Rokugan in the Shadows Ch 1: Gathering Dark

[~Corvus~]

Jade's attack, and indeed, the attacks from Kyorlin and Yrashnal all cleave away pieces of the shadow. They fall away and what part the draegloth and the elemental had touched burn away before they hit the ground; however, the rest of the spikes remains on the ground. The shadow lurches forward, and reduced to only a few strands on this ship, it shimmers in blackness and foes that you had faced are no more. A pause, perhaps a longer pause than comfortable, lingers before the shadows lash out and this time only in fine lines.

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Attack: (1d20+14)[34] vs. soldier
damage: (2d12)[9] x3 = 27 -> Dead

Attack: (1d20+14)[20] vs. Jade -> miss
damage: (2d12)[16]

Attack: (1d20+14)[24] vs. soldier
damage: (2d12)[7] -> damage

Attack: (1d20+14)[28] vs. Kyorlin
damage: (2d12)[14]

Attack: (1d20+14)[33] vs. Yrashnal
damage: (2d12)[14]

Attack: (1d20+14)[17] vs. soldier -> miss but -1 AC
damage: (2d12)[5]

Attack: (1d20+14)[17] vs. soldier -> miss but -1 AC
damage: (2d12)[9]

Attack: (1d20+14)[17] vs. soldier -> miss but -1 AC
damage: (2d12)[10]

Attack: (1d20+14)[34] vs. Incarnum-man
damage: (2d12)[6] x3 = 18

One soldier drops, impaled through the eyes, and although one takes a hit in the side several others manage to deflect the darkness as if they'd been mere spears. Their armor and weapons, however, bear the damage regardless of the miss. Jade, meanwhile, seems to have missed the darkness, which instead hits the (recently detached) piece of shadow she'd detached from its main area. Jade surges forward, again becoming a wave and attempts to push the darkness back. It recedes at her touch, and soon another portion of the barge, covered in what seems to be her acid, does not yield itself to the shadow's approach.

Only a small portion or darkness holds itself on the ship, close to Yrashnal and Kyorlin, and another bit near the Incarnum-wielder. It lashes out again, this time spearing the incarnum-wielding man in the shoulder along with a few more guards. The guards fall but the man swipes with his azure claws and spectral arms and detaches some shadow from its form.