Chalik again moves first, coming to Dartis' side and driving his rapier fully through one of the creature's legs. It snarls, and moves to strike at Chalik with its other leg, when Danica's crossbow shot distracts it by zipping in between the combatants, barely missing both dwarf and lizard. Dartis stabs at the creature with his sword and traces a thin gash in the lizard's face. Kel joins the melee, only to have his own attack bounce off the tough hide of the lizard.
The third lizard moves behind Chalik to strike him from behind, but Silas makes an incantation and raises his hand. A bolt of flaming light erupts forth from his palm, hitting the creature squarely in the chest and causing it to shriek in pain as its claws miss the dwarf widely.
Chalik attacks again, but misses, the fact that Danica nearly missed him and that she is reloading her crossbow and that he has a lizard to his back distracting him to no end. Danica's bolt sings true this time, however, and the creature falls with a pained his as her bolt pierces its lung.
Dartis moves to the creature behind Chalik, but his sword bounces off the lizard's skin. Kel joins in once more, and once more he also fails to penetrate its tough hide. The creature counters, striking Kel severely across the face (-20 hps to Kel from crit!). The elf screams and falls, his hands protecting his slashed throat and cheek. Silas hurries to protect his comrade by standing over him and striking with his staff, cracking its ribs with his staff.
Chalik yells to see if Kel is alright, but the elf merely replies in moans while the dwarf's rapier knicks the creature in its side. Danica fires her bolt, but the lizard is too fast, and she misses its side by inches. With a warcry, Dartis is the one who ends it, leaping onto the lizard's back and burying his blade into the back of the creature's neck.
Kel recovers himself and casts a spell of healing (recovers 9 hp, bringing him up to 15 now), his face and neck wounds closing, and the color rushing back to his face.
The only sound now beside your labored breathing, is the fourth lizard that you currently cannot see and is straining to free itself on the top of the raised stone area.
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