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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4621805" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 9 - The Deeper Hold (Part 6)A quill bounced off Erlmoor’s shoulder plate and then the second duergar was upon him. The dwarf’s hammer slashed out from the right and cracked into the dragonborn’s leg, almost knocking him from his feet. He staggered but managed to keep his footing until the noxious fumes that had blinded him in the barracks chamber rose around him. The dragonborn slashed his blade back and forth, closed his eyes and held his breath until the fumes passed but Lavren and Enlishia found their eyes and lungs burning as the terrible vapours assailed them.Telkya raised her voice in prayer and loosed another bolt of light into the closest devil but still the horrible creature refused to fall. Both devils loosed fiery spines at her then and she fell back against the wall beside her as they drove into her left leg and arm. Erlmoor roared as he saw Telkya fall back and uttered a prayer to Lathander that brought a golden glow to his blade. He lashed out at the duergar in front of him but the dwarf ducked back and the sword only cut a shallow wound across the top of the warrior’s chest. Even though the strike was not deep a wave of bright light burst out from the sword to wash over all the companions. Telkya felt renewed strength, as did Erlmoor and on the floor beside the pool, Litiraan’s eyes flicked open.Enlishia loosed an arrow into the devil across the pool from her and then loosed a second missile. This flew just over the creature’s left shoulder and shattered against the far wall of the chamber. Lavren called forth flame to surround the other devil, the one wounded again by Telkya, but the creature simply cackled for the terrible denizens of the Nine Hells could not be harmed by even warlock-conjured flames. The duergar roared their own defiance then and surged forward, driving Erlmoor and Dulvarna back while the sorcerer loosed a bolt of fire from his hand that struck the wall beside Dulvarna.Telkya shrank back from the edge of the pool and began a healing prayer but still the devils would not grant her peace. Lashing out with their arms, they loosed more flaming spikes but Telkya ducked down and they struck the wall above her harmlessly.“The power of the Hells cannot avail you,” Telkya called to them across the pool.“Amen,” echoed Erlmoor and as he said the word, he called out to Lathander and sacrificed some of his own strength for the power to drive back the duergar. His sword rang out and smashed into the side of the gray dwarf before him, driving the warrior back from him.Enlishia drew two arrows from her quiver and nocked both to her bow at the same time. Taking aim at the closest devil but with an eye on the other, she loosed both shafts out across the pool. One drove into the shoulder of the closest devil while the other flew past the other diabolic foe to clatter against the western wall of the chamber. Beside her, Lavren loosed a bolt of black energy into the farthest devil, knocking him back a step Dulvarna surged forward then, raising her blade above her head and bringing it down in a mighty blow but at the last, the duergar before her raised his hammer and parried. Twisting his weapon around, he slammed it into Dulvarna’s jaw and knocked the warrior woman away from him. She staggered back reeling and then a bolt of flame from the duergar sorcerer struck her shoulder and spun her dangerously close to the edge of the pit. Erlmoor reached out and pulled Dulvarna back from the edge but as he did so, the duergar before him slammed the haft of his weapon into the dragonborn’s belly. Together, he and Dulvarna fell back further from their gray dwarf foes.Telkya rose and loosed a beam of light towards the nearest devil but the divine bolt struck only the stone at the creature’s feet. Litiraan rose beside her then, though and with an uttered incantation he loosed a silver bolt at the devil across from him that seared through the devil’s chest. The creature let out a terrible screech and then pitched forward into the pool. The other devil screeched itself and lashed out with its right arm to loose spikes towards the elf. One drove into Litiraan’s chest just below his shoulder and he fell back against the wall behind him, gasping for breath. The elf staggered and almost fell but his sister reached out to him and held him upright as the remaining devil fixed its predatory eyes on them.Erlmoor roared again and feinted to slashed his blade in low as the duergar he faced came at him. At the last, he raised the angle of his blade and while the gray dwarf desperately tried to adjust his parry, the sword clove through the duergar’s neck and beheaded him. Behind the dragonborn, Lavren moved left and leveled his wand at the duergar that Dulvarna still faught. With a curse and a spell, the elf loosed another black bolt and the duergar staggered back reeling as the eldritch energy seared into his side. Dulvarna saw her chance and came forward, leading with her blade. She plunged Aecris into the chest of the duergar and drove the sword through the dwarf’s body until the point drove out through his spine. With a gasp, the duergar fell sideways into the pit. Dulvarna rushed forward once the duergar had slid off her blade and charged at the remaining gray dwarf, the sorcerer who had targeted her so much. The gray dwarf retreated before the fierce warrior woman and as he did so, he chanted another incantation. Fiery hail rained down on Dulvarna. She fell as red hot rocks struck her and for a moment, the duergar sorcerer gained a reprieve.The remaining devil reeled back as Telkya’s next bolt of divine light struck it Litiraan’s silver bolt flew wide and with a snarl, it lashed out with its arm to hurl more spines at the elf. Litiraan darted to the right and the fiery bolts struck the wall next to the door. The devil looked bemused for a moment but then in a furious roar, Erlmoor was upon it and the paladin’s blade had driven into its shoulder. An arrow from Enlishia’s bow drove into its belly then, splintering as it struck home and then a black bolt from Lavren’s wand seared through the creature’s chest. The devil pitched forward and joined its companion in the water of the well.</blockquote>

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