Chapter 2 - Tooth and Claw

Post by **Vardaen** » Sat May 09, 2009 8:18 pm

Egbert smiles at his large half brother and readies himself for an incomming attack. He waits for the smoke to clear the same as Lehros. The young half-anhel man is kneeling, an arrow on his bow, the arrow pointed at the point in the ceiling where the stairs start their decent in to the chamber more than a score feet above the floor. He waits, unable to see clear enough through the smoke, for a a shot.

More shouting is heard, gruffer voices, those of Bugbear Frostling, "Bunr it! Burn it down!" Torches begin to come down the stairs, more and more of them, a dozen perhaps all in all. The torches strike the web buring it away faster in places, the wooden handles clanging and bouncing down the stairs or off the sides. Smoke billows up the stairwell, creating a dense bank of it at the top, preventing anyone from seeing the highest reaches of the stairs, and vice versa. Vibrika's voice continues to sing, she encourages the others, bolstering your belief in yourselves to win this critcal fight.

Saeldur watching his web burn away, knowing it won't last under the onslaught of the torches, but he has to be pleased its delayed them as long as it has giving Macalanios that much more time to work his infusion...

Post by **Trogdor** » Mon May 11, 2009 9:21 pm

Saeldur waits behind Vibrika and Lehros, ready to summon a burst of fire on one of the first frostlings to come down the stairs.

JohnnyWeird · Post by **JohnnyWeird** » Mon May 11, 2009 9:31 pm

Flint Striker stays in a more defensive posture, anticipation starting to eat at him.

I never figured they'd be too afraid to come down...what's the wait?

Post by **Vardaen** » Tue May 12, 2009 12:58 am

The web is burning and Saeldur waits, his spell ready on his fingertips. The web finally burns out enough, and the Frostlings howl and charge down the stairs. As they begin to pour down the stairs like ants, the heroes begin to repel them. Flint bashes the first one to show its head close enough to his reach, killing it outright. The second goblin, behind it is chopped in half by Egbert's blade before it can even get halfway down the stairs. An arrow from Lehros wizzing into the hole above missing its target some how, but a fiery blast from Saeldur scorches four of the goblins before they even get halfway down the stairs! Already the Frostlings are suffering before anyone of them moves far down the stairs.

The howl of Bugbears push the rest down the steps, and as they move around and through the reach of Egbert another Goblin dies with a choped in skull. Finally the goblins position themselves on the stairs and start throwing their javelins down. One nearly slips and falls over the railing, but holds on. Two javelins find some purchase, scratching both Egbert and Flint but the rest fail to connect.

Then the Bugbears pour down after the goblin meat shields. The Bugbears avoid the attacks and the opooortunities you got against the goblins and move in under the reach of Flint and Egbert both, while even more foes remain on the floor above ready to move in.

Vibrika continues to sing, bolstering your morale as Macalanios struggles with the magic. He chants in a loud voice, his Anhel language is known only to Saeldur and Lehros, and the two can tell he's struggling with it as the energy is still building on the Moongate.

JohnnyWeird · Post by **JohnnyWeird** » Wed May 13, 2009 10:35 pm

Flint brings his axe down on the Bugbear on his right side - left brings all sorts of bad luck!

Post by **Vardaen** » Wed May 13, 2009 10:47 pm

Flint Striker is forced to move back a few feet to bring his large axe to bear on he Bugbear. The problem is the thing can get in under his reach. So he steps back and then chops into the Bugbear's side, nearly splitting the thing in two, but not quite, the thing still lives!

Egbert...

Grimbold · Post by **Grimbold** » Thu May 14, 2009 9:17 am

Egbert slashes out with his sword, striking down on the bugbear before him, screaming "For Lugus!"

Post by **Vardaen** » Thu May 14, 2009 6:57 pm

Egbert shouts a warcry and swings. His stroke is strong, but he catches his blade on the ceiling. He's not used to being so tall and his blade sparks along the stone ceiling crashing down at the Bugbear. The blow, even telegraphed as it is, nearly hits the Frostling, but it blocks the blow with his shield at the last moment.

Lehros sets and arrow and fires at one of the goblins's on the stairs. The arrow threads through the railing and hits the Frostling in the gut killing it, a long and bloody death. He has a second arrow ready and fires, killing another Goblin, shooting it through the eye socket. "And stay down..." he manages as he gets confident in his skills.

Saeldur...

Post by **Trogdor** » Thu May 14, 2009 7:03 pm

Right now Saeldur knows he serves Macalanios better by taking frostlings down. So once again, he summons forth a fiery burst of energy to burn his enemies.

Post by **Vardaen** » Fri May 15, 2009 6:33 pm

Saeldur conjurs up another fiery blast, and launches a ball of flame at the Frostlings on the stairs and the bugbears near them. The fire explodes washing over them, burning the Goblins into small crisp husks, while leaving the Bugbear's badly burned.

The Frostling come pouring out of the ceiling, down the stairs, leaping over the railing, climbing down the outside of the stairs to land filling the chamber infront of the three non-huge people. A few goblins stop on the stairs, before moving through the reach of Egbert or Flint having seen what happened to their previous companions. They throw javelins down at from on high at Egbet, Virbika and Lehros, but all three spears miss their targets. Now seven goblins fill the area.

The bugbear's fight on, attacking with morningstars, they swing and club at Egbert and Flintstriker. The Paladin of Lugus is able to parry with his sword, and kick the one foe away preventing himself from being hurt. Flint Striker is not so lucky, his large size makes him cumbersome, and he's not used to it. He suffers a blow to his knee, and then another to his foot and starts to breath heavy from the pain.

Vibrika stops singing, but the effects of her song linger on afterwards. She points at the area of the goblin infestation, and tilts her head back. A single perfect, pure note rings out, and then explodes in a deafening blast of sonic concusion. When the ringing in your ears stops, six of the seven Frostling Goblins lay dead, their brains rattled so strongly in their skulls they have given up their life!!! Vibrika certainly has more powers hidden than she generally seems to use.

Macalanios is still pumping arcane power into the Moon Gate, he calls out to Saeldur "<Anhel> I can't stop it...the chain reaction is too great! I...I can redirect it, I can refocus it, draw it away from the other Moon Gates!" He weaves his arms wildly around him, "I need more time!"

Flint Striker...

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