Chapter 25

A passage from Rutger's Journal

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R3: Cenywn shoots one of the cultist in the neck, dropping him to the ground; Jakar throws a
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Javelin at the remaining chanting cultist and is attacked by the enemy beside him, the blow elven cultist wobbles the javelin onto course knocking the chanting cultist back and impaling him to the ground. One of my assailants attacks, misses and my axe slices up it’s side. Iggy runs up to the cauldron, kicks it – it rings ; wobbles and stays where it is. He then attacks one of the winterleaves with his dagger. Tevoth moves to step back but I slice my axe into him, he steps back and fires a bolt of dark energy at me. Calbach has started up the chant again. The blue swirling vortex and crack get bigger. R4: The cultist attacking me misses and steps back but not before I get a swipe in on him. Tevoth ducks and just takes the edge of my blade. He stabs into me with his broken bones jabbing in again knocking me off balance. Ravel ran to Iggy; he must have killed his attackers and appears to have healed him a little. I cleave hard into the cultist who has been taunting me and gut him with one blow, I pull the axe into Tevoth and hack into him. More undead crawl out of the cauldron 2 of them fall into the vortex and are destroyed; R5: Cenwyn shoots the chanting cultist in the knee and he falls forward, nearly into the circle. Iggy stands up and gets out of the way. Calbach gets up and attacks Cenywn with a flaming arrow. I cut into Tevoth (8) and he stabs into me again missing. I step away from tevoth and bull rush the cauldron into the vortex, the screams emanate from the cauldron as it is sucked into the vortex. R6: The vortex is filling the summoning circle. Cenwyn shoots at Calbach again to try crumple him into the summoning circle, he hits but fails to knock him in. Iggy charges and stabs Calbach. Calbach gets up and fires his bow, iggy attacks him and he misses Jakar. Out of the corner of my eye I notice Ravel attacking Tevoth’s corpse; I move and charge R7: A giant clawed hand reaches out of the portal. Cenwyn shoots Nia in the thigh she stumbles forward towards the summoning circle. Jakar stabs into Calbach putting him off and gives us an advantage to attack him. Calbach took a slice (7) up against his side then blasts me with lightning and knocks me back. He moves behind Jakar and Nia removes her blindfold to reveal mouths where her eyes should be! She bites Jakar (12) and poisons him. I move up behind Calbach and hook my axe into his back (34). R8: There are hands now on either side of the summon circle. Jakar distracts Calbach and I  swing my axe at his neck, knocking his head off into the summoning circle – a look of shock onto his face. Iggy kick’s Nia in the backside and she falls into the summoning circle – the vortex disappears into the centre of the circle. The crowd that was surrounding us bolt.
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