[IC] To The Edge of the World...

[Wick]

Eve saw the Hound bust into the barn and she looked to the others. "Now what do we do?"

[BKburke]

The beast would notice that whatever it was biting wasnt natural. It was metalic and looked like a gis t size for a spider. With the trap working, Jason linged out of hiding slashing at one of the beasts hind legs. He then hopped back to get some distance. Now he was able to get a good look at the beast. His eyes widened. "This isn't what I had in mind for a beast but I can't back down now. Jason readied his stance. He looked for an opening and reached to slash at the beast again hoping it was too focused on its injury to move out the way.

[Kelewen]

Cedric swore and drew his sword. "It could be after someone!" He yelled, already running down the hill toward the barn. "hurry!"

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The sword bit into the hound's back leg, and the beast howled as it quickly turned to face its attacker, red glowing eyes meeting Jason's as bits of metal hung from it's bared teeth. Growling, it dodged to the side to avoid Jason's second slash, barely favoring the injured hind leg. With a snarl, it lunged toward the man.

[Garth]

"What do you mean, what do we do? We kick its ass! June, but me down, down down." Once Rockmar was on the ground, he ran towards the barn. The moonlight gleamed off of his axe head.

Rockmar entered and saw Jason squaring off against the beast. "Jason! Friends come to your aid!" Rockmar stood to the side of Jason, giving both of them enough room to use their weapons. Rockmar swung his large two handed axe over his head once and drove the axe head towards the beast's side. He let out a wordless shout as he swung.

[Kelewen]

Rockmar's axe blade caught the beast just as it lunged toward Jason, cutting its belly, but not stopping its claws that were outstretched toward Jason...

[Wick]

Eve entered the barn and the hound sensed her magic and that of the cloak in her bag and it lunged at her. Eve raised her hands and cast a spell to hold the hound in midair.

[BKburke]

Jason was forced to make room for Rockmar and his heavy swings. He was sure his swing would stop the beats when it lunged. Only problem was it didn't. Jason tried to move. He was able to make sure it slash his chest but it's claws did slash his left arm. Jason fell back from the force and the pain. His right hand placed frimly on the slash the beast gave him. Jason stood up. "I will accept help but I wouldn't call you friends...no offense."

[Wick]

Eve looked at the hound who was suspended in the air able to see but unable to move temporarily. "I can't hold him long! Get out of there!" She yelled.

[Kelewen]

The holding spell only kept the unnatural creature in place for a few moments before it broke free of her magic. Enraged and now bleeding from two wounds, it turned its attention toward Eve and barreled toward her, sharp claws intending to rip into her...

[Lunar]

After letting Rockmar down she shot twards the disturbance at high speeds expecting a fight and she found one. Seeing the beast for the first rime was scary and invigorating, she moved in closer, set down the halfing, readied her spear, and lunged it at the beast as hard as she could using her magic to push the spear as fast as she could making it go almost the speed of sound as she let out a grunt.

[Fubsy]

Wimena took off towards the town as soon as her feet touched the earth. Her sword and shield drawn, her breath hitched in her throat the moment she saw the beast. The first night suddenly didn't seem so frightening. At least then the beast had been held off by spells and walls. But now, however, the hellish creature was hindered only by its attackers. In the midst of the blows, the halfling dashed behind the beast and slashed its hind legs several ones, before raising the shield and backing away to block any incoming claws.

[Marcus XVI]

As the fight began Tarquin was still fuming, he'd show the damn woman! He would explain to the others everything later, but now they needed an extra sword instead of a song. The tall elf tossed aside his surcoat, ripped open the blue vest, tossing it aside and removed the white fencing shirt. Then he took off the pendant, wrapping it's chain around his right wrist.

Taroyn took a deep breath and unsheathed his rapier with his left hand. He moved calmly, yet swiftly and arrived to the barn just as June was going for her stab with the spear. Nimbly the dark-elf moved in the shadows, even the snow white hair was difficult to spot now. He positioned himself to the opposite side of June's stab and made a swift lunge towards where he assumed the beast's kidneys to be situated if it had canine anatomy as he was hoping.

[Kelewen]

It was getting tight in the small barn, a flurry of teeth, claws, and weapons. As the hound reached Eve (successful attack or not), June flew into the barn and her spear impaled the beast in its massive front shoulder. It roared and snarled in pain, the spear now firmly lodged in its shoulder.

Cedric, only a moment behind June and Tarquin rushed into the barn. He felt brave... braver than he'd ever felt before! For a moment, the beast looked at him, but instead of attacking, it turned to try to grab the halfling with its claws as she passed close to it. Though certainly hindered from the long weapon sticking out of its shoulder, it still moved quick.

Almost at that same time, Taroyn's rapier sunk into the beast, causing it to snarl in pain again. It was certainly weakening, but wasn't done yet...

[Garth]

Rockmar stepped forward and yelled "TempUUUUUSSSSSS!" As Rockmar called out the name of his god, Tempus, the holy symbol tattooed on his chest felt warm. He swung his mighty axe in a great vertical swing which started from behind his head and aimed for the beast's head.

[Wick]

Eve ran and ducked off to the side and the others attacked him before he could be successful in striking her with his claws. However, his leg hit her and knocked her into a large stack of hay bales. It took her a couple of minutes to climb out. She had an idea. She pulled the magical cloak out and put it on.

The magic in the cloak was different than her magic and she felt it warming throughout her veins. Her eyes began to glow a bright shade of red and she decided that she would draw from Rockmar's idea. She began to draw on her magic and she started firing fireballs from her hands at it.

[Marcus XVI]

Though his self control was not at it's finest in his current mental state Taroyn's self preservation instincts were. As the fireballs began flinging around the dark elf decided it was best for him to just live to fight another day. He had no intention of dying just because some fool decided it was a great idea to burn everything down. Unfortunately for the tall dark elf the blade of his rapier had been lodged so well in to the beast's side that he'd have to either snap the weapon in two or just leave it there. He twisted and turned the weapon, trying to shake it loose, but to no avail. After a while he heard a rather disheartening 'snap' as the thin metal shattered, sending a thin sliver outwards which embedded it in Taroyn's shoulder. While mumbling many rather descriptive and fitting expletives the dark elf tossed aside what was left of his weapon and headed for the nearest exit while holding his quite profusely bleeding shoulder. He had just gotten his fair share of heroics for the day and now it was officially time to call it quits. This time survival and not burning in to a crisp with fools was his very highest priority.

[Wick]

Eve hit the hound with only a few fireballs before she decided it was too risky inside the barn. She stopped using them and took her first chance to run outside of the barn and waited for the beast to leave as most of the others were or had already as well.

[Kelewen]

@Lunar would June have taken the shield? I was thinking Cedric had it, but am okay with tweaking that piece...

[Garth]

ooops. that was an ooc comment. Just ignore me.

[Fubsy]

Wimena raised the shield, but my before the beast managed to graze its claws across her stomach. The halflin hissed in pain and moved back, the wound beginning too burn. Hopefully it wouldn't be too bad.
The smell of smoke and a flicker of orange caught her attention as alarm shot through her. A fire? Now of all times?! The halfling skirted around the beast and headed outside, turning to see flames engulf the barn. As she stared into the rapidly growing fire, an inkling of an idea sparked in her mind. A stupid idea, granted, but still worth a shot. "What if we trap it in the barn?" Wimena suggested as she turned to those that had run out.