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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wraithdrit" data-source="post: 750530" data-attributes="member: 10820">Session 1 (cont)The next morning found the party making their way towards the mountains east of Daggerfalls. The journey up the side of the mountains was hard, but there was a path to follow, so at least the way was clear. Eventually the party came to the top of the ridge marking the highest point in the pass they were travelling through.Durgaden rubbed his beard a moment, "That be a stone giant!" But something was wrong with the giant, all of them could tell. It whipped its head back and forth each time it was attacked, and swung wildly as it stumbled about.Tanerus voiced what they all thought, "They've blinded it." It was about that time, that one of the pair of attackers watching from beyond the battle pointed up toward the group and began talking to the other of the pair. The one pointing out the party was slender, feminine, draped in a massive cloak and laying against a large boulder. The other was an armor clad brute of a man, broad shouldered, carrying a bastard sword and black shield. He took up his weapons and began striding up the hill towards the giant. His companion seemed to peel herself from the stone and threw up her hands and began chanting. Will frowned muttering, "Incoming." He too threw up his hands and began casting.Durgaden growled, "But this ain't our fight, we should let em kill the giant and move on." He drew his axe and spurred his mule forward nonetheless. They were going to be drawn into this anyways it seemed.Tanerus dug his heals into his riding dog and the two shot down the trail. The trail was rocky and winding and the footing was treacherous, but Tanerus knew how to lean into the turns, and lean back to aid the dog in descent, so things were going well for him. Durgaden on the other hand was all curses. His mule wasn't fairing so well. High above the battlefield, energies collided as the sorceress' spell collided with Will counterspell. Rage red fire collided with an intense blueish black ball that Will had thrown forward. With the sound of a howling wind both spells dissappeared into the weave. Durgaden let out a hoot and waved his axe, still trying to reach the battlesite below. "No saucey spellflinging wench gets past Alepounder's crew! Har!" Will smiled and began to cast his own spell. "See how they like it when the giant isn't blind...." A small arc of energy left Will's hands and blossomed into a blue glowing bubble that centered on the giant and grwe outward before fading from sight. It seemed to have no effect at all on the giant's blindness.The sorceress took advantage of Will's distraction with the dispel magic to toss another fireball, this one, Will could not counter. It blossomed into a raging inferno around Durgaden and Tanerus. But when the flames fell away, both were still standing. Tanerus had somehow ducked into a small crack beneath a boulder and was unharmed. Durgaden, though blackened seemed only to get madder.Tanerus rolled to his feet, as two of the archers switched to swords and charged him. They were overconfident, leering as they tried to cut down the little halfling, but this package was more than they bargained for. He lept to one side, caught with minor blows to one arm, and thrust his small sword deep into one man's stomach. Though it did not kill him in one blow, a twist and a wrench and the man fell back dead. Screeching in rage, the sorceress flung her hands forward again, muttering faster arcane words, a short spell that Will somehow managed to match arcane symbol for arcane symbol. Bolts of energy flew from her hands, arching up toward Will. He smiled as his own bolts flew, unerringly smashing into hers. Her bolts fizzled when hit and small harmless sprinkles of magic rained from their interception.The armored assailant reached the giant and began to cut the blind beast hard. He hack at the creatures legs first, hoping to bring it down to finish it off.The sorceress slinked forward, putting herself behind a boulder so Will could not see her, just the other side of where the giant battled her companion.Tanerus sparred with the other fellow attacking him, the rest of the archers kept on the giant, seeming determined to bring him down. One archer turned and began up the hill toward Will, dropping his bow and drawing his sword. Durgaden arrived and easily cut down one of the archers moving to intercept him. Without the sorceress in sight, Will decided to take the offensive, his incantation complete a mass of webs began roping between several boulders, soon, the giant, his assailant, the sorceress, and several of the henchmen where caught up in the sticky substance. Durgaden and Tanerus continued to dispatch the stragglers of the archers, seeing that they could not get into the web to do anything there anyways. A loud bellow erupted from the web and the armor clad assailant came flying from within the web, his shield bent in half and his armor severly dented. The giant had apparently finally made contact with something. The black armor clad assailant fell in a heap, sliding to a halt at the base of a boulder. Will began a now somewhat familiar incantation and black tentacles grew inside the webs, grabbing at anything they could find. He had aimed the spell back, away from where the giant was emerging from the web, knowing that was where the sorceress had been. But the screams from within where only masculine. Tanerus was busy with a few more archers, as Durgaden turned toward the man clad in the black armor. The man stirred, and Tanerus yelled to him, "Ye can be given up now or later!" The man's response was to quaff a potion. It seemed to clear his head and he gained his feet quickly. A pair of his henchmen rounded the boulder to help protect him. Durgaden just smiled, "Thats how you want it eh? So be it!"The one that had climbed up the hill at Will was getting closer, so Will intone a quick protection magic, turning his skin hard as rock. Then from behind a nearby boulder slunk out the sorceress! She had used some sort of transporting magic to escape the webs. Will saw his companions far into the valley, with him alone with these two and swallowed hard, this might not end well after all...</blockquote>

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