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<blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4671182" data-attributes="member: 21864"><p><strong>Chapter 15 - Blackfangs (Part 1)</strong></p><p></p><p>Once the companions had tended to their wounded and Erlmoor had risen unsteadily to his feet, they turned down the southern passage that Telkya and Lavren had explored. They turned aside at the double doors that Telkya had found and once they had readied weapons, they pushed open the portals. The walls of the chamber within were covered with faded murals that depicted minotaurs in combat. The images showed the horned bull-men fighting each other, as well as battling demons, dwarves, men, and dragonborn. In all the pictures, the minotaurs lacked weapons and armour and used only their horns, teeth and bare hands to rend their opponents from head to toe.</p><p></p><p>Dulvarna and Enlishia, as the first into the chamber looked to the south and saw that a barrier of hay bales divided the room. In the larger northern part, a large boar was chained to the floor inside a pen. Arrows jutted from the trapped creature and the floor around it was covered in spatters of blood. Hyenas encircled the pen, trying to bite the boar. One by one, the hyenas became aware of the presence of the newcomers and turned their attention towards the doors.</p><p></p><p>Telkya was the first to react, rushing past Dulvarna with her sword in one hand and her amulet in the other. She held forth her holy symbol and loosed a bolt of light towards the nearest hyena. The light seared into the beast’s shoulder and drew a yelping bark from the creature. An arrow whooshed past Telkya coming from the southern end of the room and clattered into the room next to the priestess. She looked to her left and saw gnolls with bows taking aim from behind the barrier of hay bales. A hyena circled the boar pen and leapt past the beast that Telkya had wounded. It darted at the elf maid but with a slash of her sword, she kept it at bay. Erlmoor rushed forward to aid her then, his sword coming down to strike the hyena’s muzzle. It darted back from Telkya with a surprised and pained yelp.</p><p></p><p>The hyena behind, wounded by Telkya could only yap at the companions but another came around the pen from the south, leapt past one of its pack-mates and dived at Erlmoor. The dragonborn turned to his left and raised his boot to knock the hyena against the chamber wall. Enlishia, behind Erlmoor, shouldered her bow, drew her sword from her back and brought the blade down on one of the hyena’s flailing legs. With a yelp, the creature pushed itself back from the paladin and the ranger so that their fierce blades could not reach it. A fourth hyena barked and yapped behind its newly wounded pack-mate promising a fierce attack if it could only reach these intruders on its territory. Erlmoor roared in response and the hyenas fell back another step but then their barks renewed and they came forward once again.</p><p></p><p>Lavren watched the beginnings of the battle and decided that the cramped quarters of the chamber entrance were not for him. With his sword in one hand and his wand in the other, he turned aside and started off down the southward passage, hoping to find another way into the chamber. Torches lit the passage but he stayed to the shadows of the western wall as he picked his way cautiously along the passage. A passage mouth opened up in the eastern wall and he regarded it nervously for a moment before continuing past it. He could see a bend to the right ahead of him that he felt sure would lead him to the southern end of the room. With his blade before him, he mad his way carefully on down towards the turn.</p><p></p><p>Two arrows drove into the wooden fencing of the boar pen and Dulvarna could not help but flinch at the loud thuds. Something had to be done about the archers and she knew that she could not reach them from here. Turning around, intending to speak to Lavren and Litiraan, she found that the former had already vanished and the latter was looking down the southern passage as though considering whether to follow him.</p><p></p><p>“Come on,” Dulvarna urged, starting down the passage. “The others can hold things here.” Together, the woman and the elf started after Lavren, hoping as he did that the passage truly did lead to another way into the chamber. Otherwise it would likely bring more trouble upon them all.</p><p></p><p>An arrow drove into Erlmoor’s left arm and he cried out as burning pain seared up the limb. Telkya glanced over her shoulder, concerned that her companion was badly hurt but as the dragonborn tore the shaft from his flesh with a grimace, she turned back to the hyena before her. It darted to her left and then made to move right but she anticipated this move and stabbed out with her blade. The sword tore into the fur and flesh of the beast’s left shoulder and it yelped again. Another arrow clattered into the wall beside Telkya and as she glanced towards it, the hyena sprang. Telkya raised her arm to fend off the beast but it sank its teeth into her wrist and tore a wound before she shook it from her and it dropped to the floor. She swung out with her sword to make sure that her arm was still useable and was pleased to find that it was. For how long, she wondered. If the hyenas did not bring her down then surely the gnoll archers would. She looked behind for the reassuring presence of Dulvarna and saw that the warrior woman, her brother and Lavren were gone. Hoping that this was a good sign, she turned back to the creature before her and raised her sword.</p><p></p><p>Erlmoor roared again, partly in pain and partly in anger, and then raised his deep voice in prayer to Lathander. he brought his blade down then and as he did so, it glowed with bright, golden light, and then clove into the hyena’s shoulders, laying it low. With a yelp, the beats twisted aside at the last moment and avoided being cut in half but it was sorely wounded now. When it turned back to Erlmoor it was desperate and growled defiantly. With what must have been the last of its strength, it leapt at the dragonborn, only to be knocked aside by one of the tall paladin’s elbows. Again the hyena rolled to its feet but it was shrinking back now and Erlmoor knew that it was all but beaten. As it came forward once more, Enlishia stepped forward and met the beast with her blade.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Medriev, post: 4671182, member: 21864"] [b]Chapter 15 - Blackfangs (Part 1)[/b] Once the companions had tended to their wounded and Erlmoor had risen unsteadily to his feet, they turned down the southern passage that Telkya and Lavren had explored. They turned aside at the double doors that Telkya had found and once they had readied weapons, they pushed open the portals. The walls of the chamber within were covered with faded murals that depicted minotaurs in combat. The images showed the horned bull-men fighting each other, as well as battling demons, dwarves, men, and dragonborn. In all the pictures, the minotaurs lacked weapons and armour and used only their horns, teeth and bare hands to rend their opponents from head to toe. Dulvarna and Enlishia, as the first into the chamber looked to the south and saw that a barrier of hay bales divided the room. In the larger northern part, a large boar was chained to the floor inside a pen. Arrows jutted from the trapped creature and the floor around it was covered in spatters of blood. Hyenas encircled the pen, trying to bite the boar. One by one, the hyenas became aware of the presence of the newcomers and turned their attention towards the doors. Telkya was the first to react, rushing past Dulvarna with her sword in one hand and her amulet in the other. She held forth her holy symbol and loosed a bolt of light towards the nearest hyena. The light seared into the beast’s shoulder and drew a yelping bark from the creature. An arrow whooshed past Telkya coming from the southern end of the room and clattered into the room next to the priestess. She looked to her left and saw gnolls with bows taking aim from behind the barrier of hay bales. A hyena circled the boar pen and leapt past the beast that Telkya had wounded. It darted at the elf maid but with a slash of her sword, she kept it at bay. Erlmoor rushed forward to aid her then, his sword coming down to strike the hyena’s muzzle. It darted back from Telkya with a surprised and pained yelp. The hyena behind, wounded by Telkya could only yap at the companions but another came around the pen from the south, leapt past one of its pack-mates and dived at Erlmoor. The dragonborn turned to his left and raised his boot to knock the hyena against the chamber wall. Enlishia, behind Erlmoor, shouldered her bow, drew her sword from her back and brought the blade down on one of the hyena’s flailing legs. With a yelp, the creature pushed itself back from the paladin and the ranger so that their fierce blades could not reach it. A fourth hyena barked and yapped behind its newly wounded pack-mate promising a fierce attack if it could only reach these intruders on its territory. Erlmoor roared in response and the hyenas fell back another step but then their barks renewed and they came forward once again. Lavren watched the beginnings of the battle and decided that the cramped quarters of the chamber entrance were not for him. With his sword in one hand and his wand in the other, he turned aside and started off down the southward passage, hoping to find another way into the chamber. Torches lit the passage but he stayed to the shadows of the western wall as he picked his way cautiously along the passage. A passage mouth opened up in the eastern wall and he regarded it nervously for a moment before continuing past it. He could see a bend to the right ahead of him that he felt sure would lead him to the southern end of the room. With his blade before him, he mad his way carefully on down towards the turn. Two arrows drove into the wooden fencing of the boar pen and Dulvarna could not help but flinch at the loud thuds. Something had to be done about the archers and she knew that she could not reach them from here. Turning around, intending to speak to Lavren and Litiraan, she found that the former had already vanished and the latter was looking down the southern passage as though considering whether to follow him. “Come on,” Dulvarna urged, starting down the passage. “The others can hold things here.” Together, the woman and the elf started after Lavren, hoping as he did that the passage truly did lead to another way into the chamber. Otherwise it would likely bring more trouble upon them all. An arrow drove into Erlmoor’s left arm and he cried out as burning pain seared up the limb. Telkya glanced over her shoulder, concerned that her companion was badly hurt but as the dragonborn tore the shaft from his flesh with a grimace, she turned back to the hyena before her. It darted to her left and then made to move right but she anticipated this move and stabbed out with her blade. The sword tore into the fur and flesh of the beast’s left shoulder and it yelped again. Another arrow clattered into the wall beside Telkya and as she glanced towards it, the hyena sprang. Telkya raised her arm to fend off the beast but it sank its teeth into her wrist and tore a wound before she shook it from her and it dropped to the floor. She swung out with her sword to make sure that her arm was still useable and was pleased to find that it was. For how long, she wondered. If the hyenas did not bring her down then surely the gnoll archers would. She looked behind for the reassuring presence of Dulvarna and saw that the warrior woman, her brother and Lavren were gone. Hoping that this was a good sign, she turned back to the creature before her and raised her sword. Erlmoor roared again, partly in pain and partly in anger, and then raised his deep voice in prayer to Lathander. he brought his blade down then and as he did so, it glowed with bright, golden light, and then clove into the hyena’s shoulders, laying it low. With a yelp, the beats twisted aside at the last moment and avoided being cut in half but it was sorely wounded now. When it turned back to Erlmoor it was desperate and growled defiantly. With what must have been the last of its strength, it leapt at the dragonborn, only to be knocked aside by one of the tall paladin’s elbows. Again the hyena rolled to its feet but it was shrinking back now and Erlmoor knew that it was all but beaten. As it came forward once more, Enlishia stepped forward and met the beast with her blade. [/QUOTE]
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