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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM with a vengence" data-source="post: 204695" data-attributes="member: 1679">Playing with Matches on the RoofPlaying with Matches on the RoofNikki took one look at him.  “I see by your dress that you are a cleric of Kord the wrestler.  How would you like to try me?”    Kava ripped the robe off, he was wearing white shorts and nothing else.  He stretched him arms, wipecord muscles rippling.  “We shall see who’s god is stronger.”  Nikki dropped he shield and mace and held her hands out in front of her, slowly circling.  Kava darted forwards and grabbed her wrists, pulling her arms open, he bent his head forward and bit at her face, his mouth widening to cover half her face.    “That just isn’t right.  I’m coming!”  Kit pulled a punching dagger from a boot sheath and charged, moonlight glittering off the blade.  Milo and whipped out a throwing ax and followed her in, screaming incoherently.     Ladinya turned, a group of barbarians had appeared on the roof towards the front of the hall, searing them in their tracks.  A barbarian closed and she dropped a flaming sphere in his path.  The body pushed through and toppled out, the burning corpse setting the roof on fire.  One reached her and swung, she flew upwards and moved the flaming sphere beneath his feet.  He screamed as he plummeted through the burning hole to the floor sixty feet below.  Another barbarian clambered onto the roof and she sent a lightening bolt at him, cutting a neat semi-circle out of the roof and sending his body splashing into the mud.  She landed and turned the grapplers.  They had Kava face down on the thatch, with Milo doing his best to decapitate someone with a small throwing ax.        Milo slammed the ax down for the sixth time.  “Die bastard!”  He screamed, cutting through another inch of the cleric tough, almost rubbery flesh.  The man’s head seemed to flare and bulge alarmingly, as if each little piece of skin was trying to grab something and rip it off.  Milo felt something force its way into his mind, slowing him down, he tried to swing the ax, but fell backwards, his body slumping out across the roof.  His head flopped sideways and he saw Kit lying next to him, then everything went black.    “Cheater.”  Nikki grunted, trying to keep the surprisingly strong cleric down.“You cheated first.”  The man hissed.  “One on one, it was.”“And I’ll cheat last.”  Nikki wrapped her arms around the man’s chest and took off, flying high over the ground.  She flew up until her ears hurt, and then dove towards the burning lights of the keep, Kava’s scream thin in her ears as she plunged downwards.        “Milo, get up.”  Ladinya shook his arm, trying to wake him.“You can’t help him, all that works is time.”  Warlord Zahn stood at the edge of the roof, arms crossed, cape blowing in the wind, his face a hellish color from the flames.  “I find myself that Kava is a being of many talents.  But now it’s just you and me, my dear Ladinya, and let’s see how well your spells fare against my blade.”  He pulled his two-handed greataxe off his back, and charged across the burning roof, his ax glowing red in the reflections.Ladinya dropped to the thatch and fired a lightening bolt along the rooftop.  Zahn leapt the front of the blast of energy, ax raised high above his head. The lightening bolt faded into a crackle of static electricity as Zahn dropped down into the ten foot wide trench that the bolt had sliced out of the roof, his battlecry fading to a thin scream as he hit the floor of the hall with a meaty thump.  He stood up, and fled the burning hall, limping along through the flame rimmed door and out into the night.As Ladinya turned back to Kit and Milo, something screamed out of the sky and smashed through the largest clump of burning thatch, sending sparks high into the night.  Almost instantly, wet splat was heard over the roaring of the flames, and Nikki burst through the roof with a grayish lump of flesh over her shoulder, green blood leaking from a crushed skull.  “Sorry about that, Kava.  All’s fair in love, war, and wrestling on burning roofs.  What now?”“Listen, we have to get out of there, I’ll take Milo, you take Kava, whatever the hell he is, and we’ll both carry Kit.”  Ladinya said hurriedly as the roof shifted below them.  Nikki and Ladinya grabbed everybody else.  “All right.”  Ladinya said.  “On three. Hup… 2… 3… Lift!”The roof collapsed in a avalanche of burning straw and timber that spewed burning rubble into the night sky.  The abused warhall trembled, and then fell with a force that shook the trees for miles around.</blockquote>

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