Vah'lux founded purchase with the hardened shin of her stone fleshed leg, cracking a powerful kick under the brunt of the great rat that was preparing to maul the half orc. The inner fury, the rage in her at the surface, the world went narrow and threatened to go grey from the intensity of her focus, set to kill the verminous monster over little else. All the frustration of weeks upon weeks in another prison after near a whole lifetime in another carried through her in a flash as her strike lifted the rat off its feet. It wailed in surprise although hardly for long as the blow crumpled its body around it, pushing the air out of its lungs. It flew the few feet into the filthy cove's wall nearby, crashing into the soft earth.

Beaumont, sword in hand, had swung moments before and was recovering his posture - as was Gorosk - but it was neither of them who managed the killing blow. Instead it was the stooped over figure who tried to right herself afterward. A hammer rung out afterward and an arrow behind her, the figures moving against the last rat signalling its death as well was followed by rushing steps. Backs lit now by the fire, they had killed a sizable force, which the rats were best described as. Not organized or orchestrated as an army but cohesive and numerous enough that they may well have been by any animal standard.

Despite the dripping blood and battered lot they were, one last chamber awaited them...

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Vah'lux slays the large rat, with Tracan and de Brey managing to kill the final small rat. The party gains 225 Experience Points for their trouble and ending combat. Gorosk is disabled and at exactly 0 hit points. As a reminder, Beaumont has two [i]Potions of Cure Light Wounds[/i] on him provided by the priest and it may be a wise time to use them.[/hider]
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