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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nail" data-source="post: 1282824" data-attributes="member: 224">The End of the Big BattleSession #20, part 3: "Calebbleed bleeds"RL evening of Oct 29, 2003"I'm in front this time, Riva.," Rowan warned.  At least that's what she would have said, if she weren't in her wildshaped form of a black bear.  What came out instead was a sort of moderated growl.  Riva took the hint, especially considering the plentiful injuries he had already sustained, and fell into place behind the bear.The adventurers moved forward cautiously.  Calebbleed was no longer popping out and shooting his arrows.  He must be lying in wait for them, further ahead.  The rough passage, formed from boulders of the collapsed ceiling, wound its way some 25 feet, then opened up into an intersection.  Rowan's bear-form nose told her that Calebbleed was down the narrow passage to the left.  To the right was a carved passage, 5 feet wide and 8 feet tall.  This one had apparently escaped the destruction that had caused the collapse, centuries ago.  For now, the adventurers ignored it, and pressed on through the narrower passage.It ended by going past a pile of rubble and out into a huge and long domed hall.  They crept forward, and, as if on cue, Calebbleed leapt out from the pile of rubble and slashed at Rowan with blade, fang and claw.And once again, as had happened when the hell-spawn had surprised Garret on the stairs above, most of his attacks were wide of the mark.But still, he blocked the crude doorway, so that it was just he and Rowan, face-to-face.  Her companions could do little but crowd the passage behind the bear.Calebbleed was unhurt, and a capable combatant.  Rowan was already wounded, without spells, and in an animal form she was still getting used to.  A smile crept across Calebbleed's gory visage, as he prepared to strike again.Then Rowan bull-rushed him into a pit.Her charge was ferocious and overwhelming.  The goblin leader was able to strike her as she opened herself up with her charge, but it was not enough.  She slammed him back over 10 feet, his claws scraped against the stone.....and then over he went, into a pit Rowan had not known was there.  (How lucky is that?)Too bad the pit was only 4 feet deep.  Too bad for Calebbleed, that is.The pit was more like a trough, about five foot wide, almost as deep, and extending nearly the length of the long room.  A trickle of water fell out of a round hole in the domed ceiling into the pit....perhaps once the flow had been enough to keep the pit filled, but now there were only a few inches of putrid water at the bottom.  Nowadays, it wasn't so much a "bath" as it was a goblin latrine.As the goblin leader lifted his face out of the muck, Riva, Kytum-up, Garret, and Rowan surrounded him along the near edges of the pit.  If he got up, they would be able to take advantage of the opportunity, and attack.  The goblin leader thought better of it, apparently. He tumbled a short distance to get out of reach of those he could, then launched himself into the air.  Even with this, several of the heroes got off swipes at him as he flew past.  Retreating still further, Calebbleed flew down the length of the room, then dived through a large opening in the wall.End of Session #20 </blockquote>

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