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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4674522" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 15 - Blackfangs (Part 3)Dulvarna ducked right as the gnoll beyond the hay bales loosed another arrow towards her. The shaft flew past her and clattered into the wall uncomfortably close to where Litiraan stood. Dulvarna raised her blade and wove it back and forth before her as the gnoll she faced held its axe before it. Suddenly, she darted forward, Aecris before her, thrust high towards the gnoll’s throat. He foe raised his axe too slowly and Dulvarna drove her blade drove through his throat. The gnoll fell at the warrior woman’s feet with blood spewing from its mouth.A second arrow clattered into the wall next to Litiraan and he ducked right instinctively. Raising his wand, he loosed another silver bolt quickly towards the gnoll but his aim was wild and the bolt flew high and wide into the left wall of the chamber. Suddenly, a bold idea struck the elf and with a smile, he started forward towards the hay bales. His enemies were lined up before him and he knew exactly what to do when that happened.Enlishia stepped back through the doorway with an arrow nocked to her bow and looked around for a target to strike at. She picked out the hyena battling Telkya at once and raised her bow. She took aim for a moment and then loosed the arrow, the shaft driving into the shoulder of the beast. Swiftly and fluidly, she reached for another arrow, nocked and released with barely a pause. This time, the hyena ducked forward and the arrow flew an inch high over the beast’s back. Telkya did not even look back to acknowledge the aid that the ranger had provided. Instead, she simply dived forward herself, her blade leading, and drove the point into the hyena’s spine. With a pained, final yelp, the hyena slumped to the floor and the priestess’s feet. Only now turning to nod her thanks to Enlishia, Telkya stepped over the fallen hyena and raised her blade to meet the next beast behind the fallen one.Erlmoor lashed out at the hyena before him but the beast ducked low and dived at his leg, seizing the limb with its teeth. The dragonborn cursed and twisted the leg left and right until finally the hyena let go. Looking back quickly to see how Telkya and Enlishia fared, the dragonborn strode forward, determined to drive back the last of his foes. With a roar of defiance he lashed out with his blade and to his satisfaction, the hyena backpedalled away from him.Lavren uttered a new curse as he pushed himself off the wall and as he raised his wand, two mauve bolts seared from it. One struck the gnoll before him and sent it reeling while the second flew towards another gnoll beyond the hay bales. The second bolt missed and as the elf cursed, the gnoll before him recovered and levelled its bow. It let fly an arrow that drove into Lavren’s right shoulder and drove him back a step. Gritting his teeth through the pain, he stepped forward again and raised wand and sword before him.Dulvarna sheathed her sword and ducked to the right as an arrow flashed past. She unshouldered her new bow and nocked an arrow to it before taking aim on the gnoll across the bales from her. She loosed an arrow and the gnoll ducked down but it was just not quick enough. The arrow tore through the gnoll’s left ear and drew a yelp of pain from the creature. Litiraan loosed a silver bolt over the head of another gnoll but this foe came up again with its bow in its hands. It took a bead on the wizard and then loosed the arrow towards him. He tried to dodged but the shaft flew straight and true and drove into his left hip, forcing him back into the wall of the chamber. Litiraan cursed and looked down at the shaft before gritting his teeth and reaching for it, ready to tear this new missile from his flesh.Enlishia came forward to the fence around the boar pen and raised her bow again. She aimed at Telkya’s new foe and loosed and arrow, the shaft droving into the side of the beast. The creature yelped and twisted around to the right, just as Enlishia loosed a second arrow. This shaft flew low and struck the inside of the fence around the pen. The boar squealed nervously and pulled on its chain towards the southern end of the pen. Telkya dived forward with a prayer on her lips and as her blade glowed brightly, she extended her left hand towards Erlmoor. A tendril of golden energy reached out and touched the paladin just as Telkya’s blade drove into the skull of the hyena before her. The beast fell and Erlmoor felt renewed strength flowing into him. Erlmoor turned and nodded his thanks to Telkya before stepping towards the hyena and bringing his blade down. His sword slashed down onto the hyena’ back but before it could be fatally wounded, the hyena wriggled out from under the blade. It darted at the dragonborn and he leapt back beyond the reach of the beast’s snapping jaws. Again he roared at the hyena and again the beast quailed before him.Lavren loosed black energy again and again the gnoll ducked down behind the hay bales. A moment later, the gnoll rose from behind the barrier again and loosed and arrow but this time, its own aim was awry and the arrow clattered into the wall of the chamber behind the elf. A second gnoll rose form behind the barrier and loosed an arrow, this shaft aimed towards Dulvarna. The warrior woman dodged to her right but the arrow drove into her side, above her hip. She gasped and staggered but managed to raise her bow but when she loosed the arrow, the shot was weak and low. The arrow drove into the hay bales in front of the gnoll and the creature answered with cackling laughter.</blockquote>

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