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

[i]"You know, I can smell you from here, and it isn't much of a pleasant aroma from where I'm standing!"[/i]

The burly shadow's axe held high, the wielder stepping into to meet the mysterious warrior in the doorway, Cesar's quick thinking and cutting magical words caused the attacker to pull his attack and whip about to look at the sword-bearing bard. Furious, it looked over its dark, unarmored shoulders - like the empty void - back to the target of its attack, then again to Cesar. So enraged was it, without even a word or expression on its featureless face, that it only could react by sudden jerky movements and violent shuddering. It surely was howling like a madman, but that cry of wrath was bottled up within it; it had missed with an attack that might have outright killed a lesser man. Valmjr, who was surely capable of weathering it, was only better graced now by never being struck in the first place.

Miraculously, all at the same time as this came to pass, the armored figures set about their assault on the heroes who divided them; each lashed out with a sword at the smiting paladin of Thea, the elegant Katia or the noble Haemar... but to no avail. Without their partners in battle, they seemed far, far more feeble than they had before. In fact, the Heroes of the Kingdom of Light had done so much to destroy their attempted ambushed on the [i]Hall[/i] that they might well have won the battle, even now. But fate was fickle, one victory here was not success throughout.

They might have gained an ally, but how many more enemies were to come?

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The [i]Shadow Soldiers[/i] maneuver into combat, each launching an attack against Katia, Thea, and Haemar respectively, but none of their blows come to land. Thanks to Cesar's [i]Vicious Mockery[/i], Valmjr avoids the [i]Night Fury[/i]'s axe which otherwise would have scored a mighty hit.

[b]Score[/b]
[url=https://youtu.be/NQ5S8vs2n0U?t=54s]A Fellow Hero[/url]

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

[b]Initiative Order[/b][list]
[*] [i]Haemar (19)[/i]
[*] [i]Thea (19)[/i]
[*] Katia (16)
[*] Theodore (16)
[*] [i]Birbin (13)[/i]
[*] Cesar (12)
[*] [i]Shadows (10)[/i]
[*] [i]Night Fury (10)[/i]
[*] Wick (5)
[*] Valmjr (4)
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