[b]Kat:[/b]

If I was still with Tsefahn, I wouldn't have hesitated pulling out my gun and blasting apart these jumped up shadow puppets, but since I've been scrounging for everything on my own, I've found it much harder to get the same supply of ammo as I had before. 

So I had to stick with chopping up these annoying shades with my ineffective blade.

I prefer fighting people or beasts. Something with [i]meat[/i]. Something I could grapple with, drag down, and then stab in the guts, gushing it's blood everywhere. Oh, how I [i]love[/i] that. 

But instead, I had to deal with this. And, most frustratingly, be kept away from the beckoning Cache. 

Slicing open one Shadow Grapher, I smack it down with the flat of my blade, making it collapse to the ground. With a focused exhalation, I smash my boot down onto the fallen Shadow, dissolving it into a puddle of dark. No way it could come back from that.

With my free hand, I grab the arm of one of the approaching Shadow Graphers; making sure I don't break the arm apart, and then fling into the air, propelling it away from the center of conflict. I don't even track it's flight as I turn back to the fight.

I hear Lazarus yip panickedly and let out emotions of fear. 

Forgetting all about the Shadow Grapher I had been cutting apart, I turn towards him and the Shoggoth.

The Shoggoth was much more clever than I had originally given it credit for- it had started to overwhelm Lazarus, and the poor mutt didn't know what to do, as it tried to pull free from the creature while more of him was being overwhelmed by the Shoggoth.

"Laz, rush forwards!"

Letting out a barely audible snarl, the large dog lunged forwards, forcing the Shoggoth to wrap itself out and around the dog. 

Sheathing my knife in a practiced motion, I drop my head and begin sprinting towards the Shoggoth, barreling through any Shadow Grapher's that get in my path.

With a "Hup!" I leap into the air and shift my shoulders, ramming full on with my backpacks weight. 

At the same time of my impact, on command of Laz, he rushes forwards as well, straining the Shoggoth's grip on him.

Hopefully, these two pressures would blast the Shoggoth apart. The shadows will likely reform, but it'll take a little bit to get this big again.