The Shadows

• Shadow-things that attacked the party in the sleeping-car corridor around midnight, 4-5 January 1893
• Vaguely humanoid but mostly flat and two-dimensional, with a distended maw, ragged wings, and long misshapen limbs
• Each wears the face of a young woman the party did not recognise
• Related to whatever rose out of Maria-Pook, but where that was solid and corporeal, these are shadow
• Immune to gunfire — Amelia’s bullet passed straight through and shattered a window. Their bite drains life force (4 damage a hit, no visible wound) and sanity. Seeing one costs a point of SAN even on a success
• Hurt by light and fire. Georgie cranked a gas lamp to full and the flame burned part of one away. Light, not bullets, is the answer
• Move in numbers and approach unseen out of darkness. At least two attacked Amelia; more were seen entering a cabin as the session ended
• Unknown whether Menkaph summons them, or whether the muffled scream Georgie heard means something aboard is feeding them