* LaughingBear steps up to the marked tree and seems to draw up power from the surrounding
atmosphere. Abruptly, his hand bursts forth into flame, and he strikes the rune carved
upon the tree.
* The rune smolders, and the wood of the tree around it turns black.  As scorch marks
begin to mar the run, the bluish flames surrounding each of the skeletal wolves gutter
like lanterns in a gale.
* Dral1 whips his chain around, grabbing the wolf by its rear legs, and sends it sailing a
good ten feet through the air, to land on its back on the dirt. He skips backward, but in
his distraction at the sheer number of enemies, gets his leg savaged by a skeletal wolf as
he goes.
* Dral2 summons forth a wolf companion to distract his foes. The wolf snarls and swiftly
bites down on a skeletal wolf. Dral then turns on his nearby attacker and swings his
quarterstaff, missing in his haste.
* The skeletal wolves crowd around their living counterpart, snarling and snapping
silently.  One of them gets its jaws around the wolf's leg, but is unable to bring the
summoned animal down.  The other wolves have less luck.  The larger two harrying Klizurk
and Dral2 remain unable to get their teeth firmly on anything important.  Meanwhile, the
smaller wolves, no longer content to stay on the periphery, charge the chain-wielding
dral.
* Dral1 wraps his ever-present chain around the wolf's muzzle and twists, whipping the
wolf around himself to toss it off towards its buddies.
* Their attack ends poorly, especially for the leading wolf; that one ends up a few yards
away and on its side.  The only sound it makes is an eerily quiet 'crunch'.
* Klizurk, having drawn the attention of the alpha, takes off to flank the pups with
Dral1, easily avoiding attacks as she gets into position and misses with a strike of her
own. "Need some help?"
* LaughingBear, meanwhile, maintains a determined look as he strikes at the rune again
with his flaming hand.
* By now, the rune has by now become a blackened scar, unrecognizable as a rune at all. 
The wood around the former rune is badly scorched, as well.  The ghostly blue flames
surrounding the wolves flares white with the burning of the rune, and then fades away
completely.
* Dral1 darts forward, seeing an opening, and slams one spiked end of his chain down at
the wounded wolf, but misses by a hair, gouging out a chunk of dirt.
* Dral2 refocuses his efforts and lands a solid blow to an exposed side of the skeletal
wolf. Meanwhile, his summoned ally takes another bite, but misses as his enemy darts
quickly back.
* The skeletal wolves continue to snap at the live one, but are unable to get ahold of it
this time.  Meanwhile, the omega clamps its teeth down on Dral1... only to find itself
biting at empty shadows as the warrior slips just out of its grasp.
<Dral1> Master says the best defense is to not be where the other guy is aiming.
* The pups turn on Klizurk, biting at her legs too timidly to connect.  Meanwhile the
larger wolf pursues its Kith opponent and manages to lunge past her defenses.  Its teeth
scrape across the chain links of Klizurk's armor, though, and find no purchase.
* Klizurk charges through the mass of wolf pups and away from the alpha wolf to flank the
omega as her sword glows white as she swings it upwards at the omega, clanking against the
bones of the creature without landing a solid hit. "Stand, STILL."
* LaughingBear, having destroyed the rune on the marked tree, moves forward to punch at
the nearest skeletal wolf pup with his flame-engulfed fist, but he trips slightly on a
root and misses.
* Dral1 dances through the forest shadows, whipping the chain through gaps in the foliage
with no apparent concern that it might get caught, ripping apart one of the wolves as he
dances within Klizurk's protective curtain.
* The struck wolf is crushed under the blow, its broken body collapsing to the forest
floor.
* Dral2 brings down his quarterstaff for another solid hit on the alpha wolf.
* The wolves close in, silently snarling and biting as they harrass the recruits.  A few
lipliess jaws find purchase here and there, but the abominations fail to drag anybody
down.
* Klizurk shoulders worward through an opening the wolves left, stepping to the side of
the Alpha and striking at it with a similarly flashing blade as before.
* The blade tears through the alpha wolf's paper-like skin and splinters several bones as
it clatters across the creature's skeleton.  Though the damage appears at first to be
superficial, there was rather a lot of it.