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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4599941" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 7 - Beyond the Gate (Part 5)The two duergar that remained panicked then, one disappearing before Enlishia’s eyes and the other fleeing back through the open double doors. Dulvarna rushed after the duergar as did Telkya who unleashed a bolt of light at the dwarf she could see. The bolt struck the back of the gray dwarf’s shoulder and spun him into the passage wall but he continued his flight. Enlishia loosed an arrow after the dwarf while Lavren and Litiraan took a different course, darting through a door in the western wall and into the side chamber there. Both thought that it would bring them into a position to head off the fleeing dwarf but as they emerged from the other door in the side chamber they saw that they were too late. Across a large ruined hall, double doors were being opened by unseen hands and they could only open onto the chasm.Erlmoor joined the pursuit with his sword in his hands but the dwarf continued his flight. The dragonborn lashed out with his blade and caught the duergar’s shoulder blade with the tip of his sword but still the dwarf did not stop. Lavren and Litiraan entered the ruined hall just as the dwarf they could see crossed the hall before them and rushed through the double doors. Beyond them a bridge crossed the chasm and he started across but he was not quite fast enough. Dulvarna burst into the chamber through double doors on the far side and rushed to catch the dwarf, her blade in her hands. As she reached the doors that led out onto the bridge the second duergar reappeared next to her and lashed out with its hammer. Dulvarna was struck soundly on the back of the head and in a shower of blood, she collapsed before the doors.Telkya entered the room through the far double doors, praying as she came. Light lanced out from the amulet she held and struck the left hand door that led out onto the bridge. Enlishia ran into the chamber next, pulling two arrows from the quiver on her back and nocking them to her bow. She took aim and loosed them but they flew past both dwarves and disappeared into the dark of the chasm beyond the doors. Litiraan crossed the ruined chamber to the centre and loosed a silver bolt out onto the bridge towards the furthest ahead of the dwarves but this too missed and was consumed by the darkness of the chasm. Lavren appeared beside Litiraan, uttering a curse and a spell in quick succession before leveling his wand at the duergar. Two purple rays shot out, one striking the duergar on the bridge and searing through his back to burst out of his chest. He screeched and tottered sideways before falling over the side of the bridge and disappearing into the depths of the chasm. The other bolt struck the remaining duergar and threw him back against the open door beside him. Erlmoor charged into the room then with a roar and the last duergar bolted. Erlmoor’s blade rose and fell and the duergar fell in the doorway in a spray of blood.</blockquote>

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