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[heavenlyfeeling.livejournal.com]

[If you're wandering around at night for whatever reason, you might feel a chill run down your spine as everything suddenly feels darker than usual around you.

Down the corridor in the distance is a strange... Shadow. No other word can really describe it. Is this just some sort of Halloween prank? Or is it something more sinister?]

((OOC: A few people have already plotted ahead how this will go, but feel free to have any of your wayward characters spot this thing. But keep in mind, directly confronting it will go very badly at this stage. Flight is recommended.))

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[redroosterinn.livejournal.com]

[When Fallos comes across that thing, there's no hesitation. He knows what he's dealing with by look, feel, and aura.

Chaos.

He instantly throws one hand out, mumbling arcane formulae, and a stream of white-hot flames leaps towards the shadow.]

[heavenlyfeeling.livejournal.com]

[The flames hit their mark... ravaging at the creature, clearly stopping it in its tracks.

But unfortunately for Fallos... the effect is probably less than what was desired, as the flames eventually begin to die down.

And whatever damage was done is quickly undone as the wounds regenerate... and black shadowy tendrils come firing straight back at him, trying to grab him and pull him in.]

[redroosterinn.livejournal.com]

[Oh hell that looks bad. Fallos staggers back, but not fast enough to get out of their range.

Instead, he's going to surround himself in a crackling sphere of electric bolts to try and keep them at bay.]

[heavenlyfeeling.livejournal.com]

[The electricity has the desired affect... although of instead of completely repulsing the tendrils, they just recoil before repeatedly trying to break through.

Whatever this creature is, it seems to care little about pain or self preservation. Even as each attempt to break through the sphere fails, it continues to batter away again and again.]

[redroosterinn.livejournal.com]

[All right, this seems to be working well enough. If it burns, it can die.

Fallos alternates fire bolts to the body and lightning balls to protect himself as fast as he can put the spells together. Which will hold out longer - his power, or the monster's endurance?]

[heavenlyfeeling.livejournal.com]

[While the fire bolts do find their mark... the creature's strange regeneration just seems to kick in faster and faster each time, perhaps adapting to the pain in some sick way.

And as it grows more irate... Fallos may want to move, as the Shadow begins to stretch along the ground... hoping to pull him down into the darkness from below.]

[redroosterinn.livejournal.com]

[Shit, this isn't working. He doesn't like the situation anymore - doesn't know what it's capable of or how to counter it.

So instead of attacking further, Fallos lets go of his teleport control, vanishing off in a random direction.]

[heavenlyfeeling.livejournal.com]

[It's prey gone, the Shadow simply... sinks into the darkness, its presence vanishing as quickly as it had appeared.

Off to find a different meal.]