Bingo buffs his allies as they struggle with the silent death before them. Bejis manages to carve a chucnk out of nothing while bloodless struggles to help without becoming a victim of their life stealing touch himself.
Awaiting Teo's action before moving on.
Frankly, I think you guy should back off and regroup. I'm fairly sure unless you've got soem fancy footwork going Aerieth is dead. Followed by one or two others very shortly.
Keep in mind you haven't been in here very long and the manor is currently a sweaty drug infused orgy.
The exit is north btw.
The shadows shift and mve seeking their favored prey. Aerieth manages to dodge cold unfeeling death once more as bloodless soon starts to become strengthless (3 str damage).
GROUP IS UP!
RUN AWAY! The gnome yells in a high pitched and very feminine sounding scream while pointing to the north.
Teo hands off the potion to Aerieth, and then immediately heads north, ready to get out of this place and regroup.
Not having many options, Aerieth takes the potion from Teo and then 5-foot steps back to P61 where she quaffs the potion hoping against hope that she potion works.
Bloodless looks rather disappointed at the defeat and follows on the retreat...
Bejis feels the urge to take a parting shot before he falls back.
Bejis is ready to back into the hallway , looking to cover his allies in case they are pursued.
Will post when I get more time tomorrow.
As aerieth downs the potion there is a moment of panic as the group flees the room leaving her trapped between a trip into deeper darkness and the shadow. But the shadow wavers for a moment and the two remaining shadows lookat the running group and as they pass the boundaries into the defunct library they quiver in place for a moment before fading into darkness leavin the elf alone.
Teo doesn't dare risk uttering a sound as the party had apparently made it out of the undead's clutches. She continued on into the entrance, and tried to step through and leave this scary dimension.
"So, we know where this place is and how to get here... but we know we need more tools to do the job. Do we escape the dimension, or the house too and then return?"
"So, we know where this place is and how to get here... but we know we need more tools to do the job. Do we escape the dimension, or the house too and then return?"
"I don't think we can survive on the streets. We'll have to search the house."
Bejis looks around at the group, trying to take stock. "I don't think we have enough to heal everyone."
Hoping that the shadows continue to be unable to see her, Aerieth carefully makes her way around the balcony to her companions and is nearly exhausted by the time she gets there due to the weight of her rapier and pack.
When she gets to the library she collapses to the ground.
I am sorry all, I could not avoid those shadows. Each time one of them hit me, it was as though more and more of my strength was simply drained away.
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Hearing Bejis and Bloodless' comments.
The house will undoubtedly be a drunken brothel for several more hours and then there will be a number of hours while it is being cleansed. We likely have sufficient time to rest for a while.
Um, yes well that was quite exciting at all, but lets not do that again. Oh dear Aerieth you look terrible ah, let me see what I can do to help Clucking to himself and trying to take his mind off the shadows horrors Bingo turns to healing his group the best that he can.
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[ooc]To Bingo:
Aerieth suddenly feels the warmth of Bingo's restorative magic. As the positive energy courses through her, you can see the unnatural draining lifted and replaced with exhaustion as she suddenly realizes that the group has been awake for many hours without a break.
With the color slowly returning to her pale elven face, she looks to the others.
I have some magical abilities, but they are limited. I can give us additional defenses or memorize some additional spells which will cause harm to the shadows.
Unfortunately, I think that we need to be prepared to hit them and hit them hard. Does anyone else have the ability to magic up Bloodless and Bejis's weapons? I do not have this ability unfortunately. As I said before, I have several vials of holy water which can be used to harm undead such as these.
"Then do one or two of us need to sneak out and return to town for supplies whilst the rest hole up out of sight, ready to let us back in again quietly through a window when we return? I volunteer to return quickly to town"
Um, when the Hellknights destroyed my printing press, I used the sewers to flee. We all know that the streets aren’t safe after dark. Is that what you were thinking Bloodless?
"I know the streets aren't safe, I slew a shadowbeast in single combat to prove my worth and stop the doubting tongues of the resistance, not that it mattered, seems all I did was fuel tavern tales of the Great White Hunter." Bloodless tries to bring some levity to the otherwise messy situation, "The sewers likewise are awash with Hellknoght blood, we know of em eh Bejis? But yes Bingo, your suggestion holds a great degree of wisdom and I wouldn't have remembered to choose them as an entry method"
"Aren't nobles fond of putting valuable objects up on walls as if they were some kind of art? Maybe there a magic weapon on display somewhere that we could borrow."
"No idea, I grew up in a humble home surrounded by humble homes"
Aerieth shakes her head at Bejis' inquiry: I cannot help you. I spent most of my life in the woods. Only the past few years have been spent in this poor excuse for civilization. And, I have not been one to be invited to noble houses.
Aerieth begins looking about: Not that we cannot search to see if there are any such weapons about.
Fiddling with his spectacles in though the tiny gnome pauses. I suppose it's possible. This is the mayors house after all. I could be worth looking into. Besides we won't get another chance like this again.