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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 1559512" data-attributes="member: 4441">"I can't carry them, I'm not strong enough," Renea says, "Besides, I have my hands full."  The drow woman is carrying a squirming backpack in both arms.  *Kilvash can help shoulder Ishmael, while Gortag grabs Elugaegian.  If you stop to grap their most easily accessable things, the half-dragon had the excellent two-bladed sword, and there's several small boxes of fine jewelry you can tip into your packs.  It will be a pittance against two Cagebreaker's lives, but the gold will help the resistance.**You all have to run to find the exit, but realize that trying to slide two bodies down the steep ascent won't work.  Alyshia and Kilvash start doubling back to the mines, dashing to the side of running servants and the occasional dragonkin.  There's a lot of screaming coming from all around, and you can hear explosions come from below.*"Gardanax is coming!!" you hear someone shriek, and from a deeper mine shaft you hear the deadly roar of a very large and enraged dragon.  Another dragonkin notes you and shouts, "Rebels!"  You find yourself being targeted by arrows from the dragonkin, but as they were in the process of retreating, none of you take more than a minor wound.  You're crossing a no-man's land in the main shaft, before you lies the rebels, behind you lies the enemy.*You pound down the rough passageway, Gortag and Kilvash slowed by their burdens, Renea with a wand out, blasting darts of light behind her, her other arm clutched around her squirming bundle.  Alyshia uses her own crossbow to send heavy bolts back towards the running dragonkin as they continue to dash toward safety.**Finally they see the vague forms of duergar and mindflayers, along with the heavily-muscled and liberally beslimed skum.  You dive behind their cover, and one of the duergar breaks off his attack to go tend to you.*"Damn, that's a high price," he says, looking at the two fallen.  "Look, you guys get out of here while the getting is good, we'll bring the dead when we retreat.  Meet at the north hole, got it?"  The north hole is a kind of neutral campground.  It's good for resting in relative safety, but it does not contain anyone or anything of vital importance.  It's also good for bringing in prisoners.[OOC - Gortag takes 6 points of damage, Alyshia takes 8, other than that you're ok.]</blockquote>

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