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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark_Jackalope" data-source="post: 3119230" data-attributes="member: 41706">Argotch Inn, Port Verge (nighttime) – Doral, Carver, Partash, Dragen, MorikaA terrible and unexpected bellow came from the upper hallway, as Morika’s entire body convulsed and then constricted in a fluid movement.  Her muscles rippling momentarily as her body swelled to a mold of brutish strength even greater than her usual form.  Dark and deadly-curved horns grew up form her wild hair, the final touch to her transformation.Doral sprinted panting back to the stairs and rushed down. His hand caught the banister at the foot of the steps and clenched tightly, and he began to speak the words of his enchantment.  Focusing intently on the bugbear, all the other swirling movement faded from his thoughts, as he forced the spell into the bugbear’s mind.  The creature subtly checked back his actions, seeming to take on a new weariness through no apparent physical cause.  He wrestled well against his metal foe, but the edge in his eyes was lacking now.Morika leapt from her crouch, and pounded down the narrow hallway on clawed feet.  She reached out and caught the wall at the end of the corridor, which opened onto a landing overlooking the lobby, preventing her momentum form carrying her all the way to the staircase.Two heavy forms struggled in the center of the room, both of them heaving and straining against the other’s force.  The bugbear wrenched hard at his arm and tried to regain a better grasp on his sword with the other, but he was unable to free himself from the adamantine grip.  Carver pressed him harder, trying to twist his body towards the ground.  The bugbear shuffled sideways, arching his back and pulling his body out from under Carver’s crushing form.  Still, the warforged doggedly kept his hold, and the two remained locked in combat.The bugbear had not, however, anticipated Partash’s response when he pulled away from Carver’s attempt to pin him down, and the archivist used this most fortunate opportunity to thrust the butt of his mace handle into the bugbear’s skull.  He felt it connect squarely with the bugbear’s head, and the bugbear loosed a responding roar of confusion and anger.Morika used the momentum from her charge down the hall to swing easily up onto the banister, where she paused only for a fraction of a second to assess the situation below, picking out the clear target in the knot.Dragen also studied the combat in the middle of the room, and as soon as he saw the bugbear step slightly away from Carver’s body, his fingers moved to loose his arrow.  Yet even as the feathers slid past the string, he saw an unexpected factor move into place: Partash stepped quickly towards the bugbear, also to make use of the opening.A bold cry issued from above as Morika unfolded her muscles and launched from the balcony, soaring towards the planked floor.  She impacted the ground, sending a deep shudder across the floorboards, dropping into a crouch to keep her balance.  She tipped her eyes up towards the tangle before her, only half noticing Partash jump back hastily to narrowly avoid Dragen’s wayward arrow.  She braced her muslces, and hardly stopping to regain her wind from the landing, single-mindedly hurtled her entire body forwards headfirst, her deadly horns flying towards the bugbear’s unsuspecting back.The bugbear’s armor resisted her charge, but the collision was magnificent, and both horns tore through hardened leather and found flesh.  The force pushed both of them forward, knocking the bugbear into Carver, whose study stance broke their momentum.  The now thoroughly besieged bugbear yelled and shook from startled pain, and twisted away before the shifter’s horns could burrow in.  Morika staggered sideways, her fluid movement broken, and her horns wet with blood.[sblock="Combat Information"]Doral Kinsman14 HPAC 17AP 7MindlinkedCarver Banderelli33 HPAC 20AP 7Bull’s StrengthPartash22 HPAC 16 + 2AP 7MinklinkedShield of FaithDragen Kessler37 HPAC 16AP 7Morika Kevsecks34 HPAC 12  [no armor and shield]AP 6ShiftedSickened[/sblock]</blockquote>

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