Orphan ducked, dodged, and generally quit attacking. His sole focus was on parrying the lethal blows of the gnoll captain. Not for the first time he wished deeply for the defending kama that he'd lost to the rakshasa under the Wastes.
He kept darting backwards, trying to find a way to bolt around K'gah, but the gnoll captain was too canny.
Orphan then turned and fled, following the tunnel down, then left and up. K'gah couldn't move as fast as him, and from the air patterns he'd felt, the monk was sure that the tunnel would lead him back and around to the main cavern they'd first entered. The warforged figured he had to take the flayer out before K'gah would come to his senses.
Of course if the flayer was giving mental commands to K'gah, the gnoll might have doubled back as well to lay an -
Orphan ducked as he popped out of the tunnel, rolling forward in a ball, and K'gah's sword swished through the air where the warforged's head had been.
"Ambush," Orphan muttered, jumping to his feet and bolting to the left. K'gah was again between the monk and the temple chamber. Rather than go to the right, back outside, or behind him to the tunnels, to the left was a rock outcropping, a fairly steep incline up, maybe 8 or 9 feet.
He had to get K'gah to follow, to move away from the doorway to the temple.
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linking back to previous important bits- very helpful.
And yes, it all makes sense now- the flayer came from behind, and i guess in all the drama orphan didn't have a chance to mention the hidden tunnel entrance.
exciting! i mean, who doesn't love the denisens of the underdark?
I've been meaning to do that for a while now, I think it will make for a better read, never really had the time to properly edit, though.
On the plus side, my business is steadily growing (given that I do foreclosure defense that's not a shock).
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