S3 E21

Creatures emerge from the black veil that is the darkness at the back of the cave

A voice is saying, did you hear that?

Eyes in the dark, one blue and one green

A wolf snout appears first, then it’s head and one paw

The other eyes, at person height appear

Stretching through the veil

Half a full helm appears on one side of the face, the other side is melted down, the hair rolling from the top half of the helm

One side of the creature is dwarf height, the other side is full armour

The wolf emerges further, three wolf limbs and one bulging, green limb, from an orc

The darkness clings to them as they walk through

The group are packing and stepping to the side of the creatures

The wolf thing stops at the closest person

It swings an axe at Brink, that was held in its orc limb

Brink decapitates the wolf

The blood of the creature started to spurt out clinging with the darkness, and then they fell all as one

A third creature comes out of the darkness, a Drow face comes out, and then the shoulders, but it is bent double

They are wearing finery

Birgitta yells, no, no, no, that ain’t right, at the creatures - turn undead

It gets the attention of the armoured guy

Henri takes her fans to the armoured guy’s fleshy dwarf neck

Chui leaps around everyone and breaks the bones in the armoured guy’s limbs - on the dwarf side

Brink attacks the half wolf, half orc and the sword is stuck

The beefy orc arm quivers with each hit

Orc-ish wolf, turns the axe and yanks it back, turning Brink’s knee in

The wolf head starts gnashing at her

Brink says, no!

And the wolf head erupts into flames

Prince holds onto his symbol and the wolf head

The third creature emerges, head of a Drow, the back end of a bear

Birgitta begins packing stuff onto the sledge

Henri tripped the dwarf knight and pushed it away

The fight continues ...

The booted head starts coming apart, trailing through the air

The pieces go back into the darkness, merges with it

Brink pulled the sword from the wolf

Prince says, by her love, be at peace

And an image outline of a woman appears, and puts her hand on each person’s heart

Calming all she touches

Attempting to still the fight

The dwarf knight stays on the floor

Drow coughs up a few times, screeches as if imitating an owl

Convulses a few more times, and spits up a fireball

The fireball hits everyone

Chui swirls out of the way of the fire, extinguishing it, boiling up the air around him

Brink flew herself to the floor of the cave, her furs singing

The wolf, orc, a mist of vapour that disappears into the veil

Birgitta yells at everyone to get their act together, and starts pulling the half packed sledge out of the cave

Henri exits the cave, pulling Brink with her

Henri tells everyone we should go, they keep coming and coming

There is no more wolf thing

Something presses against the oppressive darkness

The drow bear is heaving  where it stands

The dwarf knight is stood up again

Chui dashing into the cave, ducks around the drow bear, and pushes off the left side of the wall and pulls out his spear, underhands it up into the thing’s sternum, he kicks the haft of the spear further up and forward shoulder rolls over the things body, to flip it over onto its back

Bounces off the other side of the wall and legs it out of the cave, up the walls

Brink staggers out of the cave with Henri, hiding round the corner

Brink’s face is blackened and light scorching on her

Note: the edges where the creatures merge are hard to look at

The darkness continues to push until it is a rhythm, and Prince loses the sense as to whether it is coming towards him, or whether he is being pulled towards it - dragged out for what feels like a couple of minutes

Prince steps out of the cave and readies his wing bow

He’s feeling unsteady, rattled

There’s a blink, and the dwarf knight is there, and Prince goes to hit it

But suddenly it isn’t there

It’s outside with everyone else, with its hand holding Chui by his neck against a rock

The rock is giving way under the impact

The dwarf hand seems to be made of metal

The drow bear goes to attack with a fireball

Prince fires his wing bow

Prince starts to lower the wing bow, as if about to sleep

The darkness slows down and stretches out

The camera blurs, Prince sags his eyes

The drow bear picks itself up in slow motions

It is hacking up

Prince’s eyes close again

Something really bright is coming towards him

Prince shakes himself and brings back the bow, it detonates right in front of him

We don’t see what happens to Prince, but there’s a splinter and a crack from the mountain

The cave falls in on itself

Birgitta saved most of the food

Birgitta pushes herself bodily at the dwarf knight, grabbing its shoulders and twisting it away from strangling Chui

Henri goads the creature to attack her instead, hey ugly! Why don’t you pick on someone not your size but someone who can take you in a fight!

Chui is frowning, and then looks right at Henri quizzically

Henri hacks at the creature with her fan weapons

Chui tries to get out of the grapple

Chui relaxes and is clearly paying attention to what is going to happen

Brink steps to the side, over hands the claymore down into the creature’s limbs, and the claymore clunks

The weapon reverberates

Brink looks at the sword, and it ignites in a green flame and attacks again

Brink steps back

The dwarf knight pushes in on Chui, into the rock

The creature has been muttering slowly, and constantly, it keeps speeding up

Did you hear it? Did you hear it?

It isn’t paying any heed to the rest of us

Chui is saying yes, in response

Birgitta yells at everyone to get the thing off Chui

Henri trips up the dwarf knight towards her, she jumps out of the way

Chui grapples with the dwarf knight as it falls

Chui escapes the thing’s grasp

Chui goes with the creature as it falls, punches up to get the hands off, he pole vaults over it by ramming the spear into its chest and he rabbit kicks its face as it goes

The creature’s face took a pummelling

Chui flicks the spear up and the creature slides up the cliff face
The creature is stuck halfway up the cliff

Chui catches Henri’s eye, and says ‘thank you’

Brink blasts at it, chains wrap round the creature, that extended out of her blade

Crackling lightning chains into the creature

Birgitta sniffs Prince out, finds him flattened in the snow with explosion shrapnel in his chest

Birgitta pulls him out of the snow and pats him down

Henri suggests that we run

Chui asks where Prince is, Henri points out Birgitta and Prince are over there

Chui bombs it up the side of the cliff

Does a half hop and a punch, and then flips off the cliff in the direction everyone ran

They have one sled, with food, no other supplies