Nine figures materialized on the far side of the room. The nine who had entered the room saw nine heavily armored knights. The shadowy knights wore black armor and carried a lance with a banner emblazoned with the red T crossed by the two daggers and the sumac.
The knights lowered their lances and charged the characters.
Cyttia, Vanni, Nigel and Boomer formed a front rank and dropped to one knee to give the spell casters behind them a clear field of vision.
(And to avoid being stung by a departing spell!)
Kyrsstina, Erinnia, Eyerthrein, Cara, and Roscoe made up the rear guard.
Erinnia cast Firestrike against the middle three knights. Roscoe fired a Magick Missile from his staff at the leftmost knight. Kyrsstina pointed her hands toward the charging knights. Flames fanned out before her and bathed the entire group of charging knights with red flames. Cyttia released a Cone of Cold Magick which hit the five knights in the center of the formation. Cara cast a Magick Missile against the rightmost knight. The spells had an unexpected boon!
The lances carried by the knights burst into flames.
The knights were bathed with an assortment of Magick as they reached a point one hundred feet from the group.
Nigel, Vanni, and Boomer waited with weapons drawn.
Eyerthrein cast Darkness fifteen foot radius in the area ten feet in front of them.
They could not see the enemy.
The enemy could not see them.
“Nice move, Eyerthrein,” Nigel chided.
“No! It’s good! Hit them again with area-encompassing spells!” Kyrsstina urged.
Cara, Kyrsstina, and Cyttia cast Flaming Hands. The red flames went through the darkness, but passed between their comrades. Erinnia cast Firestrike which exploded just beyond the area of Darkness.
Four knights who were badly burned and who carried long swords ran around the darkness and closed. Cyttia leapt to cut off the approach of the two coming from the left. Nigel followed her. Deron and Vanni opposed the two coming from the right. The battle was short. Cyttia and Nigel disposed of the badly injured knights in one round of melee. Boomer and Vanni required two blows to end their conflicts. The group received no injuries.
“That was an easy fight!” Boomer quipped.
“We battled nine lords of the East, Boomer,” Nigel said. “Their armor is old and tarnished but when polished will reveal its silver content. Only a lord of the manor could wear silver. The attainment of that rank required great skills and training. We burned a lot of Magick to defeat these foes.”
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