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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4779652" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 5 - Troubled Waters (Part 2)On the other side of the bridge, Dulvarna stabbed her sword down into the water where the sahuagin had stood and connected with its shoulder, drawing more blood into the pool where Enlishia and Litiraan now stood. Dulvarna retreated along the bridge toward the harpies while Enlishia drew back from the sahuagin as it began to rise again and levelled her bow. She loosed two arrows into the sahuagin’s head at close range as it broke the surface and the sea devil collapsed back into the water and died there.A water bolt lanced out from the other sahuagin as it rose to the surface, striking Dulvarna in the side again and sending her spinning into the rope hand rails along the side of the bridge. She felt pain spreading from the area as she breathed in an wondered whether the creature had managed to break ribs with the bolt. Dulvarna looked to her left and saw Erlmoor wounded again by one of his foes as his own blood pooled around him. Raising her blade, Dulvarna started along the bridge toward the harpies, determined to end the battle before more of her companions suffered.Litiraan raised his wand and hurled lightning towards the harpies but the bolt flew over their heads and struck the far wall of the chamber. From the other side of the bridge, Lavren looked up as he saw the blue, crackling energy fly forth and knew that his brother-in-law was right to target the harpies. As he raised his wand and realised that Telkya blocked his view of the sahuagin, he too, took aim at the harpies and let forth two bolts of purple, eldritch power. The harpies both ducked and these bolts flew over their heads as Litiraan’s lightning had done. They seared into the wall beyond the bird-creatures and Lavren cursed. Telkya turned and frowned at her husband for cursing and then raised her amulet toward the sahuagin. She uttered a prayer to Corellon and called down a column of divine light that burned the nearest sea devil. The creature snarled and hissed as its skin burned and turned towards the elf maid as though it planned to come for her next. Fortunately, Erlmoor blocked its path and held his ground, keeping the sahuagin at bay.With piercing screeches, both of the harpies leapt into the air and swept along the bridge to meet Dulvarna. Both lashed at the warrior woman with their clawed hands and while Dulvarna beneath under the claws of one, the other’s claws tore at her cheek and sent her staggering away from the terrible creatures. Summoning what remained of her strength, Dulvarna turned back toward her foes and slashed her blade across, drawing blood from the belly of one and from the arm of the other. They screeched again and leapt back beyond the reach of the terrible blade.In the water beside the bridge, Erlmoor roared and sprayed acid on the sahuagin before him and the harpies up on the bridge. He lashed out with his blade and chanted a prayer as he did so, his sword glowing brightly as it struck the sahuagin in the side. The creature lurched to its right and staggered as more of its blood stained the water around it. Erlmoor roared again and as he did so an arrow drove into the flailing sahuagin’s shoulder. He looked up and saw that Enlishia had regained the bridge and now stood above him with her bow raised. She reached for another arrow and Erlmoor smiled.The sahuagin behind the two others barked out another command and then swam forward with its trident in its right hand. It raised the left hand as it reached the south wall of the chamber and with a series of click-like words, it hurled a blast of water at Lavren. The bolt of water struck the elf hard in the left shoulder and sent him staggering back through the water. He looked at his enemy and saw that the sahuagin was gesturing to the other sea devils and pointing at him with its trident. Realising that he had become the target that the sahuagin were seeking, Lavren looked around for the best way to retreat from his foes.“We have to go,” he said to Telkya as a silver bolt from Litiraan’s wand struck one of the harpies on the bridge.Telkya looked back at her husband and nodded so he turned away and clambered back onto the stone balcony. Turning, he raised his wand and cursed the nearest sahuagin, sending a crackling bolt of black energy into the water next to it. Telkya climbed from the water next to him and moved onto the bridge next to Enlishia. From there, she raised her amulet and saw that the sahuagin had wounded Erlmoor again but were now trying to get around the dragonborn to reach Lavren. She spoke the words of a prayer in her native tongue and loosed a bolt of golden light at the nearest sahuagin. The divine fire hissed into the water next to the creature and it rushed on, towards the stone platform where Lavren stood.A harpy claw tore at Dulvarna’s shoulder but she paid the scratch no mind as she ducked under the claws of the other harpy. She slashed out low with her sword but the harpy beat its wings and rose two feet into the air to avoid the blow. It screeched again and Dulvarna hissed her hatred at the horrible creatures.</blockquote>

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