As Eren remained seated and largely unresponsive save for observing, he made himself into a rather vulnerable target to the threat yet to reveal itself. The shadows that had flickered and danced across the floor pooled like ink before clawed hands closed around the throat of Eren's shadow. Where the shadow stalker gripped Eren's shadow, the man would experience the same sensation physically. To observers nearby they would see the shadow of a creature entwined with Eren's shadow, and it distinctively possessed clawed hands, a hunched back lined with dorsal spines, and skeletal wings, but no creature stood present in the room to cast the shadow.
Meanwhile Jackson's intervention with the wand would prove ineffective on the gargoyle. The wand targeted aggression, something of which the gargoyle possessed none of. It appeared to be purely a construct with no capacity for emotion or intelligence. Its behavior was destructive and certainly aggressive, but it was in the same vein as a thunderstorm or a falling tree. There was no conscious decision or willful act of aggression, only side-effects of whatever had animated the stone statue.
The calming effect on those fighting the gargoyle on the other hand would prove effective as intended, and in Crohd's case perhaps lower his defense against the gargoyle that lept into action. Fortunately Sava's shield was near completion and would prove unaffected by the wand, provided she finished casting it in time.
Grimbold too moved to Crohd's aid - out of instinct and more pressing concerns than racism - but he had scarcely drawn his flanged mace before he stumbled and clutched at his throat. His eyes bulged and droplets of blood fell from scrapes and scratches opening up upon his neck. He slammed to one side into a table before falling to the floor writhing as if struggling with some unseen attacker. More claw marks split the skin of his wrist as he fumbled at his belt for the sunrod he knew to be within reach, but it wasn't enough to dissuade him and bloodied fingers closed around it as he pulled it free struck it against the leg of the table. The impact triggered the rod and washed Grimbold in a bright light that he directed to his own shadow which swiftly evaporated to leave only the shadow stalker behind. The creature itself leaped free as the shadow dissipated and it became solidly manifested physically within the room. It was about six foot in height - though appeared shorter as it hunched - and its skin was inky black. Its face was devoid of mouth or eyes, and it appeared little more than a vague mold of face without any distinct features. Enraged at being forced to manifest itself it moved to finish off the guardsman only to be caught in glow of Jackson's wand which left its aggression rapidly declining. Instead of attacking Grimbold it instead turned to dive towards the shadow cast by the nearby counter - and away from the calming influence of Jackson's wand. The artifact it would seem had proven effective upon the shadow stalkers once physically present, if not the gargoyle.
It was a double-edged success though that effected many of the patron's in the bar. Those of weaker wills and lower intelligence became passive targets unable to defend themselves. Among them was Tilda, the proprietor of the tavern who stood dangerous close to Crohd and the gargoyle, blinking calmly and seemingly unbothered by what was going on around here.
"Tilda? Tilda!" Herald the barkeep barked as he tried to shake some sense into her and draw her away from the bar where Crohd was grasping about for something heavy. He wouldn't find much of use behind the bar itself, but both Grimbold's flanged mace upon the floor, and Eren's hammer on a nearby table where close at hand.
Meanwhile Grimbold and Eren weren't the only ones to contend with the shadow stalkers. As Jackson and Trenn chose to step upon the stairs hands of shadow that had been previously concealed in the distortion of the stairs closed around the ankles of their shadows to trip them up and send them tumbling down the stairs with the shadow stalkers attached.
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Outside the tavern the enchanted halberd proved an effective weapon against the gargoyle that descended upon her. The heavy axe head struck against the construct with a stone splitting crack that would send the thing careening back through the air to crash into a nearby wagon of hay.