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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eccles" data-source="post: 3147726" data-attributes="member: 5675">Almost at the instant that we entered the room which had recently held 8 skeletons, a door on the left wall swung open. In the doorway stood a black-robed man stood framed in a light from the room behind him. His heavily scarred face was transfixed in a snarl as he clutched a wickedly bladed longspear. Seeing us, he blinked twice and yelled out loud;“Intru!” He got no further before Flynn’s arrow hurtled through his neck and he collapsed to the floor in a twitching heap.  Behind the still-falling corpse we could see a cluster of other men rising and picking up longspears. As the first of these moved towards us, Niccoli spun round and hurled a throwing axe, striking the man in the forehead throwing him backwards and killing him instantly. Torvig fired a slingstone which struck another as they surged towards us en masse. Niccoli threw himself back at the group, sword in hand; Torvig ran in after him. From my position across the room, I could hear Niccoli shouting “Tom” at one of the black-robed men with spears. The reply was a snarl of “die intruder”, accompanied with a vicious stab of the spear. The stab missed completely, as Torvig and Niccoli smashed down yet more of the robed men. Even as they fell, their deaths had no effect whatsoever on the men still fighting us..oOo.Suddenly, from behind me a second door burst open, and two chainmail wearing tieflngs rushed in wielding axes; and the room was abruptly filled with shadows and gloom. I could dimly see one of the horned figures dashing across the room and swinging his axe into Flynn’s side. Morgan’s return fire went wide of the mark, and he cursed and immediately blamed the shadows wreathing his opponents. Beyond, I could still hear the clanging and grunting as Niccoli was still mowing his way through his opponents.Morgan, Niccoli and I fired a few shots at the tieflings before one of them backflipped athletically, hurtled past me up the last corridor we had not yet explored. Flynn followed and then cursed as his arrow comprehensively missed its target.Still under fire, the tiefling pulled out a key and unlocked a padlocked door before Flynn dashed out and stabbed the half-breed through the throat. For his efforts he was rewarded by the now unlocked double doors bursting open as a truly massive boar; its tusks capped with riveted iron, hurtled out and gored him deeply. Alarmed, Flynn dashed back to us in the main room whilst Torvig smashed the other tiefling to the floor with his Morningstar. Niccoli returned from the other room, bleeding freely from an upper arm injury.I used some of my magic to heal Niccoli, as behind me the bellowing behemoth slammed into Flynn a second time, wounding him very badly indeed. Torvig stepped forwards and touched him, releasing healing energies into Niccoli and bring him back nearly to the point of full health. Just to one side of me, Morgan began to chant a new series of words. He pointed, and suddenly a dark ghostly force surged out towards the dire boar, screaming a blood curdling oath as it coalesced into a thousand vengeful spirits. They flew at the boar, sailed straight over the top of it and continued down the corridor, screaming all the while.</blockquote>

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