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

The shadowy fiend, at first squaring itself off against the heroic paladin and ready to strike her down following the brutal assault she weathered, turned about to face the mage who cast some sort of curse upon it. Immediately after, before it could so much as react, it was blasted with a bolt of ethereal energy. While it had braced for impact, being far from out of the fight, Wick's efforts had at least diverted its attention now to her and the sword-bearing bard. Turning its sword about in its hand, it readied to square itself off against the seafarer - unaware that it had stood better odds before, attempting to harry the already injured Thea.

Flinging both hands out from his chest, Birbin too cast a spell, although one of radically different flavor and power. A cone of brilliant light swirled forth and enraptured the two shadows in its path, leaving their outlines glinting in rainbow radiance and their bodies incoherently staggering about. A bit late to have offset the injury the woman suffered from the greater of the two's attack, but now her revenge was all but guaranteed. The lesser servant of darkness, the same size of the gnome, stood almost mesmerized by the light, perhaps now totally unaware of its foes.

Not one to be left out of the magical fray, the wizard - in one swift motion - set himself forth with a blade of deadly ice between his fingers. With elven grace, he cast out the shard, only to have it accidentally split into two during its flight and impact the midnight foes to the left and the right of his target. For a moment the man blinked in disbelief, free hand still rest upon the hilt of his elegant sword before he nodded; fate had guided his strike, even if it was clear it wasn't meant to have gone that way. The Light saw him through in it and, with a turn upon his heel, he drew his weapon and challenged the foe beside Cesar; the two swordsmen now bearing down on one enemy.

"I assume you can handle a one on one fight?" Haemar inquired almost tauntingly, gesturing with his sword to the enemy between them and the paladin, only to then calmly look back at the last rogue uncontrolled.

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Wick's [i]Eldritch Blast[/i] strikes the [i]Shadow Soldier[/i] and briefly engulfs it in magical energy, aided by the [i]Hex[/i] spell. Birbin's burst of rainbow light weaves around the [i]Night Fury[/i] and the [i]Shadow[/i] just behind, blinding them both; all attacks made against the two are at advantage and their attacks are at disadvantage until Birbin's next turn.

Haemar conjures an [i]Ice Knife[/i] and flings it at the distant [i]Shadows[/i] to try to ward them off. His initial attack misses, but the ensuing explosion of icy shards defeats two [i]Shadows[/i], oddly missing his actual target.

[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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