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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4561858" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 4 - Hidden Light and Brazen Darkness (Part 4)Dulvarna looked up and nodded as she dodged another lunge from the wolf. Behind the chieftain came another archer, presumably the one who had sounded the alarm. This hobgoblin came to the edge of the balcony and loosed an arrow at Telkya, the shaft driving into her arm and forcing her back a step. She yanked the arrow free without flinching and loosed another bolt of light towards the wolf.Lavren cursed the hobgoblin in elven and called forth flame with his wand that burst from the creature to sear its flesh. He charged then, his sword in his right hand and his wand in his left. He only hoped that there were no more enemies lurking close to this chamber. Enlishia loosed another arrow into the closest hobgoblin and then darted back up the corridor towards her friends. The hobgoblins and their allies roared their anger and rushed after her and as she fled, she began to yell too.“More to the south,” she called out. “More come from the south.” She turned as she reached the double doors, sharing a glance with Telkya who looked back at her shouts of alarm. Turning back towards her foes, she nocked an arrow to her bow but then thought better of it and tossed the weapon aside. Drawing her sword, she raised it to meet her enemies. An arrow flew from the far end of the corridor and drove painfully into her shoulder. Without a free hand to snap it free, she left the shaft there. Another arrow flew past her heads and clattered against the steps that Lavren had taken.Dulvarna heard the warning shouts behind her and knew she had to finish the wolf quickly. Weaving her blade before her she darted left and then twisted on the spot to bring her blade around in a wide swing that clove into the side of the wolf, shattering ribs and piercing the lung beneath. The wolf snarled and bit at her but she dodged back just as the hobgoblin chieftain reached the bottom of the stairs. He hissed at her and stabbed out with his spear, feinting left and then driving it in from Dulvarna’s right and into her thigh. She cried out and staggered back, retreating before both foes now as the wolf wheezed forward, blood pouring from its ruined side. An arrow flew past Dulvarna and clattered into the wall behind Telkya as she completed another prayer. A bolt of searing white radiance lanced out from her holy symbol and drove through the wolf’s chest. With a yelp, the huge beast collapsed to the chamber floor. Erlmoor slapped aside the blade of the hobgoblin before him and stepped towards the creature but even as he lashed out with his blade, a silver bolt struck the hobgoblin in the chest of pitched it from the balcony to the chamber floor below. Erlmoor looked around for another enemy and started forward along the balcony thinking to circle around to the other archer. Just as he started forward, s trap door opened on the ledge beside the toad-like statue and from it emerged a goblin with a small crossbow in its hand. The dragonborn roared as loudly as he could and charged the newcomer. His blade slashed out and caught the goblin in the shoulder as it threw aside its crossbow and reached for the short, jagged-bladed sword at its belt. Erlmoor roared again and saw that another goblin followed the first up the ladder from the trapdoor below.    Another arrow drove into Enlishia, piercing her hip this time but still she stood form. The hobgoblin archers were jostling in the corridor for the next shot. The ranger put away her sword, picked up her bow again and loosed an arrow into the lead hobgoblin. The shaft drove through the creature’s throat and threw it back into the next of its companions. The next archer shrugged its fallen companion aside and loosed its own arrow at the ranger but it only clattered off the corridor wall as Enlishia ducked back out of sight. Another loosed an arrow as she ducked out from the corner again but it flew harmlessly past her head. She ducked back, nocked another arrow to her bow and prepared to leap out and fire again.Erlmoor drove his blade into the shoulder of a second goblin as it clambered out of the trapdoor but it rolled to its feet and came up with sword in hand. A man in black leather armour with a mace in his hand emerged next and the dragonborn stabbed at him as well, nicking his cheek as he clambered from the trapdoor. One of the goblins stabbed at the paladin but he parried the thrust and twisted the goblin’s sword out to one side. Another man clambered up to Erlmoor’s right and he slashed out at him then, missing his chance to attack the goblin. He drew blood from the man’s back but still the warrior got its his feet with a mace in his hand. Erlmoor roared, lashed out wildly with his sword and retreated back along the southern ledge to restrict the enemies he would have to fight. The men followed but the goblins knelt to retrieve their crossbows. They had other plans for him.Telkya flinched as another arrow struck the stone next to the double doors and began praying again. She raised her holy symbol and loosed light from it that seared into the chieftain’s shoulder as he and Dulvarna parried each other’s blows. She looked to Litiraan who was already uttering another incantation of his own. The two of them, brother and sister, together with Dulvarna, would surely defeat the hobgoblin chieftain this time.</blockquote>

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