Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM with a vengence" data-source="post: 168464" data-attributes="member: 1679">Breaking and EnteringBreaking and EnteringNikki threw herself at the door frame again. “Smashing down doors is harder than it seems.” She grunted.  She drew back and flung herself at the door.  The ancient timbers cracked under the stress and gave way, she burst in with a triumphant battle cry, darting to the right and smashing at something with her mace.  Ladinya coolly stepped up and sent a 10 foot wide bolt of lightening through the door and into a table with two drow hiding behind it.  She limbered her spear and followed Nikki to the right.“Wazzzzzzup!” Milo whooped as he rushed  the door and rolled to the left.  A drow with a sword sent a blow down at Milo, but he caught it with the inside of his throwing axe and sent it back at him.  He feinted high, cut low, and finally sent the blade arcing up in a deadly move that orc warriors fighting halflings had termed “The Emorculator”.  The drow just managed to thrust his parts out of the way as the razor edged blade sliced up along his breastplate to bury itself in the ceiling.“Behind you!”  Kit screamed, and Milo raised his shield over his head on instinct.  Kit vaulted onto the shield, staggering him for a moment before gracefully pushing off and spinning over the elf’s head to land behind him.  Before he could turn, a foot of deadly steel burst from his mouth.  He slid bonelessly off the rapier to crumple onto the floor, blood spurting from his mouth and a gaping wound in the back of his neck.  Kit looked down in disgust.  “Amateur.”The drow battling Nikki and Ladinya feinted at the cleric before sending a snake of steel darting towards Ladinya.  The blade snuck past her warding spear and stopped on the invisible field of her mage armor just moments before it would have cut her from neck to groin.  Ladinya stepped back and cast a flaming spear right on top of the drow.  He nimbly ducked, rolled, and came up right into Nikki’s arms.  His arrogant grin faded as he realized he was trapped in the arms of an angry woman with a background of  thousands of years of intense hatred against anything even vaguely like him.“He’s dead!” Milo screamed, trying to drag Nikki off the pulped corpse of the drow by the leg.“You killed him!” Kit shouted as she tried to roll Nikki to one side.“He does not represent a threat to you or your people.”  Ladinya said, using her spear to lever Nikki up and off.Nikki looked up from trying to gouge the drow’s eyeballs out with her teeth.  “How can you tell.”“The crushed bones, profuse bleeding, and lack of movement seem to indicate a non-living state of existence.” Kit said dryly.“He could be faking.”“Get up.”  Ladinya said.  As if under a spell, Nikki obeyed, blood encrusting her armor.“Good.” Milo said.  “Now next time, Kit picks the lock, Ladinya hits them with the artillery, and I mop up.  Nikki is not allowed in the room until everybody is dead and burned.  Agreed.”“Yes!” Both Ladinya and Kit said simultaneously “Then let’s do it now people.”  Milo said, pointed at the door in the far wall.Kit gave the thumbs up sign, and pulled the door open.  Ladinya was already swirling her arms in an arcane pattern, then suddenly stopped short.  “Oh my Gods!” She burst out.Milo peaked round the door jamb and looked into the horrific room.  4 mutilated children’s bodies hung upside down on the walls, throats cut.  Their blood ran down the wall and into a grate in the floor.  The vaulted ceiling arced into a darkness that seemed to permeate the room.  Shoved into one of the corners away from the blood a chest, bed and desk carved in black wood with a strange squid-like motif lurked ominously.  Standing incongruously in the center of the room was a young boy.  The party filed into the room, glancing around in horror.The child spoke first.  “Hello, my name is Jymmi.  Master Udronualith told me to give you this.”  He opened his hand, exposing an amber glowing bead.Kit was already asking questions. “Who is Master Udronuali-”Ladinya looked at the bead, a dreadful expression of understanding spreading across her face.  “Get down!” She screamed, flinging herself at Nikki.</blockquote>

Verification