A world's support

[Anastasia]

Rushing, flying ahead. A rock floating in the void, just large enough for a fortress. A small fortress, made of stone and wood logs. Here you are 300ft away and can see them. Shadows that are nothing, emptiness assailing the fortress without a word. They strikes it and wood and stone erodes, all while arrows fly out from little murder holes, having no effect at all. What must be a hundred shadows besiege the location from all angles.

[Nephrite]

Take 10 on K:P for 95, or whatever is appropriate (98 of R works), are these Shar minions or something else?

Also, I'm guessing things like positive energy would likely work on these sorts of things, along with Light-based attacks?

[Anastasia]

They look like emptiness, but they don't quite look like Sharran minions. They're not quite right. They seem different or perhaps modified. A memory - a recall of Lixer's defeat in Vacuum and knowledge after, of shadows and nastier things escaping in the aftermath, spreading about the plane.

You suspect positive energy would work, but probably not light.

[Nephrite]

Right -- that time.

"Jetina, this may be where you shine -- this isn't Shar's work, but just pure shadows. Things like positive energy and healing magic ought to work well against this." He says as they go along.

[Anastasia]

"Then let's put them to rest," Jetina agrees as...

Go ahead and gimme init.

[Nephrite]

[21:48] <Penuche> Nephrite invokes Penuche's magic: < 42 > [d20=1]
[21:48] <Nephrite> roll 1d20+20 Jetina
[21:48] <Penuche> Nephrite invokes Penuche's magic: < 31 > [d20=11]
[21:48] <Nephrite> roll 1d20+21 Xandra
[21:48] <Penuche> Nephrite invokes Penuche's magic: < 25 > [d20=4]

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+30 Cresiel
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 45 > [d20=15]
> roll 1d20+30 Kaja
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 45 > [d20=15]
> roll 1d20+23 shadows
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 33 > [d20=10]

Init is Cresiel = Kaja (45) > Moore (42) > Shadows (33) > Jetina (31) > Xandra (25)

Open Moore. Oh wait wait you lost init. Uh...uh...

Right, people can go before Moore. Okay uh...they'll hold because you usually do bardic things and they'd rather get those before racing out of range of some of them.

[Nephrite]

Well the joke's on them because he's not planning on doing any except double moving to get closer! So hah!

"We'll have to get closer if we have hope of using magic on them. I really doubt weapons will work, but it's worth a try when we're closer." Moore says. "Hopefully us being warded against negative energy will help us here."

[Anastasia]

How far do you move in that case?

[Nephrite]

Assuming he can do a run action still, he'll go 250 feet to get within 50.

[Anastasia]

Thus the part follows, the shadows assailing further. Walls are crumbling, giving way by the moment. Each touch dissolves wood and crumbles stone, leaving behind only devastation afterwards. They're starting to notice you, a few turning the party's way as they take off in various directions, spreading out somewhat ever as they assail the fortress.

Go ahead, party follows and stays in formation for now.

[Nephrite]

So this is going to be a RAI question. Would I have reason to believe Song of Life (it's the fast healing Singer of the Celestial Choir one) would have an impact on these things?

[Anastasia]

Paste me the ability?

[Nephrite]

A singer of the celestial choir with 24 or more ranks in perform (song) can sing the songs that purify and restore new souls that pass into the Heavens. Doing so causes spontaneous healing in the wounded by the powerful symbolism of this song. All allies (including himself) that can hear the singer sing gain fast healing equal to his singer of the celestial choir level + 10. This fast healing does not stack with other sources of fast healing. This effect lasts for as long as you sing and for five rounds thereafter. When you start the Song of Life, you take 24d4 points of non-lethal damage. Using the Song of Life counts as one of your uses of bardic music for the day.

[Anastasia]

Well, if you count them as allies, sure. It's intentionally ally only aspected. It's an ability of purification and rebirth.