Wolf Pack Attack!

Arowe's flighted shaft hits Kane straight above his heart, even as he's shouting out an order to his wolves. The elf's smile falters though, as he watches the unkempt woodsman pluck it out as if it was nothing! His flesh instantly bubbles around the wound and heals almost entirely. Undeterred the first arrow is immediately followed by a second but to worryingly similar results.

Kane barks out a laugh, spitting out his rough toothpick and displaying all his slightly pointed, yellowing teeth. He doesn't advance though, leaving that to his summoned pack. On his command, six large adult wolves bound from their shadowy hiding places.

Their speed is terrifying but despite Kane's conceit, the party's defences are sound. The wolves are either funnelled into narrow bottle necks or forced to leap Fortu's spiked barriers. Two of the larger wolves brave the jump but pay heavily for it.

His smile reversing into a snarl, Kane sends Iron, his large, alpha pack leader to bolster the assault. Sensing the weakest of the two-legs, it targets Rifkin. Unsurprisingly, the demi-elf chooses flight over fight but, in his panic, makes a poor tactical decision. The Bard finds himself scrambling for footing on the treacherous scree slope below the near vertical bluff. Caught between the advancing alpha wolf and the cliff-face, Rifkin desperately attempts to heave himself upward but Iron's too quick and snatches him back down by his leather boot.

Back in front of the cave mouth, the heavily armoured Fortu does his best to block the wolves advance and thus enables Arowe and Liga Bur to rain arrows down upon them. Kane, finally realising that he'd yet again, under-estimated the adventurers, prepares to join the fray.

With a series of juddering, inhuman movements, Kane's body bends and cracks. Fur sprouts all over him and claws erupt from his bare hands and feet. The skin from his face splits in two, peeling away to reveal an evil looking lupine-like head...

Simultaneously drawing the two short swords from across his back, Kane leaps up the slope.

"Now you DIE!"