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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4721722" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 21 - The Inner Sanctum (Part 2)One of the carnage demons leapt down from the ledge to land in front of Dulvarna but she lashed out at it as it jumped and tore a gash along its right thigh with her blade. It landed and turned with a snarl to lash out at her with a backhand but Dulvarna was ready and ducked under the swipe easily. She rose with her blade in hand and slammed the hilt of Aecris into the face of the demon to drive it away from her. She looked up then and saw a second demon land on the steps next to Erlmoor. The dragonborn ducked under its first wild swing but the paladin needed help, Dulvarna knew. Now if only she could get the troublesome demon from her path, she could aid him.Lavren joined Litiraan and Enlishia against the west wall of the chamber with wand and blade in hand. He raised his wand and loosed black, crackling energy into the back of the ape demon, distracting it for a moment and buying Erlmoor a few more moments as he battled his three foes. Lavren saw a flash of movement beyond the huge ape demon then and looking up, he saw the third red-skinned carnage demon leap from the ledge in front of a cauldron and rush across the floor towards he and Litiraan. The demon lashed out with its clawed hand and struck the wizard across the face spinning him around and slamming him into the stone wall. Enlishia leapt away from the demon and raised her bow, loosing first one arrow and then a second into the side of the demon. Litiraan raised his blade and lashed out at the demon. The demon leapt back to evade the sword and snarled at Litiraan before leaping forward again.“Taste the blade of Dragonbane,” Litiraan cried out as the demon came forward with a ferocity that the others had rarely heard from him.Erlmoor lashed out at the skeleton while calling out to Lathander and then, as his blade clove into the creature’s ribs, he leapt down from the steps to face the ape demon. The demon lashed out at him with one claw and he ducked under it but the other smashed into his left arm and spun him towards the carnage demon that Dulvarna faced. The dragonborn roared his defiance and Telkya reached out her left hand towards him while uttering a healing prayer. Golden light cascade over Erlmoor for a moment and new strength filled him. He nodded his thanks to the priestess and then turned around to face the ape demon once more. Erlmoor smiled for a moment but then a bolt of black energy unleashed by the gnoll struck the wall above her head and she returned her mind to the battle before her.The demon before Dulvarna lashed out with a clawed hand and tore at her forearm but she faught through the pain and lashed out with her blade again. The demon ducked back but Dulvarna followed up, lunging forward to drive her blade into the demon’s knee. It roared its pain and lurched back from her, beyond the reach of Aecris. She looked up to where Erlmoor was desperately trying to retreat towards her and saw that the dragonborn had not yet escaped the reach of the skeleton. The minotaur raised its huge axe and brought it down towards the paladin who parried to drive the blade away from his head. The axe still tore down the side of Erlmoor’s right arm and the dragonborn let forth his own roar of pain. Dulvarna decided then to dispose of the foe before her more quickly so that she could move to aid her friend. As she looked, the carnage demon on the steps, rushed across the stairway and lashed out with a clawed fist at Erlmoor, striking the dragonborn across the cheek. As he reeled away, the demon leapt but Erlmoor raised his blade and both arms to fend it off and send it tumbling back onto the steps. Erlmoor stopped for a moment, breathing heavily, and then he raised his blade once more.Lavren leapt back from the demon that had come at Litiraan and raised his wand while uttering another curse. He called forth fire within the demon to burn it but rather than the bursts of searing flame from the creature’s skin, instead only small motes appeared and they died quickly. The demon snarled towards Lavren and then leapt forward at Litiraan once again. The demon lashed out with its right hand this time and struck the elf’s left arm, tearing several ragged wounds in it above the elbow. Litiraan reeled away as Enlishia loosed more arrows, one driving into the demon’s shoulder. Litiraan lashed out wildly once he had recovered from the blow and only succeeded in striking the stone wall beside him as the demon leapt back. The creature snarled again at the elf, promising a gruesome death, before rushing at him once more.Erlmoor retreated a few more steps until he was beside the demon that Dulvarna faught. He called out a challenge to this new foe and then stabbed his blade into the demon’s hip. It hissed and snarled at him but he paid it no mind for the ape demon had taken another step forward after him. The first blow struck him in the left shoulder and spun him away from the carnage demon beside him. He ducked then as the left arm swung out at him at the limit of the ape demon’s reach. The clawed hand missed the top of the dragonborn’s head by a hand’s breadth and the paladin rose quickly, stepping back again. He glanced over his shoulder and saw Telkya loose a bolt of light towards the demon that her brother faught and as he turned his gaze back to the enemies before him, a dark bolt of crackling energy flashed in from his left and struck him in the side. Erlmoor grunted and gasped as the eldritch energy tore into his ribs. He staggered to the right and almost fell. Sensing his weakness, the carnage demon that Dulvarna faught turned aside and leapt on the dragonborn. Its claws tore at his face while its vicious questing teeth tore open his throat. With a final, strangled roar, Erlmoor fell beneath the demon as his blood spread out in a pool around him.</blockquote>

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