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GM POST
Following Nic’s elegant but ineffective attack, Hawk shouts, drops his weapons and sprints for Lord Aronn, reaching him without incident. Snatching up the slight but long frame of the unconscious elf, he begins to laboriously haul him towards the doorway.
Meanwhile, the guard thrusts at de Courcy and steps back, placing its back against the wall once more.
Nic does not even bother to parry; the thrust was off target. Instead, he steps forwards, cooly evaluating his opponent once more, searching for a weakness.
While the guard’s attention is focused on de Courcy, Ranar takes the opportunity to run to Jibril. Despite the size difference the dwarven warrior easily hefts the unconscious Wazifi rogue and turns towards the door.
The guard turns to keep both Ranar and Nic in view, and thrusts at de Courcy. As Nic moves to parry, he realizes that this thrust was a mere feint; although he moves quickly to recover his guard, the effort does throw him slightly off balance.
As Ranar hauls his cargo towards the door, the light from Jibril’s fallen torch reveals something of interest. In the back of the alcove that the guard emerged from, there is yet another Arabic inscription engraved on the wall. This one says:
أنا سوف طاعة
Unfortunately, Ranar does not speak Arabic.
Stepping forwards, de Courcy moves to cover the fallen, focusing purely on defence. As he does so, the guard brings its longsword around in a scything stroke, directed exactly upon the line opened by his preceding feint. Although Nic steps back and whips his sword around in a desperate parry, it is not enough; defence weakened by the lack of his usual cloak, his parry just barely fails to arrive in time.
The longsword seemingly whips clean through de Courcy’s torso; he collapses to the ground, sword and lantern falling from his hands.
As it falls, the lantern shatters, spreading a small pool of flaming oil onto the ground beside the Aralaise swordsman’s body.
(PLAYER CUE: what now? Ranar is the only who’s seen the second inscription, and he can’t read it, even phonetically. All of your light sources are on the floor near the guard. Aronn’s glowing topknot went out when he fell)
