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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4575573" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 5 - Gray Dwarves and Dark Elves (Part 3)“Ye came to see us then,” snarled the duergar female with shoulder length red hair as she strode into the room. The sword that she held in her hands had hung at her belt when last the companions had seen it and they knew at once that this was the same dwarf that they had met on the way to the temple of Torm. She lowered her sword and pointed it at Erlmoor.“You shall be first to pay for this effrontery,” she snarled and with a word, she summoned a coiling stream of lightning that lanced out and wrapped around Erlmoor. With a pull of her hands, she dragged the dragonborn across the chamber in an instant until he stood before her. The dragonborn roared but he was helpless until he stood before the duergar, within reach of her blade.Lavren continued his retreat, desperately working his wounded arm while binding the worst hurts there with cloth. Litiraan retreated with him loosing two bolts of blue white energy from his wand towards the duergar. A thin path of frost appeared on the floor of the chamber beneath each one before fading away and as one struck the wall near the end of the counter, it froze the stone. The other struck the duergar nearest the door and limned its left shoulder in ice. Telkya looked to her brother with admiration, having never seen him cast that spell before and then drew her sword. She charged the nearest duergar, praying as she advanced. Her blade glowed with divine radiance and for a moment, Lavren’s body glowed behind her as healing energy flowed through him. He glanced towards Telkya with a smile as he flexed his formerly wounded arm and then leveled his wand at the closest duergar.    Erlmoor feinted to the left and then brought his blade in from the right, deceiving the duergar female and landing a painful blow to her ribs beneath her left arm. She cursed and staggered and then looked up in alarm as Dulvarna drove her blade through the throat of the remaining duergar guard and came to join the dragonborn. The duergar, called Kedhira by those who knew her, looked to the left and mentally willed her warriors forward, for she would need their aid. As she looked, the duergar, both wounded, drove the elf and the brown haired woman back from the doorway. They would prevail, Kedhira decided and in her own tongue, she bound the dragonborn to her and then lashed out backhand with her blade, tearing into the top of the dragonborn’s chest. He staggered back and with a smile, Kedhira started forward.Lavren came forward, renewed strength flowing through him from Telkya’s prayer. He leveled his wand at the nearest duergar and uttered a curse and then a spell. Black, crackling energy lanced out and struck the wall next to the gray dwarf he had aimed at. Beside Lavren, Litiraan loosed a silver bolt from his wand that struck the duergar that Lavren’s spell had missed. The gray dwarf reeled back against the door frame and Telkya and Enlishia surged forward at the same time. Telkya thrust forward with her blade but the other duergar parried the attack with his hammer while Enlishia slashed her blade towards the head of the duergar wounded by Litiraan. The dwarf recovered enough to duck under her blow and her blade struck only the door frame.    Erlmoor surged at the duergar female chanting a prayer as he came and as his blade glowed brightly, he thrust it into the gray dwarf’s shoulder. Dulvarna came in from the other side, her blade weaving a hypnotic dance until she thrust it towards the belly of the duergar. The dwarf darted left and Dulvarna’s blade jarred into the stone beside the doorway. Dulvarna cursed and stumbled forward only to be met by the hilt of the duergar’s sword punched into her face. Her nose broke with a crack and she reeled away, blood pouring down her face.Lavren loosed another blast of black energy that struck the wall close to the nearest duergar. Litiraan loosed another silver bolt and again struck the duergar in the chest, forcing him backwards. Telkya drove her blade into the hip of the duergar before her but Enlishia again struck the stone above the head of the gray dwarf she faced. The duergar snarled their resentment and hatred and came forward again, one striking Telkya’s leg with his hammer and the other smashing the haft of his weapon in Enlishia’s chest and forcing her back. The elf and the ranger braced themselves for the next flurry attacks, parrying desperately as they waited for aid from Erlmoor and Dulvarna.Erlmoor roared and surged forward, smashing the hilt of his blade into the face of the female duergar. Dulvarna followed the dragonborn forward and as the duergar reeled from his blow, she drove her sword into the dwarf maid’s chest. She staggered, sank to her knees and as she did so, Dulvarna drove her blade through her throat. Kedhira the duergar fell forward in a spray of blood to die at Dulvarna’s feet and together the warrior woman and the dragonborn turned away to aid their companions.Another black bolt from Lavren’s wand seared into the wall beside the door and another curse escaped from the lips of the elf. Litiraan loosed another unerring silver bolt into the duergar closest to the door and Lavren glared at the wizard as though his poor aim were the elf lord’s fault. Suddenly, Erlmoor appeared in the doorway behind the duergar and plunged his blade into the dwarf’s back. With a gasp, the duergar fell to the floor at the feet of his enemies. Dulvarna rushed around from behind the counter and charged at the last duergar. The dwarf desperately tried to bring his hammer across from his right where he had parried Telkya’s sword but he was too slow. Aecris pierced his chest and drove through his left lung into his heart. He fell beside his companion.</blockquote>

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