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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4769723" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 3 - The Clearing in the Forest (Part 2)The vicious man facing Enlishia rushed at her again, lashing out with his mace. The blow struck the side of Enlishia’s head and sent her reeling away in a daze. Still she managed to retreat a few more steps and raise her bow to fire another arrow at the wounded man. The shaft flew just past the man’s head and he snarled derisively in response as he came forward again. A golden bolt from Telkya struck the man in the side then and as he staggered, a silver bolt from Litiraan seared into his chest. The man gasped, staggered, and then fell beside his companion.Erlmoor roared and sprayed acid onto the dwarves, burning one and sending the other cowering away with his arms over his head. Erlmoor’s blade sang out and glowed brightly as it did but the dwarves recovered and a hammer met the sword in a strong parry. A bolt of black energy from Lavren’s wand lanced in and struck the dwarf in front of Erlmoor, throwing him back a step but he snarled in response and came back at the dragonborn. His companion came with him but the hammer blows were clumsy and wild and Erlmoor parried them down into the ground easily. He snarled himself at his enemies and then raised his blade to attack them again.Dulvarna parried the dwarf’s hammer again and lashed out low with her blade only for her enemy to leap over the swing. She leapt back towards her companions and drew the drake with her. The beast snapped its teeth at her but she swayed back and evaded its dangerous bite before lashing her sword at it to keep it at bay. The creature snarled at her and then came forward anyway.The remaining man rushed at Enlishia and lashed out with his mace to strike her shoulder with a painful crack. She cried out and fell back past a tree, raising her bow as she did so. She loosed an arrow but it flew wide of the man and then nocked another. She took aim and let fly, this arrow nicking the man’s cheek before flying past him. The man smiled at Enlishia and started forward but as he did, a golden bolt of light flew past his face. He paused and looked to the right to where Telkya, Lavren and Litiraan stood. A silver bolt from Litiraan’s wand slammed into his side and sent him lurching to the left and he turned his attention fully on the three spellcasters. A bolt of black energy from Lavren’s wand streaked past the man’s shoulder and he snarled as his companion had.“The elf lords will die quickly,” he sneered. “But my friends and me will take our time with the women and the elf maid.”The dwarves surged at Erlmoor and Dulvarna, the dragonborn suffering a glancing blow to his arm but Dulvarna proving to be less fortunate. Her enemy rushed at her and lashed out with his hammer to strike her left hip hard and send her staggering to the right. She slashed out with her blade at the drake and drew blood from the side of its face as she retreated again toward her companions. The drake roared and leapt after her, seizing her right leg in its jaws and trying to drag her down. She fell back, tearing her flesh as she did so and limped away, bleeding heavily and sorely wounded. Looking back to her companions, she realised that they were also hard pressed. She only hoped that if she fell here, that these were servants of Paldemar and that some would die before she did.The man rushed at Enlishia again, lashing out with his mace and striking her wounded left shoulder again. The ranger cried out but still she managed to retreat from the man and gather her strength as she drew back her bowstring. She loosed the first arrow into the man’s shoulder but still he came forward and the second she loosed in a hurry. It flew wide of the man and drove into the grass of the clearing close to where the drake stood. Telkya raised her voice in prayer and brought down a column of light on the man that burned his skin. He staggered and reeled for the first time and as he did, a silver bolt struck his side and sent him lurching to his left. Lavren loosed two purple bolts from his wand, one striking the ground next to the man and the other searing into the chest of the dwarf in front of Erlmoor. The dwarf staggered back as the bolt struck it and as it did, Erlmoor plunged his blade into his foe’s chest. The dwarf collapsed to the grass of the clearing and died there. The other dwarf came in from Erlmoor’s right and swept its hammer in low. The paladin tried to parry but only deflected the blow lower and it struck his leg painfully above the knee. The dwarf snarled at the dragonborn and Erlmoor responded, showing his own, needle-sharp teeth.Dulvarna staggered again as the dwarf came forward again and desperately tried to clear her head as the dizziness and nausea assailed her from the pain and blood loss that her wounds were causing her. The dwarf brought his hammer in low and then raised it and somehow, Dulvarna managed to bring her blade down crossways and parry the blow. She leapt back again to try to regain her breath but as she did, she lashed out at the dwarf with her sword. The blade cut across the warrior’s thigh and then nicked the top of the drake’s right foreleg. The drake roared and came forward, seizing Dulvarna’s left arm and shoulder in its jaws and tearing at her flesh. She cried out and smashed the hilt of her sword down on the creature’s snout, forcing it to release its grip. Dulvarna spun away, sorely wounded and bleeding badly again.</blockquote>

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