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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4512964" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 12 - Revelations and Reckonings (Part 5)Lavren closed his hand over the neck of the vial and made to lift it out of the mulch but as he did so, another coughing fit overtook him and he fell back as dizziness assailed him. He tried to pull on the vial but his arms had lost all their strength and as he struggled to rise, he coughed and more blood came out of his mouth onto the ground beside him. Another wave of nausea and dizziness overcame him then and a black veil descended in front of his eyes. Before all thought left him, Lavren wondered what it would be like to be consumed by a creature of slime.Enlishia pushed her self to her feet and cursed as the acid wound in her shoulder burned with searing needles of pain. She nodded her thanks to Erlmoor and pulled a strip of cloth from her belt pouch while shouldering her bow again. She made her way along the shore of the pool to the southern wall of the room and then leaned back against the wall to bind the wound. She could not fire her bow with a wounded shoulder. Only as she looked up then did she notice the pseudopod lashing out towards her. The tentacle struck her in the chest and hurled her back against the wall of the chamber. Light exploded in the ranger’s head as she struck the wall and then blackness took her for the second time.Dulvarna stabbed at the slime creature again, plunging her blade into it, up to the hilt. Again the creature recoiled and this time, Thira struck it with a silver bolt before it could recover. Erlmoor came at it with his blade from the other side, challenging and taunting the creature as he came. Together, the three who still faught pressed the creature back and it for a few heartbeats it did not try to recover. Finally, with a ferocity unseen before, the creature surged at Dulvarna and struck her with two pseudopods in the chest, driving her back against the wall. Dulvarna felt the acid burn into her flesh and knew that her lungs were filling with blood. She slid down the wall and collapsed at its base as blackness took her.Thira surveyed the scene of carnage in the pool chamber and knew what she had to do. Her companions were beyond all hope and would likely become food for the creature now, as she would if she stayed. She loosed one last silver bolt from her staff and then turned and fled up the stairs. Erlmoor glanced over at the sudden movement and saw Thira desert him. He cursed her silently and knew then that he would die in this grim cavern beside his friends. He retreated along the ledge towards Enlishia and held his sword in one hand as he grasped Lathander’s symbol with the other. He prayed fervently then for the Moninglord’s aid and then extended the hand that had held his holy symbol. Searing ribbons of light lanced out from his hand then and struck the slime creature, tearing through its amorphous body. It lashed out wildly at him with a tentacle and he ducked under it, stepping towards the creature. As he did so it was struck by a silver bolt hurled from the doorway at the top of the steps and Erlmoor realised then that Thira had not fled. He plunged his blade into the creature to the hilt and it burst apart in a shower of acid.</blockquote>

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