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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4634566" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 10 - Reunion and Reckoning (Part 6)Erlmoor held his own foe at bay despite his increased size and now the huge duergar was a much better target. An arrow drove into its arm and as the dwarf flinched, Erlmoor prayed and then advanced. His blade glowed white and he plunged it into the belly of the dwarf. The duergar staggered, reaching one hand down to the wound and then a silver bolt from Litiraan’s wand seared through its skull and felled it.The duergar in front of Dulvarna struck her a mighty blow in the chest while she still reeled from the thane’s blow and sent her staggering away from him. On the steps, the theurge loosed a bolt of fire from her hand that struck Lavren in the shoulder and halted his stumbling advance. He looked towards her and found hiss vision clearing and so he slashed his blade wildly at the thane and skipped past the fierce dwarf. Telkya was beside him then, darting past the right hand fireplace to join him in his advance on the duergar woman. She chanted a prayer to Corellon and a bolt of light lanced out to strike the dwarf in the left arm. She spat a curse at the elf maid and began another spell.Dulvarna twisted away from the huge duergar before her as he parried her blow. As she twisted the point of her blade nicked the dwarf’s leg and drew blood. She turned towards the thane and parried as his huge hammer came down again but as their weapons clashed, Dulvarna felt pain lance through her crushed shoulder. Then an arrow bounded off the aide of the duergar’s breastplate and hope returned to Dulvarna as she realised that her friends were with her. A moment later, Erlmoor was beside her and with a roar, he sprayed acid from his mouth to burn the huge duergar and the thane that faught beside him. The dragonborn’s sword lashed out and tore a wound in the duergar’s left bicep. A silver bolt flew over the dwarf’s head and the duergar roared again lashing out with his hammer to strike Dulvarna in the left side. She gasped and staggered and knew that she did not have the strength to carry on for much longer.The theurge loosed another bolt of fire at Lavren that blasted into the elf’s chest and hurled him back into the round table in front of the eastern fireplace. Lavren uttered a spell to conjure flame around the duergar but the dwarf moved aside and the flames burst up on the floor next to her. A bolt from Telkya’s amulet struck the wall behind the theurge and the duergar woman laughed out loud.The thane took a step forward and lashed his hammer sideways into Dulvarna’s right side. She heard ribs crack and gasped as the air was driven out of her lungs. When she did breath in, it was slow and rasping and she knew that she was sorely wounded. Two arrows flew past both duergar and clattered into the wall above the western fireplace. Erlmoor came forward but the huge duergar held him at bay and even Litiraan’s silver missile of magic flew wide of the large gray dwarf. The gray dwarves senses that the battle had turned and surged forward together. The large dwarf smashed his hammer up underarm into Dulvarna’s face and the warrior woman’s head snapped back. She turned around on the spot and then collapsed like a puppet with its strings cut.Another bolt of fire struck Lavren and he fell against the table for a second time. He lay there, unmoving for a little while, breathless and burned while the battle raged on around him. Telkya moved past him, praying as she advanced and as she reached the foot of the steps, a column of burning light descended on the theurge. Her smile vanished and her laugh became a hiss of anger as she began another spell, this one aimed at Telkya.Murkelmor stepped over Dulvarna and lashed his hammer into Erlmoor’s side, knocking the dragonborn against the frame of the double doors. Another arrow flew past both duergar and with a roar, Erlmoor surged forward but each of his blows was met with a parry. Only when icy rays from Litiraan’s wand struck each dwarf did were the duergar driven back. The large dwarf roared his anger and lashed out at Erlmoor but the dragonborn leapt back beyond his reach. The huge duergar staggered then and Erlmoor charged back at him intending to finish the dwarf there and then.</blockquote>

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