A blunt arrow and one of the holy arrows pierced through the lich's tattered robes and struck its bony form, the other one fizzling against the undead's<em>shield</em>of force. The cold blue light in its eye sockets flickered dangerously low like candles about to be blown out.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Perception DC 17</div><div class="spoiler_body">The lich is now down to 15 HP!<br/></div></div><br/><br/>However close it was to being down for the count, it wasn't quite there yet, so the lich shuffled a few steps behind an intact section of its<em>wall of ice</em>. It raised its staff, from which surged out a wave of necromantic energy, raising more of the dead interred in the crypt as undead!<br/><br/>The lids exploded off a pair of upright sarcophagi leaning against the columns close to Rayne and Sylvia, sending stone shrapnel over them. Even worse was the undead creature that emerged from each coffin, the bane of Rayne's existence straight out of her nightmares (or erotic dreams), the ghostlike figure of hazy blackness now in dwarf-size: the Shadow!<br/><br/><em>(Take 14 damage, Reflex save DC 18 for half damage)</em><br/><br/>Meanwhile Youmu was struggling with the enlarged and enraged skeletal dog for control of her katana. With a bite firmly on the blade it shook its head ferociously, tearing the weapon out of her hands, and with a final fling of its skull the katana was sent clattering against the other end of the chamber.<br/><br/>Sylvia looked at the lich, then at the much closer and more of an immediate threat Shadow, and made her decision. She sent another barrage at the lich's ice wall, taking down the second section that it was hiding behind. "Take down the boss and the minions will go down too! ...I hope!" Leaving herself open to the Shadow's cold and dangerous grasp like this, she was betting everything on her hunch (and on Rayne's aim)...<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Lich uses its staff!<br/>2 Shadows come out near Sylvia and Rayne! Sylvia fails save, takes 14 damage from lid opening.<br/>Youmu and large skeletal dog are still grappling.<br/>Sylvia shoots down another section of wall, exposing the lich once more <del>for the last time</del>...<br/></div></div>