[color=gray][center]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[/center][table][row][/row][row][cell] [img]https://i.imgur.com/pxm2CES.png[/img] [color=1dd09e][i][b]Location[/b] [color=bdbdbd]⋗[/color] [/i][/color] The Patch. [color=1dd09e][i][b]Interactions[/b] [color=bdbdbd]⋗[/color] [/i][/color] McDonald [@Bartimaeus] | Simon[color=1dd09e][b](Safeguarded)[/b][/color][@Prosaic] | Manon [@PatientBean] | Phalko [@CasLink] [color=1dd09e][i][b]School of Magic[/b] [color=bdbdbd]⋗[/color] [/i][/color] Abjuration & Evocation [color=1dd09e][i][b]Items[/b] [color=bdbdbd]⋗[/color] [/i][/color] ??? [img]https://i.imgur.com/H3jjf4N.png[/img][/cell][cell] [right] [color=2c2e2e]_[/color] [img]https://i.imgur.com/Trq6Yvv.png[/img] [/right] [/cell][/row][/table][center]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[/center][/color] [indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent] [color=dimgray] Fan-fucking-tastic. A zombie dog looking for a snack on someone's mortal coil. Stormy could feel the pressing of necromancy against the barriers. It was like water crashing against the hull of a ship, pressing it inwards only to wash away in the drowning power of Abjuration. The black chain-like patterns across the barriers rumbled with the impact in the sense a piece of sheet metal might react when struck with a hammer, but it wasn't until the beast slammed against them that Stormy could feel just how much of a life span the shields would have left. When the Shuck crashed against one of the shields, it flexed and let out a metallic whine, as if a church bell had rung submerged underwater. The sound echoed through the dead silent forest, and the others accompanying Stormy might have felt the ground jolt slight from the impact. When it made a [i]second[/i] leap against the shield, the sound was much sharper, and something broke away; A splinter of the glowing shield was knocked loose and fell to the ground with a flicker, disintegrating like glass into nothingness. There was now a jagged hole in part of a shield... A hole that its gaze could potentially pass through unfiltered if it was smart enough to realize. [color=1dd09e]"Necromancy. Okay. Those shields aren't holding much longer- We need to get out of here. It's trying to drain us with that stare, I can feel it trying to get past the shields, and if it keeps breaking them, we're in trouble."[/color] Stormy looked over and saw that one of them was on crutches. [i]Fuck.[/i] [color=1dd09e]"Simon, here-"[/color] Stormy shuffled over towards Simon and touched him on the shoulder, causing a seafoam-green light to spread across him, eventually covering his whole body. He glowed in the night like a campfire. Simon might feel whatever necromantic energy he was being exposed to recede once the shell of magic covered him. [color=1dd09e]"You can't run on those, and it might try to go after you first. This'll keep you from getting frozen by it, but I can't do this for everyone. I'm going to slow it down, but Zhalia's right. We need to [i]move.[/i] Let's go."[/color] Stormy turned and started to leave, trying to move just slow enough that Simon, however fast he [i]could[/i] move, wouldn't be left behind. As long as the Black Shuck didn't break out too soon and sink its teeth into Simon, he was relatively safe from its gaze. The barriers would hold for up to ten minutes without damage once Stormy stopped concentrating on them, which was right now. [/color] [/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent]