ripped through its skull. An Agamis swung its whip in circles above its head.  It swung at Ilmarė and she dodged it.  Rubbery dun-colored tentacles sprung up out of the ground between the ss’ressen and the citadel, leaving a slim path for the ss’ressen to pass through. “Herd them towards the center!” shouted Sebastian.Again, the whip-wielding ss’ressen swung and its whip snapped around Beldin’s shield.  Ilmarė fired arrows into the thing as the whip caught fast.  It collapsed. A huge Agamis tore its way through the tentacles and brought its greatclub down at Kham.  He jumped aside, easily dodging in and out of the tentacles like a clown fish in the protective arms of a sea anemone. One ss’ressen grabbed for Sebastian.  Vlad slashed the beast’s hand with Grungronazharr.  It twisted, raising its greatclub and began to swing again when Beldin struck it from the side. The ss’ressen roared and Kham fired both pistols up through its throat, skewering it through the brain. The Agamis stumbled, its hand fumbling towards its mouth where the bullets had penetrated. It stared upward, shocked, and with a long, pained moan, it collapsed to the ground. There was a moment of silence. All the ss’ressen were dead or fled.“It’s over,” said Kham.</blockquote>

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