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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4509934" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 11 - Restless Guardians (Part 2)Enlishia burst into the chamber behind Dulvarna and immediately threw aside her bow and drew her sword as the zombies came at her. She lashed out and cut into a flailing arm but the dead creature paid it no mind. She looked to the robed figure and knew that she had to reach him before he ended his chanting but she was too hard pressed by the zombies to shift around the chamber.Lavren came up behind Enlishia and found his way into the crypt blocked by the battle with the zombies. He uttered a phrase in elven then and focused his mind on the far side of the crypt. He felt his body suddenly seem to be compressed and the ground vanished from beneath his feet. An instant later he reappeared in the opposite passage opening on the far side of the crypt with his wand in hand. He uttered a curse at the nearest zombie and leveled his wand. Alas, the zombie seemed to here his fey curse and turned towards him, shambling as quickly as it could towards him. He held out his wand but could not call forth a spell in time. The zombie swatted his hand aside and drew blood from his arm with its claw-like nails. The elf fell back into the passageway entrance and reached out again with his wand.Another terrible screech heralded the arrival of another of the robed figures and it too began chanting in the middle of the crypt. Thira, Erlmoor and Kel heard the screech and pushed ahead without knowing what awaited them in the room ahead beyond the shadowy forms that they could dimly see ahead by the light of the tiefling’s staff. Alas, Enlishia and Dulvarna blocked the entrance to the corridor and for the moment were hard pressed leaving the others helpless. Just then, Dulvarna slashed her blade across the chest of the nearest zombie and spun to her left towards the two robed figures. Thira looked down the, now empty, hallway ahead of her to the zombie that floundered around to its left to strike at its evasive foe. She leveled her stave and prepared a spell.Dulvarna felt the zombie’s fist club the back of her head and staggered. The robed figure before her brought its rotten, clawed hand up in a lashing motion then and took her under the chin, sending her reeling back towards the zombies and spraying blood towards the chamber ceiling. Enlishia leapt to Dulvarna’s aid then, her sword slashing out at the other robed creature and keeping it at bay. The two regained their stances with their backs to the south eastern wall of the circular chamber their blades before them and ravenous undead clamoring forward for their blood. Enlishia winked at Dulvarna who managed a weak smile.“The others are coming,” said Enlishia.“Pray that they are,” Dulvarna answered. Lavren retreated into the corridor opposite the entrance and leveled his wand shakily at the zombie as it followed him into the darkness. With an uttered phrase he loosed crackling black energy at the creature but his aim was poor and the blast seared past the creature’s left shoulder to strike the ceiling of the crypt. The zombie flailed wildly at the elf and he stepped back further into the passageway, hoping fervently that no other enemies lurked behind him.Dulvarna ducked to the left as the robed undead creature loosed a bolt of crimson fire lightning at her and as she twisted, she saw Thira battle her way into the chamber with her stave slashing left and right with her newfound stave. Erlmoor followed her, battling the zombie in the entrance and behind came Kel, the holy symbol that she had never shown to any of the band, including Thira, now held before her. She chanted in the tongue of the drow and dark fire leapt out towards the nearest zombie. The creature cowered from the dark elf and then, seemingly with an act of will, it held whatever remained of its nerve and turned on Erlmoor fiercely. Dulvarna slashed out at the zombie to her right and then twisted to the left after the robed creature. The zombie flailed at her but she paid it no mind, focusing all her attention now upon the terrible robed creatures. The leftmost of the two turned its terrible, glowing purple eyes upon her then and opened its mouth wide to let forth a terrible screech and as it did so, its terrible visage became more horrific. An unnatural force struck Dulvarna then and shoved her back across the chamber until she struck the northern wall and slumped down, stunned and winded. Enlishia, too was pushed into the wall behind her and the terrible creatures both cackled in morbid amusement. Enlishia took up her bow from where she had left it against the wall and nocked two arrows, firing both at the same time towards the two creatures. Both flew wide of their undead targets and the cackling went on.</blockquote>

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