With a crackle of lightning the danced over her finger tips, Tracan drew back the string of her bow. This time no arrow sat knocked upon the sinew, instead just the faint arcs that carried from her. Her weapon as her focus, her eyes shining with bright malice and might she loosed the invisible shot and through her, through the bow, fired a blinding beam of blue-white light which lanced the fleeing rat. It had flown past Gorosk with speed that he could only register afterward and struck the fleeing creature through the flank of its chest, leaving a black marring on the fur where it charred flesh. It tumbled under its own skittering weight and rolled to a stop, spasming a few times where it had died in its den.

The elf's shocking outburst faded and the hum of energy so faintly around her dispersed as she grimaced in frustration, even at her own success. Brushing her mane aside and our of her face, her intense and angered focus settled on the other large rat, cut short by the man piercing one of the young rats and the other woman cleaving one in twain with brutal ease. At least its death was swift, forceful, final, rather than being left to languish of being pummeled and stabbed. Another of the lesser vermin was struck, this one tossed aside with a low sweeping strike by de Brey, wherein the mighty hammer cracked upon its skull and sent it toppling end over end into a side of the wall, bleeding from various openings upon its face and more than certainly dead outright.

The remaining three least rats and their greater counterpart changed targets and tactics, this time perhaps having realized their onslaught despite being so frenzied was largely pointless against foes who were seemingly more steel than flesh. The large rat, no longer immediately challenged by the giant, the orc, or one of the men, broke in a sprint after the monk. It leapt at his exposed back and as it collided with him, spinning them both around, it clawed at and bloodied his back. The other rats, what survived of them, squealed and hurried with panicked frenzy at what seemed to be their abandonment, immediately snipping and biting at anything in reach. This included the hand upon the axe which was being pulled back from the slain rat Vah'lux had finished, getting nipped and bloodied in the process.

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Tracan uses her [i]Wild Surge[/i] wilder ability to empower an [i]Energy Ray[/i]. Her psionic touch attack hits the badly wounded, fleeing [i]dire rat[/i], very narrowly managing to kill it. Quentin de Brey, meanwhile, attacks another small rat and crushes it to death with his hammer; much like how Vah'lux cuts one in two after it was wounded by Beaumont.

The last advanced [i]dire rat[/i] charges Gorosk and attacks him for 4 piercing damage as it bites and claws at him from behind. One of the three remaining small vermin attacks Vah'lux, threatening a critical hit but failing, instead only managing to bite her for 1 point of damage. The other two both attack Beaumont yet fail badly. It appears the rats are now randomly attacking.[/hider]
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