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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4655353" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 12 - The Red Eye Gang (Part 6)Dulvarna drove the bugbear back with a slashed cut across its belly and then Enlishia found her mark with an arrow that drove into the bugbear’s shoulder. Beyond the bugbear, Litiraan was keeping the ettercap’s spear at bay now and as the bugbear looked that way again, it retreated from Dulvarna towards the spider-kin creature. Turning suddenly, the bugbear lashed out with its morning star and struck Litiraan in the back, pushing him towards the ettercap. Erlmoor slammed the hilt of his sword into the side of the bugbear’s head and distracted it from what would surely be a killing blow. The bugbear reeled to the left into the wall of the passage and Litiraan ducked right to the opposite wall to try to summon his second wind. The ettercap eyed the elf warily and then levelled its spear at his heart and came forward.Telkya feinted low and then brought her blade up high while the dazed bugbear barely even tried to raise his morning star. The elf maid’s sword drove into the bugbear’s throat and the creature fell to its knees before her as blood gushed forth. She drew the blade out and the bugbear fell, showering the hem of her robes in deep red blood. She rushed to the doorway as Dulvarna charged the bugbear again and drove her blade into his back as he reeled from Erlmoor’s blow. Litiraan cried out and as Telkya looked she saw that her brother bled from several wounds and had been stabbed again in the side with the ettercap’s spear. The creature retreated down the passageway and as it did so, Enlishia’s bow sang again and the bugbear fell with an arrow through its throat from one side to the other. A second arrow flew forth and drove into the ettercap’s shoulder and then Lavren rushed out of the side chamber into the passageway. He glanced at Telkya and smiled before cursing at the ettercap and raising his wand  Flames burst from the ettercap’s skin and it screeched in pain as the fire seared its flesh. Erlmoor charged at the creature with a roar and lashed out with his sword but the creature ducked at the last moment and his blade struck the stone wall above the ettercap’s head. The creature screeched and tried to back away but then Litiraan, wounded but still standing raised his own wand in his left hand and loosed a bolt of silver into the creature, throwing it back against the wall. The ettercap screeched again and looked back along the corridor as Telkya came forward to protect her brother. With a guttural cry, she rushed at the ettercap and with the same high thrust that had slain the bugbear, she drove her blade into the ettercap’s throat. It half-screeched and then gurgled before collapsing on the floor before her.“Think I’m starting to get the hang of sword craft,” Telkya said and Lavren and Litiraan both smiled with pride and love for the fair and spirited elf maid.Next....The Well of Demons</blockquote>

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