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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4775889" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 4 - The Pit of Death (Part 3)The creature reared and then lunged at Erlmoor with its mouth wide to bite at him. Summoning what strength he had left, he dodged to the right and raised his blade. With a prayer on his lips he swung out with the sword he had taken from Caustrex’s hoard. The blade glowed with golden light and then struck the creature, tearing a gash in its side and sending a surge of divine energy up Erlmoor’s arm to restore a little of his strength. Having seen the ettin turn away, Lavren raised his wand to aid Erlmoor, uttering a curse that called fire from within the tentacled creature. Fire erupted from the creature’s skin and again it reared and screeched its pain. Across the pit, Enlishia raised her bow and took careful aim at the creature’s head. She let the arrow fly and the shaft drove into the monster, piercing what passed for its skull and finding what brain that it had. With a final screech, the creature reared one last time and then collapsed on the stone in front of Erlmoor, half in and half out of the pit. The ettin roared from both mouths and started around the pit while Dulvarna raised her blade and rushed to meet the giant.Dulvarna swung out with Aecris as she reached the ettin but the creature’s heads were too quick for her and a blade met hers a foot from the giant’s flesh. The other blade came in from Dulvarna’s left and slammed into her ribs, pitching her over the edge of the pit and back into the pile of corpses. The ettin raised the blade it had parried with then and brought it down on the warrior woman’s shoulder almost forcing her to her knees amongst the dead.Telkya raised her symbol of Corellon and with a prayer loosed a searing bolt of blinding light towards the ettin. The ettin moved back for a moment and the bolt of light struck the wall of the chamber beyond the giant. Litiraan raised his wand and hurled a glowing amber orb into the corridor beyond the giant that burst into searing flame. The fire burst forth from the corridor and burned the giant but also exploded into Lavren’s face, forcing the elf to reel backwards as it burned him as well. Lavren glared at Litiraan who nodded an apology to his friend and new kinsman.Erlmoor retreated beyond the ettin’s reach and circled around the pit towards his companions as he tied a piece of cloth around his wounded arm. The feeling was returning now but he knew that he was not yet ready to face the ettin. Behind him, Lavren cursed the ettin and then summoned his fey power to teleport and vanished in a shower of light motes. Black crackling energy seared into the giant but as the ettin turned one of its heads to look at the warlock, he vanished to reappear next to Erlmoor close to the western edge of the pit. The ettin roared and turned toward the pit as it sought to finish Dulvarna and then deal with the troublesome dragonborn and his elf companion.Enlishia raised her bow and drew her bow string back as far as it would go as she took aim at the ettin. When she let fly with the arrow, the missile flew straight and true but at the last, the giant’s armour defeated her and the shaft clattered to the stone at the creature’s feet. It roared its annoyance and cast about, seeking Dulvarna amongst the corpses of the charnel pit. Dulvarna saw the giant turn toward her and crossed to the far side of the pit, clambering out of the west side as the ettin raised its blades. The giant roared again in frustration and started around the south side towards Erlmoor and Lavren.The giant reached Lavren in three strides and lashed out with both blades in quick succession. One blade tore down the elf’s arm while the other slammed into the side, pitching him into the pit atop the bodies. Telkya loosed a bolt of light from her amulet then that struck the south wall of the chamber next to the ettin and she cursed to herself as she saw Lavren floundering amongst the corpses once more. Litiraan raised his wand and loosed a silver bolt into the ettin’s side, drawing the creature’s gaze again. The giant roared but as it did, Erlmoor roared more loudly. The dragonborn charged the giant and with all his strength, he slashed his sword into the creature’s side. The ettin lurched to its left against the wall of the chamber and all but fell.In the pit, Lavren raised his wand as he saw the ettin weakened and loosed a bolt of black crackling energy that seared into the giant’s hip, throwing it into the wall again. The giant roared and as it did so, Enlishia raised her bow. She loosed one arrow that struck the stone next to the wounded creature but the second flew straight and true, driving into the side of the creature’s right head. The arrow pierced right through the skull of the ettin’s right head and threw it into the left. For a moment, the left head turned its gaze toward the ranger but as it did, the life died in its eyes and the huge creature fell into the wall and slid down to slump in an ungainly fashion against the base of the stone. Its left head slumped forward and it died.</blockquote>

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