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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4651324" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 12 - The Red Eye Gang (Part 4)Erlmoor charged past Telkya with his blade before him and roared as he met the bugbear, showering acid over the enemies before him. Litiraan shrank back against the wall in the web that pinned him there and avoided the acid but both bugbears and the drake were burned. Erlmoor’s deep voice intoned a prayer as the bugbear parried his first overhead blow and then he twisted his blade to the right and drove it into the creature’s side. Blood sprayed out and the bugbear fell back a step, tiring and sorely wounded.Imprisoned within his web, Litiraan twisted around and stabbed out at the bugbear before him clumsily. His blade drove into the creature’s shoulder and drove it back a step, allowing the elf to pushed himself off the wall and try to free himself from the web. With a huge effort, he tore the thick silk strands from the wall and dodged back from the bugbear as it came at him again. Then he saw movement from the right and with horror he saw that the ettercap was coming for him with its spear before it.Telkya closed her eyes and silently asked Corellon to guide her way as she uttered a word and vanished into a cloud of light motes. She reappeared in the chamber where Lavren faught, against the left wall and behind the bugbear. She stepped forward and stabbed out with her blade but her boot scuffed the floor and at the last, the bugbear twisted to one side and dodged her blow. He put his back to a stack of jars and barrels against the opposite wall and raised his morning star, looking from one opponent to the other as though trying to decide which to deal with first. Telkya raised her blade warily and stood ready to parry.The bugbear before Erlmoor lashed out desperately as the dragonborn came forward and smashed its morning star into the paladin’s jaw. His head was jerked around and he staggered away as his mouth filled with blood. Dulvarna stepped to her right to meet the bugbear and swung out with her sword, cutting through the place where Erlmoor had been moments before. Aecris clove into the bugbear’s neck from the front and right and took its head from its shoulders before driving into the top of the drake’s shoulder and drawing blood there. The bugbear fell to the floor of the passage, the drake roared and then Erlmoor added his own roar of pain and triumph to the cacophony of battle. He rushed at the drake then, knowing that it would be the next to fall.        Beyond the drake and the bugbear, Litiraan watched the ettercap stepping forward and waited for the thrust but it came too quickly when the creature seemingly was still out of reach. The steel point drove into his leg painfully and he staggered back and nearly fell into the web that was still attached to the wall. The bugbear came at him from the other side but again he ducked and the spiked head of the morning star struck the stone above him with a dull thud. Te bugbear cursed and Litiraan stabbed at him desperately, knowing he was doomed if no one came to his aid. The bugbear parried and snarled but then Erlmoor was behind him and he was forced to step back towards the doorway. Litiraan had surely been saved!Lavren retreated from the bugbear knowing that Telkya could hold her own against it for a little while. He reached out with the wand in his left hand and loosed black, crackling energy but the blast flew wide and struck the frame of the hidden door to the chamber. Lavren cursed and the bugbear sneered as it turned on Telkya and lashed out with its morning star. Telkya ducked the blow easily and rose, smiling at the creature as though the battle were already won. She stabbed her sword into the bugbear’s hip and drew an angry snarl from it. Desperately, Lavren began another curse as the bugbear raised its morning star again.The drake darted at Dulvarna with surprising quickness and seized her left arm in its jaws. She tore the limb free but as she did so, the dagger-sharp teeth of the beast ripped open her flesh painfully and left her arm bleeding. Erlmoor stabbed his sword into the drake’s flank then before turning to face the bugbear that Litiraan faught and then Enlishia loosed an arrow and then another into the beast’s left shoulder. It roared its pain and defiance and staggered as its left front leg threatened to give way beneath it. Then it snarled, baring its terrible teeth and promising death to any who came near to it.</blockquote>

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