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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deuce Traveler" data-source="post: 3241696" data-attributes="member: 34958">Silas bends to recover the shield, then hurries after the party.  The group's flight is a harrowing and frightful affair.  These mutated skum camouflage with their surroundings, and they would pose a great threat if they were allowed to form into larger formations.  But they are only able to attack in ones and twos, trying desperately to impede the party from escaping.  Chalik's keen eye discovers several, which he points out to Dartis who is able to send such would-be ambushers back into hiding.  The braver skum are made quick work of, although Dartis is taken by surprise once (-8 hpsto Dartis), and some invisible force around Danica seems to divert a clawed strike from another dark niche.The pursuers become more aggressive as they realize that the party is heading for one forgotten direction: the way into the dwarven kingdom.  The heroes disappear past the dwarven seal just as a dozen skum appear down one tunnel, but the dwarves act fast, firing crossbow bolts and throwing axes to disrupt the beasts while others work their backs into closing the great seal.  Finally, with a loud creak, the seal slams shut, causing the sounds of the party's pursuers to cease reaching their ears, as if they never existed.One dwarven sergeant sees the prize in Silas' arms and says, "Good job, lad.  I'll send a runner to the king, who will inform the Imperials that we're ready to barter.  I must say, I'm glad to see this thing is nearly at an end, although 'tis a shame to have to give up such a treasure."Upon saying that, Silas turns the prize over for the party to see.  The shield is round, and small; something fit for a warrior on horseback.  Around the edges, in script amazingly similar to that used by ancient Dorinthians, are the words: 'The King of All Men' along with engraved laurels.  A portrait of a man wearing a breastplate and furs has been hammered into the center of the shield, the exact bearing of a willful and handsome warrior-king from the old barbarian times before Dorinth was ever established.  What is more stunning is that the face is an exact twin of Commander Sassarius.</blockquote>

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