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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4794882" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 7 - The Chamber of Monoliths (Part 4)Dulvarna spun around the corpse and lashed her blade across the back of its left thigh, forcing it to lurch and stagger forward. She spun back in front of it and as she did, Erlmoor raised his sword against his shoulder and held forth his left hand while he chanted a prayer. A ribbon of golden light shot from his hand toward the corpse but it ducked left, using Dulvarna as cover and the blast of energy seared past its right shoulder. The corpse leapt back and held forth its arms again, losing a storm of small, glowing, razor sharp daggers that exploded behind Dulvarna, engulfing her, Erlmoor and Lavren. All three were cut by the blades and were thrown to the chamber floor.Telkya looked down at her fallen husband and then raised her amulet, loosing another bolt of golden light that flew wide of the corpse to strike the far monolith as her last had. Enlishia raised her bow quickly and loosed an arrow, seeking to distract the corpse somehow. The shaft flew wide of the mark and clattered into the northwest pillar. She loosed another arrow a heartbeat later and this drove into the elf maid’s right arm. This time, the corpse did not lurch and instead stood its ground but a moment later, Litiraan loosed a blue bolt into the body’s right side, throwing it to its left. Lavren leapt clear of the dagger storm and loosed a bolt of black energy but his aim was wild and the blast flew wide, striking the west wall of the chamber.Dulvarna leapt to her feet and, ducking low to try and avoid the daggers, she circled around to the south to stand in front of Litiraan. She raised her blade and made ready to charge as Erlmoor followed her to stand in front of the southeast pillar. The storm of force blades followed the dragonborn and the warrior woman and engulfed Litiraan and Enlishia as it came, forcing both to leap away. The elf maid’s body raised its right arm and loosed a blast of black energy from its hand that struck Erlmoor in the chest and hurled him back into the pillar that stood behind him. The dragonborn staggered as his wounds threatened to overpower him and then he raised his blade with the last of his strength and made ready to charge beside Dulvarna.From the north side of the monolith square, Telkya loosed a bolt of golden light that flew past the corpse again and this time struck the west wall of the chamber. Enlishia leapt clear of the blade storm, unwounded, and raised her bow, losing one and then a second arrow. Both shafts drove into the right thigh of the corpse driving it to the left again as it staggered, seven arrows protruding from its right side. When Litiraan leapt clear of the blades, he was already cut on his arms and on his right cheek. He raised his wand despite the pain, he loosed a silver bolt that seared into the side of the elf body’s chest. Again it staggered and as it did, a bolt of black energy from Lavren’s wand struck its left side.“You are saving me, my allies,” Vyrellis called out from the breast of the body but the companions were too preoccupied with their own hurts to pay the elf spirit much heed.Dulvarna charged, rushing around behind the corpse and lashed her blade across the base of the elf maid’s back. The corpse arched its back and staggered forward and as it did, Erlmoor roared and rushed around to aid Dulvarna. He plunged his blade forward into the corpse’s left side and his blade flared with white light, sending a pulse of divine energy up into the dragonborn from its hilt. The paladin stepped back and caught his breath as the elf body spun on the spot to face its two nemeses. With a wave of its arm, the elf corpse moved the blade storm back away from Enlishia and Litiraan and moved it to engulf Erlmoor and Dulvarna and to once again sweep over Lavren. It lashed out with its right arm at Erlmoor and the dragonborn ducked under the swing but at the same time, its left hand struck the side of Dulvarna’s head and sent her reeling into her companion. She regained her feet just as the blades swept forward and slashed at her already wounded body.Telkya hurled a ribbon of divine light from her amulet that flew past the headless corpse and struck the west wall of the chamber  but as it struck, Enlishia loosed another arrow. The shaft flew past the corpse but before the arrow clattered into the northwest pillar, the ranger had nocked another to her bow. She let fly and this flew straight and true into the root of the body’s neck just below where its head had once rested. The body lurched to its right and as it did, a blue bolt from Litiraan’s wand flew over its left shoulder. Beyond the corpse, Lavren fell to the floor as the glowing blue blades of force cut at him. Despite the pain of his wounds, the elf leapt to his feet and then vanished in a shower of light motes. He reappeared next to the east wall of the room and raised his wand, loosing a bolt of black energy into the back of the elf maid’s body. As the corpse jolted back toward her, Dulvarna ducked under the slashing blades and drove her sword into the belly of the elf body. She leapt back beyond the edge of the blade storm once she had struck and watched as Erlmoor plunged his own glowing blade into the right side of the corpse. He leapt back out of the blade storm and showed his teeth in a smile at Dulvarna but no sooner had he done so, than the corpse gestured desperately and the blade storm followed the dragonborn and the warrior woman.</blockquote>

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