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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Seravin" data-source="post: 1891846" data-attributes="member: 6783">Ambush Part 2HmMmMiNG-iNG-iNG!!!  Three argent missiles streaked through the air with a variable pitch hum.  Edath didn’t have time to wonder at the sound though as he threw himself to the side to no avail; the missiles swerved in mid-flight and struck him in the back as he rolled to his feet.  Stumbling, Edath looked around at the fight he and his companions now found themselves in.A beautiful woman with long white hair, dressed in worn, brown travel clothes, and bearing a pale white gem-topped staff stood about sixty feet away, her free hand lowering as she bore a smile of satisfaction.  She hadn’t been standing there moments ago. No one had mentioned anything about a sorceress.  This was supposed to have been a simple job; pick up the mark and take them to the Diamond for a little question and answer period.   Edath looked about for his companions.  Lore was still spell-cloaked and out of sight, but Burke and Ramos were moving in towards their target.  Lore would take care of the sorceress.The mark was turning and watching the events unfold, no surprise or fear was evident; instead he pulled out a shortsword and took a defensive posture.  Then out of their own spell-cloaks of invisibility, two fighters bearing the insignia of the church of Sarath appeared with swords drawn, one of them bearing a flaming sword the other a rapier.  The rapier-wielder closed with Edath as the other went to interpose himself between the mark and Ramos.Edath cursed as he and his companion were engaged, then smiled as he heard Lore begin shouting.  KRAKK-AKK!!!.  Lore appeared as a lightning bolt formed between his outstretched hands and went down one side of the wide alleyway the mark had led them down.  The bolt arced down the right-hand side of alley, striking the weilder of the flaming sword as well as the sorceress, though both managed to dodge out of the way and avoid the full brunt of the stroke.The sorceress smiled nastily in return, raised her gem-topped staff, and invoked a storm of ice shards around Lore.  Shards of ice and bitter cold rained down about Lore and Burke who happened to be close by.  Edath had watched the exchange out of the corner of his eye, with most of his attention on the rapier wielder.  “Break off!”  Ordered Lore.Edath’s smile disappeared as he traded blows with his rapier wielding opponent.  The man was good and in a straight-up fight might be able to take him; unfortunately this seemed to be a straight-up fight.  He didn’t have any room to run as the mark they had been trailing had glided up behind him.  Burke and Ramos both stepped back though and downed the invisibility potions that Lore had given them.Edath watched as Lore invoked another invisibility spell and disappeared and cursed his luck.  This was ending badly and he took a savage satisfaction as his foes cursed as his allies disappeared and fled.  A few seconds later however the rapier wielder knocked him unconscious and Edath didn’t have to worry about anything else for awhile.</blockquote>

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