<div class="floatright">(https://pre00.deviantart.net/d5e1/th/pre/i/2017/345/c/0/undead_elf_by_carrionprince-dbwg08s.jpg)</div><strong>Combat Round 3</strong><br/><br/>Gil forcefully withdraws and guzzles down a potion, noticing he can breathe considerably better afterwards.<br/><br/>Alrun uses the opening the halfling created by being hit in the chest to push his staff past the undead elfs morningstar like weapon and onto his armor.. and although that was all he hit, the end of his staff glow-crackled ever so subtly against the armor, as if burning something beneath. Their foe showed no sign of pain nonetheless, undeterred.<br/><br/>This allowed Kirss to take advantage of the undeads back turned to her, stabbing her more slender blade into a weakpoint of the armor... if only that undead creature would give a proper indication of how much she managed to hurt it!<br/><br/>Before the creature could grab Kirrs and.. propably hug her to congratulate her on her nice sword-play, a blue bolt struck it's shoulder leaving it wailing an unholy wail.. only to come face to face with Ye'me's weapon, sinking deep into his shoulder, cracking a bit of the beautiful armor he was wearing.<br/><br/>Perhaps this explained why the creatures returning attack was less powerful than what had hid and almost taken out Gil, however, it was still a dangerous attack, the mace-like weapon slamming into Ye'me's midriff, the creature smart enough to try and attack the one to hurt it most, even if outnumbered. (Ye'me takes 12 damage!) The creature gripped it's weapon, as Ye'me too felt the nasty sensation of his very life flowing out of him.. and into that creature before him, beginning to restore the shoulder-wound he had just inflicted.. albeit not fully managing to.<br/><br/>The Wraith-creature lifted it's mace and batted away Temerities next fire-bolt, which had already gone a little off-target.<br/><br/><strong>Combat Round 4</strong><br/><br/>Gil had gotten safety distance from the creature, but that also prevented the halfling from re-engaging immediatly.<br/><br/>Once more, The creature and Alrun locked weapons, staff against mace, but this time around, an armored arm came up, ready to block Kirss next strike. However, with the creatures arms thusly occupied, it could not move out of the range of Arrian's blast, cutting into the breach Ye'me had created before in the creatures armor, further injuring it.. if such a thing could indeed be injured.<br/><br/>Something about the creatures physiology seemed to grow unstable with Arrian's last attack and, while Injured, Ye'me seized the moment and also thrusst her blade into the side of the creatures neck!<br/><br/>The creature let out a hiss and swayed, stumbling back.. and collapsing!<br/><br/><strong>The Party is Victorious!</strong><br/><br/>Alrun nodded, satisfiedly.. but quickly moved to inspect the fallen half-elf prince.. something seemed to still concern him here.<br/><br/>"Something is still not right." He remarked. "The body has not aged at all.. have you really succumbed, old friend?" He mused, opening up the elfs armor, quickly.<br/><br/>"There it is..." He remarked, freeing.. what looked like a dark crystal, embedded in the elf chest, looking as if it was perhaps what had slain him, odd rune-like tatoos surrounding the wound.<br/>(http://www.digforcrystals.com/sitebuilder/images/dark-amethyst-crystal-147x250.jpg)<br/><br/>Alrun stares at the crystal, seeming more afraid than he had been of the undead elf-spirit attacking you a moment ago, only to raise a hand, almost protectively, shouting: "No.. get dow---"<br/><br/><em>but then, the crystal exploded, shards flying everywhere.</em><br/><br/>It wasn't a random shattering, however. you were not impaled by the crystals. It was almost as if the shards each had a mind of its own. While Alrun had raised his cloak, a brief flash of light catching almost all of the crystals, a total of four of them were more.. determined, shooting out and hitting...<br/><br/>Ye'me caught a dark crystal in the navel, almost as if by accident giving her an accidential piercing. It would be some pretty bling, if it didn't pulsate oddly.<br/><br/>Kirss tried to raise a barrier of protective magic, but was hit with a crystal shard, right into the chest, leaving an oddly sensitive feeling behind, rahter than pain.<br/><br/>Temerity was hit in the lip, which caused an odd sensation of a slight swelling for her, but.. again, was not overly unpleasant.<br/><br/>Gil tried to raise a hand to stop the crystal.. which just caused it to embed itself into the back of her hand, pulsing calmly.<br/><br/>Arrian.. actually wasn't affected. Well, at least physically. But those dark crystals seemed extremly, suspiciously familiar to one he had found, long ago...<br/><br/>Each of the crystals invasions was oddly painless, beyond a feeling of pressure, however, any attempt to pull them out had quite the opposite effect, of being extremly painful, as if the crystal was clinging to the surrounding tissue. Any attempt quickly taught you not to try it all over again.. While Alrun looked around in concern..<br/><br/>"Is everyone alright?" He asked, before narrowing his eyes in concern when he noticed the dark gemstones.<br/>"Damn it.. I was not cautious enough.. I'm afraid these gems are the work of darker magic..." he mused, having avoided the crystals seemingly.<br/><br/>Those of you that were not distracted by what had just happened would notice the body of the undead you had defeated just now quickly rotting away.. At least none of you felt overly undead.. right now.<br/>But you can't help shake the odd, almost.. forbidden feeling of your new.. piercings?<br/><br/><strong>Defeating the Elf-Wraith and progressing the story allows all of you to level up, yay!<br/>Also, you all get so make a save with your strongest mental (wis, int, cha) stat! .. yay?</strong>