Evening all. Still haven't read Complete Divine. The DM read a good amount of it before the game, though.
Tough game tonight. Our Cleric, Monk, & Rogue didn't show tonight, so we were stuck going into battle with a bugbear called "Listens to Shadows" seriously damaged. Tough fight. In our negotiations, our bard said that we would talk to the shadows for them and tell them to go away. This was, of course, before he knew what the shadows were. The bugbear chiefs had every right to be afraid of them. They were dealing with Nightshades. We got to talk with a Nightwing. He said he would leave the bugbears alone in exchange for my Paladin renouncing God, the church, and law.
The fight was brutal, since our archer had silver arrows and our fighter had silversheen, but the rest of us had nothing. I took care of the shadows okay, but not before they had drained most of the bard's strength, and a good deal of the fighter's. The Nightwing offered me my companions lives in exchange for my going with him. Considering what happened to the last guy to take that offer, I decided to go save the sorcerer from the last of the shadows. Oh, and early on the archer had gotten confused and ran away from the fight, then shot a squirrel several times before coming back.
Brutal, brutal night.