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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4606304" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 8 - Across the Chasm (Part 5)At the northern end of the hall, Enlishia lashed her blade across the shoulder of the duergar she faced and forced him back for a moment. The dwarf lashed out with his hammer but she parried the riposte easily and twisted his hammer aside so that she could parry the attack of the other dwarf and keep him at bay long enough for Dulvarna to rejoin the battle. Enlishia shoved the duergar back from her just as Dulvarna rushed through the doorway, her blade held high. The duergar realised his danger too late and started to turn and raise his hammer but he stood no chance. The tip of Aecris drove into his throat while his hammer was still at waist level and the blade drove through his neck from one side to the other. With a gurgle of blood, the dwarf collapsed before Dulvarna and the warrior woman burst into the corridor triumphantly. The other dwarf began to retreat then and Enlishia knew that they had all but won their small battle. She saw Litiraan beyond the duergar loosed a silver bolt from his wand and as it struck the back of the dwarf, panic filled her enemy’s eyes.The construct retreated before Erlmoor again and loosed two bolts quickly from its crossbow. One clattered into the wall beside Erlmoor but the other flew down the hall and drove into Litiraan’s back, jolting him forward a step. He gasped and staggered as blood seeped down his back within his robes. Lavren emerged into the corridor next, leveling his wand at the nearest construct and loosing a bolt of black energy that flew wide and struck the minotaur statue behind his foe. Erlmoor charged the two constructs, lashing out at one and scoring the metal of its body close to the crossbow. Telkya drew her sword and charged from the barracks room to join the dragonborn and together the two drove back the clockwork constructs until a bolt of flame struck the elf maid’s arm. She staggered and the construct before her retreated out of her reach.Enlishia tossed her sword behind her and unshouldered her bow as she retreated back into the ruined room. She loosed an arrow at the duergar that Dulvarna faught and distracted him long enough for Dulvarna to half parry his hammer blow. The hammer glanced off her shoulder as the parried high and deflected it away and downwards. Litiraan loosed another silver bolt that struck the duergar in the side and the dwarf reeled away giving Dulvarna a chance to push forward at her foe. The warrior woman slashed her blade into the dwarf’s belly and as he bent forward she brought her blade back up and drove the point through the dwarf’s chin and up into his brain. The duergar buckled at the knees and collapsed beside his companion. Dulvarna drew out her blood and brain soaked blade and rushed off down the corridor to aid her companions.A crossbow bolt from the retreating construct drove into Telkya’s shoulder and halted her jubilant advance. Lavren was chanting behind her but whatever spell he cast seemed to have no effect while Erlmoor was still pursuing the construct he faced. The dragonborn slashed out with his blade and tore out some of the mechanism that drove the construct and Telkya drove her own blade into one of the strange creature’s legs. With a clunking whir, the construct retreated past the minotaur statue and fired its crossbow. Erlmoor slashed out with his sword and swatted the bolt out of the air as it flew towards him before continuing his advance. Telkya made to follow him but as she did so, the robed duergar chanted a spell again and a bolt of flame seared her hip. She staggered again but Dulvarna rushed into battle then and slashed her blade across the face of the duergar and drove him back.A bolt flew from the nearest construct and drove into Dulvarna’s stomach, halting her advance. She gasped and staggered, reaching one hand down to the wound. Erlmoor surged at the other construct, his blade lashing out and severing one of its legs. Still the clockwork creature tried to leap back from him. Lavren came forward then though and with an incantation loosed black, crackling energy at the construct. It seared through its body and shattered it where it stood, felling it in a shower of gears and metal. Telkya charged at the other construct, praying as she advanced. She lashed out with her blade and struck the top of the creature’s body and drove it back and as she did so, her blade glowed white and from her other hand she directed the white light towards Dulvarna. Divine healing washed over the warrior woman restoring some of her strength and driving the crossbow bolt from her stomach. She rushed at the robed duergar then, taking him by surprise. Her blade swept out wide and took his head from his shoulders as he tried to raise his warhammer.The remaining construct retreated until its back was against the southern wall and from there it loosed one more bolt wildly before it was felled by Erlmoor’s blade after Lavren had struck it with a black bolt of eldritch energy.</blockquote>

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