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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jon Potter" data-source="post: 890449" data-attributes="member: 2323">[PLAIN][Realms #220a] Holy Massacre, Bat Man![/PLAIN]The two crossbow-weilding werebats at the top of the natural staircase fired another volley of bolts at Ruze. Only one of them connected, however, cutting a bloody groove in his left forearm. The damage was minimal, but this time, the poison on the quarrel proved too much for the Battleguard to resist. He froze in mid-stride, paralyzed with his hand on his holy symbol and an unvoiced prayer on his lips.The hirsute assailant that Finian had wounded stepped back and began to shrink. In the twinkling of an eye, its body dwindled, its arms atrophying and eventually disappearing enirely even as its wings spread voluminously and beat against the air. The man bat had become wholly bat and it sought to take wing and escape from the Archer's flashing blades. Such was not to be, however. Finian took the opportunity presented by the bat's retreat to slice into it with his newly retrieved longsword. The blade parted the thing's membranous wing and sent it spiralling backward toward the cave mouth. It recovered, but had obviously been severely wounded.The winged skaven that had been harrying Ixin took another swing at the woman. With little effort, she was able to avoid the blow, her concentration unbroken. Magic swelled within her.Ledare glanced at the two robed rate men who were reloading their crossbows on either side of the fissure. Ruze and Den Lant were easy targets to the creatures if they were able to get off another volley unhindered. She charged again, closing the distance between she and them in four quick strides and slashing the nearest werebat across the right forearm. It squealed in pain and released its grip on the crossbow. Both it and its partner reached for their shortswords."Sopio!" Ixin shouted, gesturing not directly at the creature attacking her, but rather at a point behind him, nearer to both the fleeing bat and the hairy brute that was trading swings with Draelond. The bat man that threatened her fell abruptly into the mud very near to the carrion crawler she had put down earlier. The fleeing bat careened into the cave wall and bounced out into the rain where it lay blissfully snoring.Draelond drew Ravager up across the hairy torso of the skaven that faced him and the sword's teeth chewed hungrily through its flesh,  spilling the thing's blood in a hot torrent. The creature fell backward without uttering a sound, its flesh running and changing even as it went. A naked man with dark hair and dusky skin fell dead to the floor with a horrible rent marring the network of dark tattooes that spread across his chest.Finian stepped forward and drove the point of his longsword into the throat of the unconscious bat. It died without a sound and instantly swelled to the form of a naked woman who might have been the sister to the man that Draelond had dispatched. She had similar tattoos on both shoulders and upper arms. Her head had been very nearly severed by the ranger's sword.Seeing the elimination of the rest of their brood, the two robed bat men chose flight over battle. They turned to flee down the stairs and Ledare stabbed in the side the one she had already wounded. It cried out and fell to the ground, but its companion wasted no time with mourning. It lept over the body and hurtled down into the darkness below.Ledare spared a glance down after the fleeing creature before she turned back to the group. "We should go," she said. "Now."Den Lant, however, at that moment was released from the supernatural paralysis that had afflicted him. He groaned as he jerked his stiffened limbs into motion. "No," he grunted. "I'm not leavin' without Nilia. We're too close now to run!" He unstrapped his quarterstaff from his pack and looked hopefully from one Companion to the next. There were tears visible in his eyes as he added, "My little girl's innocent in all this. She don't deserve to suffer alone here. And I'll not rest 'til she's safe with me again."</blockquote>

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