The three reached the entrance of Labyrinthian. As expected, it was cold but with the clear skies and the sun beaming down at them, it was tolerable.
Morgan felt some old anxiety that took root a lifetime ago as they opened the doors to the ancient crypt and entered.
Eivine informed me she had killed the skeletal dragon and I everything else is my guess. Morokei might placed different traps and guardians now.
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Surreptitiously in the peaks above, Morokei lifts a hand at the signal. Magicka responds. A spell settles over the valley. No one shall be leaving by magic means.
"Hi daal het nuz fent ni bovul nol het."
The quartet are suddenly blasted by blue winds streaming down as though they come from the mountaintops themselves. The voice comes with a customary drain of magicka much like when Morokei spoke before the gathered dragonborn's own battles with him.
The dragon priest is here after all.
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(With a deafening shout, pieces of the cliff fall from the earth that held them. The maze's exit is blocked. Draugr start to appear from the shadows, each wielding weapons of jagged bone.)
Spaan Dein Suleyk.
(The draugr grows stronger with the shout, each one linked to and protected by Alduin's mighty life force. The dovah himself remains landed, just far enough away from the fight to be unreachable as his army fights.)
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Morgan felt the panic rise as some of her magicka was drained. She glared at the old woman as she cupped her hands and prepared a bigger spell.
Shit. Are you two alright?
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Thagan smiles widely under his mask, the crackle of his magic still remaining quite strong even as his magica is being drained- it's as if his well is constantly being restored. He looks to the draugr for a moment before Donvir walks slowly towards the closest ones, not quite caring if he doesn't have much magica, as he's more physical. "We're perfectly fine. There's a reason we wanted to come to deal with this one specifically."
At that, he pulls his twined Dawnbreakers out, looking dead at them as he does.
"Krii Lun Aus."
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Svea took advantage of the fleeting moment of confusion to bring herself to her feet and sprint away from the other three to avoid getting caught in the crossfire. She spotted an opening between the fewer draugr that came from the left and weaved through them swiftly before one could get a hit in on her.
The only thing that this draugr horde understood that they were to do was attack. Indiscriminately. So, Svea had to be clever enough to minimise her priority as a threat. Luckily, as her retreating form disappeared around the corner of the outer maze wall, none of the draugr chose to pursue, keeping their focus on the three still boxed in with the word wall.
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Morokei notices Svea escaping. Quickly, he shouts to cover her disappearance from draugr and dragonborn. A blizzard envelops the dovahkiine. The ice storm will distract his enemies whereas the draugr are resistant. It is like Svea's fabricated story has come true.
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Krii Lun Aus.
(He does the marked for death shout back at them. If anything, the dovahkiin's shout seems to strengthen him.)
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Morgan took cover behind the closest wall she could find and crouched down. Alduin and Morokei who can drain her magicka. Why did she choose to go on this one? Pettiness? Probably.
She crouched down and kept concentrating on her spell. Morokei also uses magic, shouts are sort of like magic. A lighting storm should affect the both of them.
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Donvir makes a face as he hears his shout repeated, but cares not for such things completely. Thagan will heal him if needed, after all. Immediately after, the bosmer rushes towards a portion of the many draugr and flurries slices after slices at them with his Dawnbreakers. Elsewhere, Thagan can feel Morgan's spell being prepared, and so he starts to prepare a bit of normal chain lighting, aimed towards the rest of the horrid risen. The moment she releases hers he would do just the same with his own.
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The draugr that surrounded the trio were mostly comprised of Scourge lords, Death lords and Death overlords; something to match them in strength, and, quite hopefully, overwhelm them.
Svea could feel the electricity in the air from the build-up of the dual lightning spells, even as she reached the caved-in entrance and turned on her heel quickly to go through a side door in her left that led up, to one of the elevated walkways that lined both sides of the open chamber.
She wasn't at all in a panic over the possibility of any of the offensive spells reaching Alduin or Morokei, the ward Morokei had placed over the chamber prevented any sort of magic from getting out, and that included transportation or teleporting spells, and the both of them were safely on the other side of the ward.
As Morgan was priming her spell, one of the draugr scourge lords lumbered up behind her, greataxe raised up high over its head and ready to strike.
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Morokei floats in closer to the battle, though remaining on his side of the ward. Normally, he liked to start battles with summoning an atronach but he would need a moment to do so after casting the ward, even after having alternated between the thu'um and conventional magics.
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(From where he is perched, he summons a storm of meteors from the tempest above, each one aimed at the dovahkiine. He watches them in horrific satisfaction, the depth of his eyes betraying the loathing he holds for these three, for mortality, for Akatosh. He will not rest until he has his victory, until his rage is heard and listened to by all the realms.)
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Morgan was far too focused on her spell to notice the draugr right behind her. It was until one her instincts screamed at her to move. She got up and spun around, getting a minor cut from the draugr.
When Alduin summoned his meteors she sighed heavy and threw her lighting storm towards Morokei until it stop right above him, lighting striking him or the area around him.
Morgan took several steps back and bombarded the one draugr with ice spikes. She ignored her bleeding shoulder.
Stupid fucking shit!
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Donvir decides to use the meteor plummeting down towards him to try and take out, or at least harm a large chunk of the draugr, dashing away with a swift whirlwind sprint shout. Of course that dragon wants to play with them like a child plays with their food. Heinous. Thagan however decides to chain lightning any and all draugr he's near, right before side stepping a bit once he hears the noise of a falling meteor. "Heeeeey giant LIZARD! Stop with that shit or I'll eat YOUR heart next! And Morokei-"
He just... flips the dragon priest off. All while wearing his mask. @worldeaterofficial @jun-ahmul-nahlaas @draconic-seer
It seemed that such bravado would be the death, or near death, of Thagan. One draugr just lucky enough to have been spared by his chain lightning, approached from his blindspot. It let out a rough, gurgled battlecry before it brought its weapon down onto his back, cleaving right through his shoulder blade in a vicious hit.
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