A gust of wind swept through a small village, shaking the windows, stirring the hay and rustling the leaves of the trees. The next day the villagers awoke, feeling a little queer and out of place. Something felt wrong. It took a while before a young child asked her mommy. “Mommy, where is my shadow??” All the villagers cast no shadows at all, whether be it in the full glare of the sun, or by the other man-made light.
- A Darkness Elementalist (from Dragon Warriors) is testing a theory that it is possible to animate shadows. Those shadow beings will feed off the life energy of their original body. It seems that he was successful, and soon news of shadow-beings roaming the forests and attacking cities would reach the news of the adventurers. There is something gruesome about this whole set-up though. Killing those shadow-beings would end up killing the villagers; killing the villagers would also end the existence of those shadow-beings. Perhaps the best way to end the crisis is to track down the Darkness Elementalist, but he has already surrounded himself with many shadow-guards. Perhaps seeking the counsel of other Elementalists would shed some light on how to counter this crisis.
- The gust of wind that sweeps through the village was an astral entity that had escaped from its dimension. It is a manifestation of light, a light spirit if one could define it, and it devours shadows in its path. As it gathers more and more shadows, it would take form as a colossal winged dragon of light. It has no moral, no code of ethics, it is just light. Strangely, it only steal shadows from living creatures, and soon those creatures over time would lose their soul and spirit. For animals, it would appear to be listless; for human beings, they would gradually become just walking corpse. Defeating the light-being would release the souls and spirits, but how do you defeat a creature of pure light which feeds on shadow? Another way is to re-open such a rift, and lure it back to where it belongs, but may also means the soul absorbed by the being would also be lost forever.
- Not only did the villagers’ shadows disappear, so does a mist settles in the area. Visitors to the village sometimes reported seeing shadows stretched on the floor, but there aren’t anyone around. Worse still, those shadows seemed to have a life of their own, attacking people at times. Long ago an ancient wight-king was imprisoned here, upon the top of a hill where few would venture. If adventurers track the location of the unnatural wind, they would be able to find the entrance. The shadows are being manipulated by the wight-king and they could only be dispersed, not destroyed. Only by finding the wight-king and destroying him would the shadows be released. Over time, the villagers’ mind and will would be dominated by the vile undead; their behaviour would become erratic, friendly at first then becoming more and more hostile as time goes by.
Adventure Types: Strange Situations
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