The Story

Borda, another solid hit! This time the wolf really cries out as you sunder its armor even further.

Jotna, you look down the stairs and see pure darkness. If there is anything there, you might have to find it without your vision. How do you solve that problem?

Elma, desperately you plunge your dagger into the wolf's eye. Black blood starts to drip from the socket onto your clothing. As it hits your vest, you hear a sizzling noise. It seems that whatever is dripping down from that eye is extremely corrosive. You try to scramble away from it as Merkari comes in with an attack.Merkari, this time your your flail hits home. Or in this case hits wolf. Together with Borda's attacks that removed all of its armor, you strike to great effect. The wolf is knocked to the side, now no longer pinning down Elma.

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The wolf looks quite hurt. It's limping, missing an eye and bleeding from multiple areas. But that doesn't seem to make it give up just yet. "You think that's all I got?" It growls at you. Something in the room changes. A feeling of darkness even though the amount of light inside has not changed. It tries to smother your hearts and minds.

Those who have seen the dark tendrils notice that they are getting thicker. The wolf is dragging more energy out of the black pits and some of the wounds it has vanish before your eyes.

Then it chooses a new target.

Thinking that it's spotted a weakness, the wolf launches itself towards Jotna this time. It decides to use both its jaws and its tail for a quick kill. "You shouldn't have turned your back to me, lizard!"

While Jotna searches in complete darkness, to no avail, up stairs the fight is still raging on.

Elma may not have noticed yet, but the black blood did a number on her armor. She'll have no help from it until it's been repaired. Yet her sling hits the wolf dead, hitting it right in the head. The wolf stumbles for a moment as if dizzy.

The wolf shakes off its daze and attacks the nearest target, which is Merkari. Its tail once again coils back into striking position. Even though it's bleeding form multiple wounds now, it doesn't appear to mind it much. At least not mentally but you do notice its movements have slowed a bit from the physical damage.

Elma spots the dark tendrils going down the 2 sets of stairs on either side of the room. One of which Jotna has already gone down.

Merkari and Borda are unlucky in their attacks. They are either off the mark or the wolf is quick enough to move out of the way. It realizes that Merkari's armor will be difficult to get through, so instead it leaps at Borda for a bite attack. Its tail shoots out rapidly and tries to pierce Elma's skin.

Then once again, the dark tendrils get stronger and appear to reduce its wounds. It says "Even Malista herself could not banish me from this place. What makes you think you can?"

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Jotna It took you a few tries, but you manage to zero in on the source of the dark tendrils inside the dark pit. You touch it with your tongue and are able to create a crude mental image of what it is. It feels like a ring of some kind. Made of metal with a gemstone inlay on top.What do you all do?