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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4842173" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 14 - Eaters of Knowledge (Part 2)Telkya turned her attention back to the archer on top of the shelves, loosing a golden bolt of light at the creature that struck the wall above its head. She cursed silently and as she did, she sensed movement behind her. She half turned and then felt the searing pain of a blade driving into the left side of her back. She cried out, reeling away, as blood began to pour down her side. The robed eater drew a scimitar from its belt as it shook Thorn from its arm and drove the blade down into the flank of the druid’s wolf form. Thorn retreated with a whimper and Lavren looked around to check that the druid remained able to fight. Satisfied, the warlock raised his wand and cursed at the creature that had wounded Telkya, loosing crackling black energy into its side. The creature reeled right into the wall and Telkya turned around with her blade in hand to face her enemy. Then an arrow lanced out from the archer atop the western shelves and drove into Lavren’s leg. The warlock gasped and fell back as again, the fever that had plagued him since the battle with the werewolf, rose in his body again.Erlmoor rushed past Lavren as he reeled from the arrow in his leg, and charged at the creature that battled Telkya. He swung his blade out with a prayer on his lips and as it glowed, it smashed into the hip of the creature, slamming it into the wall of the chamber again. Enlishia’s bow sang a moment later and an arrow drove into the creature’s shoulder. A second shaft flew forth and clattered into the wall next to the eater of knowledge but still it faught on. Another bow sang on the eastern shelves and this time, the arrow flew true and drove into the back of Telkya’s right leg, pitching her forward. Her enemy snarled but before it could strike, she leapt back out of its reach as Dulvarna charged in from its left.Dulvarna rushed into the creature and plunged her blade forward, driving it into the side of the eater’s chest. The point found its heart a moment later and with a gasp, the creature slid off the end of the warrior woman’s sword and fell to the floor of the chamber. Dulvarna smiled at the others and then pushed her way between them as she rushed to join Thorn against the robed creature.“Take care of the archers,” she called back to the others and without any further bidding, Telkya started toward the western shelves.Telkya vanished into a shower of light a moment later only to reappear atop the shelves against the south wall. She raised her amulet and with a prayer, called forth a column of searing light that descended on the far archer and burned its grey skin. It gasped and cried out but still it managed to raise its bow and nock an arrow to the string.The robed figure retreated as Dulvarna rushed at it and then it opened its mouth and let forth a terrible howl that sounded like thousands of voices screaming for aid in every language that had ever been spoken on Faerun. Thorn reeled back and away from the creature as the terrible sound reached into his mind and caused him terrible pain. Dulvarna paid the howl no mind and stepped forward with her blade before her. To her left, Lavren disappeared into light as Telkya had and reappeared next to his wife atop the shelves against the southern wall. He raised his wand and loosed crackling black energy at the archer against the western wall but the creature ducked to its left and the blast struck the stone behind where it had been standing. The creature raised its bow and loosed an arrow but the shaft drove with a thud into the books on the shelves below the two elves. The two smiled at each other and started forward, toward their enemy.Erlmoor rushed past Thorn’s wolf form with a roar and charged at the robed eater of knowledge. He lashed out with his blade but the creature brought its scimitar across and parried expertly before retreating a step before the paladin’s furious charge. Beyond the creature, the archer atop the shelves raised its bow and loosed an arrow that drove into Dulvarna’s shoulder, throwing the warrior woman back. Behind her, Thorn shifted back into human form and stood for a moment, dazed and breathless. Dulvarna looked back at the druid and once she was satisfied that he would survive, she rushed furiously at the robed creature before her. Her blade sang out and drove into the eater’s left side, sending it reeling away to her left. The creature spun around, snarling at Dulvarna and the warrior woman stepped forward, raising her blade to strike again.Enlishia moved away from the statue to the southern end of the nearest stand of shelves and raised her bow to take aim at the archer atop the western shelves. She loosed a sighting arrow that struck the wall next to the creature and then nocked another, loosing it quickly but knowing that it flew true. The shaft drove into the creature’s side just above its hip and threw it back against the wall behind it. A bolt of golden light flew out from Telkya’s amulet as she advanced along the shelves and struck the creature in the chest, throwing it back against the wall. Lavren moved along the shelves behind his wife, raising his wand as he came. He cursed at the archer, loosed a bolt of black energy and watched as the blast struck the creature in the face and slammed its head back into the stone wall behind it. The creature opened its mouth and then pitched forward off the shelves to land, twenty feet below, as a broken corpse.</blockquote>

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