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A Scrape With Death
Well.
That was nearly disastrous.
Carmilla snuck up while invisible as I suggested, but we didn't give her much time for fear that she would be captured without us realizing it, and rushed in to attack before she could help the prisoners. We're able to release them in a few moments regardless, and the elf seems quite proficient with the crossbow I tossed her, while the dwarf merely gets himself stuck in the ice while we fight. We take some wounds, and unfortunately our new friend Fus has his head split open, but we've already killed several of the pirates and badly injured more, and the battle is looking up for us - until their leader steps in.
Their leader is that Kigani monk we had heard about, with a bounty out for her though not one we had intended to seek out. She's here now though, and she's a formidable opponent. Not only does she punch like a cannon, but when our swords and arrows hit her, her body seems to turn to water as they go right through, and she keeps summoning these blasts of water shaped like dragons. At one point she jumped up to the highest crest of the hill, launching a massive bolt towards Gorm, which Svenya manages to just tug out of the way before it practically craters the ground around him. She seems impressed and somewhat drained, taking a drink as she steps back from the ledge.
We follow her up, now cornered at the top of the hill, but still putting up quite a fight. She seems quite inebriated, stumbling towards us as she fights, yet she uses it to her advantage, easily ducking and stumbling away from our attacks, throwing her own back with unpredictable ease. By now we're all quite tired as well, and she isn't out of magic either, blasting us with shards of ice and raining daggers on us. As Gorm tried to hit her, she even managed to pluck his eye right out! I ran up to her, vengefully charring her skin, hoping I could burn her again if she hit me, until she launched me into the air. Svenya again just deflected her fist before she could hit me again, but before I could react, I hit the ground and the world went black.
A few moments later, I wake up to Mikkil pressing a healing potion to my lips, Gorm's bleeding having just been stemmed by Svenya's light, and Carmilla unconscious but apparently stable. I sputter a bit as I feel the potion mend the tears in my insides, though Gorm isn't quite so lucky. Nor are any of the prisoners; Fus as well as the other two we were trying to rescue all having died in the fight. We didn't even get their names...
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