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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carnifex" data-source="post: 127524" data-attributes="member: 227">The Toranites fan out into the room; the big, burly form of the armoured priest they had encountered earlier, the more slender form of a red-armoured woman, and three plate-clad zealots wielding battleaxes and flails. They issue a demand for Burl as they smash up some of the furniture and the other customers in the tavern scurry out, and the party leaps into action. Kale approaches the foe as if to talk but then hurls his beer mug at the helm of one of the zealots, surprising him and sending him reeling; Wolf quickly draws his sword, Burl runs up the stairs to the first floor of the inn, and Wyshira moves onto the stairs to block anyone moving after him.Faster than Kale thought the man could move, the male priest grabs the mercenary in one gauntleted hand round his neck, and picks him clear off the floor; Kale dangles there, barbed gauntlet biting into his neck and doing severe damage. Desperately fumbling in a pouch, he finally pulls out the vial of fluoric acid that he had purchased off Garadas the alchemist, and flings it in the mans face. Some hisses as it corrodes into the war helm but some sloshes through the visor onto the Toranites concealed face, and he lashes out, letting Kale go and throwing him several feet to land in a pile of smashed furniture. As the cleric stumbles about, the armoured woman runs up and mutters a spell to heal him; he hruls threats at Kale, but from the gurgling sound of his voice and the threads of foul slime dirbbling out of his helmet, the acid has still done some serious damage.Wyshira has charged down from the stairs to aid Kale but is intercepted by one of the zealots and wounded by his flail. In return, a quick cause fear spell sens him running as she takes on the fearsome storm aspect of her goddess. Burl comes back down the stairs, but when his daze spell proves unable to make the armoured priest even flinch he runs back up, narrowly avoiding a chair hurled at him by the woman in a surge of strength. Upstairs, he runs about trying to find an exit out, and decides to try and cause confusion by telling the remaining occupants of rooms up there that a fire has broken out down below.In the taproom, Wolf leaps across tables to battle the other two zealots. One injures him, but then in a confusing display of swordplay he hooks the battleaze of one of his opponents out of their hands - and into his! As he proceeds to bury the weapon back in the chest of its owner, Kale flanks the other warrior and with his acidic brine blade they finish him off before the priest reaches them.Seeing the battle is lost, the female priest advises her leader to retreat, and he reluctantly does so, hurling some last few threats at Kale as he goes. The four are left in the devastated taproom where barely a single piece of furniture has survived intact, and as onlookers begin to arrive it seems time to scarper, especially when Wolf mentions that the protector of the town is a powerful Flame Guildsman of Warlock rank. They flee into the streets, but unsure of exactly what the hell they're up against here, they don't know if the gate guards will be waiting to stop them. As it is, they pass out of the town into the night without incident, fleeing to the secluded spot which Wyshira had found earlier with the intention to spend the night there.</blockquote>

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