Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20190505142549/@comment-17114085-20190603232413

Kal could see that a group of Orcs on a ledge were acting weird and that some of the warriors were heading up to that ledge with the wooden stairs. Whatever had distracted the Orcs was happening up there.

In response, Elisiv orderer her men to form a shield wall as well. She remained at the middle, her shield side by side with the other Companions.

Jofrodr, Kal, Reyl and the others were behind the humans' wall.

Their only advantage was that they were still inside the tunnel, so the enemy would be bottlenecked if they tried to attack them. Though they were still severely outnumbered: 9 to 30.

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Relan summoning the Dremora spooked the Companions. "It's a demon!" Some of them yelled.

Randagulf was shocked. "Shor's Bones!" He exclaimed.

It took a moment before they collected themselves and realized that the demon wasn't their enemy. Some even attempted to attack it, but since they only had melee weapons they didn't reach the Daedra before he was out of their range.

The 8 Orc archers fired on the Dremora. Most of the arrows bounced harmlessly off his Daedric Armor, however one of them hit the Dremora's exposed head. The lone arrow hit the Dremora right in the left eye.

The Dremora was staggered from the impact. His charge was stopped, although, one iron arrow wasn't enough to kill a Dremora warrior. He was left bleeding and half blinded, but still 'alive'.

That sight fightened even the Orcs as they hastily and clumsily tried to notch new arrows.

(Daedra are seen as evil demons by the Atmorans, especially since many of their enemies - Orcs, Chimer, Reachmen - worship the Daedric Princes. So dealings with Daedra are very taboo, even among mages.)

"Preparing for war?" Boruus didn't follow. As far as he knew the plan was still to seal the tunnels to the stronghold and then hunt down the remaining Companions. There wasn't any need to prepare further.