One-Shot: Shadow's Sworn

## Player Characters

* Dayana the Stranger is a black human-appearing woman with her hair tied up and little golden rings on her ears. she wears a flannel t-shirt (with some suspicious rips on it...) and brown pants, and her hands are blackened to the color of soot from her wrists downwards. she has red eyes, but at first glance they can appear brown. also she is a werewolf :)
* For Here Boy :D the Good Boy, *"You two have a name for me, for I could not have gotten one from my parents. I am scruffy, dirty, covered in mud crusted hair. My face shows that I am immensely happy despite the sorry shape I seem to be in. I am not wearing any clothing. I have four legs. I am a dog that should have come first huh?"*
* For Jenny the Traveler, please imagine a 5'8 fairly neutral presenting female human whose aesthetic is a cross between nerd, wild west, and steampunk. I'm talking big ol steampunk goggles perched in the forehead, faint smoke rings around the eyes from where the goggles protected them from blasts, a rifle strapped to the leg wild-west style except it's a rifle so it shouldn't be effective but it kinda is? Hair done up neat but messy, a coat that's some sort of hybrid between a lab coat and a leather jacket.

## Recap

Shortly after the World Tremors, complete darkness has overtaken a small town nestled between some of the Yngitiir Mountains. The Nightfall Mages are the prime suspects, so there's a bounty out for them from the Daybreaks. Plus, Jenny's boss has gotten some weird readings from the area and Dayana received an animal messenger asking for help. On the mountain pass leading to the town of Shadow's Sworn, the group runs across some odd monsters that look like horrific, featherless chickens kind of. Here Boy :D growls and when Jenny snaps a photograph with her otherworldly camera, the flash drives the monsters to attack. The three fight back; Jenny uses her advanced light rifle, Dayana uses her werewolf claws, and Here Boy :D does some chomps! Investigating the bodies after, Jenny remembers tales from her world of creatures changed by darkness into their worst fears and darkest desires. The way to beat them, according to legend, was to fight against not only the physical monsters but what they represented, showing bravery in the face of cowardice, love in the face of hatred, and trust in the face of treachery.

Further down the path, they meet a scared, dirty mother and daughter. The pair narrowly escaped Shadow's Sworn as everyone began turning into monsters and have been slowly trying to escape, having to hide from the wretched chicken monsters. Jenny and Dayana tell them that they cleared the path of monsters so the family can escape; meanwhile, Here Boy :D gets some great pats from the daughter.

Once the two leave, the adventurers continue on towards the town, which is entirely engulfed in darkness even in the middle of the day. Jenny mixes magic and tech to make a makeshift light out of her gun's ammunition, which allows them to see just enough. She also gets a message from her boss that the planar disturbance is nearby, so she pulls out her Tutela 3000 and directs the other two towards the center of the darkness: a bit past the town, into the mountain. They try to sneak around to that point, but all fail and come face to face with The Lost, a tall, lanky humanoid figure with five arms ending in long, wicked spikes. They work together to fight it, managing to kill it before it kills them, and then run further into the darkness as wailing sounds get closer.

## Continuity

This is the first of the *Shadowed* mini-series, coming before One-Shot: Shadow's Folly. The mini-series took place shortly after The World Tremors in WoDaD Session 13.

## Trivia

* Probably Loxley's favorite one-shot ve's ever run!
* Despite being Drake's character, Here Boy :D was named by Storm at the start of the session. The :D is *very* important.
* Dayana was based on one of Haven's Sims 4 characters. Because of this, she kept trying to eat furniture.