Unexplained Shadow

Halliwell Manor - Basement

JP with mdman, Jaxx and Cindy

Choi lifted the lantern, seeing the same shadows upon the walls as before. Yet, there seemed to be a difference. Something was added or taken away. He began to look at each, drawing from his memory of them before he was joined by the blue agents.

“Headless body, check,” he began to recount. Head on a spike, check. Shadow of a person, and toothy monster.” Choi hesitated. There was another shadow between the toothy monster and the spiked head. “Here is something new,” he verified to the others, beginning to seek out what cast the shadow, but nothing was between the shadow and the lantern.

Agent Powers was a bit confused as he looked around with his headlight lighting up the area. He was wondering if maybe a small animal was in the house like a bat, rat, racoon or squirrel maybe. He was not sure why the others seemed to be on edge. So he looked around for movement and was ready to punch it if needed.

Alyssa looked around and listened carefully but found nothing that would be making that shadow. She knew about entities, that they existed but that had more to do with training than any personal experience. The young woman, not being great at fighting, had really not wanted to encounter one.

She almost instinctively started to go for the small pistol she had strapped to her left ankle under her pants. It was her best method of self-defense, though she realized it might be useless depending on what they encountered she decided to pull it anyway and hold on to it.

"Any idea what's causing that?" Alyssa's voice had turned to hushed tones.

“My best guess is a shadow,” Yeong said. “I mean, of course it’s a shadow, but I meant a shadow entity. If it had a hat on, I’d say it’s Hat Man, but this isn’t him.”

Choi began to recollect what he knew of shadows. “Whatever you do, be brave and don’t be afraid. These things feed on fear.”

How did one fight a shadow? There was literally nothing to swing at with the nunchucks. Maybe he could coax it to show itself in a physical manner.

Putting down the lantern, Choi retrieved the nunchucks and encouraged the others to step away. He began to masterfully twirl them, concentrating upon the figure on the wall. He approached it and struck the wall where the shadow was. Nothing happened. He backed away. Then the thought occurred that it was a shadow, so he swung where the shadow of the nunchucks struck the shadow on the wall. He physically felt something that time, and a force through Choi backwards through the cellar, over top of the tubs that Powers had organized.