Tauriell moves up another level.
Ot the top of the stairs to the fourth floor is a large oaken door. Which is closed.
Tauriell carefully tries if the door is locked.
Short checking reveales the door is closed but not locked.
As it is not she presses down she slowly but steady opens it and looks what is behind.
The wolves attack the next one.
The floor behind it is tidy there is some decoration on the walls and the doors that are along the right side of the corridor are about normal size. There are two large passages on the left side with talking coming out and four doors on the right side.
A thug who notices the door opening as he walks along the corridor comes to investigate.
Darthdy changes into leopard form and goes the rest of the stairs up and walks to a thug.
Tauriell moves to the side where the door doesn't hit the wall and just waits.
The thug looks down the stairs irritated and closes the door again.
Tauriell decides that she found out enough and hurries down again.
The remaining five thugs come out of the rooms eventually and join the fight.
They use their numbers to get better positions
One of the wolves goes down.
The rest of the wolves try to kill the hurt thug.
Darthdy want to helps her wolves and attack a thug.
One wolf bites a wounded thug to death and Darthdy in leopard form tears one thug into pieces.
The thugs concentrate on the wolves as no one really wants to approach the wild cat.
The rest steps back and throws daggers at the cat.
The fourth wolf is lucky but the other one is stabbed to death.
The thrown daggers all miss.
Darthdy makes a five foot step to the wall and attacks another thug
The last Wolf trys to attack another thug.
One thug lies staggered on the floor. Another one lies wounded on te floor. The other seven start stabbing the wolf.
But the wolf still stands.
Darthdy makes a five food step to the wolf and attack a thug.
With the other claw Darthdy attacks an other thug.
The Wolf is wondered because he alive, he attacks a thug who lies on the ground.
Tauriell moves at normal speed through the level with the eight thugs guarding the workshops but runs down the stairs and through the story with the storages to get out again before the invisibility wears off.
The thugs now attack the cat as no one else remains.
The wounded one on the ground gets up as the wolf is killed.
Darthdy thinks that will be close.
Darthdy bites the hurt one but her claws failed her enemy.
The thug carrying provisions from the corridor into the room feels a sudden breeze as Tauriell runs past. Puzzled he watches the corridor.
But he notices nothing. Shall the rumours be true? That the Gull is haunted?
Tauriell comes down the stairs and sees Darthdy killing all the thugs on her own. She charges in and with her blade cuts down a thug.
As thug is felled the orange haired elf becomes visible again. "Hi there. Nice of you to leave some for me too." she says to Darthdy with her evil grinTauriell comes down the stairs an sees Darthdy killing all the thugs on her own. She charges in and with her blade cuts down a thug.
As there are now two enemies again the chances for flanking have dwindled. Four of then line up in front of the two and two move into flanking position.
Darthdy bites and claws one thug, and the hurt thug she claws.
Tauriell decides that flanking her is an offense punishable by death. With a pirouette she starts her battle dance and attacks the thug that moved behind her.
"Three down, three more to go." she says.
The three remaining thugs flee in panic. One flees outside and jumps down into the shallow water.
The other two move to the stairs to flee upstairs.
Tauriell charges after one of the two who runs inside.
Cutting him down.
Darthdy changes back into her real form. "Let them flee I'm half dead let's go back." Darthdy says pleading to Tauriell.
"I'll be there soon. Tauriell calls back as she charges after the other thug to cut him down before he can tell someone else what happened.
Tauriell catches the last thug at the top of the stairs. The guy carrying the provisions thinks he hears some noise but wonders as nobody comes up.
He puts down what he is carrying and draws his short sword. "Hey. Who's there?" He moves to the stairs to take a look.
Tauriell runs down the stairs again. It won't work to kill everything up the whole piling on her own. Once down again she tells Darthdy "I have this potion here if you're hurt that bad." holding out the vial to her.
"Let's move before the next ones show up."
"No I don't need a healing potion but run!" Darthdy says and starts to run back.
"Alright." Tauriell replies, moves out and sheaths her blade.
After Darthdy runs to Tauriells hiding. she says to Tauriell"It's your turn, I don't know the way to the others."
"Sure. It's just further this way." Tauriell leads them to the shrine. Going inside she calls "We're back."
Looking around she asks "Where is Gwenhwyfar? I have an elf here who needs to get patched up."
"She is cooking with the kids." Abomentolor replies.
Niamh walks to Abomentolor and Tauriell as she hears their voices. "Yes. She distracts the children." She says with a rather happy smile. "How are you?"
"I'm almost fine. Just a minor stab at my leg. Nothing too serious." Tauriell replies.
"Well, then it was indeed a brilliant performance." Niamh says with a smirk.
"Indeed!"
"But now I need to get Darthdy to Gwenhwyfar before she collapses." Tauriell explains as she drags the elf to the kitchen.
"Hello Gwen. Would you fix her please?"
"Oh, you look terrible." Gwenhwyfar calls out and leys her and on Dartdy's shoulder to heal her.
"Is everythign healed now?" she asks as all wounds she noticed herself are gone now.
"What do you think, how many more children could you support here?" Tauriell asks Gwenhwyfar.
"Why do you ask? Do you have more of them?" Gwenhwyfar asks back.
"No. But the creepers have some 20 more of them." Tauriell replies. "But there are also at least a dozen Creepers left. Probably more."
Abomentolor follows to the kitchen "What do you mean: a dozen left. Did you have fun without me?"
"I'm really sorry we didn't bring you along. It would have been much more interesting with you burning through their numbers." Tauriell answers.