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Shades, please put your father's urn in a safe place (the pit room, perhaps?).

Technically, I survived that encounter because I still exist. May I level up?

The shades can't manpulate physical elements becaus they are immaterial. Also, have a bit of roleplay.


The amorphous masses of the three shades cluttered the vent, bending awkwardly due to the lack of space. Clearly, they hadn't planned this too much. But even something as unnatural as a shade had an instinct for survival, and the retreat had been a poorly planned, yet effective one.

"Are we safe?"

"The noises are over. That means yes."

"Or everyone is dead, mind you. Like, actually dead, for good."

"Then the master... it means that we are going to dissipate?"

"Yes, once the phylactery is destroyed."

"I don't want to die! I just... don't."

Those who could have seen the situation would have observed a pair of green orbs, a pair of eyes, shaking inside the vent. It was really uncomfortable for the other shades, for that ghost physics worked more or less like normal physics, and two bodies could not occupy the same space. And this resulted in an agitated shade shaking with fear and a pair of annoyed shades.

"You know what? I'd rather die than spend another minute inside here. See you in the void, suckers!"

And with that, a thin filament of an ethereal matter slipped through the small entrance to the vent, towards the Hoard. A pair of glowing red eyes followed it, and stopped after seeing the relaxed trio of gnomes carrying some loot from place to place.

The red-eyed shade sighed from the inside, but didn't tell the others about anything. Let them figure that everything had ended on their own.

A couple minutes elapsed and the other two shades were still, waiting inside the vent. The green eyed finally spoke, its ethereal voice filled with anxiety.

"It is not back. Oh, is it dead? Are we only two now?"

"Maybe, we are not sure. And I think Red had a point. I'd rather spend my last moments outside this vent. Care to follow me?"

The other one hesitantly followed. They slipped through the entrance, and arrived to a ship that was not dead, at all. And neither living, fortunately.

"Yet our master is still dead." The blue-eyed shade said, as its glowing eyes narrowed.

"This means we are free!" The green-eyed one became thinner and higher, and seemed to almost bounce with glee.

But the scene was interrupted as the red-eyed shade approached from afar.

"Enjoy your freedom while it lasts, because our master will be back, and we will be slaves again."

And they realized that slavering was going to be their whole unlife.

Wood and trees!

Gentlemen, considering how this just became a multiplayer game, I'd suggest to make plans via PMs.

The shade team runs out of the room and quickly shadow-hops to Vent 2

((Oh, I see. I thought that all the shades had shadow hop as per the Lich ability description. My bad. Will later post the action, once boss moves.))

Can I play as the shade team for this encounter?

Turn 141

((Ohhhh nuts, I should've seen that coming.))

((Oh I see, I missed a crucial spell word, whups.))

"AGH! SHIT! NOT MEANT TO HAPPEN!"

"GET IT OFF!"

Grab the man and say, "Orqua Ternte!

You grab the tiny man, who begins to scream in panic, the high pitched metallic voice is difficult to cope with, but you still cast a spell:

[Pot:2]

Unfortunatelly, it doens't work. The creature is still screaming, with the worst kind of panic that could exist; the one that comes from having no idea what the hell is going on.

The scene, though, is quite funny, you hear some laugh coming from Endlessblaze nearby. But it suddenly stops when he shudders, likely from a sudden chill or premonition of some kind. Hmm.

+1 Pot.
I need you not to see this

You attempt something:

[Pot:4+1=5]
A golden line suddenly appears in fornt of you, just as you were expecting. It then begins to draw, just as usual. It seems to be a mitten. Wait, no, two mittens. Three? No, it keeps drawing many of them all joined to each other, until a greater picture comes into play: a humnoid torso, made of mittens. It hovers without moving for a brief time, then disappears. Damn, that was odd.

PM

PM

[Robert spd:6+1=7]
[Lemon spd:3-2-1=0]

Robert attempts to heal the poor sod he hurt terribly bad without intention. He hopes that this works this time:

[Robert pot:4+1=5]

[Robert dex:1+2=3]
[Lemon dex:3-2-1=0]  ((Had to trat this as a combat action, because Illgeo didn0t specify if he wanted to resist this or not.))

[Lemon will:1]

Lemon was not expecting this again. The tribal fiend stared at him, and Lemon glowed brightly, the magic overcoming quickly his futile attempt at resisting it. With a flash of light, it suddenly materialized into a rhinoceros made of a semi-transparent golden substance, that appears to repel everything around it. Still, it is not as imposing as one would expect, as it is far smaller than an actual rhino, even smaller than a man. Must be due to the lack of mass with those two missing legs. Your flesh dagger slips to the grond as you find yourself unable to carry it around.


The force Rhino is grateful to find that, after being reshaped, he is not bleeding anymore! He then ponders about what to do, realizing that maybe what he had in mind was not the most convenient thing.

Hmm,
ALTERNATE ACTION!
Take shelter behind my shield, and use my WILL POWARS to try and embed my rapier into the beast, as deeply as possible (hopefully so it won't immediately tear out, but given the grippy and reach-y nature of tentacles...)

(("As deeply as possible" here means "fingers crossed for good rolls!" ))

[Bigf01t spd:5-1=4]
[Hydra spd:2]

Bigf01t tries an alternative method to get rid of that monster: throwing your weapon. It typically is a desperate measure, but who knows, maybe the Phantom Swordsman has a secret trick to it. Or maybe he is just a desperate fool. Let's look at how it goes:

[Bigf01t will:4]

[Bigf01t dex:6+1=7]
[Hydra dex:6]

He launches the rapier, then directs it with his will towards the fiend, scoring a grazing hit, one that still allows the souls of the damned to gnaw yet again at that monster's soul.

[Hydra will:2]

And it seems that it suffered a lot because of that. Hmm. The rapier lays on the platform somewhat near, but not near enough for Bigf01t to reach it without effort.

The Hydra, though, is angry, and now one can discern its emotions due to the humanoid head, which is expressively shouting in a deep, fear-inducing voice, tainted with metal screeches from time to time. Speaking of the head, its non-fleshy nature allows it to bypass the flesh-repelling aura, and so the creature is attempting to bash Bigf01t with it!

[Hydra dex:5-1=4]
[Bigf01t dex:5]

But fortunately the metal is too heavy to be properly swun by a sinewy tentacle, and the Phantom Swordsman manages to evade the strike. Heh, maybe Bigf01t was desperate, but this thing resorted to headbutting him. The fight becomes more desperate, as each foe tries to finally finish his opponent.

NO ACTION

NO ACTION

You both get a chill running down your spines. This is no good omen.

Character sheets

+1 to Tryrar's plan.

Also, that Labor management office is going to be relly useful, it should be a priority ot install one of these once we seal at elast one small cave.

Also, what happened to the purple spot?