[i][h3]The Vale[/h3][b]The Town,[/b]
[b]Currently[/b][/I]

A whistling bolt was sent flying dangerously close to the marauders, so close that it grazed the sizable looking axe wielder upon its shoulder. Had fate been ever so slightly different, it would have undoubtedly planted itself deep within the inky "flesh" of the dark being and brought upon it well deserved wrath. Owing to this, and being so keen of eye, the hunter of dark beasts who had made the shot could notice the intense, almost spiteful gaze of the quarry; its eyes, nothing but glowing orbs of violet light, were fixated upon the paladin in a way that suggested terrible menace. Theodore knew then, for certain and beyond a doubt, that the sizable and minimally armored shadow was dead set upon assaulting Thea. If the black, wisping axe it carried was any indication, the man knew too that such a sustained assault would not end well for her, especially not as the two other armored figures set in against her, shields at the ready.

In the meanwhile, a small dusky figure, no larger than a halfling albeit very thin in build, dodged as gracefully as it could the lightning fast strikes of the feline monk. First the staff then a fist, but Katia was unquestionably faster; the second hand landed a square blow and in a breath, the tiny shadow up and dispersed. Racing across the roof with hardly a sound upon light feet, she saw what transpired below.

The two figures that accompanied the other shadows, these ones armed and armored with shields, moved in on the other woman below. The first stepped wide around her, paying the bard but a few feet away no mind for the moment and drove its sword at her side; it landed, if only because the other black being rushed forward at the same time, striking out and missing. They then positioned themselves, shields set to block at moment's notice, setting up an obvious trap.

Fortunately for the heroes, the enemies were not particularly wise, let alone intelligent. One exposed itself to another swordsman and the other interrupted the far more dangerous seeming axe wielding being.

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The bolt fired by Theodore grazes the axe wielding and burly shadow, narrowly missing it. It seems not to react to the attack with any semblance of pain or injury just as the others before did not. Meanwhile, the [i]Shadow[/i] beside Katia swipes in revenge between dodging, narrowly missed by her attacks only to then be struck by her last one; it vanishes in a cloud of ebon smoke, defeated. She is now 10ft higher on a wooden rooftop.

The two [i]Shadow Soldiers[/i] will attack Thea, the latter moving in and past Birbin to aid in the assault. The first will succeed in its strike as the paladin confronts another enemy, grazing off her side but mostly deflected by her armor; she takes 3 points of piercing damage. The second soldier attacks as well, but fails to find purchase against her. They begin to tactically position themselves, preparing for an obvious flank.

[b]Score[/b]
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieoKLL-6zjA]To Battle[/url]

[b]Map[/b]
[url=https://www.myth-weavers.com/map.html#id=4370]Town[/url]

[b]Initiative Order[/b][list][*] Theodore (19)
[*] Katia (16)
[*] [i]Shadow Soldiers (15)[/i]
[*] Thea (14)
[*] [i]Night Fury (13)[/i]
[*] Wick (9)
[*] [i]Birbin (9)[/i]
[*] Haemar (8)
[*] Cesar (4)
[*] [i]Shadows (4)[/i]
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