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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rae ArdGaoth" data-source="post: 4377276" data-attributes="member: 21064">Rasereit begins to slow as his clone's successful strikes take their toll.  Rasereit the Second's magical waraxe is as deadly as the real Rasereit's, and our relentless barbarian is finally getting a taste of his own medicine.Swinging and blocking, using their shields for offense as much as defense, the two dwarves are practically mirror images of each other, anticipating impossible cuts, striking normally hidden weak points, and adding even more scars to their already heavily marred bodies.Rasereit's usually incredible endurance is wearing thin.  His twin, with vicious speed, cuts past Rasereit's shield and towards his vulnerable neck.  Rasereit blocks with his axe arm, his sturdy dwarven bone stopping the axe in its tracks but receiving a deep cut in return.  Rasereit screams through the pain.Though the angry clone is slowing down, so too is Rasereit, and he again fails to raise his shield in time to block the second axe swipe.  This one cuts underneath his chin, lopping off a large segment of his beard at the same time.  Blood flies into the air, and Rasereit lets out a voiceless gasp.He stumbles unexpectedly, and his twin's shield swipes the empty air above him. Too tired and injured to bring himself to his full height, Razh swings his axe from here.Once, blocked by his twin's heavy shield.  Twice, a terrible miss, easily avoided by the other dwarf.  The terrible wound to Rasereit's right arm has effectively disabled it.Rasereit has one last chance to finish off his twin before it finishes him.  He dives forward, his right arm limp, and slams his spiked shield into the leg of his brutal counterpart.[sblock=The Suspenseful Conclusion... ]The leg is well protected by tightly strapped greaves.  The spikes cannot penetrate the magically reinforced metal.  But in his savage rage, the twin's engorged muscles have created a gap between the metal plates of the greaves, out of which has emerged a single bulging vein.One of Rasereit's shield spikes pierces this vein, and an enormous amount of blood spurts from it.  The clone falls to one knee, his leg incapacitated by the wound.  Rasereit gives him a hard shove with his own leg, knocking the clone over.  Then he whacks the clone across the head with his shield, hard.Rasereit, already on the ground, collapses. His strength is spent, and his battle fury, exhausted.  The clone looks forward, dazed, and then goes limp.  The only thing keeping him alive is the remnants of rage coursing through his body.[sblock=OOC: ]Apologies for the long post, but Rasereit was <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1660888/" target="_blank">1 point away</a> from missing on all three attacks!  If Razh II hadn't been raging... Phew.Razh 14/84Razh Clone -2/84After Rage wears off...Razh 2/72Razh Clone -14/72EDIT: It seems I've rolled under my DM name "DM Rae" instead of "Rasereit".  A search on IC for <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/search/?roll=&name=DM+Rae&campaign=&latest=" target="_blank">DM Rae</a> and <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/search/?roll=&name=Rasereit&campaign=&latest=" target="_blank">Rasereit</a> will reveal that I only rolled once.[/sblock][/sblock]</blockquote>

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