The Wraith Revealed

> The party discovers the wraith! And it's attacking someone Xaillen seems to know!
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## Summary

The party gets on horseback and begins to ride out. Xaillen gets on Seven as Boulder summons a shattering gem to encircle Xaillen. They ride out as the sun sets and fog begins to settle in as they see the wraith. It's attacking a heavily armored fighter that is exhausted and is debating on jumping off a cliff nearby.

Seven roars to get the creature's attention as Sybl summons a reaper's lantern. The armored fighter, Caius, sees the light and decides to fight on. He goes for a final slash and it would have worked if the creature weren't a wraith. Xaillen rides up to the wraith, backflips off of it, lands in-between the wraith and Caius and turns the sunrod he had on. This dazzles the wraith as Seven moves in and roars to distract the wraith. Xaillen mentions that if he wanted to see him, he should have sent a letter but Caius isn't in the mood for jokes. Flint and Boulder move in with Boulder sending up earth spikes to strike the ghoul.

The wraith flies up into the air and Hoshimi glares at the wraith saying that it will die. She sends off a torrent of inner radiance towards the wraith while the symbol on her eye glows. Adrian Tanlaial sends magic missiles towards the wraith like a hellzone grenade. Olwen Edgeworth shoots out the grappling hook and brings the wraith down 5 feet with the sunrod turned on. The wraith lets out an inhumane shriek and summons two spirits to help it. Seven and Caius are both shocked by the spirits. One of the spirits tries to attack Xaillen but he nimbly dodges.

Sybl moves closer as the spirit closest to Seven and attacks her three times. It hits twices but misses the third attack. Caius moves in to attack as Xaillen calls out for him to put up his shield to direct the sunrod's light into the wraith. He can't pull it off because the wraith is moving too much so he strikes the ghost attacking Caius from behind. Seven rages and feels something that she hasn't before. Her claws glow purple and she strikes the ghost with them injuring it. Flint gets Boulder to throw him as he breathes fire on the wraith. It's a direct hit so when Flint lands, Xaillen calls him a show off.

The wraith pulls the sunrod from Olwen's grappling hook out of it's chest. Hoshimi sends up her dancing light to circle the wraith. Adrian pours his arcane cascade into himself to run faster. He attacks the ghost attacking the armored fighter with force bolt. Olwen takes a keep breath as she pulls out her sniper rifle. She fires at the wraith and it hits the sunrod lodging it back into it's eye.

As the ghost near Caius prepares to attack him, Xaillen distracts it and it strikes Xaillen hard twice. Sybl approaches them and enfeebles a ghost and the wraith. Sybl then stares at the ghost near Seven but it is unamused. It attacks Sybl but it misses so Sybl calls it playing. Caius attacks the ghost while Xaillen burns the wraith with his words before attacking the ghost. He misses both of his attacks as Seven grabs the ghost attacking Sybl and squeezes it. Flint tumbles as he lands and throws a fire bomb at the ghost attacking Caius. He ends up throwing two duds by accident.

Boulder walks up to the ghost attacking Caius and Xaillen and despells it with a healing spell. The wraith flies down and grabs Xaillen while beginning to drain his life force. Xaillen pulls back in the nick of time and breathes heavily. Hoshimi pulls out her fans and begins dancing with them to inspire courage in her allies. Just then a word enters her mind, and it summons a tiny meteor of light to strike the ghost attacking Seven and Sybl. Adrian moves in to attack using a dimensional hop. He tries to attack with his sword but misses.

Olwen gets in position, puts a spare sunrod in the ground and fires using her rifle to get the bullet she fires pull of sunlight. It nails the wraith as the ghost breaks free from Seven's grasp and strike Sybl down. As the lantern light dies out, Sybl holds out his doll. Caius attacks the remaining ghost using his shield spikes as blades. Xaillen tries to finish off the Wraith but he misses. Seven lets out a mighty roar and slashes at the wraith. The wraith is on his last legs as Flint uses his fire breath on the ghost. Afterwards he begins treating Sybl's wounds. Boulder mentions that Sybl owes him a story and sends out a bubble of healing. The wraith screams and melts away while the remaining ghost becomes a new wraith.

The new wraith attempts to attack Sybl but Xaillen takes the hit for him. Adrian looks at the new wraith and realizes that it's trying to attack Sybl's doll. It ends up destroying the doll.

## Notable events

* Joshscorcher notes that on horseback, units can have only two actions instead of three
* The party begins fighting the Wraith
* The Wraith summons spirits to fight for it.
* The Wraith dies only for the remaining ghost to become a wraith.