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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4645966" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 11 - Loose Ends (Part 4)The Road of Shadows was the wide passage that led south eastward from the Seven Pillared Hall and not far inside, the companions turned aside towards the place marked on the map. At the end of the passage, at the place marked on the map was a natural cave with a ten-foot high ledge that ran around its interior perimeter. Several large boulders crowded the area. At first there was no sign of anyone waiting to greet the companions, but then suddenly creatures sprang out of hiding to attack and all six knew that they had walked into a trap!Telkya drew her sword and then reached out her left hand towards the ledge on the left where a tiefling stood. A bolt of light shot out from her hand and struck the rock close to the tiefling’s head and the devil-blooded creature flinched while beginning his own spell. Another tiefling on a rocky outcropping that extended from the ledge into the heart of the cavern hurled pale flame that struck the ground near Enlishia. Litiraan loosed a silver bolt at the tiefling to the left and in answer, the tiefling hurled pale flame itself towards Enlishia. The ranger ducked and it struck the wall beside Dulvarna. Lavren rushed ahead into the cavern but stopped a little way into the chamber as he saw something else moving behind a boulder to the right. There, he saw a bronze likeness of a minotaur with a huge bronze axe that he would have taken for a statue had it not been moving. He recalled their like from an ancient tome he had studied before he left Cormanthor. It was called a bronze warder, a magically created construct that would obey the orders of whoever wore the amulet that commanded it. He looked up at the tiefling on the outcropping and could see no amulet around his neck. Only when he looked back to the other tiefling did he see the chain of an amulet around his neck. It mattered not, the warder had to be destroyed and so Lavren uttered a spell and unleashed black, crackling energy.Enlishia rushed into the cavern behind Lavren, firing at the tiefling on the outcropping as she came. Dulvarna and Erlmoor followed, the dragonborn moving to the ledge against the south wall and starting to scramble up to it. Dulvarna charged around the boulder and rushed at the bronze warder, lashing out with her blade only for it to clang off the leg of the construct and strike the floor. A ball of pale flame struck her in the shoulder then and set light to the jerkin Dulvarna wore beneath her armour.“Take care of him,” Dulvarna called back to the others, pointing up at the tiefling on the outcropping.In the cavern entrance, Telkya and Litiraan loosed bolts of silver and gold at the tiefling on the ledge above them but each time he ducked back and their spells struck only stone. Suddenly, the tiefling seemed to panic and looking along the ledge, the brother and sister saw why. Erlmoor had clambered up onto the ledge and was rushing along it towards the tiefling. The devil-blood drew forth a curved dagger from its belt and prepared to defend itself. As Erlmoor reached him, the tiefling lashed out with the dagger and drew blood from the dragonborn’s face. The paladin roared his contempt for the small wound and raised his blade.Lavren loosed black, eldritch fire towards the tiefling on the outcropping and smiled as the bolt seared into the devil-blood’s shoulder, knocking him back a step. Then the boulder began to move as the bronze warder shoved its shoulder against it and Lavren panicked. He looked towards Telkya and Litiraan in the entrance and could see that they were retreating, but nevertheless they would be cut off from the others. The boulder rolled into place, lodging in the entrance and Litiraan and Telkya disappeared behind it. Dulvarna slashed at the back of the warder’s leg to try and distract it and this time, she gouged a small cut in the metal. There was no need to distract the construct, though, for its work with the boulder was done. Raising its huge axe, the bronze minotaur turned towards Dulvarna with all its power and fury and she fell back, afraid of the doom that faced her.</blockquote>

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