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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arwink" data-source="post: 497386" data-attributes="member: 2292">Wednesday, August 16th, 518 AF, continued Yip lets out a short yelp of glee as he sees the dragon's entangled form drop into the dust cloud.  The impact of the wyrms body on the aged cobblestones is audible, and several of them crack under the sudden weight.  Utreshimon lets out a growl of pain on impact, which causes the kobold monk to grin even wider.Under the cover of the settling dust cloud, Utreshimon shreds the kobolds bola and free's himself, regaining his feat with an almighty roar.  It does him little good.  The four vetrans see a sudden advantage, and Taranos leads a charge to engage the creature in hand to hand.  As the dust settles Utreshimon finds himself flanked by Durhon, Taranos and Yip, with Warwind's flaming sphere rolling perilously beneath his feet.  Utreshimon, for the first time in its life, feels a moment of panic.  He lashes out with claws, jaws and wings, and scores several serious wounds against his foes.  Although Taranos is slowed by the slashing claws and Yip is forced to fall back, they merely serve to make Durhon angry.  The smelly dwarves vision goes red, and he starts gibbering innanely as he hammers at the dragon with his oversized axe.  Soon dwarf and dragon are trading each other blow for blow - the dragons teeth and claws barely causing as much damage as the rage-fuled smites of the dwarven warrior.  For the first time, Utreshimon's thoughts turn to escape.  Seconds before he can take to the air, Durhon's crushing blow smashes the dragon to the ground, causing it's legs to buckle beneath it.  Durhon crows with joy to see the dragon picking itself up off the ground, a dazed expression on its face.  Warwind takes the opportunity to hammer the wyrm with a magic missile, while Taranos scores his first decent blow with his sword.  Even the rapid staccato of Yip's tiny paws against the creatures scales seem to bring it even closer to exhaustion.Utreshimon panics.  Sorely wounded, disoriented and suddenly afraid of the dwarf with the cruel axe, he sees the possibility of death looming before him.  On reflex, he unleashes a final burst of electricity.  Durhon catches a the merest edge of the blast, a jolt of power running making his tangled hair suddenly stand on end, but Taranos and Warwind take the brunt of the blast.  Taranos is thrown into a wall by the electric charge, his blackened and smoking body falling in a heap on the ground.  Warwind tries to take cover behind the remenants of the gateway doors, but the flimsy wood is blasted apart and the elven wizard dies in an agony of burning energy and splinters.There is a moment of stillness accross the courtyard.  The wildeyed dragon turns its gaze on Durhon even as the dwarf raises his axe for another strike.  Yip merely looks accross the courtyard, at two companions he's sure are already dead.  He's seen such things happen to clan-teams in the theif tunnels before, and he knows it usually means one thing - they're screwed.  Only years of training prevents him from closing his eyes to avoid watching the next blow, knowing that both he and Durhon are dead if the dwarf misses.  "Kill," he shrieks at Durhon.  "Killkillkillkillkillkill!"  The dwarf complies immediately.Durhon roars with rage as his axe leaps forward, burying it deep in the dragon's skull.  Utreshimon topples slowly, like a falling tree, and collapses to the ground in a cloud of dust.  Durhon wrenches his axe out of the dragons skull, leaning on it as he calms down, struggling for breath."Now that," he says between hurried gasps.  "That was what I call a fight."He grins widely at Yip while the terrified kobold waits for the reality of their victory to sink in.</blockquote>

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