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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4647571" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 11 - Loose Ends (Part 5)Telkya threw herself against the boulder and with strength she did not know she had, she moved it! She shoved again and it moved enough so that there was now a way past it into the cavern on either side. She ducked through to the left and rushed to join the others. From the outcropping the tiefling uttered another spell and Dulvarna suddenly began swatting at her own arms and legs with her sword.“Snakes!” she cried out. “Get these snakes off me!”“An illusion,” said Litiraan with a sneer as he too, rounded the boulder and saw what was happening. He lashed out with his wand and loosed a silver bolt wildly at the tiefling on the outcropping. The missile flew wide and struck the cavern wall behind the devil-blood. The tiefling laughed in response.On the ledge, Erlmoor came back at his foe, slashing his blade to the left and then, when it was parried, twisting the sword and driving its point into the tiefling’s shoulder. His enemy vanished an instant later and as a ball of pale flame struck the dragonborn from the left he saw that the tiefling now stood in the ledge across the entrance from him. Cursing, the dragonborn began to judge whether he could jump the gap.    Dulvarna ducked as the warder swung its axe towards her and lashed out at the back of its thigh as she twisted around to her left. She rose and saw Enlishia loose an arrow into the tiefling on the outcropping. The devil-blood cried out and then staggered as a bolt of searing light struck him in the arm. He hurled pale fire desperately at Telkya but it struck the boulder beside her and Litiraan answered with a silver bolt that seared into the tiefling’s hip. Hard pressed now and weakening, the tiefling staggered and retreated a step but there was nowhere for him to go. He began another spell desperately as Lavren leveled his wand.Erlmoor ran towards the edge of the ledge and hurled himself into space. He cleared the cavern entrance easily and barreled into the tiefling, forcing it back from him. He slashed out with his sword while uttering a prayer and as the blade glowed brightly, it clove into the tiefling’s side. The tiefling vanished again and this time appeared further along the ledge. It hurled a ball of flame that struck the dragonborn on the arm as he tried to fend it off. His sleeve caught fire but still he started after the tiefling.Lavren loosed black, crackling energy into the tiefling on the outcropping and he staggered again but then he smiled for the bronze warder had turned on the spot and lashed out with its axe. Dulvarna was struck in the chest and hurled away from the construct to land on the floor several feet away. In two strides the warder was upon her once more, raising its axe for the killing blow. The axe fell and Dulvarna rolled aside, rising to her feet and lashing out with her sword. The blade clanged against the bronze creature and bounced into the floor again. Enlishia raised her bow to the smiling tiefling as she tried to ignore the brutal drama unfolding before her. She held two arrows in her fingers and then let fly. One drove through the throat of the tiefling and the second split its forehead. Its grisly smile fixed forever on its face, the tiefling pitched forward from the outcropping and landed with a dull thud on the cavern floor.Dulvarna struck the bronze warder once and then again, great ringing blows that chipped lumps from the metal of the huge minotaur body but seemed still not to weaken the creature. A column of searing light descended just to the right of the bronze minotaur, summoned by the prayers of Telkya but the warder paid it no heed, striding at Dulvarna once more. A silver bolt from Litiraan’s wand seared into the left arm of the bronze creature and it turned its glowing red eyes on the elf lord. Suddenly, it altered its course and turned aside, rampaging towards Litiraan, Lavren and the others.Erlmoor charged along the ledge towards the tiefling who flourished his dagger and seemed to be ready to teleport away once again. The dragonborn roared fiercely and thrust his blade to wards the right of the tiefling. The devil-blood brought his dagger across to parry but at the last, with a mighty prayer to Lathander on his lips, Erlmoor redirected his thrust towards the tiefling’s heart. It pierced his enemy’s chest before he had chance to react and drove through his heart and out of his back. With a gasp, the tiefling died with its eyes wide in surprise and fear and as his enemy slid from his blade, Erlmoor turned to clamber down from the ledge.</blockquote>

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