Mu tries to grab the tiefling, but cannot find him.
Ruford swings his weapon fruitlessly as well.
"Drebbin, you coward!" Hildr howls in the darkness. She grunts and the sound of steel on stone echoes in the hallways.
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I'll 5ft step back hoping to get out of range from where I last saw them, and draw my Everburning Torch, and drop it in the square behind me.
"Everburning Torch: This otherwise normal torch has a continual flame spell cast on it. This causes it to shed light like an ordinary torch, but it does not emit heat or deal fire damage if used as a weapon. Price 110 gp; Weight 1 lb."
In theory, both should simply cancel each other out, making the EBT not cast any light while the Darkness fails to lower the light level, and the normal, or I should say the original light level would prevail. That being said, there are plenty of ways that this might not work, and I just mean this as a quick guide, as there is a lot of debate and issues with light and the various Darkness effects. Not trying to tell you how to do it.
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The Bane and Bless spell are the same way, as are a few specific other spells. So basically if group A fights group B, and each of them casts one of those spells, instead of getting a +1 to Attacks and Saves vs Fear and also a -1 to Attacks and Saves vs Fear, they instead completely cancel out both. In this case, the bonuses would themselves, for a net +0, but what is supposed to happen is that both the spells are fully Dispelled, so there is no magic happening at all. Darkness and Light Spells, Bane/Bless, Consecrate/Desecrate, Good Hope/Crushing Despair, and a few other spells work this way.
Normally to counterspell, you need either the specific spell being cast, so to counterspell Fireball, you need to have Fireball yourself, or Dispel Magic. Improved counterspell allows you to do it with a spell of the same level that is of the same magic school, rather than the exact same spell. The above spells can also be used that way, so in essence a Darkness spell (level 2) would negate the Light (0 level) spell, both Darkness and a 2nd Level Continual Flame (or other Light descriptor spell) would both cancel each other out while in the same area, while a Daylight (3rd level), Continual Flame cast by a Cleric (3rd level), or any higher level Light spell would automatically cancel out the Darkness spell, while in the same area. If the higher level Light spell ended before the Darkness spell, the Darkness spell would then kick back into effect, but it would have counted against the duration the whole time.
Garinol and Kilian shift in the darkness.
Suddenly a grunt of pain comes from Mu, followed by the sound of someone falling to the ground.
Ruford hears a woman's voice grunt after he feels his weapon land solidly. Then Maddie channels energy, and you all hear a laugh from Skell.
"Ahh! That's much better! Now Drebbin, turn the gods damned lights back on, will ya?"
Hildr yells a battlecry and something bounces off Ruford's armor. Garinol hears Skell stumble and curse in the darkness.
Blind creatures must make a DC 10 Acrobatics skill check to move faster than half speed. Creatures that fail this check fall prone. Blinded creatures can't run or charge.
All opponents have total concealment from a blinded creature, so the blinded creature has a 50% miss chance in combat. A blinded creature must first pinpoint the location of an opponent in order to attack the right square; if the blinded creature launches an attack without pinpointing its foe, it attacks a random square within its reach. For ranged attacks or spells against a foe whose location is not pinpointed, roll to determine which adjacent square the blinded creature is facing; its attack is directed at the closest target that lies in that direction.
A blinded creature loses its Dexterity modifier to AC (if positive) and takes a –2 penalty to AC.
A blinded creature takes a –4 penalty on Perception checks and most Strength- and Dexterity-based skill checks, including any with an armor check penalty. A creature blinded by darkness automatically fails any skill check relying on vision.
Creatures blinded by darkness cannot use gaze attacks and are immune to gaze attacks.
A creature blinded by darkness can make a Perception check as a free action each round in order to locate foes (DC equal to opponents' Stealth checks). A successful check lets a blinded character hear an unseen creature “over there somewhere.” It's almost impossible to pinpoint the location of an unseen creature. A Perception check that beats the DC by 20 reveals the unseen creature's square (but the unseen creature still has total concealment from the blinded creature).
A blinded creature can grope about to find unseen creatures. A character can make a touch attack with his hands or a weapon into two adjacent squares using a standard action. If an unseen target is in the designated square, there is a 50% miss chance on the touch attack. If successful, the groping character deals no damage but has pinpointed the unseen creature's current location. If the unseen creature moves, its location is once again unknown.
If a blinded creature is struck by an unseen foe, the blinded character pinpoints the location of the creature that struck him (until the unseen creature moves, of course). The only exception is if the unseen creature has a reach greater than 5 feet (in which case the blinded character knows the location of the unseen opponent, but has not pinpointed him) or uses a ranged attack (in which case the blinded character knows the general direction of the foe, but not his location).
A creature with the scent ability automatically pinpoints unseen creatures within 5 feet of its location.
Kilian steps out of the darkness and finds himself alone in a hallway.
Within the darkness Ruford is stabbed in the side beneath his left arm.
Ruford withdraws, emerging from the darkness near Maddie and Garinol.
Two forms move through the darkness, coalescing into Hildr and Skell in the light outside the Temple. "Where's that old bastard?" Skell howls. Their cleated boots crunch in the ice of the moat as they move to attack, Hildr going after Pai, Skell after Ruford.
Hildr shields her eyes against Pai's magic, then cleaves her in retribution.
Skell hacks at Ruford, cutting through armor and giving him vicious wound.
Success
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Kilian peeks around the corner and sees a guardroom converted from what was once a shrine. Most signs of its original dedication have been effaced by the camp, either by deliberate vandalism, or having been broken off for sale to collectors of Vudran antiquities on the Material Plane.
The smell of cooking food fills the air, and the poorly vented fire, burning in the shrine’s southwest corner, leaves a smoky haze in the room. Everywhere there are signs of a hurried collection of artifacts—the walls are covered in an elaborate relief sculpture, its surface marred with deep gouges where parts of its face were haphazardly carved from the larger whole, and a number of niches in the wall now lie empty, their icons and relics absent. The fire consumes a huge sheaf of palm-frond pages, upon which Vudran calligraphy may be discerned as the flames devour it.
Rescuing the pages is not done without a little sacrifice, and Kilian suffers minor burns as the price.
As he finishes patting out the flames, darkness descends upon him once again.
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Things were beginning to look a little dire in Maddie's eyes, with two of her compatriots seriously wounded and two unaccounted for in the darkness, not to mention the two enemies directly threatening those remaining. She grasps her holy symbol momentarily, but instead opts to use her healing wand on Ruford, who was barely still standing.
Hildr spins and hacks Garinol with her axe. Skell slashes at Ruford, but misses badly.
Outside the temple Garinol lands a solid hit to Hildr's arm. She grunts, but seems to let her rage override most of the pain.
Inside Kilian makes his way back through the darkness. He hears a grunt and something thuds against his breastplate, but doesn't penetrate. As he turns the corner he finds light again and moves towards the entrance, but the darkness follows and envelopes him and another jab bounces off his armored back.