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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM with a vengence" data-source="post: 164569" data-attributes="member: 1679">Kick Ass!Kick Ass!(No donkeys were harmed in the writing of this segment)Milo peeked round the doorframe into the darkened first floor.  The held up his hand and waved it forward.  He pointed at Kit, and then left, and pointed to himself and then right.  He held up one finger, then two, then three, and burst into the room rolling to the right behind a crate as Kit followed behind him and slunk off to the left, crossbow at ready.  The room was empty of life, with just rubbish to fill it. In the corner a dark hole with a ladder leading down lurked ominously.  Milo padded to the ladder and looked down, waving his hand horizontally over his head as he began to climb down.  Kit slid over to the hole and looked down as Milo crawled down the ladder and moved off into the darkness.  Suddenly, the whirring of throwing axes and the ululation of his battle cry broke the silence.  Kit looked back toward the doorway.  “Oh crap.  Backup, move in now!”  She jumped down the hole with a wordless scream as Nikki and Ladinya clanked into the room.Milo lifted his shield just in time to deflect a black arrow as he sent another ax towards the drow elf crouching behind a pile of planks.  Kit landed behind him and rolled agilely, tracking the dark elf and firing the crossbow in one motion.  The bolt winged the Elf and he staggered back.  She flung the useless weapon aside and drew her rapier, charging and nimbly leaping over the elf and boxes in one motion as Milo threw his second to last ax and pulled out his melee combat axe, leaping after Kit with magically enhanced speed.  They struck as one, Milo slashing the elf’s arm as Kit drove her sword into his kidneys and hamstrung him on the backswing.  The drow slumped to the ground, lips in a grimace of agony as his life-blood flowed out onto the dirt floor of the cellar.  Ladinya leapt off the bottom rung of the ladder and walked over to Kit and Milo.  “Nice job, quick and efficient.”Nikki finally clanked down the ladder and instant flung herself between the party and a Dark elf that was leveling an arrow at them.  The arrow hit her in the shoulder plate and ricocheted away as she slammed sideways into the ground, grinding to a stop a few feet away.  She pulled herself up and shook her head, pointing at the drow with her right hand.  “In the name of my father’s people, I swear that I shall not suffer your blasphemy to exist a day longer.”  She looked back to the party.  “This one’s personal, mind if I handle it?”Milo looked up from where he was collecting his axes.  “No problem with me.”Nikki unstrapped her mace and smiled as the elf tremblingly nocked another arrow.“I like that move where you smashed his arm with your mace, and then used the same mace to bash in his scrawny ribcage.  And when you jumped on his head and stuffed the mace down the broken remnant of his throat.  That was just awesome.”  Milo said admiringly.Ladinya looked up from organizing her collection of scrolls by level and use. “I may not know much about fighting, but that moment where you grabbed his head, and then cast Searing Light into his eyes, perfect use of magical firepower.  Let’s see how much he likes his super-duper elf vision now.”  She laughed the nervous chuckle of someone who knows she hasn’t told a very funny joke.Kit looked up from the bit of wall she was searching for secret doors.  “Is anybody slightly concerned that our cleric just proceeded to brutally kill a more or less innocent Drow?”“No.”  Milo said.  “The Elves and drow have had a thousand year history of mutual hatred and brutality.  It’s not senseless violence, it’s cultural.”“Oh, okay”They sat there in silence for several more minutes, and then Kit walked over to the rest of the group  “Uh, guys, I think I found something over there.”“What is it?” Nikki asked.“Secret door.  Watch this.”  Kit walked over to the wall she had indicated and slid her dagger into a gap between two stones.  With an agonizing rumble, the door ground open, revealing a long narrow passageway.  Milo Bookbender stood up, brushing dust off his armor.  He held up one finger and pointed at himself, added another and pointed at Kit, held up three fingers and pointed at Ladinya.“Cut it out, Milo.  We all know where everybody goes.”  Nikki said, as she clattered over the portal and gestured everybody in.</blockquote>

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