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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PieAndDragon" data-source="post: 3799573" data-attributes="member: 18108">Last Stand of the HumaktiAs Liverpate shouted about the giant, I felt the warmth of Yelmalio about me and the haze of battle descended. Clutching a javelin coated in blade venom, I rushed around the corner of the hall, to find our foes massed there. Behind the second of the giant chaos snails gathered ten archers and a trio of armoured priests. One, taller than the others, appeared to be shouting orders in the chaos tongue.Time slowed as my attention was shifted to the giant beside the hall, standing almost three times my height and again I felt the gaze of Lord Yelmalio upon me, giving me strength to my sword arm. Overcoming the fear in my heart as the creature turned toward me, I cast my javelin high, aiming for its right eye, enchanting it with magical speed as I did so. With the Sun Lord guiding it’s path, four feet of wood and bronze went low, catching the beast in the cheek, the force of the throw driving it further into the giant’s head. There was a stunned silence as the beast lurched to one side, and collapsed to the ground, shaking the buildings around us. I had slain the creature in one blow.It took only a moment to notice ten bows trained toward me, and I quickly fled back around the stone corner. The archers wasted their arrows against Liverpate’s form, his armour reinforced once more by his protection magic. It took us little time to slay the two-headed snail which slithered to the edge of the hall we were defending. With our battle magic ready, we made ready to take on over triple our number in battle.Drake and Liverpate lead the way, with Hoisin two paces behind them, and myself with javelin at the ready once again. The archers had split into two groups, and the Humakti charged into the first group. Shouting for the villagers within the hall to aid us, one of my javelin’s felled another archer, and my second wounded their leader. Using rune magics unknown to us, the priest grew in height before us, almost doubling in size as he moved to engage Hoisin. With my allies already sorely outnumbered, I had little choice but to abandon bow for spear and make one more quick prayer to the Sun Lord.For a short time, the fates were with us once more, as Drake, Hoisin, Liverpate and myself not only held back twice our number, but inflicted deep losses among them, leaving two archers and an armoured raider bleeding on the ground. Two archers from the hall even tried to aid us, but soon fell back into their building when the second group of archers sent arrows to keep them off. The day was almost with us when the door at the front of the hall opened and an armoured figure bearing a flaming sword emerged. But our new ally was alone, and although we welcomed any aid in our desperate struggle, he was soon countered when the rest of the archers joined the fray with hammers drawn, and the odds were once more twice against us. Standing side by side with Liverpate, we concentrated our attacks where we could, holding off five foes, while Hoisin and our new ally battled against the oversized leader and several archers. One-armed Drake was almost ignored, struggling against one foe, having impaled one sword, and then a second in the same warrior, who still battle on. My axe-wielding ally had extended his protection magics to me, and without them I would have soon perished from the blows raining down upon me. The numbers against us started to tell, as Liverpate fell from a mass of injuries to his legs and arms, Then I felt the fires of Yelmalio upon me again, and a great anger enveloped me. I almost took the head off of one enemy, and tore through the leg of another. Hoisin must have felt something too, as we destroyed one after another of their giant leader’s weapons, leaving him almost defenceless except for his shield When another fell to Hoisin’s blade and two others to our ally’s flaming blade, there was almost a glimmer of hope once more. It was when I felt a strange surge of heat, and saw fire streaming from the leader’s gaping mouth, that we found he wasn’t defenceless after all.From the corner of my eye, I saw several gouts of flame, and Hoisin avoided most, fending off the leader and giving us the time to avenge Liverpate three more times. But the last jet of flame caught Hoisin fully in the thigh, enveloping him in fire and sending his charred body to the ground. Cutting down my last foe, Drake joined our erstwhile ally against the fire-breathing giant and two archers, now leaving our two greatest warriors motionless on the floor. I waited for more flames to come, but the giant’s fire appeared to have run its course.His shield arm now limp, the giant leader resorted to kicks and punches. Reaching for a javelin, I cast it true again, and he was forced down to one knee, before collapsing from the attentions of our ally’s blade. The last two allies battled on, but through all three of us were injured, we made short work of them.The battle was won, but the cost was already too high.</blockquote>

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