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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 4900497" data-attributes="member: 3285">Castle Ambrose: Part 25 – Earth and The Third Guardian“Down!” shouted Vlad.Foot-long spikes jutted through his shield.  A man-faced lion with bat wings and a spiked tail paced before them.“Manticore,” said Sebastian.  “Now you tell us,” said Beldin.  A spike protruded from his shoulder. With a roar, the manticore batted Beldin’s shield aside, forcing the dwarf to backpedal. Sebastian drove it back with a blast of fire from his hands.Vlad threw his shield down, useless with all the spikes protruding from it, and wielded Grungronazharr with both hands.  “Come on then!”The manticore hesitated.  Then it bounded forward, wings spread wide.Vlad slid under its paws as it passed, thrusting his blade upwards.  The manticore’s forward motion eviscerated it.  It landed, all too human-like face twisted in agony before Sebastian.Beldin yanked the spike out of his shoulder and opened the door to the right.  “Great,” said Vlad.The hallway was filled with mud.Beldin stepped out onto the surface.  Thanks to Cho Sun’s ring, he didn’t sink.Sebastian flapped his way in, hovering aloft. With a deep sigh, Vlad waded into the muck, waist deep.Beldin paused.  “I may be able to help.”  He concentrated, and the mud sluiced to either side, providing a sticky but firmer path to the door at the far end of the hallway.“Careful,” said Sebastian.  “It won’t be that easy.”Like the fire elemental before, the mud on either side of the hallway suddenly collapsed together to form vaguely humanoid shape with dark mud for eyes.  Sebastian was ready.  He blasted it with flames, but the magic dissipated harmlessly off of it. “Mud golem!” he said.  “It has to be.”There was a moment where the mud golem loomed over Vlad.  Then he disappeared inside it as the thing engulfed him.Sebastian started an incantation and stopped.  “I may hurt him!”Beldin growled.  “You want to eat somebody?  Eat me!”  The dwarf easily ducked beneath the golem’s clumsy swing as he charged straight into the thing’s body.  With a ferocious body slam, Beldin knocked Vlad out the back of the golem, taking his place.Vlad sputtered.  “What the hell did he do that for? I had it under control!”The golem suddenly froze. Its ballooned outwards as large bubbles appeared in the mud that constitutes its body.  Then it burst, spattering everyone with mud. Beldin stood unharmed with arms outstretched in the center.“Thanks, Cho Sun,” muttered Vlad.</blockquote>

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