[[Backtrack a few posts, thanks for remembering Roth and Toth.
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The battle did not seem to be going well for the band of battered travelers. Roth and Toth stood valiantly at the tamed teffs, intent on protecting them as ordered. The two last ulbers suddenly appeared over the hill. Looking at the weary fighters, Roth glanced to Toth.
"They ain't gunna make it, Boma [Ynnwn for brother], we gots tah help."
Toth glanced back, seeing the same outcome. "But we was tah watch the dunderbeasts..."
They both heard a whisper from under a blanket on the cart. "You two addleheads are the dunderbeasts! Go help them NOW!"
Roth and Toth instantly reacted to Arnigus's order, fear and thought washed away in a dual battlehaze. When Arn says attack...that is what they do. Dropping the leads, the twins rushed headlong into the final creatures, daggers appearing in their hands, only to seem to sprout from the ulbers a moment latter at the quick flick of the wrist. Before ten running steps were taken, ten identical daggers adorned the soft parts of the beasts. Toth slowed slightly and pulled a small hand ax as Roth dashed ahead, though with no weapon at all. The first ulber's eyes blazed with anger at the inconvenience of the dagers protruding from its body as it raised its claws high to strike at the unarmed Roth. At the last moment, Roth dived under the swing, folding his arms across his chest and tipping heas head to the side to form a compact battering ram of solid, living Ynnwn. Toth already had his ax raised over his head and was swinging down before Roth even collided with the beast's knee to the sound of a loud pop. Toth's preemptive downswing slammed into the back of the howling creature's head as the thing tumbled forward over Roth, cutting the creatures bellow of pain short. Leaving the ax buried in the dead ulber's head, Toth continued at a full run without a moment's pause to the second creature, this one still with the body of Laragorn decorating its claw. Roth rolled to one side the instant he broke the first ulber's knee, his arm flashing behind his back to grab one of the multiple weapons harnessed there. Just as he drew a hand-sized, compact crossbow, Toth ducked low to avoid a swing from the ulber, then leaped up to drive his palm into the beast's nose and driving the head back. Anyone would have laughed at the futility of such a blow, if not for the fletchings that suddenly jutted from under the ulber's chin, the bolt from Roth's crossbow going straight to its braincase. The ulber took two more steps before it fell ponderously forward, finally admitting to its death. Laragorn's limp body was flung from the falling creature's claw to rest under a tree.
[[that brings us back to now]]
Roth sunders over to Toth with his brother's ax in hand. Roth hands Toth his ax back with a grin. "Ulbers is so stupid."
