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“We have to free the hundun!” Ayla grabs your shoulder, shaking you. “The jiangshi is an entity that drains qi, like… Like a demon! It grows stronger as its enemies grow weaker!”

“Well why didn’t ya say so?!” You pull yourself from her grasp.

“I am, right now!” Ayla glares, then seems to deflate a little. “It’s just… If that hall always negates magic, then as long as it remains in there, I’m not… I can’t…”

You turn from Ayla’s helpless expression to where the jiangshi has wrestled the hundun onto the tiles. The gyrfalcon fairy—Nasir, you guess—is doing their damnedest to save their sovereign, but it is almost comically ineffectual as it pulls on the opposite end and flaps bird-like wings rapidly. The jiangshi’s strength holds, even GROWS: the zombie is looking increasingly swollen with strength, muscles standing out on the exposed parts of its arm and pulsing in time with the golden light.

Empy’s HP: 38/50
Empy’s MP: 5/10

Jiangshi’s HP: 16/10

Jiangshi’s current attack roll: 8 dice, 2d9 damage and 1d9 drain.

“Empy!”

“Shit,” you hiss. “We’re makin’ it stronger!”

Still, you NEED to get past this thing if you’re going to rob its master’s laboratory. The question is how?

>Write a strategy

[Specify a plan. You have Ayla with you, Nasir the gyrfairy, ZZ, CZ, Empy, and Hershy… plus Ma Wufeng, though she is unlikely to help.]