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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4653664" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 12 - The Red Eye Gang (Part 5)Litiraan cried out as the ettercap drove its spear into his hip but he had only one focus now as the bugbear turned away from him and, grimly, he started towards the creature with his sword in his hand. He lashed out with the blade and drew blood from the creature’s shoulder. It gave a high-pitched screech and backed away from him a step. With a fierce look in his eyes, the elf followed.Behind Litiraan, an arrow clattered into the wall above the drake and then a second from Enlishia’s bow drove into the beast’s neck. The drake roared and snapped at Erlmoor but the paladin dodged away from its jaws. The bugbear came at him then with an overhand blow but he raised his sword and parried crossways above his head. Before twisting the blade away and slashing out at the bugbear. His enemy leapt back and his blade passed in front of it, inches away from the bugbear’s chest. The bugbear snarled and Erlmoor snarled back.Lavren loosed another blast of black energy from his wand but again it flew wide of the bugbear and again he cursed. The bugbear lashed out at Telkya and again she ducked under the swing. While still ducked low, Telkya drove her sword forward into the bugbear’s thigh and drove it back and away from her. The creature roared in pain and anger and then came forward at the elf maid again but Lavren loosed another black bolt and this struck the bugbear in the side. It staggered to its left, away from Lavren and then lashed out again with its morning star. This time  Telkya was forced to parry, raising her blade above her head to block the descending spiked weapon but still she held the bugbear at bay. It snarled at her and she smirked back at it, as though daring it to do better.Dulvarna ducked low and drove her blade into the top of the drake’s weakened right foreleg and this time the leg did give way. The drake roared and clumsily tried to leap back from the warrior woman but it was already doomed. An arrow flew forth from Enlishia’s bow and drove into its skull, piercing its brain and dropping it to the corridor floor. A second arrow struck the door frame next to the bugbear behind the drake and the creature looked around in panic, realising its peril. Desperately it lashed out at Erlmoor and caught the paladin a glancing blow on the shoulder that he simply shrugged off. The dragonborn thrust forward with his own sword and the bugbear parried but as it did so, Erlmoor moved along the passage towards Litiraan, almost reaching the elf.The ettercap saw his peril too and stabbed out with its spear to try and keep the elf and the others at bay. Litiraan dodged left and the spear grazed the side of his right shoulder, wounding him and drawing yet more blood but barely halting him. The elf stabbed out with his blade, into one of the ettercap’s shoulders and forced it back another step. The creature looked behind it as though to check its path of retreat was clear and then darted towards the elf once more.    Telkya ducked another clumsy swing of the bugbear’s morning star and then thrust her blade into its hip before leaping up again. The creature came back at her quickly this time but the blow was clumsy and she dodged to her right to throw the creature off balance. Its morning star struck the wall and it all but  fell over as it pitched forward. A black bolt from Lavren’s wand seared through the air where the creature’s head had been and struck the wall next to the chamber entrance. Telkya and Lavren shared a glance, knowing they had the measure of their foe and then both turned their attention back to the battle.Dulvarna advanced slowly on the remaining bugbear in the corridor, weaving her blade before her in a dance that she knew well but that this opponent had not yet seen. As the bugbear tried to watch her approach while also waiting for Erlmoor to strike, Dulvarna dived forward, driving Aecris deep into the creature’s thigh. Two more arrows flew past the bugbear and it lashed out wildly at Dulvarna, all but blinded by pain and rage. She ducked back and parried with her blade pointed downwards before her as the morning star came across towards her. Erlmoor thrust his sword at the bugbear from its left but it twisted away towards the doorway and evaded the sword. Desperately, the bugbear looked towards the ettercap as though seeking counsel or aid but none were forthcoming. The bugbear roared defiantly and raised its morning star to face its enemies once again.Telkya stabbed forward again with her sword as the bugbear reached out for the wall to stop itself falling over. At the last, it twisted around to avoid the elf maid’s sword thrust and pushed itself off the wall towards the centre of the room again. Lavren was ready for this, though, and from his wand a blast of black energy lanced out to strike the bugbear in the chest and drive him back towards the door. Telkya rushed at the bugbear and he lashed out desperately with his morning star. She parried above her head and then moved forward to finish her foe.</blockquote>

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