With the roar of the looming Pitch Kruvust Demon, combat ensues in the Temple of the Night. Barren and Opal rush to the forefront to battle the demon head-on, Alia and Ren work with Pablo to get the real children out of danger, and Brigadier Haws, Adelaide, Moss, and Pinky work to provide ranged support. It all turns upon its head when the Kruvust starts to summon the same shadow monsters that have been causing havoc above in Havnok. Alia's confidence shatters and she starts to yell and panic that she can't do this. Then the Monster casts a form of Cloudkill causing most of the party to suffer from its poisonous gas. Last, the floating monolith of pure darkness starts buzzing with some energy, and the whole area is bathed in magical darkness. Stumbling in the dark, trying not to choke on the gas nor falling into the depths all around the bridge, the party soldiers on. Adelaide hears the form of Pinky crash to the bridge as she falls unconscious on the bridge narrowly missing and plummeting into depths beyond. Alia's screaming slowly stops as the gas also relieves her of consciousness. Ren pulls the needle out of the actual Ralph's arm, and a scream from the demon double echoes through the darkness. Adelaide provides healing for Pinky and a cloak of magical twilight of her own which helps bolster the other Vigils. Ren helps Alia up who in turn saves both Barren and Opal from terrible fates with some strange clockwork magic. Eventually, the Monolith stops producing the magical darkness, and everyone's sight returns. With Opal's assistance, Barren brings the Demon down, but the summoned shadows somehow are connected to its life force, stopping the final blow from being achieved.Opal tries to smash the rectangular prism but can only somehow suppress its effects. Moss and Adelaide use Moonbeam to subdue the Kruvust Demon, but not before the last of the shadows in a harsh whisper, trying to appeal to the group's empathy. "Do not hurt the Child!" the dark figures wheeze, revealing that this Kruvust is in its adolescence and is somehow the posterity of the Demon that the past Hero of Lillie's defeated. After a brief but terse conversation which cannot be peaceably resolved, the last of the shadows fall to the double moonbeam, and the Shadow on the Kruvust fades away leaving it dead. The party muses on what the next step is and Opal, feeling frustrated to be left with more questions than answers, turns and reaches out to a hero of old. Opal asks what Voddenfell is and is answered by the saying, "you've been wondering why you are here."
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