Hallanann creates a shower of sparks that lights up the room.  (That was the best fit I saw in the description)  You are underground in what appears to be a basement or a cave.  Behind you is a long tunnel that disappears into darkness.  The overlapping whispers are coming from the darkness, and they sound hostile.  Your instincts tell you that you don't want to encounter whatever is making the strange sounds.  In front of you is what looks like a doorway, but it has been filled in with soft dirt.  

The sparks die out and you are left in darkness.

(So are we all blind down here or does darkvision still work?) 

Gold quickly goes to the soft dirt and attempts to dig through it.

Kodrith stands with his back to the others, maul in hand and poised as a guard against the whispers.  If they were to attack, he'd be at the ready to buy the others time.  "Focus on door, I'll cover us."  He then squared his stance and focused on hostility behind them.  

Kodrith gets advantage on perception checks relaying on hearing or smell:  10

(It's pitch black, you'll need some kind of light source to see what you are doing)

Gold pulls hand fulls of dirt and flings it to the side.  It being dark, Gold doesn't realize that he it throwing the dirt at Lia.  He is making some progress, but with only his hands, and it being dark, it is not very quick.

The voices are getting denser and louder.  It sounds like there are quite a few of whatever these shadowy creatures are, and they are getting closer!  The tunnel where they are coming from is narrow.  Where Kodrith stands, he can take them one at a time.

Gold stops digging and pulls out one of his torche and says "Lia can you turn on some of your simple magic to make some lights so we can see what we are doing in here.  Also Hallanann, maybe you can use your interesting sorcery to help me get this torch lit?"

Hallanann uses Prestidigitation to try and clear/clean the dirt out of the doorway 1 cubic foot at a time. "I think we better hurry through this doorway, everyone," he says to the group. "I don't want to wait for those voices to catch up to us."

Also, as a note, the hood of my Cloak of Elvenkind is up, or, rather, I take a brief moment to put the hood over my head as u hear the voices and my flight or fight instinct starts to sort of kick in while I start trying to remove the dirt from the doorway. (Perception checks against me are with disadvantage; my Stealth checks are with advantage.)

Ooc: Kodrith thas darkvision and gets advantage on perception checis to hearing and smell.  However if this is some sort of magical darkness the prevents darkvision then that's a whole other thing.

 "Here," Chikra squeezes in with Gold to help. She pulls a shovel from her pack and begins to help dig. "And here I thought this would only be useful as an improvised weapon."

(If it is just normal darkness then anyone with darkvision can see as if it were dim light.  we would still have disadvantage on perception checks for sight, but it would be dim light for those with darkvision, not pure darkness.  Unless you are modifying the 5E rules there, which is fine.)

Hallanann hears Gold as for a light for his torch and he casts Prestidigitation to light it. Then he continues to cast the spell to remove 1 cubic foot of dirt at a time.

Lia will have her heavy crossbow in hand, keeping an eye out for dangers.

(Sorry guys.  My mistake on dark vision.  I thought it was like a cat where they can see well in dim light.  Let's call it a magical darkness.  Sorry for the confusion.)

With the improved light of the torch, the shovel, and removing 1 cubic foot of dirt at a time with Prestidigitation you are removing dirt very efficiently.  

Kodrith sees something coming down the tunnel.  It's a Shadow!  

 The shadow attempts to drain Kodriths strength and misses.  Kodrith is blocking the Shadow from passing into the room.

Krusk pulls out his pike and attempts to hit the Shadow (remember our weapons now have +1 to hit & for damage)

To hit: 24

Damage: 7

 The creature comes into view and Kodrith tries to recall what he knows in such creatures.  As that happens he sees the shadowy hand come at him and he moves tow the side and then swings his maul down.

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Class feature Hunter's Bane gives me advantage on recalling info on undead.  Intelligence check 16

Maul attack: Attack: 24 Damage: 12

 (ooc: Have we finished clearing the dirt out?)

If we're done with the dirt, Hallanann is going to look around the room to

1. see if there's anything useful for this fight or anything that might be useful on the rest of this part of the journey, and
2. to see where the path leads, now.

Perception: 7

If we're not done with the dirt, Hallanann is going to continue clearing that out unless it looks like his teammates can't handle the fight.

(Thank you for explaining and doing your rolls.  I hope the extra work is not too cumbersome.)

Because it is a narrow tunnel, I'd like to have Kodrith attacks as normal.  Krusk is 5 feet back with his pike that is a reach weapon, but half cover from Kodrith.  Lia, with her cross bow, will have 3/4 cover, and the others will be at full cover.  You can change positions it you want.

Kodrith will stubbornly stand between the shadow and the others.  If he does recall any information regarding what he can recall, he will inform the others in a low but even voice.  He does not want to shout in case it alerts even more to the presences.  Not that the light wouldn't but still.

The tunnel appeaers to be filled with shadows, one after the other.  Because of the width, only one can attack at a time.

Kodrith recalls

"Their shadows... undead creatures that feed off the living.  Use magic weapons if ya got em or force spells, anything else doesn't hurt 'em as much," he says to those around him and then grips his maul tighter.  He leans to the right slightly and see them startin mass.  "There gatherin...  so be prepared ta fight."