Pale

*Pale* is the title of the fourth episode of the third season of S.H.A.D.O.W. and the twenty eighth session of the entire game.

This session was played on June 10th, 2018

## Pale

### Writer

Jonny Christie, Matt Christie, Richie Maynard, Eric Rios, Corey Sexton

## Synopsis

Mort frantically attempts to run the Bloodjaw bar as the group arrives. Mal steps behind the bar and tosses the gnome at Phylyco who is fully prepared to catch him but does not. Aragi realizes that Ela and Rava are not with the group. Phylyco returns to the circus to speak with Lara because he wants to kill more but he should have expected her to only care about Aragi’s safety. She finds Aragi and through thinking out loud figures out that it wasn’t his idea they attacked Opia so she leaves to solve this. Aragi, who is over everyone smacking him, heads to Hylophagous who also, you guessed it, smacks him and tells him he’s under house arrest until further notice. He complies and leaves. Hylophagous breaks his composure once he’s alone as a portal opens before him and his sister enters. Rava is being pursued by Ela full on death mode. She spots a Bulette coming towards them so she dodges it and hopes it will slow down Ela. It does not. The chase continues. A second Bulette comes so Rava tosses a Card at it’s legs to trip it up. She wallrides around it and it attacks Ela in a fury. It doesn’t slow her down. She drops it in a single smooth motion. Oh Shit. Phylyco daydreams about killing Aragi but decides against it. He enters the archer’s tent to see if he wanted to go on a bounty or something but Aragi is on house arrest. Naturally he caves and joins the man on his little quest. Aguero arrives as well asking Lara for money but she’s not there so he joins them. They accept a bounty on a Defteros who has been “terrorizing the town” with her search for another dragonborn. She has also been killing House Rose which sounds promising but should be dealt with.

Ela has lost track of Rava. She exits the tunnel in Ralin and begins killing anyone and everyone who won’t help her find her prey. Aragi questions Mort about the dragonborn but the only info he has is that they should speak with House Rose since it’s their bounty. They question the guards and when they ask them to let them know if they see her, Phylyco tells the House Rose men to let him know if they find her and leaves. Aguero is more optimistic and comes up with an excellent idea by becoming bait for her and they deal with it. He puts on the outfit of a deceased guard and “ends up alone”. He also gives Echo to Sirobe to watch which on paper seems like a bad idea but they actually get along quite well. Phylyco steps up Aguero’s plan by equipping him with a sort of bomb jacket incase it goes sour. The blind man gets into position and it doesn’t take long for her to take the bait. She sneaks up behind him and simply asks where her brother is. Aragi is trigger happy and fires at her. She takes the arrow and digs her teeth into Aguero. She attempts to freeze him but he pulls the trigger on his vest, knocking her back and incapacitating himself. She screams the name Xander and also passes out from the explosion. They decide to question her when she awakens.

Ela basically extinguishes all of Ralin and gets no answers so she heads to the next available city which happens to be the Ruins of Dawnrise. She quickly realizes this is a massive graveyard and decides to use that to her advantage. The boys watch over their bounty until she wakes up. Aragi surprisingly breaks characters and has his Yaka Arrow trained on her in case she decides to try anything. She wakes up and Aragi starts to untie her mouth and she immediately attempts to freeze him but he spikes her, wasting everyone’s time. This annoys Phylyco and saddens Aguero. They leave him to clean up his mess. Aguero has a chat with Ximer about how he thinks he could be useful without Magic while he’s being patched up. Aragi comes in and they talk about how fucked life is and Aguero mentions Ela which reignites Aragi’s thought from the day before about her missing so they go to Phylyco who does not take kindly to them barging in again. They leave him alone and decide to find Cal to ask him if he’s seen her. They head to the Bizealot temple since that’s where he last was spotted. They also take Sirobe with them. Rava has successfully evaded Ela for now and is casually strolling through Pentropolis (City) as a crowd of fans begins to grow behind her. She embraces the popularity. They get to the destroyed temple and Aguero suddenly begins to piece together that Rava already mentioned that she is the horseman of Conquest but that’s supposed to be Cal. They come to the same realization at the same time. They find the remains of tracks that lead to the abandoned church. They enter and immediately spot Cal’s corpse across an ocean of bodies.

Phylyco decides to investigate on his own because he wants to be the best boy and goes to ask Gregory who catches him up on what’s been happening with the Horseman. Aragi covers up the body and takes the body down. They take it to the temple and decide that this will forever be the official S.H.A.D.O.W. Mausoleum. Aragi and Phylyco share info and Aragi wants to go find the girls but Phylyco disagrees and the Saint forbids it. He tells them to let them kill each other, they have much bigger issues to deal with. He takes Phylyco aside and mentions they need to speak about his “relationship” with Opia. Rava now has her own click of followers. She gets to the city walls to hide but spots something in the distance. She turns back and asks her conglomerate if they can fight. They all agree as Ela and her new undead army emerge from the woods on the outskirts of the city, full throttle.

## Cast

### Main

* Aragi Maxul
* Phylyco Brokenwhisper
* Lara Youngheart
* Aguero Cryhawk
* Elatherial Ebonscar
* Calapharious Ebonscar
* Mal Bloodjaw
* Ravalyssa Darksbane
* Sirobe
* Saint Opia
* Saint Hylophagous

### Supporting

* Hayvard Ximer
* Gregory
* Echo
* Mort Soulspark

## Trivia

* This session was named after the term "Pale Horse".