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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4800495" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 8 - Ambush of the Outcasts (Part 3)In the doorway, Erlmoor glanced to the left to see how his companions fared and then roared, spewing acid over the cambions before him. As they shrank back, he raised his voice in prayer and struck out with his blade, the sword glowing brightly as he ended his entreaty to Lathander. The blade seared into the side of the cambion before him and sent it reeling into its companion. As its companion stumbled, two arrows from Enlishia’s bow drove into it and hurled it back into the chamber. Both cambions snarled, raised their blades and came back at their enemies fiercely.Erlmoor parried the blade of the cambion that came at him and as he did, Lavren loosed a bolt of black energy into the half-devil’s shoulder and threw him back from the dragonborn again. The other cambion rushed at Dulvarna but she too parried its fiery sword with Aecris and held the creature at bay. She shoved the cambion back with her blade and then last out low into the side of its leg forcing it to lurch back another step. The half-devil roared its defiance but it was sorely wounded and Dulvarna knew she would finish her foe quickly.As Telkya reached the bend in the passage, another of the cloaked dark ones leapt past its companions with a dagger held before it. It stabbed at her but she lashed her sword down and knocked the dagger aside. She leapt back from her foe to give herself room to strike at it but as she did, a bolt of flame lanced out from a mirror on the wall to her left and seared into her shoulder. She was hurled to the right and crashed painfully into the wall beside her. The other dark one rushed forward then and leapt between her and Litiraan. Telkya stabbed out with her blade and nicked its arm as it passed her while Litiraan slashed wildly at the creature with his own blade. The dark one turned once its was behind Telkya and stabbed at her with its dagger but by then she had regained her balance and leapt to her right to evade the blow.“We have to retreat,” Litiraan called to Telkya and as she nodded, he moved back along the passage wall.He turned to face the dark one that had outflanked Telkya and stabbed at with his blade but the creature reacted quickly, twisting its long knife around to parry the blow. Telkya retreated along the opposite wall and raised her amulet to loose a bolt of golden fire into the same creature’s side. It yelped and leapt to its right in shock and surprise but then it turned and Telkya saw a pallid, hairless visage and staring white eyes regard her with a furious anger.Erlmoor roared again at the foe before him and then surged forward, slashing his blade across the creature’s chest. He looked back to his left again and saw that Enlishia was retreating from the dark ones as well as Litiraan and Telkya but the ranger already had an arrow nocked to her bow. She loosed the shaft and it flew past the nearest dark one, missing by barely a hands breadth. The dragonborn heard a hiss from beneath the dark one’s hood and then as the cambion recovered from the wound he had dealt, he turned back to the enemy before him. The half-devil slashed its blade in from Erlmoor’s left but as the dragonborn moved his blade down to parry, the cambion raised the sword, twisted on the spot and slashed the sword into the paladin’s right shoulder. He fell back as the flames around the blade seared his flesh and smoke began to rise from the wound. The cambion roared in triumph and came forward to try and finish the dragonborn but as it did, a bolt fo black energy from Lavren’s wand seared into its left side and hurled it back, giving Erlmoor time to recover. Dulvarna’s foe came forward next and their blades clashed again, amber sparks flying from the cambion’s hell-forged blade as it clashed with Aecris. The warrior woman shoved the half-devil back and wove her blade before her to keep her foe guessing as to where she would strike at it next. She leapt forward and stabbed her blade into the cambion’s belly just above its hip. It gasped and fell back, reaching a hand down to the surely mortal wound. Then it let go the wound and raised its blade with a snarl of defiance. As blood poured down its side, it rushed at Dulvarna, determined to die in one last attack on her.The dark one at the turn in the passage rushed at Telkya and slashed out high with its long knife. She twisted on the spot and raised her blade to parry before throwing the creature back and away from her. As she raised her blade to defend her self from the cloaked creature’s next attack, another blast of flame flew from the mirror on the opposite wall and seared into her side. Again she was thrown into the wall next to her and before she could recover, the other dark one turned away from Litiraan and leapt across the corridor towards her. It slashed at her wildly with its blade and she brought her sword across to hold the long knife at bay. From somewhere she found the strength to hurl this creature away her as well and as she did, Litiraan loosed a silver bolt from his wand into its back. The dark one lurched forward back towards Telkya and she stabbed at it clumsily. The creature brought its dagger down and parried the thrust of Telkya’s sword but she knew that she had bought herself a few moments. With her blade held up to defend her, she leapt back towards Dulvarna and out of the reach of at least one of her enemies.</blockquote>

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