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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iron Chef BBQ" data-source="post: 1151904" data-attributes="member: 1844">Salamander BBQ (end of run 09-16-03)They crest the hill and find themselves looking down into a coulee where they spy three men wearing Stonefell crests.  They are being menaced by four enourmous red creatures, skin aflame.  The largest has a crest on its head.  They carry spears that coruscate with flames.Borin dismounts and rushes down the valley wall while Caerwyn rides down on horseback swinging his great sword.  Kel holds back only long enough for Marja to haste him, watching as Borin attacks the nearest salamander and Caerwyn moves in to flank.Kalina casts creeping cold, gently blowing across her hands.  Her chill breath smokes as it rolls along the ground gathering moisture.  The breeze strikes a salamander in the chest, and it howls in pain and annoyance.  Kel casts bull’s strength and charges down upon the creature wielding his heavy lance tearing a hole in the creature’s side which almost springs shut with flames, but not quite.  He swings again with his new long sword slicing up through the flames and then back again cutting the beast in half.  It falls silently to the ground, its flames dying out.The salamanders attack killing two of the Stonefell guards.  Caerwyn is pierced twice by a flaming spear, and Borin is thrown backwards from the lash of a giant flaming tail.Lucre and Terri race their horses into combat.  Lucre’s arms stretch across the distance grabbing and sundering one of the flaming spears.  Borin is back on his feet and brings his great axe down across a giant tail, cutting three feet of it off.Marja aims at the salamander farthest away and launches two ice knives which hit the creature in the chest causing it to wail piteously.  She shoots again, but misses splashing Kel in the process.  One last ice knife hurls through the air hitting the creature in the throat.  Momentarily its flames freeze over, then they extinguish as the creature falls to the ground.Again the creatures attack, ganging up on Borin hitting him with their tails.  Borin rages and attacks, cutting the large ridge-backed one in half.  In one fluid movement he spins the axe in his hand and swings down into the chest of the only one not yet wounded.  It howls scorching the ground with its hot breath.Only one salamander remains standing.  Kalina turns into a fork-tailed swallow, swoops down and brushed against its spear casting rusting grass.  The handle crumbles away.  Kel rides in for a final attack, and the last creature falls.They are left panting in the stillness with the quiet sound of scrub grass crackling in small pockets of flame around them.</blockquote>

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