Afterwards

[Iron Dragoon]

[blockquote]Rolled 1d100 : 14, total 14[/blockquote]

[Anastasia]

You fly ahead - and in due time you see what must be the center of the storm - for it goes still, a great and crumbling castle of ash sitting within it. From this distance you can only see a glimpse, yet it must be massive from what little you can see.

[Iron Dragoon]

'Looks like we were right. Let's keep an eye out for anyone who wants to fight.'

[Anastasia]

"Careful," Jarem agrees, "You need any spells before we commit to this, Alyssa?"

[Iron Dragoon]

'I don't think so. All my standard spells are in place. Can you think of anything I missed?'

[Anastasia]

"No," Jarem agrees, "Then let's go visiting."

[Iron Dragoon]

'You're good with doors, Jarem. Let's go knock.'

[Anastasia]

Thus you fly on. It is indeed a massive castle, so large you can't see the rear of it as you fly inward. It reaches up hundreds feet in the air, several stories for certain. No one is around it, only piles of loose ash and little else.

[Iron Dragoon]

'Let's find the door. Call out if you see anything interesting. Or worrying.'

[Anastasia]

"There," Jarem points. Below is a grand drawbridge, currently up. Below it is a moat of ash, pale white and like clumps of dust far below.

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa angles towards it!

[Anastasia]

You fly down. As you approach a gust of ash blows, checking your advance just before you can land.

'Who?' A single word sounds in your mind.

[Iron Dragoon]

'Alyssa Songsteel. I bring a gift of warmth to meet the Archomental and discuss those who want to make Ash into not Ash and steal the minds of your kind.'

[Anastasia]

'Show it.' Is the answer right back.

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa takes out the Everfire piece.