As some of you try to regroup outside the room, you notice the shadow stays inside and doesn't pursue. Roguk bares his fangs and beats its massive chest, trying to protect Essa from the horrible dark unnatural thing.
Tane finishes to smother the fire, and Enev is waiting for an opportunity to strike the shadow
Essa will wait until she can breathe. Then she will ready for battle once again.
"Selene I have healing scrolls if you wish to use your curative magic to harm the undead."
Takeshi looks around, confused. He drops his arrow, fumbling while he is trying to slide his backpack to the ground and look for something inside.
Enev will try to retreat outside the room, with his stomach trying to get outside, his lungs, eyes and throat on fire he is not much of help in there.
"Geg..*cough*..oug...hi...de"
Tane burns himself on whatever is in the fire and lets out a yelp between coughs.
Now that the fire is out, Tane uses blanket to scoop up the metal object and withdraw from the room. Once out of the room he drops whatever the object is, the blanket, and collapses to the floor in a coughing fit.
Sick to his stomach he says, "There was. Something in the. Fire"
He puts his hand to his mouth as if somehow it will prevent him from wretching. He coughs some more and shakes his burned hand. He groans in pain.
"Pits. Undead. Smoke. Fire. Feeling really. Heroic."
Cough, cough, cough.
"What is. THAT THING?! I think it. Tried to eat. ME."
You all manage to get out of the room, but Tane must dodge the shadow's first....
Still clutching the small blade in his burned hand, the fighter manages to feint the undead, perhaps because it was distracted by something
Tane is in fact holding a beautiful dagger, with a sharpened blade
Mayla coughed getting the smoke out of her lungs. "We should leave *cough* alone until we are prepared for it."
Looking up at each of them and then stares past them at the smoke filtering out of the room. The glint of the blade caught her eye and would look at it for a moment then watched to make sure the strange creature.
"Anyone know what it was?"
"It was a shadow, can't hurt *cough*, agh, via physical means. We need magic I think." Enev responds to Malya then takes a few deep breathes trying to insert more oxigen to his lungs.
Now that you are no more attacked by the undead creature, you have some time to think.
As far as Malya knows, and from what Enev recalls, shadows are in fact immune to all nonmagical attack forms, as they are incorporeal. And even magical weapons or spells don't hurt them as much as they should.
As Undead, they are immune to anything that hampers a normal body (like disease,poison, sleep and stun effect) or twist the mind (charms or morale effect).
Takeshi pulls out a violin from his backpack, and holds it close to his ear.. He listens, and then nods and starts playing it.
The song is extremely sad, but his face lights up incredibly as the strings produce their sound.
"Im sure with our magic Essa, Malya, and I can handle the thing, but we need to to be able to see. We can come back later or wait until the smoke has cleared. Selene suggested.
"That seems like a good idea. I think I will be coughing up black gunk for days."
"I will cast shillelagh which will make my club magic, and maybe allow me to hit it. I think its shadowy-ness will still probably be troublesome. I can also enchant Roguk's claws to strike at it, as well as cast faerie fire on it to prevent it from blending into the shadows so well. I don't have anything that can help with its lack of body. Hopefully we get lucky."
As Takeshi's beautifully sad music fades away, you realise you have more or less lost track of time.
Tane listens to everyone speak and nods. He stands and tries to brush off the smoke with no avail. "What can I do?"
He looks down at the dagger in his hands and asks the group, "I found this in the fire? Who throws perfectly good daggers into the fire anyway? Maybe it is a special dagger to use against the, uhm, what did you call it? Shadow thing?
Tane studies the dagger, turning it over in his hands.
"It's too scorched by the fire I suppose."
To Tane's surprise, the dagger seems quite undamaged by the fire.
He has no particular idea about how much it could be sold, but it's a beautiful and sharp dagger.
Tane rubs his eyes. "Oh, wait. Or it's not damaged by the fire ... How is that possible?
Tane oohhs as he continues to inspect his precious blade.
Mayla would cough up the last of the smoke and listens to Takeshi play. It was a beautiful haunting song and it drew her away from everything for a little bit.
Shaking her head once it was done she would look at Selene and Essa. "I only have a scroll, and one burning hands. My other spell is worthless in our current situation. My Lotus Shield should help us thought and taking a defensive stance to keep it from touching us. We may have to wait until tomorrow."
Shifting slightly she would look over at the blade. "That's a pretty blade." Moving over she would notice its not damaged by the fire.
"I couldn't tell you how much it is worth but, let me check to see if it has magic on it."
She would cast detect magic on it. If anything she would want to keep it because it looked nice.
Tane holds out the blade so Malya can work some fancy stuff on it, completely oblivious to how magic works.
He adds, "It's clearly full of lots of magic Malya. See how it was scorched by the flames, I think it's full of, uhm, you know, magic stuff."
Tane nods, satisfied with his answer.
"This blade is magical actually. Enhanced for better balance and sharpness. It makes hitting with it easier and it will bite into enemies causing a bit more damage." She told Tane. Her eyes wonder and she sees Takeshi's violin.
"Takashi can you hold perfectly still and hold your violin in place?'
IF he does so she will examine it without touching it to respect Takashi. "It has a beautiful magical aura on it that flows."
Tane nods along with Malya, "Oh, right. Balance and Sharpness. I just knew it was magical all along!"
He holds it up and looks between everyone, "So how does one use a magic dagger? I've never had the opportunity to use one. You probably speak to, right?"
Tane cradles the dagger gently in his hands and speaks calmly to it, "Hello magical dagger, I am called Tane. Show me how to use your balance and sharpness for the uh, the uh, the greater good and we shall work well together."
"Oh! Did you see that Tane? I think you got it working." Selene says laughingly.
Essa grins because Selene was laughing, but what Tane did seemed perfectly reasonable to her, she just didn't want to admit it openly.
"Tane, I think you will be a great help against the shadow."
"Euh.. Sure," Takeshi says as he holds out the violin and casts detect magic onto it aswell. His eyes light up from the spell, but there is something else. He seems to be counting, silently, up to four, several times.
Then a bard, and bard only, can use the violin for a Bardic performance and affect the unliving (Fascinate and Distraction for Takeshi so far), even if they usually are unaffected by mind affecting spells or abilities
Tane perks up at the comments from Essa and Selene. A huge boyish grin stretches ear to ear.
I did it! Ha!
Tane looks down at the dagger and asks, "Do you mind if I call you Shadow Slayer?"
After a moment of silence Tane nods, "Alright! Let's go kick this shadows butt. Err. Does a shadow have a butt? Whatever, you know what I mean. I'm going to use Shadow Slayer here to help teach him a lesson. Are we ready?"
"If you guys want I can help distracting and defending against the shadow" Enev suggest and presents his shield and sword ready for combat.
Mayla would study the Violin. "Takashi, your violin allows you to use your bardic magic on the undead. Not only that You can use it to create imaginary sounds at will."
Looking at the others. "My magic covers an area. So you will need to be out of it."
It may be hard to keep an eye on it since there is a little corridor to the room, but Essa will cast two spells immediately before entering the room to maximize duration. Magic Fang on Roguk from a scroll, and then Shillelagh on her club right after, and then we charge in. She will then cast faerie fire on the shadow when entering.
"It doesn't seem to want to leave the room, is it possible we can take advantage of that? Do you think we can lure it to the furthest it will move within the room and attack it somehow from safety from the hallway perhaps? If it can move through walls, it would have attacked Roldare by now, so maybe it is bound in some way to the chamber. We could test it by running in and seeing if it comes towards us and then running back out and seeing what it does."
Tane slaps Enev on the back. "You're fast buddy, how about you run in and get it to follow you? We'll be right behind you."
Enev will go in when everybody is ready and put himself in total defense.
Mayla looks at the others. "Why don't we let Takeshi try to distract it. The violin lets him do so. I think it would be the smart way. Let him hold its attention while we all get in position around it?'
Selene casts cure light wounds and readies to use it on the shadow, giving a nod to everyone that she is ready.
When you come back intot the room, the air is clear again, and you notice a chimney up above the ceiling. But the shadow is well hidden...
Suddenly, it comes out of the floor and dashes to Selene, while Takeshi fumbles with his violin's bow...
Enev will try to get the attention of the shadow, moving his sword and making noise with his shield.
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Is it really he sound of the noise of the sword clanging on Enev's shield, or is the shadow hungry for the holy warrior's strenght? Maybe she finds him a worthy foe, or she mistakes him for an easy, diminutive snack...
No one will probably know, but the shadow's attention is focused on the paladin.
Tane moves in and slashes at the shadow creature with Shadow Slayer.
"Did I hit it?!
Takeshi plays the violin, its eerie sound reflecting across the walls.
Selene rushes to the shadow attack... but unfortunatly misses it, wasting her spell.
The shadow didn't even notice the failed attack, and try to drain Enev's strenght
But the quick halfling escapes the undead touch.
Takeshi starts playing his violin
The shadow stands still
Selene casts her curing spell again, and tries to touch the shadow
There's only silence, but deep in your souls you hear the unholy creature screaming in pain... And just after Selene, Tane slashes the shadow with his magical dagger
Enev will keep distracting the shadow,
"Hey! Here!" He yells at it while swinging his sword.
This time, the fading shadow doesnt buy Enev's attempt to distract it.
Enraged at Tane's attack, the shadow tries to engulf him
The warrior muscles tetanize as the cold touch of the shadow partially destroy their vigor