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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4566693" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 4 - Hidden Light and Brazen Darkness (Part 6)Erlmoor glanced over at the goblins as they turned their attention to Litiraan and Dulvarna on the floor of the main chamber and smiled as he saw the fallen chieftain, lying broken amongst the chains. He parried one mace blow then but then felt a painful blow strike the top of his right arm before he could bring his blade back across to parry the second blow. The dragonborn snarled and lashed out with his blade, forcing the warrior back from him but missing him by several inches. The dragonborn glanced over at the far balcony just as black, crackling energy flew past the hobgoblin, crossed the room and struck the balcony behind Erlmoor.“Can’t the elf be a bit careful,” he grumbled to himself before turning his attention back to his enemies.Enlishia loosed an arrow and then both she and Telkya ducked to the left back into the main chamber. Telkya loosed a bolt of light at the hobgoblin that Dulvarna faught while the ranger turned back to the doorway, another arrow already nocked, waiting for the last archer. It came soon enough, loosing an arrow into Enlishia’s shoulder as it rushed past the double doors. The ranger fell back and coughed, blood filling her mouth. She was more sorely wounded than she had thought. She only hoped that her strength would last. Telkya looked over at Enlishia as blood began to run down her chin and began a healing prayer. Even as she did so, a goblin crossbow bolt drove into her side and almost knocked her from her feet. She staggered and leaned against Enlishia before pushing herself back to her feet and beginning her healing prayer once more.Erlmoor reeled back again as a mace connected painfully with his forearm as he tried to parry the blows of both his enemies. He lashed out wildly again to drove them back but as he did so, flame filled the balcony before the toad statue and engulfed one of the warriors and one of the goblins. They cringed from the searing fire and Erlmoor took his chance. With a prayer on his lips, he feinted at the warrior wounded by the flame and then swept hiss blade back around to strike at his other foe. The warrior ducked but that only saved him from being beheaded. The paladin’s sword slashed into the side of the warrior’s skull, splitting it open and felling him where he stood. Divine power flowed out from the paladin then, restoring his strength and even reaching Telkya on the floor of the main chamber below. Erlmoor roared his triumph and then, uttering another prayer, he drove his blade into the chest of the other warrior as the paladin’s blade glowed with a golden light. The warrior fell beside his companion and Erlmoor turned towards the goblin before the statue. With another roar, he charged at the creature.Telkya finished her healing prayer, her strength restored a little by Erlmoor’s prayer, above her on the balcony. Divine light reached out to Enlishia and healed the worst of the ranger’s hurts. She nodded her thanks to the elf and then loosed an arrow at the hobgoblin near the doors. The shaft drove into the shoulder of the archer but it simply turned its head aside tore the arrow from its flesh with its jagged teeth. It loosed an arrow but the missile clattered into the stone next to Enlishia. She smiled with an enthusiasm that she did not feel and the hobgoblin snarled back at her. One would die here, both knew, and both prayed that it would be the other.        Litiraan retreated from the balcony and loosed a silver bolt into the goblin that Erlmoor now faced. The creature had drawn its jagged sword and stabbed at the paladin but the dragonborn had swatted the small blade aside with his own, huge blade. Litiraan heard the click of a crossbow and turned towards the other goblin just as a bolt struck the floor close to his feet. He raised his wand towards the goblin and the creature shrank backwards. Nervously it glanced to its left as Erlmoor drove his sword into its companion’s belly and then hurled the goblin over the balcony to the floor of the chamber below. The dragonborn was upon the goblin a moment later and as it fumbled for its sword, Litiraan began another spell.Telkya loosed a bolt of light from her amulet at the hobgoblin near the door and as the divine fire struck its chest she saw fear mixed with its pain for the first time. It turned its eyes towards Enlishia as it raised its bow again but it knew that the ranger would be quicker. It drew back its bowstring but as it did so, Enlishia let fly her arrow. The hobgoblin was transfixed as the arrow flew towards it and drove straight through its forehead and into its brain. It bow and the unspent arrow clattered to the floor of the chamber and it collapsed to the chamber floor.Lavren leveled his wand again and began his most powerful spell, determined to bring down the hobgoblin this time. He uttered the incantation and as he completed it, the hobgoblin screamed and began to shrink from invisible enemies. It dropped its sword on the balcony before Dulvarna while clawing at its own face. Blood poured from self-inflicted wounds and then it reached the balcony edge. With a final scream, it fell over the stone balustrade and landed with a thump next to its fallen chieftain. Dulvarna stepped over the sword of the fallen archer and rushed at the last goblin. Her blade slashed out and cut into the chest of the creature as it shrank back against the wall. A silver bolt of energy hurled it back against the wall and it lashed out with its sword one last time before Erlmoor swept its head from its shoulders.</blockquote>

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