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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 2865389" data-attributes="member: 9255">THE CREATION SCHEMASEGMENT 2285/27/06“Manticores in the Forest”The Fire Elemental continued its path along the creek heading towards the forgotten lab.  The terrain now includes small hills, which makes it harder yet.  There are snowdrifts and pits that surprise the group but do nothing to harm them.  They just prefer the environment of Khorvaire to this.As they begin to climb another hill it begins to snow again.  Visibility decreases again further ticking off the cold group.  Cedious is about to complain when he spots something moving very quickly behind the trees along the oncoming ridgeline.  He motions and the group slows down and listens every so often.  They hear something speaking.  It is common but not very clear or well pronounced.  It sounds like the persons involved are trying to set up plans to sneak up on them.  Cedious crawls through the snow to downed and burnt trees to find out what they are facing.  He sees a large cat like creature with wings but it has a clearly humanoid head and face.  The tail looks like a club with spikes.  Even as he turns to warn them the creatures take to the air and go onto the attack.Pebbles easily avoid the volley of bone spikes that fire from a tail.  The spikes shatter on her magical shield and armor.  The same for Talon.  The creature that goes down the middle attacks Ippikak and misses.  He glances at the spikes that have made six small holes in the snow around him then fires at the creature.  The arrows hit and the flying creatures snarls and growls in pain.  It is forced to land.  Bob leaps up and begins to attack the one creature while Pebbles waits for the other to come within reach.  Cedious looks at his selection of darts and considers their use.The one creature curses at Bob as he begins to claw and bite him.  It tries to dislodge the Thri-kreen on a low thick branch but he stays on.  The chitin scratches and chips though from the extreme cold.  The archer now attacks the creature by the dwarf and it also is forced to land where the dwarf cuts it up quickly.  The first Manticore is attacked by Cedious from hiding and from Talon.  Soon all are defeated.Looking over the creatures, they find a Flail+1 and a sack with some coins.  “The Emerald Claw.”Cedious spits to the side.  “Good.”From the ridge line they see two things- The Fire Elemental has moved away the course it was on to consume the larger section of forest and…a man made tower can be seen through the trees down in the harbor.“Lets go get the Schema.” Declares Cedious as he begins to slide down the snow.Talon and Ippikak look at each other.</blockquote>

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