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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4830767" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 12 - A Measure of Revenge (Part 3)Another crossbow clicked and a bolt flew out to drive into the top of Erlmoor’s chest. The dragonborn gasped and reeled backwards, dazed and wounded. Lavren picked out the man who had fired the bolt and raised his wand, loosing a bolt of black energy toward the man that struck the pillar next to him. Telkya rushed at the man, slashing her blade at his head but he ducked and the sword struck the stone of the pillar as Lavren’s spell had done. Dulvarna rushed at the man in a fury, her sword plunging forward and driving into his shoulder. He fell back, throwing down his crossbow and fumbling for the club at his belt. Only then did the others hear Erlmoor’s voice raised in prayer. Dulvarna and Telkya both looked back at the dragonborn as he held his blade before him and down the blade flowed ribbons of light. They burst from the tip of the sword and seared into the crossbowman, tearing open his chest and bursting forth from his back. He crumpled to the floor of the chamber and died as his companions had.There was a burst of sudden movement from behind the pillar to the east as the last of the bandits seemed to be fleeing. He rushed to the eastern set of double doors and pounded on them with his fist. Then the man began moving the rubble in front of the door frantically as though desperately trying to clear the floor before the doors.“We have to stop him,” Enlishia said at once, raising her bow and firing at the man.An arrow and then a second drove into the man’s back but still he kept working frantically. Then, a moment later, something slammed against the double doors and they fell outwards over the rouble, snapping in two as they did so. Onto the top of the sundered doors, leapt a huge, grey wolf creature that crouched on all fours but seemed otherwise man-like in shape. It turned to the right to the man who had freed it and snapped at his arm, tearing at the limb and dragging him toward it.“Ignore the man,” Thorn called as he rushed forward. “The werewolf is a far greater threat.”The druid raised his totem stick and uttered an incantation before raising the implement before him. A white blast of icy air shot out from the end of the stick and struck the werewolf in the chest but the beast paid the blow no mind. Lavren moved past the druid and loosed a black bolt from his wand that also struck the werewolf but still it concentrated its fury on the bandit that had freed it. Telkya came forward next, calling forth a searing beam of light from her amulet that flashed past the werewolf and into the chamber behind it. Erlmoor and Dulvarna came forward with their blades raised but both held back, wondering how the battle with the crossbowman would end. Both paused to get their breath back while the werewolf faught the man that had released it. The crossbowman, meanwhile, retreated  and then turned and fled toward the southern door beside Lavren. The elf lashed out wish his sword, cutting a wound across the man’s back but still he fled into the chamber beyond the door to the south and the werewolf began sniffing the air, seeking another victim.Enlishia moved forward to stand beside Erlmoor and loosed one arrow and then a second into the fierce creature but still it seemed not to heed the wounds. Instead, it snarled and leapt across the chamber lunge at Lavren. Its teeth seized the elf’s right arm and dragged him toward it until he shook his arm free, tearing open a deep wound in the limb as he did so. Thorn called forth an icy wind behind the creature but it leapt at Lavren again and avoided the blast of frosty air. Lavren leapt back into the passageway that the crossbowman had fled down and loosed a blast of black energy from his wand wildly. It flew over the head of the werewolf and the creature paused, sniffing at the air as though deciding whether to pursue the warlock. Telkya loosed a bolt of golden light from her amulet that also flew over the head of the werewolf and it turned its head toward her for a moment before turning back towards Lavren and letting out a low growl.Dulvarna charged at the creature then, raising her sword above her head and bringing it down on the werewolf’s back. It roared in pain and turned around to face the warrior woman. Erlmoor charged in behind Dulvarna, chanting a prayer as he came and thrusting his blade forward. It drove into the creature’s side with a thunder clap and the werewolf was thrown to its right to land on its side on the floor. To the south, the fleeing crossbowman opened another set of doors and slammed them shut behind him and was gone from the battle but still the werewolf faught on, struggling to get back to its feet. Enlishia circled around to the double doors from which the werewolf and loosed two arrows at close range into its struggling form. Still it rolled to its feet and lashed out with its claws at Dulvarna and Erlmoor. The warrior woman ducked under the flailing limb of the werewolf but Erlmoor was struck in the side and sent reeling into his companion. Behind the others, Thorn shifted form again into a black wolf and leapt forward to meet the werewolf. He bounded at the creature but it leapt back out of the way and the druid’s wolf form landed beside the were wolf. As Thorn landed, Lavren loosed a bolt of black energy over him that seared into the werewolf’s side but still it focused its rage on Dulvarna and Erlmoor.</blockquote>

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