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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4648428" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 11 - Loose Ends (Part 6)Lavren held his ground as the bronze minotaur started towards him and with a curse in his own tongue, he loosed a bolt of black, crackling energy into the warder’s chest. The construct strode on, unfazed by the blast, and knocked Lavren and Litiraan aside as it came. When it reached Enlishia, it lashed out with its huge axe and knocked the ranger to the floor before spinning and lashing out at the two elves who now lay against the south wall of the chamber. Lavren and Litiraan both ducked and threw their arms above their heads and the axe nicked their flesh and clove into the stone above them, spilling small rocks down upon them.Enlishia scrambled away from the bronze warder, loosing arrows as she retreated but only one drove home into the metal of the construct. A searing bolt of light from Telkya’s amulet flew past the warder and struck the cave wall above Lavren and Litiraan and as more rocks began to fall, the two elves scrambled away from the construct. Behind the bronze minotaur, Erlmoor reached Dulvarna and with a prayer, he healed the worst of her hurts as she gathered her strength to charged the construct again. Then, when both were ready, they charged the bronze minotaur with their swords held high.Lavren pushed himself to his feet as Litiraan scrambled away and, as quietly as he could, he darted around behind the minotaur, his back to the boulder that now all but filled the cavern entrance. Just as he thought he had evaded the creature’s notice, his foot scuffed a stone and the minotaur turned around toward him. The huge bronze axe came down and Lavren raised his arm hopelessly to defend himself. The axe haft struck his forearm painfully but miraculously he kept the blade away from his head. Twisting away, he scrambled along the boulder while nursing his now wounded arm with the hand that held his arm. The warder turned towards him but then an arrow ricocheted off the back of its shoulder and the minotaur turned away towards Enlishia instead.Dulvarna slashed out with her sword as she reached the minotaur but her blade only clanged off the back of the construct’s thigh as it turned towards Enlishia. A bolt of light from Telkya’s amulet struck it in the shoulder and it turned towards her but she was beneath the promontory of rock now and beyond the minotaur’s reach. A silver bolt from Litiraan’s wand flew close to the bronze construct and then Erlmoor reached the creature and with a roar, he struck at it. There was a loud clang and his blade, too, was thrown aside. Lavren drew his sword and stabbed at the creature but the battle seemed hopeless to him now. The foe was beyond them. Even then it turned towards him, the huge axe lashed out and he was thrown from his feet as it smashed his sword aside and struck his chest.        “Retreat towards to the north into the chamber,” called Litiraan as he loosed another silver bolt that flew wide of the mark. The elf darted around the back of the boulder and emerged on the far side. Erlmoor stabbed his blade into the thigh of the bronze construct, barely nicking the metal and drew back from the minotaur, trusting that the elf had some new way to fight the warder. Lavren scrambled away, pushed himself to his feet and retreated past Litiraan. Wildly, the construct turned towards Dulvarna and Erlmoor and lashed out towards the dragonborn with its axe. The paladin raised his blade but the axe smashed it back against his face and sent him sprawling back across the cavern floor. Enlishia loosed more arrows and one struck home in the shoulder of the minotaur drawing the construct back towards her. She ducked around the boulder next to her and emerged on its far side next to Telkya. As she leveled her bow again, Dulvarna lashed out at the bronze warder, cleaving a chunk of metal from its hip. The warrior woman retreated as the others had done and as a beam of light from Telkya’s amulet seared past the minotaur’s face, a globe of orange flame coalesced in Litiraan’s hand. The elf brought his hand forward and the orb flew past the minotaur before bursting into searing flame against the wall at the warder’s back. The bronze construct staggered as the fire rolled over it and then Erlmoor charged at it with a roar.Acid sprayed from the dragonborn’s mouth as he reached the minotaur and then his blade sang out and gouged a line across the bronze belly of the construct. The warder staggered back from the blow and then began to flail wildly with its axe as Lavren uttered a curse and unseen jaws began to snap at it. Then, the jaws were gone and with a high swing it brought its axe down on Erlmoor’s shoulder. Flesh and bone were cloven apart and with a gasp, the dragonborn crumpled to his knees before the minotaur. With another barely audible gasp the paladin pitched forward and lay face down and unmoving at the feet of his enemy.Enlishia cried out and began firing again, an arrow glancing off the bronze but then a second driving into the side of the warder’s head. Dulvarna charged into battle and lashed out wildly, missing the warder completely. Telkya prayed loudly then and from her amulet, another bolt of light seared forth, this one striking the minotaur and searing a hole in its chest. Litiraan stepped forward and loosed fire from his left hand that engulfed the minotaur and drove it back towards the cavern wall. Lavren uttered a curse and from his wand came black, crackling energy that flew straight and true towards the head of the warder. It seared through the beautifully carved bronze face of the construct and drove a hole through the heated bronze before bursting from the back of the minotaur’s head to strike the cavern wall. The warder’s head seemed to collapse in upon itself then and the construct toppled backwards and fell against the cavern wall with a boom that shook the cavern. It lay there unmoving, half sitting up and propped against the wall but beaten at last.Next..... The Red Eye Gang</blockquote>

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