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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4775069" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 4 - The Pit of Death (Part 2)Another corpse rose behind Dulvarna and lashed out at her with a fist. She ducked under the blow but as she did, another rose and flailed at her. She ducked back and an arrow drove into each of the zombies sending them falling back amongst the grim pile of corpses. Dulvarna turned and quickly climbed out of the pit to stand for a moment beside Enlishia. Nodding her thanks to the ranger, she rushed along the pit edge and charged the ettin with her blade held high. She brought her sword down overhand and clove it into the ettin’s right shoulder drawing a roar of pain and anger from the giant. It lashed out with one blade and Dulvarna ducked but the second came in low and quickly, driving into her belly and slamming her into the chamber wall. Dulvarna gasped, reached down to the blood that was pouring from the terrible wound that the ettin had inflicted and then let the blackness take her.Telkya saw Dulvarna fall and began a healing prayer, raising her voice as though she feared that Corellon would not hear her in this dark place. A white light washed over Dulvarna and the warrior’s eyes opened slowly as the bleeding from her belly eased and the wound closed. To her right, she saw Litiraan raise his wand and incant a spell that she had never heard him use before. Lightning burst from his wand and seared across the chamber to strike the ettin first and then two more bolts struck downwards into the pit. One struck the wall of the pit above the remaining tentacled creature while the other blasted into the last zombie. The undead creature was hurled into the pit wall and then collapsed into the pile of bodies.The tentacled creature reared back as the lightning passed over it and then lunged forward, lashing out a tentacle to strike Erlmoor’s arm. The dragonborn was thrown into the pit wall but despite this and the growing numbness spreading from his wounded arm, he hauled himself out of the pit and moved to stand beside Lavren. Turning, he roared and sprayed acid over the tentacled creature and the ettin. The ettin roared and the tentacled creature screeched as the acid burned both but by then, Erlmoor was already intoning a prayer. Searing ribbons of radiance engulfed the ettin and burned its skin as it staggered and roared again. Erlmoor roared his own response and slowly and deliberately, the ettin turned towards him with its blades raised.Lavren raised his wand and uttered a curse that sent purple bolts of energy crackling out to strike the ettin and the remaining creature in the pit. The bolts seared into their targets and sent both creatures reeling back as they struck. Across the pit from the warlock, Enlishia raised her bow and fired two arrows quickly, one after the other. One flew at the ettin but bounced harmlessly off the giant’s thick armour but the other drove deep into the flank of the creature in the pit. The tentacled monster screeched again and reared back, driven away from the ranger by the power of the bow shot. As Enlishia raised her bow again to provide some cover, Dulvarna retreated past her friend, pulling strips of cloth from her belt pouch to bind her wounds. She turned in front of Telkya and raised her blade ready for the ettin’s charge that she felt sure would follow. Instead, the ettin raised its blades and rushed at Erlmoor and Lavren.“It’s head is just what I’ve been missing,” the giant roared as it ambled across the chamber. “Never seen one like it before.”The ettin reached the dragonborn and though the paladin raised his blade, he knew he was helpless before the giant. Its right blade swept low before he could parry and drove into his side and then the left came overhand, slamming the dragonborn’s sword aside and driving into his right shoulder. Erlmoor spun left into the south wall of the chamber and Lavren was left alone before the monstrous creature.Telkya saw her husband’s plight but knew that the tentacled creature also needed to be slain. She uttered a prayer and brought a column of light down into the pit but as she did so, the creature started to crawl up the pit’s edge and the searing column of divine fire descended behind the monster. Litiraan strode forward to the edge of the pit and uttered an incantation that unleashed a curtain of fire that filled the pit and seared the back of the ettin. The giant turned one head around to regard the wizard with hateful eyes and growled from that head while the other head continued to stare at Lavren.“Come here foolish one and taste more fire,” Litiraan called out and the ettin turned but as it did, the tentacled creature crawled from the pit in front of wounded Erlmoor. The dragonborn roared again in defiance but none of the companions thought he could stand long against the monster.</blockquote>

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