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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4784755" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 6 - The Chamber of Ice (Part 2)Dulvarna turned to face the zombie that had emerged next to her, already wounded by Lavren’s eldritch blast. She slashed Aecris across from right to left and clove the     blade into the creature’s side. It lurched back the other way and then awkwardly righted itself. To her right, Dulvarna saw Litiraan vanish in a shower of light motes as a zombie emerged from the pillar next to him. He reappeared in the western doorway and turned to loose a silver bolt at the zombie before Dulvarna. The bolt seared into the creature’s back and sent it staggering toward Dulvarna. She raised her blade and then ducked as the undead creature flailed at her clumsily with its frost-covered arms.Enlishia reached for another arrow as the two zombies that had been entombed in the northern pillars lurched towards her. She ducked as one swung at her but as she rose, a frozen limb smashed into the right side of her head and sent her reeling. The chill of the blow slowed her limbs almost at once and frost stiffened the right side of her face. She shouldered her bow quickly and reached over her back to draw her sword, lashing out at the nearest zombie as she did so. The zombie jerked back with surprising speed and evaded the wild swing leaving Enlishia to curse her ill luck. She looked back over her shoulder and as she did so, the southern doors opened. There stood a demon, upright on two insect-like legs. Its chitin-covered torso sprouted four segmented arms and a roach-like head swollen to monstrous size. It wielded a wicked trident with bloodstained tines. In that moment, Enlishia knew that battle was truly upon them.Lavren heard the doors slam open behind him and turned to glance at the terrible creature standing behind Telkya. He cried out without forming any words and raised his wand to hurl a bolt of black eldritch lightning into the creature’s chest. The demon stepped back as the bolt struck it but it registered no pain. Telkya turned toward the demon and as she saw it, she leapt back into the chamber, raising her amulet as she did so. She hurled a bolt of golden light wildly into the stone of the doorframe and then ducked back as the creature seemed about to come forward. Erlmoor only glanced quickly at the demon before turning his attention back to the zombie he faced. He chanted a prayer and as his blade glowed brightly, he slashed it into the hip of the zombie and almost toppled it from the ruins of its pillar. He roared again and Dulvarna drew strength from him.Dulvarna surged at the zombie she faced and spun around behind it while slashing her blade in low at the backs of the undead creature’s legs. She drew the sword across where the hamstrings of a living man would have been and the creature lurched forward, staggering again. From the doorway, Litiraan hurled another silver bolt that blasted into the zombie’s chest and the undead creature exploded into shards of frozen flesh that struck Dulvarna and tore chilling wounds in her arms.The zombies that Enlishia faced surged forwards together, one clawing her side and the other lashing a chilling hand into her right shoulder. She staggered back as the cold and the wounds sapped her strength but still managed to raise her blade and lash out at the zombies before her. Her sword struck one of the undead creature’s legs and sent it lurching to its left and almost into the other zombie. The demon came forward suddenly and stabbed out with its trident, driving the points into Lavren’s left leg, forcing him back out of the doorway. He cried out and retreated into the chamber, cursing the demon to loose another bolt of black energy into the terrible creature. It lurched against the doorframe but raised its trident again to strike at the elf.Behind the warlock, Erlmoor ducked under another clumsy swing from the zombie before him. Telkya retreated towards the dragonborn and hurled another bolt of golden fire from her amulet that struck the stone of the doorframe. Erlmoor looked to his right as the demon advanced and then chanted another prayer that brought a glow of white light to his blade. He lashed out and struck the creature in the side with a huge thunder clap that knocked it to the floor amidst the ruin of the ice pillar that had entombed it. The zombie awkwardly tried to lift itself up to its feet as Erlmoor raised his blade to strike it down again.Dulvarna moved sluggishly to aid Enlishia as the cold numbed her limbs but as she reached the zombies, she found strength returning to her. She weaved her blade before her and then darted forward to stab into the zombie’s hip. It lurched back a step and as it did, Litiraan hurled a silver bolt that seared past the zombie to strike the north wall of the chamber. The creature lashed out at Dulvarna but she ducked under the clumsy swing. The other zombie rushed at Enlishia and lashed out with its clawed hands. The ranger ducked under the blow aimed at her and finally managed to retreat from the zombies and sheath her sword. Sheathing her sword and unshouldering her bow, she nocked an arrow and loosed it quickly, the shaft flying wide of the creature to strike the wall behind the zombie. She drew forth another arrow and fired quickly again but the cold numbed her fingers and again the shaft flew wide. Enlishia cursed and the zombies came forward, snarling again.</blockquote>

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