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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4808131" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 9 - Beasts and Mazes (Part 3)Enlishia threw her sword up onto the floor above the pit, slung her bow over her shoulder and ran at the pit wall, hurling herself up it and hooking her arms over the top. The creature, which she recognised as some corrupted form of otyugh, lashed out a tentacle that seared across her back but still she held onto the ledge and dragged herself slowly up out of the pit. Once she had cleared the pit, she clambered carefully up the smooth stone of the shoot until she judged that she was a safe distance away. Only then did she reach to her belt and light a torch to throw onto the stone in front of her. Her sword lay where she had thrown it close to the pit edge but she knew she could not go back to it. Erlmoor and Dulvarna glanced back and blinked in the sudden light but then they nodded their thanks and turned their blades on the otyugh.In the pit, Dulvarna raised her blade over her head and brought it down on the top of the otyugh, cleaving another deep wound in the creature’s hide. It lashed out again with its toothed tentacles and Dulvarna ducked under its attack but Erlmoor was slammed into the pit wall again. The dragonborn roared and lashed at the creature once and then a second time with his glowing blade, cutting two more deep wounds in its fleshy body. Golden energy burst from the paladin’s blade as it struck the second blow and both Enlishia and Dulvarna felt new strength flow into them. Erlmoor roared again and Enlishia unshouldered her bow while reaching for an arrow. As she did, the floor beneath her tilted away and threw her again into darkness. The ranger landed hard in a space that she decided quickly was beneath the floor of the hallway above. Then she smelt the foul stench of death and nausea overtook her. She retched once and then collapsed to the floor, helpless as the rats that she knew surrounded her, scuttled closer.Telkya and Litiraan watched the floor tilt again and waited for their companions to reappear as the new floor rose into place but they did not. Desperately, the two elves prodded at the floor with their blades as Lavren had done but the trap would not spring again. Still, they continued their efforts, hoping against hope that their friends would return.Dulvarna slashed at the otyugh desperately as gore and blood poured from the creature. It staggered and then let out a terrible roar from its tooth-filled mouth. Again it lashed out with its tentacles and again Dulvarna ducked under the flailing appendage aimed at her. The tentacle aimed at Erlmoor lashed in his side, tearing at his flesh and hurling him back into the wall of the pit once more. Still he roared his defiance and drove his blade into the side of the otyugh. A thunderclap sounded as the blow struck home and then the creature’s tentacles fell limply beside its body. Finally, its legs gave way and the creature collapsed into the bones and rotting flesh on the floor of the pit.“Time we left,” the dragonborn said breathlessly as blood poured from various wounds on his body.“Agreed,” Dulvarna said.”It was Litiraan’s blade that triggered the trap this time and to the companions’ relief, when the new floor came up from below, Enlishia lay on it. Telkya dragged her off the trapped part of the stone and began to tend to her wounds with cloth bandages and healing prayers. When the floor tilted up again, Dulvarna clung onto a fallen Erlmoor and again Telkya set to work to keep the dragonborn alive.“Did we win?” Lavren asked Dulvarna.“We won,” the warrior woman answered breathlessly.</blockquote>

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