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Message: <blockquote data-quote="carpedavid" data-source="post: 1102934" data-attributes="member: 6971">Session 6, Part 3Oh no, is all she can manage to think before the two beasts slam into her, knocking her to the ground. All she can see are teeth everywhere - and then that's all she can feel, too, as one of the creatures locks it's jaws around her leg and shakes its head violently. That's odd, she thinks as her flesh is literally shredded, it doesn't hurt at all. A second later the pain hits her at all at once, and she screams in terror. Erendil and Shoji vault the pit trap and emerge into the corridor. Quickly sizing up the situation, Erendil sends an arrow into one of the men, while Shoji jumps on top of the beast that has Quara in its jaws and slams his fist into its ribs. Laurel and Wrayce emerge from the doorway as Erendil sends another volley of arrows into the man he hit previously, dropping him where he stands. Shoji continues his assault while Laurel and Wrayce team up on the other creature. Quara struggles to keep the beast's jaws from closing around her head while Shoji continues to break the creature's bones. The five Griffiners manage to dispatch both creatures and the remaining beast handler, but not before Quara takes a significant amount of additional damage. Blood covers the floor around her, but she manages to struggle up to her feet once the beast on top of her is finally dispatched. "I'm ok, really," she says between gasps for air, then takes a few unsteady steps down the hallway before the sounds of clapping echoes out from the darkness ahead. "Well done," a handsome young elven man says as he steps from the shadows. He chuckles quietly to himself as he walks toward the group, "I've never seen anyone take a bite from a mauler and survive." He looks directly at Quara and smiles, "Well done. Too bad I still have to kill you." Before anyone can react, he pulls a blue steel rapier from his belt and slides the tip between Quara's ribs. She gasps, gurgles briefly, and collapses. "F---!" Laurel yells, and then lunges toward the elf, slicing him across the chest with the Oakenblade. Wrayce follows up with several magic missiles, while both Erendil and Shoji miss with attacks of their own. The elf frowns and steps back, pulling what appears to be a potion out of a pouch on his belt. He quickly gulps down the contents then smiles again, "There, that's much better." Shoji senses movement behind him and dodges to the side just as the tip of another rapier flashes by. He can feel the heat being drawn from his skin as the steel blade passes less than an inch from his ribs, and he turns to see a severe-looking half-elven woman standing behind him. Where in the sea of fire did she come from? he wonders. Laurel, Erendil, and Wrayce press their attack on the man, leaving cuts, scorch marks, and puncture wounds in his armor, while Shoji advances on the newly arrived woman, landing a powerful roundhouse kick to her jaw. The elven man tumbles past Laurel to flank Shoji, and the monk feels the painful bite of frozen steel as it punctures his torso. The pain is so severe that Shoji's legs buckle, sending him toppling forward, directly into the thrusting rapier of the half-elven woman. Erendil, Laurel, and Wrayce stare in horror as the tip of the rapier emerges from Shoji's back. He continues to slide forward until his chest reaches the hilt of the sword, at which point the woman lowers the blade and Shoji falls, silent and lifeless, to the ground. Upon seeing his companion fall, Erendil lets out an uncharacteristic yell and shoots a single arrow into the male rogue's chest, knocking him off of his feet. The man lands on the back of his neck and goes limp. With a look of shock on her face, the half-elven woman reaches into a belt pouch and pulls out a vial of liquid. She drops to one knee next to her fallen friend's body and takes a brutal blow from Laurel's sword just as she dumps the liquid into his mouth. The woman rolls forward over the man's body and he springs to his feet - bloodied, bruised, and battered, but alive. Wrayce takes advantage of the lack of offense from the two rogues to pull out the wand of cure wounds that Laurel had given to him in the prison and use it on Quara, who rolls up to one knee, spots the female rogue guarding the man who attacked her, and sends three arrows into the half-elf's chest. It's the male rogue's turn to gasp as his companion slumps to the ground in front of him. "B----!" he screams and lunges forward, tumbling past Laurel and Wrayce. He uses his momentum to summersault to his feet, and then jabs at Quara. Unfortunately, he misjudges the distance, and ends his thrust with the point of his rapier a foot from her already drawn bow. "Crap," he says in resignation an instant before Quara releases the bowstring. The arrow penetrates his leather armor, the padding beneath, his flesh, a layer of muscle, and the viscera inside before perforating his aorta. An overwhelming feeling of cold sweeps through his body as his blood escapes its bonds, and once again he falls into an overwhelming darkness. "Shoji!" Quara screams, leaping to her feet and dashing over to the fallen monk. She drops to her knees beside him and looks at his lifeless frame. Wrayce looks at her sadly and shakes his head, and Laurel simply puts her hand on the young archer's shoulder. Quara closes her eyes and quietly sobs.</blockquote>

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