227.8 Seira

[Corwin]

[19:01] <Kotono> ---
[19:02] <Kotono> Thus Seira heads to the Temple of Waukeen. Past the merchants and sellers, finding Mia waiting for her. "Oh Seira, yo'ure here," she bubbles. "High Priest Gilartal told me you'd be along."
06[19:04] * Seira smiles at the bubbly acolyte. "Mia! Always a pleasure to see you." She leans a bit closer to her, whispering conspiratorially, "I have another idea for a magic-lite item we might find a market for."
[19:08] <Kotono> "Really? After that last failure, I'm all ears," Smiling, "I heard you came for something else, though, so we can talk about it while we go to the altar?"
06[19:08] * Seira blinks. "A failure? I thought you had the right design and opportunity."
[19:09] <Kotono> "Well yeah, but," Scratching her ear, "It kind of blew up part of Gond's Temple, 'member? I'm still not getting along so hot with that artisan...but don' tworry about that, it'll work itself out in time!" Smiling again as sh ewaves a hand, "What's your idea?"
06[19:11] * Seira frowns ever so slightly. "You know I could help with that," she chides Mia. "Sliding over little things like blowing up a temple during research. Once I'm done here, I'll see if I could help. If you wait too long, someone else might seize the chance!"
[19:12] <Kotono> "Oh, thanks!" Her smile growing, she takes Seira's hand. "I'll hold you to that promise!"
06[19:14] * Seira is all smiles once more! "I wouldn't have given it otherwise!" Heading inside towards the altar at a sedate pace, she says, "Getting back on track, have you ever used a sunrod or a tindertwig?"
[19:15] <Kotono> "Oh sure. They're useful when you're on the road," Passing past all the merchants and fountain, into the quieter back section of the open temple, "Why do you ask?"
01[19:17] <Seira> "Perishables have their place, but are they really practical over the long haul?" Seira asks her. "You mentioned being on the road, and that's fine, but what if we wanted to keep the city borders lit to spot intruders more easily? What if we wanted light out in the streets after dark? Using lots of torches is a pain, and so is designing lamps that wouldn't go out at the first rain."
[19:18] <Kotono> "Magic, you mean?" Continuing on as they head to the altar, "Or a new form of alchemy?"
01[19:20] <Seira> "I'm hoping to try both approaches," Seira responds. "You've seen the floating balls of light I use at my inn, right? Well, I don't need something that would last for thousands of years, so a simplified version would do. And at the same time, we could try and research an alchemical approach that might be cheaper and have different applications while using those artifacts as inspiration!"
[19:21] <Kotono> "Right." Nodding along as she goes to the altar, "It would have to be cheaper than using like magic, though, or the market would bera out using magic."
06[19:24] * Seira nods. "If you succeed with the goblins, then having a cheap supply of perishable components might make the difference." She considers. "The final price needs to be below fifty gold, or it's pretty futile, though."
[19:26] <Kotono> "The lower the better." Stopping at the altar, "Let me think that over. Anyway, I was supposed to do the invocation for your purification here? Apparently it doesn't really agree with the High Priest so much. Are you ready?"
01[19:28] <Seira> "Take your time," Seira agrees. "I want to bring the past glories, and I could if I used my resources fully, but what happens if I'm not around? I don't want to leave behind relics, but to open the door to useful items anyone can use, not just the very rich. A middle ground between magic and the mundane."
[19:30] <Kotono> "Yes. I mean, until a few years ago, magic was so rare. Now it's becoming outright common in this city." Leaning forward, "But even then, magical services aren't cheap."
06[19:31] * Seira nods. "And until we can easily craft such things as barrels of lots of tasty neverending food it would be nice to start somewhere!" she agrees. "Also, I'm pretty sure I'm ready."
[19:32] <Kotono> "Right," Using a pair of metal tongs, Mia lifts up the Night's Circle to the altar. "Okay, this is my first time doing this, I'm going to go slow to make sure I get it right. Just wait a few, Seira." she says, starting to concentrate and pray.
06[19:33] * Seira observes with interest, as it's hardly the first time she has needed to wait in her life.
[19:35] <Kotono> Thus, Seira waits! Mia calls on names in a whisper, praying! She nods after a minute or so, "Touch it and you'll understand what you need to do," she says. "May Waukeen watch over you and make sure your trip is both good and profitable!"
01[19:36] <Seira> "Thanks! May your own research bear fruit soon!" Seira returns, doing as she was instructed.
[19:38] <Kotono> Touching the chakram, Seira understands! She must follow the trade roads to the east. It is Waukeen's will that there one day be a safe overland trade route through the Barbarian Lands to Pallanth. There is one that will oppose it, hidden away in a 100 foot hill in the Barbarian Lands. Travel to the northeast and find it, and ensure he will not be a problem by hook or crook.
06[19:41] * Seira is left somewhat confused, as surely the planned portals would be more efficient, until she recognizes the value of redudnancy. "Not a problem!" she states confidently, before tilting her head as she gazes at Mia. "Well. Slight problem. Is this a go alone sort of thing?"
[19:45] <Kotono> "According to what I read, yes. It's meant to be a trial and a deed of a spirit against the evil within."
01[19:48] <Seira> "I guess I'll leave Lagann home this time, then." Seira frowns. "It would be a bit lonely." Pausing, she tells the orb, "Please only stab the bad people while I'm gone."
[19:57] <Kotono> Lagann agrees in Seira's mind, words flowing as there is a faint clink of metal all around her.
01[19:59] <Seira> "East it is, then," Seira repeats to herself out loud. "I guess I'll go." She eyes the chakram, before picking it up and placing it at her belt. "Any recent news of the Barbarian Lands, Mia?"
[20:02] <Kotono> "There was a giant in who had soe chained up goblins a little while ago. Now that I think about it, it was the same day as that explosion..." Rubbing the back of her head, "I hear there's some wild women in there as well, worshipping someone called Jannath."
01[20:03] <Seira> "I met them," Seira responds. "They throw a great party!"
[20:07] <Kotono> "Heh, heh," Mia smiles, "Good luck, Seira!"
01[20:09] <Seira> Despite the drain on her very essense that the chakram maintains, Seira smiles back. "What Waukeen wants, Waukeen gets! I'll be back in a flash!"
[20:09] <Kotono> OOC: Taking off, eh? Any preparations or note or just heading right out?
01[20:10] <Seira> OOC: I'll bring the ring of teleport along, but that's it. Lagann will stay home.
[20:14] <Kotono> OOC: Right.
01[20:14] <Seira> OOC: I'll roll FL if/when I need it.
[20:14] <Kotono> OOC: Heading east how long before you start to go north?
01[20:15] <Seira> OOC: I'll start going north around the area where the giant smith was, since it seems like the giant area
[20:15] <Kotono> roll 1d100
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[20:16] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[20:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 86." [1d100=86]
[20:16] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[20:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 93." [1d100=93]
[20:16] <Kotono> Seira travels east and north for two days! She passes into the Barbarian Lands, making a good time. She's traveling htrough the forests right now, making a soild pace...OOC: Make a listen check, Seira?
01[20:16] <Seira> roll 1d20
06[20:16] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20 and gets 2." [1d20=2]
[20:21] <Kotono> It's pretty quiet here. Nothing of note is happening - that is, until a pair of goblins dart out 30 feet ahead of Seira! They have shortbows readied and drawn, calling, "Hey you!" In rough Common," Stop right there!"
06[20:22] * Seira stops. "Hey," she calls back to them in Common. "What's up?"
[20:23] <Kotono> "Arms up! Don't make a move to your weapons," The left goblin calls. "You're going to do what we tell you or you'll get an arrow!"
01[20:25] <Seira> "Now that's just rude," Seira chides him, nevertheless raising her arms. "On whose authority are you trying to stop me from traveling farther?"
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[20:26] <Kotono> "The authority of this arrow, elf blooded!" The other goblin hisses, while the other one starts to look long and hard at Seira. "You got any gold on you?"
06[20:27] * Seira appears to think about it, looking over the goblins with a critical eye. Surely they are evil to rob innocent travelers without provocation!
[20:28] <Kotono> They're wearing dirty clothes, having a quiver of arrows slung over their backs. One has a few clay jars on a belt at his hip. The one on the left is evil, the on on the right isn't.
06[20:29] * Seira mulls over this. "Alright, let me ask this differently. I heard in Balmuria that there were giants in these parts that pretty much enslaved goblins and had them do their bidding. Are you like that, or is this an independant operation?"
[20:30] <Kotono> "You're asking too many questions!" The one on the right says, voice rising, "Just give us some gold!"
01[20:34] <Seira> Even her nigh-infinite patience has limits. "Do you even know who you're holding up?" Seira asks, though this time her incredulity is eclipsed by anger.
01[20:34] <Seira> OOC: Can I intimidate them now?
[20:34] <Kotono> OOC: Sure.
01[20:35] <Seira> roll 1d20+23 fun times
06[20:35] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+23 fun times and gets 25." [1d20=2]
[20:35] <Kotono> roll 1d20+4
[20:35] <Kotono> roll 1d20+3
06[20:35] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+4 and gets 13." [1d20=9]
06[20:35] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 and gets 7." [1d20=4]
[20:38] <Kotono> The two goblins stare and start to shake. "W-who are you?" The one on the right asks in a little voice.
01[20:40] <Seira> "Ah, now we're getting places," Seira says pleasantly. "I'm Seira. I would say it's a pleasure to meet you, but it's really not. You are directing bows at me, and even though they would be ineffective it's hard to resist setting you on fire. Please place them on the ground and answer my previous question."
[20:42] <Kotono> The one on the left drops his bow, while the one on the right holds onto it. "Um...we're just trying to strike out on our own and get some traveling money!" The one on the left blurts out. "We ain't got nothing to do with those giants!"
01[20:43] <Seira> "Where are you traveling?" Seira asks in a conversational tone of voice, lowering her hands now that there's hardly any need for it.
[20:43] <Kotono> "Um...maybe south, maybe west? Outof here!" The one on the left ontinues to blurt, knees knocking1
01[20:44] <Seira> "Why travel somewhere else, though? Isn't this your home?"
[20:45] <Kotono> "W-we want to get outta here!" The left goblin continues. "Time to move on and away from the giants!"
01[20:46] <Seira> "Do you have any useful skills?" Seira asks reasonably. "You could just try working to get the money. I bet it'd be quicker, too, and far less deadly!"
[20:48] <Kotono> "Who wants to hire goblins as mercenaries? WE're fighters!" The one on the right proclaims. "Not farmers or herders ora nything like that!"
01[20:49] <Seira> "My first was really alchemy, but I actually would. I don't really discriminate based on race." Seira tilts her head curiously. "How about it?"
01[20:49] <Seira> *first thought
[20:53] <Kotono> "Y-y-you would? Really?" The one on the left gawks, "Really?" The one on ther ight stares with shaking hands, "But aren't you some sort of freakishly powerful wizard, if the stories are true?" The goblin on the right squints.
06[20:54] * Seira nods. "I am a powerful wizard, yes. Didn't you hear the stories about wizards? They like to hire people to do things for them. It makes them happy."
[20:55] <Kotono> "W-well then," The one on the left takes a breath, "What sort of work do you have, anyway? H-how much does it pay? How dangerous is it?"
[20:56] <Kotono> "It's not some sort of frightening experiments, is it?" The other one shudders. "I hear there was a w-wizard years ago that di dthat. Turned goblins into horrible horrible things!"
01[20:56] <Seira> "Oh, that?" Seira snorts. "Yeah, that happened. I killed him. He wasn't a very nice wizard, now was he?"
[20:57] <Kotono> OOC: Make a bluff check here?
01[20:57] <Seira> roll 1d20+12 believe me!
06[20:58] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+12 believe me! and gets 14." [1d20=2]
[20:58] <Kotono> roll 1d20+1
06[20:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+1 and gets 19." [1d20=18]
[20:58] <Kotono> roll 1d20+1
06[20:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+1 and gets 18." [1d20=17]
[20:59] <Kotono> The two stare long at Seira, but don't reply immediately. "Really, but...so h-how much exactly, anyway?"
06[21:02] * Seira looks a bit confused. "Really. Unless there were more like him? But I'm not like that. Any research I do is on stuff like precious metals." She consider the matter of salary. "Like I said, I'm not into discrimination, so you would get paid same as any normal Guard recruit just starting out."
[21:06] <Kotono> "Really?" The one on the left considers for a time, "They'd take goblins in...well..."
[21:06] <Kotono> The one on the right stares long at Seira as they consider. "It's worth a try," he mutters.
01[21:08] <Seira> "You could either travel with me for a bit until I return to Balmuria, or come over with a letter of recommendation I'll draft for you," Seira tells the goblins. "Either way, you want to make a living and get respect, right? As long as you keep to the rules, which are pretty easy to follow, you'll have all that and more!"
[21:10] <Kotono> The two look to each other, whispering away for a time. This goes on for maybe a full minute, before the one on the right looks back. "Give us the letter," He says, "We'll take that."
06[21:15] * Seira takes out her writing supplies and drafts a simple letter to him in Elven briefly detailing the situation and asking him about integrating the goblins in hopes of getting more recruits if this turns out well. "The first hurdle you'll have to overcome is trusting me that this," Seira hands the sealed letter over, "says what I say it does.
01[21:15] <Seira> If you can't trust those who would be your commanding officers, then there's little point in trying." She smiles. "But if you can do this, then a whole new world of opportunity opens before you!"
[21:16] <Kotono> The letter is taken. "We'll see," He says, before the two eye Seira and beat a hasty, quick retreat from her, heading towards the southwest.
06[21:17] * Seira certainly hopes they'll take her advice, before proceeding onwards. It is a shame; she should have asked them about the landmark Waukeen had described to her.
[21:31] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 33." [1d100=33]
[21:31] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 74." [1d100=74]
[21:45] <Kotono> The next several days pass without incident. Your trip deeper in is not opposed, it is in fact peaceful.  On the ninth day as she travels, just past noon, something curious happen.s The ground trembles and shakes, lightly rustling the trees and everything around.
01[21:47] <Seira> Dragons-- Seira stops herself. That's not likely. Which leaves giants. Discarding her illusory appearance, she tries to see if she can gain some altitude without too much trouble to see better into the distance.
[21:48] <Kotono> The shaking stops as Seira takes off for flight. She flies up, dodging a few falling branches as she does. Seira can see a lot of loose branches and see a few old trees tipple over as far as the eye can see.
06[21:49] * Seira decides to clear the treetops and then make way towards the spot where trees have toppled over to investigate.
[21:50] <Kotono> Seira clears the treetops. From here, she can see that many a tree fell. But more fell far on the horizon, to the northwest. It's several miles away from here, her perspective granting her great visibility.
01[21:51] <Seira> That certainly seems like an invitation, and Seira flies in that direction!
[21:53] <Kotono> Seira flies for perhaps an hour. At this point she sees that most of the trees ahead have been knocked over. Rising out of the ground is a hill, a tall hill. Cracks run along it's surface, like a dome about to shatter open.
01[21:55] <Seira> With a casting of Heroism and See Invisibility, Seira approaches!
[21:56] <Kotono> Lowering down, Seira sees that the hill is horribly cracked. The ground quivers every few seconds, pushing outward and strained more each time.
06[21:57] * Seira tries to spot an entrance, either artificial or formed from a crack so wide she could pass through.
[21:57] <Kotono> OOC: Spot check then?
01[21:58] <Seira> roll 1d20+12
06[21:58] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+12 and gets 24." [1d20=12]
[21:58] <Kotono> There are several cracks big enough to wiggle down and through if Seira wishes. The hill is latticed with cracks now, seriously damaged.
06[21:59] * Seira finds one that wouldn't get her trapped should a quiver occur just as she's squeezing in, before proceeding inside.
[22:00] <Kotono> The hill expands out downward several hundred feet. At the bottom is some sort of bottom, but it's so dark and deep that Seira can't tell. However, Seira can see something rising up from it! A bird's screetch echos overwhelmingly from below. Whatever it is, the shadowy outline is HUGE! Dragonsized and then some!
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01[22:04] <Seira> There's really no time to waste, then. Though it might be futile, Seira calls upon Stoneskin and casts Shield, Mirror Image and Draconic Might before proceeding below. If her caution is unwarranted, then all she'd done is wasted a few spells.
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[22:16] <Kotono> As Seira invokes Stoneskin and Shield, she can see something rising up! It's absolutely huuuuge! It's some sort of gigantic bird, flying upward at a charge! It's plumage is a pleasant gold color, cloaked and only faintly visible in the few strands of sunlight that trickle from the broken hill! OOC: You got two spells off, but something is obviously coming up at you and coming up pretty fast.
01[22:17] <Seira> OOC: Stoneskin is swift, so I've got Shield and MI up?
[22:18] <Kotono> OOC: Okay.
01[22:18] <Seira> Darkness doesn't trouble Seira, and she's ready for anything, be it negotiate, dodge or retaliate!
01[22:18] <Seira> roll 1d4+4
06[22:18] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d4+4 and gets 7." [1d4=3]
01[22:18] <Seira> roll 1d10+10 FL
06[22:19] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d10+10 FL and gets 20." [1d10=10]
01[22:19] <Seira> roll 1d20+16
06[22:19] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+16 and gets 27." [1d20=11]
[22:19] <Kotono> Seira waits! It's only 100 feet down now and rising fast! It's huge and rising fast, right towards the upwards! Notably, it's going to take up a lot of space as it rises. Even if it's not coming for Seira, it's going to be hard to dodge!
01[22:26] <Seira> The advantageous move is to strike at the gigantic roc while she has the chance, but even if it's as mindless as its smaller brethen, Seira doesn't want to attack first. She resigns herself to withdrawing through the crack and flying off to the side, opting to see what the roc would do once out of the dome.
[22:29] <Kotono> Flying out, Seira hurries along! It's a good move, as the impact sends the hill shattering! Dirt, stone and wood go flying! As the roc emerges, the sunlight makes it's body glitter like gold!  It circles above the hill, and in Auran, "Free!"
01[22:30] <Seira> It is a language Seira knows! "That's nice to hear," she calls over to the orc in Auran, her images echoing her words. "Who trapped you there, if I might ask?"
01[22:31] <Seira> OOC: amusing typo, but roc
[22:31] <Kotono> OOC: Roc yes. Snerk.
[22:34] <Kotono> The roc flies about, it's wings making small gales of wind with it's flaps. It comes around to Seira after several circuits of the area. It's eyes are like pools of gold and brown fieldstone mixed together. "I care not anymore, for I am free! Free at long last! My heart beats again! My thoughts are free! The sun shines on me!"
06[22:37] * Seira takes a good look. Though it's a primitive means of judging character, knowing whether the roc reads as evil would make this black and white once more! Until she has proof of the creature's darkened heart, however, she responds with an honest sympathy, "Having your thoughts hijacked is one of the worst things that could happen to you, yes. And having the sun around is nice."
01[22:37] <Seira> She gives the roc a midair bow as best as she can. "I'm Seira. What's your name?"
[22:39] <Kotono> The roc continues to fly about. It only answers after a little time. "I have no name. My kind do not require them. If you must call me something, Roc suffices. Then Seira, who are you and why do you come to this place as I am freed?"
01[22:41] <Seira> "I was asked to investigate this hill." Seira gestures at the now-shattered formation. "I have received a vague warning about a threat of some sort, but it wasn't very clear, thus my questions about the nature of your captor. Even if my investigation doesn't bear fruit, however, I would still like to help someone who had been trapped unjustly."
[22:43] <Kotono> The bird's attention is all on Seira now. "Who told you? Why? Answer my questions first."
01[22:45] <Seira> "Waukeen. She requested my help in this matter." Seira gestures at the chakram at her belt. "Apparently, it is the best way to destroy Shar's hold on this nasty weapon."
[22:46] <Kotono> "I care little for your task, dog of Waukeen. Out of my sight!"
[22:47] <Kotono> The roc's beak snaps fiercely as it's wings flap harder.
01[22:48] <Seira> "What is it with me and rude people this week?" Seira mutters. "Do you have a problem with Waukeen?" she asks, raising her voice. "I find it hard to believe that she was the one who trapped you here. If that is what you're implying, do you have any proof? And if not, why not accept help when it's freely offered? I would do it even if I didn't have a task to finish at this place."
[22:50] <Kotono> You can see the fury in the bird's eyes, a very unanimalistic look. "A charlatan of Waukeen resulted in my loss of my previous perch, thus my cursed travel to this land that resulted in my imprisonment! I want nothing to do with the servant of such a dog of a Goddess!"
06[22:52] * Seira considers the roc's words. "It may well be true," she admits. "Until recently, Waukeen's influence on this world was tenuous at best due to the seals placed upon it. Someone claiming to follow her or even genuinely thinking they were might have done this to you, but I would like to assure you that it was not the will of Waukeen herself.
01[22:52] <Seira> As proof of that, why not let me reimburse you to restore her good name? I could help you find a better perch than what you had, and make other reparations."
[22:56] <Kotono> OOC: Make a diplo check?
01[22:56] <Seira> roll 1d20+26
06[22:56] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+26 and gets 43." [1d20=17]
[23:00] <Kotono> The roc's gaze is terrible to view, "Prove it. Prove to me that you are sincere, Waukeenite. I know your type would sooner part with your lives than your money. Give me gold or jewels to hold, to prove that you are not another worthless charlatan."
01[23:04] <Seira> This is a problem. She really does like to have cash. The real issue, however, is that she lacks funds right now. The same goes for jewels, naturally. She somehow doubts the roc would be pleased with a hundred gold and change. In the end, Seira withdraws a small ioun stone.
01[23:04] <Seira> "I don't have much in way of mundane funds on me," she admits. "But this stone is very expensive, and doubly so for a mage like me. It increases my magical prowess, and right now I'm using it to compensate for the curse laid upon me by the chakram."
[23:06] <Kotono> "You are a wizard? How do I not know you offer me a chunk of stone with a passing illusion of magic on it and not something of true value? Do you not have anything of gold or jewels?"
06[23:07] * Seira points at the images floating around her. "Well, yes, I am." She fishes in her pockets before withdrawing her money pouch and showing the insides to the roc. "You could have that instead if you would like, but the stone is worth more than twenty times this."
[23:08] <Kotono> "Give me both, then."
[23:08] <Kotono> OOC: Gah.
[23:08] <Kotono> "Give me both, then."
[23:09] <Kotono> The roc at last looks up to Seira, intent.
06[23:10] * Seira blinks, but then looks dubiously at the roc. Nevertheless, she quickly shrugs and drops the ioun stone in the pouch, draws it closed and offers it on her outstretched hand.
[23:11] <Kotono> The claws of the roc take the bag tightly, nearly ripping it out of Seira's hand. "Fine. This other, better perch. Where do you speak of?"
01[23:12] <Seira> "I can think of several options. The real question is what you are looking for in a home," Seira responds. In a way, it seems like a test run for her future employment with Ajan. "Such as climate, and whether you would prefer an isolated area or one near others you could talk to or visit."
[23:14] <Kotono> "Mountains. Warm mountains and solitude. Nothing more, nothing less."
01[23:15] <Seira> "Are you troubled by lightning and electricity? I believe regulars rocs would be, but you're anything but that."
06[23:15] * Seira feels a bit sad that he doesn't fancy the cold, since having a roc live near her winter home would've been grand.
[23:17] <Kotono> "Lightning and electricty? I have no love of them...but do you speak of the natura lightnings or another source of them?"
01[23:20] <Seira> "Shocker lizards. We have lots of them in the Galkass Mountains. So much that they can be a nuisance even for a wizard like me. But I have ways of dealing with them, and they're hardly everywhere," Seira elaborates. "The mountains themselves are very pleasant and reasonably warm, and while not entirely isolated, hardly anyone ever comes to visit them.
01[23:20] <Seira> If this does not suit you, I could make enquiries with my friends in the south."
[23:21] <Kotono> The roc's gaze turns to Seira, Those pests taste good for a light snack. I will see this Galkass Mountains you speak of, then."
06[23:23] * Seira nods, and tries to estimate whether her ring is capable of teleporting the both of them.
01[23:26] <Seira> "At the speed I travel, it would take... oh, a couple of weeks?" Seira estimates. "Unfortunately I cannot teleport us both straight to the destination. Unless you have faster means of travel for us both, if I just serve as guide?"

[Corwin]

[19:14] <Kokokokokoko> <Seira> "Shocker lizards. We have lots of them in the Galkass Mountains. So much that they can be a nuisance even for a wizard like me. But I have ways of dealing with them, and they're hardly everywhere," Seira elaborates. "The mountains themselves are very pleasant and reasonably warm, and while not entirely isolated, hardly anyone ever comes to visit them.
[19:14] <Kokokokokoko> <Seira> If this does not suit you, I could make enquiries with my friends in the south."
[19:14] <Kokokokokoko> > The roc's gaze turns to Seira, Those pests taste good for a light snack. I will see this Galkass Mountains you speak of, then."
[19:14] <Kokokokokoko> * Seira nods, and tries to estimate whether her ring is capable of teleporting the both of them.
[19:14] <Kokokokokoko> <Seira> "At the speed I travel, it would take... oh, a couple of weeks?" Seira estimates. "Unfortunately I cannot teleport us both straight to the destination. Unless you have faster means of travel for us both, if I just serve as guide?"
[19:15] <Kokokokokoko> The roc starts to fly, "Guide. Come here and get on my back. It will be far faster than your small flight."
01[19:16] <Seira> "To be fair, I can teleport myself just fine," Seira says, following the roc's instruction and rendezvousing with it. "Although I'd love to learn how to fly faster, of course. Do you think that's something that comes with age?"
[19:21] <Kokokokokoko> The roc starts to fly, the forest becoming small and tiny below as it ascends, then begins to fly fast! "Size and time."
06[19:23] * Seira gives the roc directions, consulting her maps of the region from time to time to keep them on course. "Working on the size, with magic and all. Time's not something I have much of, given all the nasty fiends that seem drawn to Prime."
[19:29] <Kokokokokoko> The roc doesn't immediately reply, soaring ot the southwest in the meantime. Far below the Barbarian Lands are a vast sea of green, passing on by. OOC: Do you want to chat or skip along some, Cor? Your call.
01[19:30] <Seira> OOC: We can skip if it's not chatty
[19:36] <Kokokokokoko> Time passes. It's a few days of travel, making far faster time. There are occasional breaks, the roc diving at wild rivers and coming out with fish in both talons, swallowing them down whole. But it's pace is relentless, save for rest and food. Soon, the Galkass mountains loom to the southwest, coming closer and closer.
06[19:38] * Seira directs the roc to the mountain where Kondrux's lair used to be. Even if she later uses the lair itself, the mountain top should be more than comfortable for her new friend.
[19:41] <Kokokokokoko> He flies there, the mountains stretching out all around. His eyes sweep over the mountains as you ascend higher, "I can see them, hiding in holes or skittering like vermin over the ground."
01[19:42] <Seira> "Want me to clear the area enough for an approach?" Seira suggest. She certainly has enough fire for that.
[19:43] <Kokokokokoko> The roc does not answer as you ascend to that lofty mountain, circling over it's peaks. Instead, it bellows forth a great bird cry! The sound echos chaotically in the peaks, crashing around like the hammers of an angry God. Should any linger as I descend down, do what you will to them."
06[19:45] * Seira keeps an eye out! Size is useful for intimidation as well, that much is obvious.
[19:45] <Kokokokokoko> OOC: Make a spot check for reference?
01[19:46] <Seira> roll 1d20+10 sure
06[19:46] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+10 sure and gets 21." [1d20=11]
[19:59] <Kokokokokoko> As the bird chooses a peak, flying around it, Seira can see most of the lizards have scurried away. Only one or two stay out, heads poking out of burrow holes in the mountain.
06[20:01] * Seira encourages this behavior with a handy fireball!
01[20:01] <Seira> roll 10d6 fire~
06[20:01] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 10d6 fire~ and gets 35." [10d6=4, 3, 4, 4, 6, 2, 4, 1, 3, 4]
[20:05] <Kokokokokoko> Woosh! Three lizards are burnt alive, charred and fried! The few others skitter away and into the holes entirely, out of sight!
01[20:07] <Seira> "So what do you think?" Seira asks matter of factly. "Due to those critters, it's basically unclaimed. There was a dragon living here, but he was very bad so now he doesn't live here anymore. You'll have peace, quiet, food and warmth! Plus the view is great! Why, there is a little grove not far from here that's very pastoral!"
[20:11] <Kokokokokoko> Flying, the roc lands atop the tallest peak in the vicinity. It perches here, looking over the domain, then up at the sky. It is quiet for a time, it's wings folding back. "I like these mountains. Get off here and wait. I shall explore these mountains on my own for a time."
01[20:12] <Seira> roll 1d20+4 epic sense motive!
06[20:12] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+4 epic sense motive! and gets 16." [1d20=12]
[20:14] <Kokokokokoko> roll 1d20+1
06[20:14] * Hatbot --> "Kokokokokoko rolls 1d20+1 and gets 16." [1d20=15]
01[20:15] <Seira> "Sure thing!" Seira says cheerfully, quite trustworthy!
[20:17] <Kokokokokoko> OOC: Going to do anything but wait and kill time?
01[20:17] <Seira> OOC: I guess I could use the chance to refresh my spells, but that's it.
[20:19] <Kokokokokoko> roll 1d100
06[20:19] * Hatbot --> "Kokokokokoko rolls 1d100 and gets 20." [1d100=20]
[20:23] <Kokokokokoko> Several hours pass. The duskfall is coming as the roc at last returns. It descends, perching atop the mountain once more. It looks down to Seira, "Perhaps you are the exception that proves the rule."
01[20:25] <Seira> "Or you just had bad luck with servants of Waukeen in the past?" Seira counters. "She clearly felt bad about it and sent me along. Not to brag or anything, but I hold a reasonably high position in her clergy, and I wouldn't if my views were aberrant or ran counter to her wishes."
[20:31] <Kokokokokoko> The roc's gaze travels down, "Perhaps."
01[20:32] <Seira> "Spend some time here," Seira offers. "You said you liked it, right? I'll come back some time and bring others for you to meet. It's unreasonable for you to believe me like that straight away, but I think it's like flying. Time helps." She frowns suddenly. "I'm not sure size would, though, in this case."
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[20:38] <Kokokokokoko> "My nest will be here."
[20:38] <Kokokokokoko> The roc flaps it's wings once, before alightning up from it's perch once more.
03[20:39] * Ebiris is now known as Alicia
01[20:39] <Seira> "Sure thing! Anything else I could help you with?"
[20:43] <Kokokokokoko> "I am sufficient."
06[20:44] * Seira nods. "I'll be going, then. If you ever need me, contact Balmuria." Seira points in the right direction. "I doubt you could miss it. Pretty city."
[20:45] <Kokokokokoko> With it's wings folded up, the roc begins to perch there. "If you are not the exception to the rule, perhaps I will."
01[20:46] <Seira> With a wave, Seira teleports back to the temple to Waukeen in Balmuria.
[20:46] <Kokokokokoko> OOC: d100.
01[20:47] <Seira> roll 1d100 ring
06[20:47] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d100 ring and gets 79." [1d100=79]
[20:47] <Kokokokokoko> Woosh! Seira appears in front of the fountain at dusk. The Temple is still noisy, but quieting down. Shops outside are shutting for the night, merchants heading for inns to rest.  The few that are immediately about give Seira a look, though not too much of one.
06[20:48] * Seira gives them a nod, before proceeding inside. Mia should be found easily enough, and if not, she could afford the search.
[21:03] <Kokokokokoko> OOC: Okay, while loot is figured out for whatever, you wanted to talk to Elle?
01[21:04] <Seira> OOC: Yes!
[21:05] <Kokokokokoko> Elle is found at her shop as always. Finding her in her back rooms, and sitting down for a drink, "How've you been? I haven't seen you around Balmuria lately."
01[21:07] <Seira> "I've been going through forests and all that good stuff," Seira tells her. "Met a roc. He was intelligent and really, really large. Huge. Larger than an adult dragon."
[21:10] <Kokokokokoko> Elle whistles, sipping a glass of wine before going up to a bookshelf. As she does, "Did you fight it?"
01[21:11] <Seira> "I wanted to. But I'm not really as rash as some people think, so I just befriended it instead." Seira pauses briefly, before clarifying, "Without fighting." She mulls over this for a few more moments. "Maybe he'll agree to fight me for fun some other time."
[21:14] <Kokokokokoko> "Oh good." Coming back with a book, carried like it's somewhat disdainful, held out a foot in front of her, "There's good news and bad news. The good news is that someone left a powerful magical tome for you as a gift."
06[21:14] * Seira shakes her head at Elle. "Don't you know it's customary to give the bad news first, so that there's something left to soften the blow?"
[21:15] <Kokokokokoko> "Hehehe." Without much of a smile, "The bad news is that it was left in care of Alicia by the devil Esthan."
06[21:16] * Seira looks at Elle askance. "Are you trying to tell me that Alicia cut a deal with Esthan?"
[21:17] <Kokokokokoko> "No. It was more complicated than that. He appeared...they fought...Alicia wasn't able to touch him. He derided her and asked her to join him. When she refused, he smiles and said he'd left a gift. These were it; the book left for you will sharpen your mind."
01[21:18] <Seira> "Huh. No strings attached, no promises on our side?"
[21:21] <Kokokokokoko> "You'd have to ask Alicia for better clarity, but yes. He left a book for you, Alicia and Demedais. Rare books I can't reproduce. Nearly a hundred thousand gold coins in value all combined."
06[21:24] * Seira is impressed by Esthan producing such a book and parting with it so easily even more than she is with his ability to avoid Alicia's attacks. "Let me see. My mind got sharpened by the remnants of Daa-vid's magic and a crazy pit fiend. An evil icy goddess made me stronger. I guess I'll thank Esthan kindly for bringing me one step closer to defeating him?"
[21:24] <Kokokokokoko> "You know, there's so much I could say to that." Elle puts the book down on the table, "Alicia said it was your choice. She was going to burn hers, so as not to be in debt to Esthan."
01[21:28] <Seira> "I have more resources to draw upon, now," Seira muses. "Don't worry, I am no longer desperate to blindly jump into things just to keep up with the outsiders. I've been meaning to Commune with Wakueen, in large part due to meeting the roc I mentioned, so I could spare a couple of questions on this. If there are secret strings attached, Waukeen could warn me away from this course of action."
01[21:28] <Seira> She twists her face, then. "Could you ask Alicia to wait on the book-burning until I've done that, Elle? And even if she doesn't feel like using a book Waukeen's decided to clear as safe, tell her I'm offering to buy it off her hands? She could give the money to an orphanage or another worthy cause."
[21:37] <Kokokokokoko> "I would if she was in Balmuria. She left the day after," Elle shakes her head. "Commander Oberuth said she was going away from this world, to one of the realms beyond for a time."
01[21:39] <Seira> "I might leave again soon, so I'm really asking you for when she returns," Seira elaborates. "After all, either of us could use a Sending, but it's neither an urgent matter nor one I'd want to discuss over twenty five words or less."
[21:41] <Kokokokokoko> "I will then. Where are you going," Elle inquires with a littl esmile, "Zipping off to the far ends of the known world again?"
01[21:42] <Seira> "In a way, yes. Elle, I can't tell you everything since it's a secret only few of us know and it's best to keep it that way, but remember the trip the Guard took to the Amaryl mountain range a while back?"
03[21:45] * Kokokokokoko is now known as Kotono
[21:48] <Kotono> Elle nods, "Yes, I'm aware of it," she says. "I remember the loot from the dragon."
[21:48] <Kotono> After a moment, Elle winces. "Loot? Mystra, I sound like a gruff adventurer all over again."
01[21:50] <Seira> "Ah, loot." Seira allows herself a smile as she daydreams. "Elle, it turns out that the greatest loot of all is there. So far, as I trained, I was ultimately trying to devise ways of surviving Daa-vid's onslaught to get within knife range with him as my goal. But what went after that was put aside, as if I couldn't even get close through his miles upon miles of elemental attacks, what was the point?"
01[21:50] <Seira> "And now... now the way to destroy him is at hand."
[21:55] <Kotono> "You found something?" Elle looks to Seira intently, "Another Resort? An artifact? Something stronger hidden away in those mountains, Seira?"
01[21:57] <Seira> "This time, my intel is reliable. It's an artifact." She pauses uncomfortably. "A life-stealing artifact. I understand what that means, so when I get it, could you skip the lecture and help me look for a loophole?"
[21:58] <Kotono> Elle stops, before she frowns. "It's that damned sword, isn't it? Arondaaq? The life stealing sword? I've read some of the books the Guard has brought back about it."
06[22:01] * Seira nods. "That same intel said its wards were failing, and Esthan and his cronies were closing in on its location. Even if the latter was exaggerated, which I have no reason to believe, its presence corrupted a silver dragon and killed many elves. Allowed to rest there as the wards corrode...."
06[22:01] * Seira shakes her head. "I've been assured that the danger would be contained to me, the sword bearer, if I broke it out."
[22:04] <Kotono> "Still, the fact that you're already saying you'll need a loophole says a lot." Elle runs her hands through her hair, "You can't let Esthan have it, true, but if the stories I've read are even remoately accurate?"
01[22:05] <Seira> "I intend to ask Waukeen about that as well." Seira grimaces. "If it shortens my lifespan to a single month by the mere virtue of holding it in my hands, then taking it out wouldn't help one bit. We won't be ready to face Esthan within that time, not to mention Daa-vid."
[22:07] <Kotono> "Ask then. I don't want  you to throw away your life after all you've done." With a waxen smile as she looks to Seira, "I want to see you become a master of all magic, not a sacrifice."
06[22:10] * Seira laughs. "Like I told you earlier, I'm past blind recklessness! I can afford to plan and research a bit. And speaking of research!" She becomes animated all of a sudden. "I've been meaning to study the golden frame of that inevitable Demedais dismantled. Remember? The crazy one that was after me. I'm thinking, a clockwork body driven by sentience and magic. Why not adapt it for my pal Lagann?"
[22:22] <Kotono> Elle nods, "That could be a fascinating project, and an insight into how Inevitables work too."
01[22:24] <Seira> "Feel like helping me out, then?"
[22:28] <Kotono> "When?" Elle stands up alreayd, though. "I'm interested."
01[22:30] <Seira> "When I get back," Seira tells her. "Remember those strange little moving statues Demedais found? I get to borrow one from time to time. Along with having Lagann to help out, I figure we'll have all the advantages we could possibly need, here."
[22:31] <Kotono> "Right," Elle nods gravely to that, "When are you leaving, and who's goin gwith you?"
01[22:34] <Seira> "A Desjardin was key in sealing it away," Seira responds. "It's only fair that one gets an offer to be there for this occasion. Beyond that? It would be incredibly dangerous, so I'd rather keep things that way. But just as a precaution, could I copy the Telepathic Bond spell, Elle? I've been meaning to use it with Permancy and keep in touch that way."
Session Close: Tue Apr 21 22:35:03 2009

Session Start: Tue Apr 21 22:35:03 2009
Session Ident: #evildunes
02[22:35] * Disconnected
02[22:35] * Attempting to rejoin channel #evildunes
03[22:35] * Rejoined channel #evildunes
03[22:35] * Topic is 'Marie>Antenora>Jessica>Alicia>Barbed>Elle>Donald'
03[22:35] * Set by Anastasia on Sun Apr 12 00:14:51
02[22:36] * Seira (~corwin@bzq-79-181-132-222.red.bezeqint.net) Quit (Broken pipe)
03[22:36] * Anna is now known as Seira
03[22:36] * ChanServ sets mode: +o Seira
[22:36] <Kotono> "Who are you going to bond it with?" Elle inquires.
01[22:38] <Seira> "I, uhh, I think--" Seira looks uncomfortable. "I should ask the person, first. Right?"
[22:42] <Kotono> "...yes, that would be wise," Elle rubs her forehead, before she laughs. "You haven't asked that person yet, have you?"
01[22:43] <Seira> "I guess I do act rashly sometimes," Seira admits, leaning forwards and adding in a conspiratorial tone, "Let's keep it a secret, alright?"
Session Close: Tue Apr 21 22:49:11 2009

Session Start: Tue Apr 21 22:49:11 2009
Session Ident: #evildunes
02[22:49] * Disconnected
02[22:49] * Attempting to rejoin channel #evildunes
03[22:49] * Rejoined channel #evildunes
03[22:49] * Topic is 'Marie>Antenora>Jessica>Alicia>Barbed>Elle>Donald'
03[22:49] * Set by Anastasia on Sun Apr 12 00:14:51
03[22:50] * Anna is now known as Seira
03[22:50] * ChanServ sets mode: +o Seira
Session Close: Tue Apr 21 23:03:04 2009

Session Start: Tue Apr 21 23:03:04 2009
Session Ident: #evildunes
02[23:03] * Disconnected
02[23:03] * Attempting to rejoin channel #evildunes
03[23:03] * Rejoined channel #evildunes
03[23:03] * Topic is 'Marie>Antenora>Jessica>Alicia>Barbed>Elle>Donald'
03[23:03] * Set by Anastasia on Sun Apr 12 00:14:51
02[23:04] * Seira (~corwin@bzq-79-181-132-222.red.bezeqint.net) Quit (Ping timeout)
[23:07] <Kotono> ---
[23:08] <Kotono> Gilartal listens to Seira as she talks, then stands. "A Commune spell again?" Outside, Balmuria is cool and rainy, a quiet day that people hurry through, to the dyr insides and warm fireplaces.
01[23:09] <Anna> "I think I'm at a crossroads, again," Seira says to that. "Just like I was at that time."
[23:13] <Kotono> "I see." Gilartal looks away from the window briefly, then to Seira. "HAve you devised your qustions?"
01[23:15] <Anna> "This time, I've made several lists." Seira dutifully shows the lists in question. "I've written the questions from my perspective, so if they need to be adjusted since you'll be the one asking them, we could spend a moment on that now, Gilartal.
01[23:15] <Anna> The idea is that each list has a tree, and once it's been asked to my satisfaction I'll indicate that and we can move on to the next one without going through every question."
[23:16] <Kotono> OOC: What's your list, anyway? PM it to me?
06[23:18] * Anna consults one of her lists. "Actually, this part here might be redundant. I've told you in brief about my recent quest, right? Would you know anything about the roc or the servant of Waukeen that he claimed had tricked him?"
03[23:19] * Anna is now known as Seira
03[23:19] * ChanServ sets mode: +o Seira
01[23:19] <Seira> OOC: Right, peer, etc
[23:28] <Kotono> "I haven't heard anything of it," He responds as he prepares, "Quite the list. More questions than I can ask, too."
01[23:29] <Seira> "The last list is there to pad it in case some of the real questions turn out unnecessary," Seira tells him, settling in for the wait.

[Corwin]

[19:36] <Kotono> -------------------------------(Super Ko)--
[19:37] <Kotono> Thus, Gilartal casts Commune! He calls on the name of Waukeen, asking her questions for wisdom and profit! When it is done, "Very well. The answers were clear and the spell was successful," he reports. "To your first two questions, about the roc and the servant, the answer was yes. The third question's answer was that it was pointless, as he has passed."
06[19:39] * Seira nods. "As was expected, perhaps. But I know I feel better already!"
[19:40] <Kotono> "To her dogma, she said yes. To Brightwater, she said yes." To both of those, he pauses, "To the three questions about the mystic books, the answer was the same. '
[19:40] <Kotono> The dweomers are not poisoned, but beware of the Pit.
[19:40] <Kotono> OOC: Gah, stupid paste.
[19:40] <Kotono> "To her dogma, she said yes. To Brightwater, she said yes." To both of those, he pauses, "To the three questions about the mystic books, the answer was the same. 'The dweomers are not poisoned, but beware of the Pit'."
01[19:41] <Seira> "To all three?" Seira asks to clarify.
[19:42] <Kotono> "Yes." Gilartal answers, "The same words, the same warning. IT is not usual for Waukeen to give such a verbose answer."
01[19:43] <Seira> "I know how the appeal works," Seira affirms. "It might've been better to ask for a clarification, but I suppose it wouldn't have done much good, here, if she doesn't wish to answer clearly. What of Arondaaq?"
[19:44] <Kotono> "It is dangerous for you to carry, and that it cannot be recovered by mortal magic," he answers.
01[19:45] <Seira> "Well, there's a horrible prospect."
[19:46] <Kotono> "There it ends. What will you do now?" Gilartal asks, going back to sit. His gaze travels outside briefly, "A dangerous weapon that cannot be mitigated by mortal magic, eh?"
06[19:47] * Seira nods curtly. "Higher magics exist, but that bitter combination of answers all but ensures I won't live to see it. Not that I can't see a way out, of course, but...." Seira sighs. "What will I do if Esthan seizes it before I'm ready? What will we all do?"
[19:52] <Kotono> "How dangerous is it, exactly?" Gilartal asks, "You've said a little about it, but your face is troubled."
01[19:55] <Seira> "There are no clear accounts," Seira hedges, "but it is believed that using the sword in battle even once is a death sentence to the user, even if he had transcended mortal limitations. I've hoped that merely carrying it wouldn't be so debilitating, but...." She sighs again. "There's really no way to ask how long I'll survive if I took it with Commune, is there?"
[19:59] <Kotono> "I could ask. If Waukeen can and will answer is according to Her will." Gilartal's gaze takes in the rainy weather outside, "Can you do anything else but take it?"
01[20:01] <Seira> "Reseal it. But that is not without problems. The original seals were forged by an alliance of truly exceptional mages. The only two who might qualify on our world right now is a cleric of Torm and Esthan." Seira grimaces. "So yeah. Let's say I did the impossible and reinforced the seals. What's to stop Esthan from breaking through them? My very efforts might well point him in the right direction."
[20:02] <Kotono> "I don't know." Gilartal shakes his head, "I can divine Waukeen again should you find that helpful."
01[20:05] <Seira> "Maybe." Seira considers the suggestion. "I could refine some of my other questions as well, and if Waukeen is in the mood to help there as well, it would be welcome. For example, I'm taking her warning to mean as bewaring seduction, pretty much, though not in the literal sense.
01[20:05] <Seira> Using fiendish power is easy, and it comes freely at first. It is all too easy to forget that eventually, a price would be asked for the next favor, and you might be too far gone to care. Does that sound about right, or do you have a different interpretation?"
[20:05] <Kotono> "No, I think that's wise. It may be the meaning, or the only meaning, but I feel it's entirely correct."
01[20:08] <Seira> "It is a bit like gambling. You need to know when to quit." Seira colors lightly. "I have a problem with that, sometimes, but as long as there is no price or strings attached, I'll keep at it. The moment things change, well, I am surrounded by enough level-headed people to point it out."
[20:09] <Kotono> "That's also wise. You need to know when to take your profits and walk away, or you can lose everything you've earned."
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01[20:12] <Seira> "But just staying out of the game altogether while the house is letting you win is also a mistake, I feel," Seira comments. "In the end, these so-called gifts would help us bring down Esthan, Daa-vid and the rest of those who'd menace us. To just throw that away?" She shakes her head.
01[20:12] <Seira> "Alright. On the sword, again, I want to keep the decision of what to do with it my own. But if Waukeen were to grant an answer on the subject, I would like to know whether possessing it would kill or incapacitate me within a matter of months."
03[20:13] * Ebiris is now known as Alicia
06[20:18] * Seira briefly sketches down a pair of questions. "If it is possible, ask these two first, Gilartal, and then proceed to the remaining list? Judging on the answers I get, I'll have a few moments to draft two more follow-up questions, should we need them."
[20:26] <Kotono> Taking the questions so far and reviewing, "Alright," he says, beginning! Thus he casts, writing down answers as he receives them, the spell going on! The first answer is 'It is likely', 'One of the many dangers' for the second.
06[20:28] * Seira looks like she bit into a sour lemon right off the start, and begins writing as the second answer is heard.
[20:28] <Kotono> The third is 'Unclear', as is the fourth . The fifth is 'Unknown.' The sixth is yes, the seventh 'Unclear' again. The eight is 'Yes, but beware the difficulty' and then, 'Hurry, now' Gil scribbles.
[20:28] <Kotono> OOC: Strike.
[20:28] <Kotono> The third is 'Unclear', as is the fourth . The fifth is 'Unknown.' The sixth is yes, the seventh 'Unclear' again. The eight is 'Yes, but beware the difficulty' and then, 'Hurry, now' Gil scribbles. 'I need a question fast.'
01[20:33] <Seira> 'Will it get Esthan or another fiend a way into my mind, similar to the time I heard Gurlan's thoughts?' Seira has already written, and then adds the final question of 'Can Desjardin be trusted with the resealing of Arondaaq?"
[20:33] <Kotono> Gil nods and asks those questions! When it's done, "Whew. You made it just in time. The answers are no and yes."
06[20:39] * Seira nods. "A gamble, after all, I see. I'll make it. And it sounds like sealing's on the horizon. I'll just have to add an alert so that I'll snag the sword if someone approaches its defenses and hope we can unseal Daa-vid within the time I'll have left."
[20:41] <Kotono> "Good luck," Gil considers, "It sounds like you'll need all of Waukeen's luck, and some of Tymora's too."
01[20:42] <Seira> "Fun times," Seira agrees, recovering from her disappointment already.
[20:46] <Kotono> ----
[20:51] <Kotono> Amaryl is resting in Seira's inn. Her and Donald are sitting at a table when Seira finds her, huddled together over a book. Amaryl's finger is tracing words as they speak in Elven.
06[20:56] * Seira fetches another chair, sitting down next to them. "Slow day?" she asks, looking through the inn's interior.
[21:02] <Kotono> The inn has people about, though it does look a bit slow. "Seira!" Amaryl's face lights up.
[21:02] <Kotono> "Oh, it's just elven poetry." Donald looks to Seira, a momentary 'Help' look flashing over his face. "Amaryl thought I should read some."
06[21:03] * Seira nods thoughtfully. "You really should. I believe reading it in your room to let your mind absorb it is even better!"
[21:05] <Kotono> Donald takes the book, "Sure, Seira," he says, and in nearly one word, "ThanksAmarylSeeyoulater!"
[21:05] <Kotono> "T-thanks..."A maryl blushes faintly.
01[21:06] <Seira> "Any particular poetry you two were reading?" Seira asks curiously as Donald makes good on his escape. "I should still remember some from my formal education."
01[21:06] <Seira> *poem
[21:07] <Kotono> "It was the Third Collection of Poems on the life cycle of trees," Amaryl speaks up, scooting over closer. "Donald's an elf but doesn't really know how to act like one."
06[21:09] * Seira nods. "It's pretty relaxing. Better to read it while surrounded by actual trees. Or recite it, actually, since you would be reading about the glory of trees off dead trees and that kind of kills the mood."
[21:09] <Kotono> "That is a good point," Blushing even more and lowering her head, "I should take him to the forest next time."
01[21:11] <Seira> "I know of a good place, so I'll tag along," Seira offers. "How about it?"
[21:13] <Kotono> "Oh, ifyou'd like! You can recite them too!" Amaryl smiles widely, "How many of them do you know?"
01[21:15] <Seira> "All the seven classical collections, at least?" Seira responds, thinking about it. "Then it gets spotty, since you'd usually cherry-pick what you like rather than memorize obscure texts in their entirety."
[21:18] <Kotono> "Lovely!" Amaryl's eyes grow wide at that, "Saul had you get a good education then."
01[21:21] <Seira> "Paid for one since he couldn't be bothered in person, more like," Seira mutters under her breath. "I've always had near-perfect recall, so studying was a breeze. Because of that I usually prefer riddles that require me to solve them rather than recite an answer, but I do get to enjoy the arts when I have time for them!"
[21:22] <Kotono> "Yes, you are so smart," Coloring once more, "Did you say something else, though? I thought I heard something, but I missed it."
01[21:23] <Seira> "Probably more boasting of how smart I am, just ignore me when I do that."
[21:24] <Kotono> "Oh." Looking down at her hands, "Seira, where were you today? Busy again with the Guard?"
01[21:25] <Seira> "I don't actually do it much--" Seira starts to protest, a hint of panic in her voice. At Amaryl's question, she pauses. "I've visited with Gilartal, actually. I might need to leave again, even though I just got back."
[21:27] <Kotono> "Oh. As in today?" Amaryl plays with her hands under hte table.
01[21:30] <Seira> "You know something? Nah. It doesn't have to be today. I sometimes get caught in the rush to tidy up any loose ends, that's all." Seira leans back precariously in her chair. "Did you have plans?"
[21:32] <Kotono> "I just wanted to spend some time with you," Amaryl admits as she blushes, "You've been busy again, Seira."
01[21:34] <Seira> "How about I check if I could bring you with me this time?" Seira suggests. "It might be fun. Well, it might involve bearing a difficult curse as we fight off all sorts of evil creatures, but if we're together I bet that would be fun!"
[21:52] <Kotono> "I'd like that," Amaryl scoots her chair right next to Seira now, "Can you do that?"
01[21:54] <Seira> "If you would share in the curse, it might be possible," Seira says thoughtfully. "It's not math. It's not even magic, but more of divine petitioning. Those are often vague and left to the whims of the gods, so a strong conviction and sprit could go a long way in helping Waukeen make her decision!"
[21:58] <Kotono> Nodding along to that, "Okay, Seira."
01[21:59] <Seira> "It might be a pretty horrible curse," Seira cautions. "Because nothing is really free. Is that still alright?"
[22:01] <Kotono> "Of course, Seira. After all, you asked," Smiling to her now, "That's good enough for me."
01[22:03] <Seira> "Speaking of asking," Seira says casually. "There's this spell I've wanted us to do together."
[22:05] <Kotono> "Oh?" Coloring deeply, "Well, it has been a little while since you've been busy..." She reaches out, taking Seira's hand. "As a way to welcome you back home?"
01[22:09] <Seira> It wasn't what she was angling to ask about, but Seira's thoughts derail at Amaryl's words. A welcome home sounds like an excellent idea, and anything else can wait!
[22:13] <Kotono> Much later in the day, nice things have happened. As the two now sit eating dinner quietly...OOC: Feel free to bring up the spell or whatever else you wanted to, Seira?
01[22:16] <Seira> "So there's this spell," Seira says out of the blue. "With it, we could stay in touch even if I'm at the other end of the world. It works by connecting people telepathically, allowing them to talk pretty much like Latha or Antenora can, except eschewing distance altogether. Recently, I finally managed to master it."
[22:19] <Kotono> "The entire world? That's incredible," Amaryl's hands go to her face. "How long does it last?"
01[22:20] <Seira> "It's an auxiliary spell, mostly for combat applications, so the regular duration is tactical," Seira informs her. "However... with another spell I've taken time to learn, I could have it last indefinitely."
[22:21] <Kotono> "Forever?"
01[22:22] <Seira> "Well, there are always counter-spells, and antimagic, and...." Seira trails off. "Forever. Pretty much. Unless we break it."

[Corwin]

[19:47] <Koaway> <Seira> "So there's this spell," Seira says out of the blue. "With it, we could stay in touch even if I'm at the other end of the world. It works by connecting people telepathically, allowing them to talk pretty much like Latha or Antenora can, except eschewing distance altogether. Recently, I finally managed to master it."
[19:47] <Koaway> > "The entire world? That's incredible," Amaryl's hands go to her face. "How long does it last?"
[19:47] <Koaway> <Seira> "It's an auxiliary spell, mostly for combat applications, so the regular duration is tactical," Seira informs her. "However... with another spell I've taken time to learn, I could have it last indefinitely."
[19:47] <Koaway> > "Forever?"
[19:47] <Koaway> <Seira> "Well, there are always counter-spells, and antimagic, and...." Seira trails off. "Forever. Pretty much. Unless we break it."
[19:49] <Koaway> "Well..." Taking Seira's hand and blushing, "I'm good with it, Seira."
06[19:50] * Seira lets out a relieved breath. "I've been hoping you'd say that!"
[19:53] <Koaway> "Did you think I'd say no," Amaryl asks in a little, quiet voice
[19:53] <Koaway> .
01[19:54] <Seira> "That you would think about it, actually," Seira confides in her. "Solely to prolong my anxiety, of course."
[19:56] <Koaway> Deflating, "Oooooooooooh." Amaryl picks at her dinner, "When will you cast it?"
01[19:59] <Seira> "How about this evening?" Seira offers. "All it requires on my side is half an hour of meditation, and then the ritual to invoke the bond." She leans closer to Amaryl, whispering, "Remember those days I worried a lot? It's okay, now, since I stopped doing that."
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03[20:02] * ChanServ sets mode: +ao Ebiris Ebiris
03[20:02] * Koaway is now known as Kotono
[20:03] <Kotono> "Then, we'll do it tonight," Amaryl vows, "When you're ready to cast the spell."
[20:08] <Kotono> ---
[20:08] <Kotono> OOC: What's on your agenda now, Seira?
03[20:09] * Ebiris is now known as Alicia
01[20:09] <Seira> OOC: Let's hit the temple of Waukeen together and see whether Waukeen is amenable to a fun fun planar adventure for us? I'll try for the anklet.
[20:16] <Kotono> OOC: Okay.
[20:16] <Kotono> ===
[20:17] <Kotono> Amaryl and Seira are about to head to the temple of Waukeen. As they are just about to leave, they notice Donald's at the front door. Commander Oberuth stands in front of him, the two talking together.
01[20:18] <Seira> "Commander," Seira greets, nodding at him. "Donald. Anything going on?"
[20:22] <Kotono> "Yes. A few days ago, a pair of goblins came to the garrison with a letter they claimed was written by you. I came to check it's veracity." He withdraws the letter from his tunic. "It looks like yours."
01[20:23] <Seira> "And that's my seal," Seira affirms, squinting at the paper and then pointing it out. "I'll reserve a magical one for next time, Sir. I just didn't expect to be hiring while walking through the woods."
[20:26] <Kotono> "I didn't expect to have goblins come calling, so I'll call it a wash." Taking the letter back once it's examined, "Why'd you bring them here? They said you persuaded them after an ambush went wrong."
[20:28] <Kotono> "Goblins?" Donald looks to SEira out of the corner of his eyes, "Did we need some arrow decoys?"
01[20:29] <Seira> "That's pretty much what happened," Seira agrees, before elaborating. "After convincing them that holding people up was a bad idea, I found out that they didn't want to be slaves to the giants and that the only skills they had were as mercenaries."
06[20:29] * Seira shrugs. "Humans aren't the only ones in the guard, and we reform criminals who genuinely want to change. Why not give a similar chance to our neighbors?"
[20:31] <Kotono> "Why not?" Oberuth shrugs, "I didn't expect I'd have a half dragon Colonel here, or a pixie angel or whatever else. Goblins are only mildly unusual these days," With a shake of his head, "Alright, as long as it's legitimate, they'll get a shot."
01[20:32] <Seira> "I conceived the following idea when confronted with the situation," Seira tells Oberuth. "Local guides. They know the terrain better than most of our men. We could pair patrols with the goblins as we send those out into the Barbarian Lands. After they've undergone a certain period of acclimation and learning our rules."
[20:33] <Kotono> "They're not half bad archers, if untrained," Oberuth agrees, "I'm having them work with the archery units and Pollyanna's keeping an eye on them. That's about the best use for them that I can think of, too."
06[20:35] * Seira nods. "I certainly hope more will follow, once we present a viable alternative to the giant domination." She glances at Amaryl. "Want to see if you could help Pollyanna with the training, if you get the time?"
[20:37] <Kotono> Amaryl nods, "Of course, Seira."
[20:38] <Kotono> "Carry on," Oberuth turns to go, "Oh yes, I don't know if you've heard, but I almost forgot. There was another devil incident a few days ago. ESthan."
01[20:39] <Seira> "You can set them on fire if they give you lip over being an elf," Seira tells Amaryl, turning fully towards her. "We have great healers--" At Oberuth's words, she pauses. "I think Elle mentioned that he stopped to drop off some books? It must've been a shipping mistake. I didn't order those."
[20:44] <Kotono> With a thin smile, "Alicia's gone to Ysgard to seek training. Be careful, she said she was outmatched by him."
01[20:47] <Seira> "I heard that as well," Seira says evenly. "Sir, I believe I would like to take the Shard along. Esthan seems unconcerned with Balmuria itself, so the chances he will strike it while we are not present are slim. It is far more likely I will encounter him elsewhere if he decides to come after me, and that is our only means of holding him back."
[20:48] <Kotono> "...Take it," Oberuth says after a moment's consideration. "Where are you going now?"
01[20:50] <Seira> "I need to work off some frustration, so we were on our way to the temple of Waukeen," Seira responds. "It is my hope that Waukeen has need of me somewhere filled with evil people I could punish in her name."
[20:51] <Kotono> "Go ahead. When your'e done with that, report to the garrison, as I'll need to talk to you fairly soon. But for now, go on." Oberuth turns away fully now. "Travel careful, SEira."
01[20:52] <Seira> So much to do, so little time! "Of course, Sir!" Seira agrees, and with a wave at Donald proceeds to her destination.
[21:01] <Kotono> After a quick stop by the garrison to pick up the Hammer of the Shard, Amaryl and Seira come to meet Mia. She meets them at the altar, "Oh, back already," Preening briefly over her robes and vestments, "What can WAukeen do you for you?"
01[21:04] <Seira> "The last time? It was a warm-up!" Seira declares brightly. "We wanted to ask Waukeen if she allowed us to take on a quest together to reform that creepy anklet."
[21:05] <Kotono> "I don't think this ritual works that way..." Mia scratches her nose, "Pray to Waukeen? Maybe she'll make it so?"
06[21:07] * Seira expected as much, and has come fully prepared to petition Waukeen properly once her intentions were made clear to Mia.
[21:14] <Kotono> OOC: d1000?
01[21:14] <Seira> roll 1d1000
05[21:14] -batcave.dejatoons.net:@#evildunes- Kotono invited Hatbot into the channel.
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01[21:14] <Seira> roll 1d1000
06[21:15] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d1000 and gets 381." [1d1000=381]
[21:15] <Kotono> Seira prays for a time. Amaryl joins her as well, kneeling besides her.
[21:15] <Kotono> roll 1d1000 why not
06[21:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d1000 why not and gets 477." [1d1000=477]
[21:18] <Kotono> Seira and Amaryl pray for a time. Nothing seems to happen to it, however. When Amaryl finally stands up, stretching her back out, "Did anything happen?"
01[21:19] <Seira> "Not terribly sure," Seira admits. "A lot of my prayers go like this. In fact, all of them do. That's why, when I really need to ask Waukeen something, I ask Gilartal for help."
[21:20] <Kotono> "That's why it's called faith?" Amaryl hazards that, as Mia shakes he rhead. "I don't see anything's changed. Maybe make an offering to her?" With a little shrug as she thinks, "It might be worht a chance."
01[21:25] <Seira> "Helm answers to Demedais," Seira mutters quietly. "An offering?" she asks, raising her voice. She mulls over this. "The principle is solid, Mia. We need to prove our conviction, and it often takes more than words. Also, by requesting an exception to the established rules, we must carry an added burden. Some of that price might well be represented by a worthy offering."
06[21:25] * Seira takes off her amulet and places it on the altar. "I don't really know if Waukeen would see this as acceptable, but lowering my defenses seems suitably symbolic, here."
[21:30] <Kotono> "Oh Waukeen, take this offering of magic and  value," Mia prays, "Listen to the pleads of your loyal servants who seek to enrich you and your earthly church!"
[21:34] <Kotono> The pendant glimmers on the altar, before turning to solid gold! The gold spreads apart into large golden coins, each one stamped with a stylised face of Waukeen. The coins fall in a pattern, spelling out, 'The deal is accepted.'
06[21:35] * Seira beams!
[21:37] <Kotono> "Oht, hat actually worked." Mia looks at the altar, going to scoop up the coins. "I guess she liked the price."
01[21:38] <Seira> "Your intuition as Waukeen's priestess is excellent!" Seira compliments Mia, musing, "It's nice when everyone's happy."
[21:42] <Kotono> "So what were you going to take out? That anklet, you said?"
06[21:46] * Seira nods at that. "It's very unique, and so should represent a unique challenge!"
[21:59] <Kotono> "Alright, I'll go get it and come back." Mia's gone a little time, then the anklet is there. She begins to pray, calling forth on Waukeen! "Alright," she says, "Touch it to understand, Seira."
06[21:59] * Seira does so without delay.
[22:08] <Kotono> You and Amaryl must travel to the Plane of Shadow. Travel to Halla in the Shadow Plane and strike Shadow's Breath with a sword of the sun's light.
[22:08] <Kotono> OOC: GAh.
[22:09] <Kotono> You and Amaryl must travel to the Plane of Shadow. Travel to Halla in the Shadow Plane and strike Shadow's Breath with a sword of the sun's light. During this time one of you m ust wear the bracelet of shadows. Doing so will make you undo a shadow, barely able to interact int he world. Choose wisely.
06[22:09] * Seira pales.
[22:10] <Kotono> "Seira?" Amaryl is at her side, "What's the matter? You're so pale!"
01[22:10] <Seira> "It's a horrible place of horrible things. Anyone would be," Seira responds faintly.
[22:12] <Kotono> "Where is?" Amaryl presses.
01[22:12] <Seira> "Halla. On the Plane of Shadow."
[22:13] <Kotono> Amaryl shivers at the last word, taking Seira's arm. "It...it must be a for a good reason." she whispers, "To go to that accursed realm."
01[22:15] <Seira> "The last time I was there, Shar's servants knew of my arrival within moments." Seira shivers. "I couldn't outrun them. Things start to blur, later, but I don't recall anything going by Shadow's Breath while there, and I really have no idea how to strike it with a sword of the sun's light."
[22:16] <Kotono> "There must be a hidden meaning to that." Amaryl considers, holding Seira close. "A sword of the sun's light?"
[22:16] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6
06[22:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 and gets 7." [1d20=1]
[22:17] <Kotono> "I can't think of anything, but perhaps it's symbolic? Maybe magic that creates daylight?"
01[22:18] <Seira> "I have fire. Even divine fire, in a pinch." Seira relaxes in Amaryl's grasp, thinking over Waukeen's message.
01[22:18] <Seira> roll 1d20+20
06[22:18] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+20 and gets 28." [1d20=8]
06[22:28] * Seira begins to calm down as her ingrained rational thought processes take over. "Right. So we'll need a really rare bastard sword much like this one," she says, holding up the Resort, except it's all glowing and golden. At least that means we don't have to actually go to the Plane of Shadow until then. I think."
01[22:29] <Seira> roll 1d20 where would I be likeliest to find one?
06[22:29] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20 where would I be likeliest to find one? and gets 8." [1d20=8]
01[22:33] <Seira> "Mia, would you mind asking Gilartal for his presence?" Seira asks, waiting until the acolyte follows her request and leaves them alone before kissing Amaryl.
[22:34] <Kotono> Amaryl returns it and blushes fiercely! "S-Seira, in p-public," she glows like a cherry red fire ember.
01[22:35] <Seira> "No one ever looks at the altar," Seira tells her, not sounding particularly apologetic. "I just had to do it, before the curse made me all scary and creepy."
[22:36] <Kotono> "Still!" Shaking her head and putting her hands to her cheeks, "Um...um..." She doesn't get much coherent out before Mia returns. "Ah, Seira? Sorry, he's meeting with someone from the Desert Fiefdoms and Kelara. Delicate trade negotiations, I couldn't even get in the room."
01[22:40] <Seira> "It happens," Seira says with a shrug. "I'd feel bad if I took Gilartal away from that. I do wonder who I could ask to plane shift us. I figure Lathander's realm is the place to start looking for glowy sun blades, but as for getting there? I don't think even Elle could, so we'll need to rely on the clergy for help."
[22:40] <Kotono> "I can hav eyou summoned as soon as he's available," Mia offers.
06[22:41] * Seira consider that. "I'd really appreciate that," she tells her honestly. "Now, all that remains is accepting the curse. Let's go see the Commander after that, Amaryl? He did want to talk about something, and it seems like we have a bit of time left."
[22:44] <Kotono> Going to the garrison, you find Commander Oberuth in the briefing room. Once the two of you sit down, "I thought you were leaving."
01[22:46] <Seira> "It turned into a planar trip, so we're waiting on Gilartal to become available," Seira responds. "What did you wish to discuss, Sir?"
[22:46] <Kotono> "A few things. First of all, I understand you're looking into creating pathways that allow instant travel between places?"
01[22:48] <Seira> "Almost true, Sir. I intend to use a star formation where every spot linked to the portal network has to cross the hub. It, in turn, would be very much defended by magic, traps and able men."
[22:49] <Kotono> "From what I've heard and read, it could make overland travel far less important. The implications are staggering if you're successful." Steepling his hands together, "How possible is it? How long?"
06[22:51] * Seira considers the various aspects of the question. "Waukeen had recently hinted that retaining and developing other, more mundane means of travel is still important," she decides to start with. "But the implications for success are quite important, yes.
01[22:51] <Seira> Only the Guard, those present here today and Lord Salman know of these intentions so far, although the heads of the aligned temples in Balmuria would be filled in as the project reaches practical implementation." (more)
01[22:54] <Seira> "How possible it is? Well, Sir, I both have a place in mind for a hub, and an example of a working portal linked to it. I have the magical means to replicate the enchantment to fixate a portal. All I need are the funds to go ahead with the project full tilt, and the scrolls to open the initial portals. The latter could be seen as a subset of the former, in many ways.
01[22:54] <Seira> Time is, thus, a function of the funds I have available."
[22:58] <Kotono> "I know Lord Salman gifted you with money for the first portal to Victoria." He nods to that, "Knowing you, yes, it's going to happen. How much money do you need?"
01[23:01] <Seira> "It takes under fifteen thousand for a stable portal in a single direction," Seira says with a wince. "Lord Salman helped me along, yes, but even with his funding I don't yet have enough to create a one-way portal, not to mention working on the return trip."
[23:02] <Kotono> "Expensive, but I would think so, otherwise it might have been done before," Oberuth runs a hand over his chin, "If it's successful, perhaps Lord Salman will contribute more to others? The economic and military applications grow bigger the more I think on it.
[23:02] <Kotono> "
06[23:04] * Seira nods. "Perhaps. My goal is to start with Kesse, Sir, since that is one market we simply cannot reach by mundane means. Nothing would demonstrate the usefulness of the networks as much as a stable, two-way portal there and caravans guided by Waukeen making use of it."
[23:06] <Kotono> "Sensible but we'll need our defenses in order. While Shar's dogs are dead, I've heard what you plan to do over there. Projecting power that far and having a way to come easily to our realm could be exploited. The reports you gave lead me to think war's less of a possibility and more of an inevitability."
01[23:07] <Seira> "Come easily to our realm?" Seira asks with a smile. "It would be anything but easy."
[23:09] <Kotono> "That's the idea." Oberuth smiles right back. "The point stands. IF Sanaxt or the other one gets into a war with Kesse..."
01[23:10] <Seira> "It does," Seira agrees. "We might well avert it yet by such a blatant display of magical might, so I'm not ready to give up just yet. Caution, however, will be the order of the day."
01[23:10] <Seira> "In case you would like to invest as well, Sir, you could talk to Demedais," Seira says then. "He's been placed in charge of gathering the scrolls we need."
[23:11] <Kotono> "I may. There's various mundane details to be worked out. But since Lord Salman is interested, most of them will work themselves out."
06[23:12] * Seira is hopeful for the future!

[Corwin]

[18:36] <Kotono> OOC: You were going to wait for Gil to catch up with you?
01[18:36] <Seira> OOC: Yep
[18:38] <Kotono> The rest of the day passes without incident. That evening, after the sun sets and the city settles down for another night, Seira and Amaryl meet with Gilartal. He's yawning and resting deep in his chair as they enter his chambers. "Profit onto you," he murmurs. "What did you need to see me about?"
03[18:40] * bleen is now known as tai-meltingintoexhaustionandpu
01[18:40] <Seira> "The quest we're about to go on requires us to head to Lathander's realm, for a start," Seira says, not sounding entirely certain. She doesn't let that stop her, however. "I've been hoping you could help us."
03[18:40] * tai-meltingintoexhaustionandpu is now known as tai-meltingintoexhaustion
[18:41] <Kotono> "Lathander's realm?" Rubbing his eyes clear, "What good can I do you if you're going there? Besides transport, I suppose?"
01[18:43] <Seira> "Since it's a quest just for us two, asking for you help in getting us started was all I was hoping, yes."
[18:45] <Kotono> "I could," Gilartal eyes the two, "In the interests of being completely forthright with you, you may also want to consult with Claris in Valandia. As I recall, he worships Lathander?" Smothering a second yawn into his hand, "He would know more specific and useful information than I, likely."
01[18:47] <Seira> So does Donald, although Claris is an actually sane choice Seira had forgotten about. "Once I've left Balmuria, I would be under a curse," she voices. "I'm not entirely certain how to approach Claris without causing panic."
[18:49] <Kotono> "Sending?" Amaryl voices, "That could work."
[18:50] <Kotono> "That is a problem, though," A quick agreement to Amaryl, "Or other matters. Why do you need to go to Lathander's realm, regardless?"
01[18:51] <Seira> "Could I trouble you for that, then?" Seira asks Gilartal, nodding at Amaryl's words. "I wouldn't be able to cast the spell until tomorrow at the earliest, and I don't want to wait too long before leaving." The more she delays, the longer there is time for hesitation to appear. "I was thinking of looking for a Sun Blade in his realm."
[18:54] <Kotono> "Very well." Gilartal stands up, "Best tod o it immediately, before my tiredness overwhelms my concentration entirely. What is the message you wish to send?"
06[18:58] * Seira considers the message for a minute. "Seira needs to meet you confidentially. Will try to teleport over with Amaryl. Where could you meet her? Might be slightly undead." She tilts her head. "How about that?"
[19:01] <Kotono> "Slightly undead," Snorting violently, "This will go over like a man who can't pay his debts. Very well. I'll be back after the spell's cast." Gilartal is gone for several minutes, returning without incident. "To quote: Official temple room we met at last time. I will be prepared. Come at dawn."
06[19:03] * Seira can't help but worry what Claris will be preparing for. "I might as well put Shadow's Breath on, then. No time like the present to see just how slightly it will be."
[19:05] <Kotono> Seira puts the anklet on! Her entire body blurs, shivering all over! Her skin turns into wisps of black, her feet lifting off the ground as she floats in the air! (More in PM.)
[19:09] <Kotono> "S-seira?" Amaryl comes over to Seira, looking at her. To Seira, the world seems dim, out of focus, somewhat hazy. Like looking at a reflection of the world through a glass prism.
01[19:10] <Seira> "Told you I had to take my chance while I still could," Seira says, smiling crookedly.
[19:10] <Kotono> Gilartal stares openly, "Waukeen's treasury! You really do look like a shadow."
06[19:11] * Seira gestures at her boots. "How about trying those on, Amaryl? They're a magical, one size fits all pair."
[19:12] <Kotono> "O-okay," Amaryl looks down at Seira's feet, "Will they still be all shadow-like when you take them off?"
[19:12] <Kotono> OOC: Strike.
[19:13] <Kotono> "O-okay," Amaryl looks down at Seira's boots, kneeling down to put them on and tie them up. "So we'll leave at dawn then?"
01[19:13] <Seira> "That's the plan. Think we'd better ask for a room at the temple so we don't freak anyone out on the street?"
06[19:14] * Seira tries to call upon the power of her earrings to see if they could shift her appearance to a livelier one.
[19:16] <Kotono> Nothing happens when Seira attempts to call on the magic.
06[19:19] * Seira dismisses it altogether, prefering to remain a shadowy half-dragon. "Lagann?" she voices, holding out the golden chakram. "Can you do something with this?"
[19:22] <Kotono> Seira can see the chakarm float in the air, shadowy and blurry, moved by Lagann.
01[19:24] <Seira> "Enough tests for now, I suppose," she muses. "I always see the world so vibrantly, especially after I messed around with that deck. Now?" Seira sighs in dejection. "Let's just find a room. You'll sleep and I'll... float or something to pass the time."
[19:25] <Kotono> OOC: Skip along some then?
01[19:26] <Seira> OOC: Yes
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[19:39] <Kotono> The night passes without incident. Amaryl rises an hour before dawn, bathing and and eating in that time before preparing. Once dawn looms, the eastern sky starting to lighten, "Ready?" Amaryl asks Seira.
01[19:42] <Seira> "Almost," Seira responds, holding out a hand. "Can you give me one of your arrows, please? Not the silver ones, but just the a regular arrow."
[19:48] <Kotono> Amaryl holds out one of her normal arrows on request.
06[19:49] * Seira tries to grasp it!
01[19:49] <Seira> roll 1d20+5
06[19:49] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+5 and gets 15." [1d20=10]
[19:50] <Kotono> It takes a great force of will, but Seira is able to touch the arrow, taking it into her hand!
[19:50] <Kotono> OOC: Gah.
[19:50] <Kotono> It takes a great force of will, but Seira is able to touch the arrow, taking it into her hand! It turns shadowy like her, grasped and in her possession.
06[19:51] * Seira examines it for a bit, before casting green faerie light on it and letting it drop from her hands.
[19:52] <Kotono> The arrow returns to solid-ness once out of Seira's possession. The faerie fire stays on it even after dropping.
06[19:53] * Seira nods curtly. "Alright. We can do this! Amaryl, you'll need to be my eyes, since I can't see too far into the material world. And my diplomat, I suppose, so that good-meaning people don't try to help me pass on before my time."
[19:54] <Kotono> "A-alright," Amaryl nods hesitantly. "I will."
01[19:54] <Seira> "I've had time to worry over it tonight, and I'm thinking positively again!" Seira says cheerfully. "Get your ride and I'll teleport us to Claris's temple?"
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[20:10] <Kotono> "You want me to bring a pegasus here?" Amaryl asks.
03[20:11] * Ebiris is now known as Alicia
01[20:11] <Seira> "I could fly, and we might need to go to places where you'd need that, too," Seira reasons. "Even if I memorized a spell, it'd only work the once. I figure Waukeen wouldn't give me any abilities I didn't possibly need for this quest, since I'm not exactly your regular shadow."
[20:13] <Kotono> "Okay..." Amaryl blushes and hurries off. About a half hour later she returns with Gurren, leading the pegasus through the temple. Priests partw ay outside, a few trailing to stare and gawk. Mia hurries behind Amaryl and Gurren, holding her hands up. You can hear her call, "Hold on, there's no cause for alarm. It's just a pegasus! It's just visiting a guest here!"
06[20:15] * Seira stopped by with her own pegasus before, and it never really was cause for panic. She chides herself for not considering the possibility, but it is too late by then. As soon as Amaryl is near, she'll reach for her and try to teleport them over to Valandia, just before the temple to Lathander.
[20:16] <Kotono> OOC: I'll assume you make charisma checks until you get intouch with the two, then teleport? roll a d100.
01[20:17] <Seira> roll 1d100
06[20:17] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d100 and gets 4." [1d100=4]
[20:22] <Kotono> Woosh! Sunlight isa ll around you. You appear in the upstairs chambers of the Temple of Lathander in Valandia. Light shines in as the dawn's rays are magnified. The sunlight seems too bright to Seira's eyes, painful, overwhelming. Amid the searingly bright light stands Claris.
06[20:23] * Seira winces. "Ah, Claris. Could you turn off the sun, please?"
[20:27] <Kotono> Claris approaches without hesitation, though you can dimly catch vision of others. Others in white and gold robes, hanging back. "What has happened to you, Seira? Answer me first." Claris is in front of you, blocking a bit of the too bright sunshine. Mercifully for your eyes.
06[20:30] * Seira holds her arm to cover her eyes. "I suppose something was lost in the Sending. Confidentiality implies discretion, doesn't it, Amaryl?" Even as she asks that, Seira points at her shadowy feet. "I'm on a quest from Waukeen to break Shar's vile hold on this anklet. And you can't gain something without paying for it, right? We need Lathander's help, so you were our first choice."
[20:32] <Kotono> "These men are trustworthy. I had to be certain miserable had befallen you. Did it not before with the balor Gurlan?" Peering at her, "I understand. What aid do you need to break this vile curse, then?"
[20:32] <Kotono> *something miserable
06[20:34] * Seira would glare at Claris if she could. "Oh, sure, bring up another depressing chapter of my past as I'm relieving one already. And I was upfront with you that time as well, wasn't I? You know Gilartal, is he the kind of man who would entrap you?"
[20:36] <Kotono> "Seira, I apologize, but I will not take light chances." Claris says, "Better safe than dead."
01[20:37] <Seira> "I guess that's where we differ," Seira says, before grumbling, "Can you do something about the light? It really hurts, I'm not just saying that."
[20:38] <Kotono> "This way," Claris leads you out of the room, into a hall that's far less bright. Seira can see better here, her eyes not overstimulated by bright sunlight.
06[20:41] * Seira sighs in relief as soon as they've left Claris's chambers. "The shades, they did nothing," she complains, taking them off. "So, back to the curse. The quest is two-fold.
01[20:41] <Seira> First, we need to seek out a Sun Blade. Going to Lathander's realm seemed like our best chance, and you would know more than anyone both where to head and be able to help us get there, too. Next, we need to head to Halla on the Shadow Plane with the blade in question. This latter part makes me wonder just why Waukeen--"
01[20:41] <Seira> Noticing that her hand is shaking, Seira grabs it with the other to still it. "Right. First, the Sun Blade."
[20:44] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
06[20:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 17." [1d20=2]
[20:50] <Kotono> "Those are sacred blades of Lathander. Yes, I doubt any lie in easy finding in this world," Claris frowns to that, "I would not think they would be given lightly; they are the gifts to high champions of Lathander. I may be able to find out more if I consult holy texts, my memory fails me."
01[20:51] <Seira> "We probably can't leave until the next dawn anyway, can we?" Seira asks, frowning. "I should've put a request for help with planar travel into my message. I doubt you have those sorts of spells ready normally, after all."
[20:54] <Kotono> "No. Follow me, it will be best if I escort you to private quarters for the day, so there is no chance of a panic." Claris says, and lower, "Sorry Seira. I don't intend to inflict unneeded distress on you in a time of trial."
01[20:55] <Seira> "It's... okay." Seira sighs. "Sure, it's depressing that I scare people and my appearance makes little kids cry. But I chose this for myself, even knowing what was likely to happen."
[20:57] <Kotono> "You're doing the right thing, even if it's hard." Amaryl comes to Seira, hand passing on and through Seira's arm. "The right thing isn't usually the easy thing, is it?"
06[20:58] * Seira focuses on her hand, trying to reciprocate. "It's usually me who goes on lecturing about needing to deserve the rewards through putting in effort and personal sacrifice," she says, smiling. "It'll be okay."
01[20:58] <Seira> roll 1d20+5
06[20:58] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+5 and gets 12." [1d20=7]
01[20:59] <Seira> Seira's smile slips slightly.
[21:00] <Kotono> Seira is lead to a room on the second floor, escorted by Claris. It's a plain guest room, windowless save for one that has thick curtains drawn over it. It's not fancy, but it's dim. Pleasant. "I'd put you in a better room, but all of our honored rooms have large windows to let in sunlight," Claris says, "Apologies."
01[21:01] <Seira> "I wouldn't be able to enjoy it, anyway," Seira says honestly. "I'll just take you somewhere nice afterwards," she adds for Amaryl's benefit.
[21:01] <Kotono> OOC: Are you going to do anything but cool your heels here?
01[21:03] <Seira> OOC: I'll wait, really.
[21:04] <Kotono> The day crawls by. Later in the afternoon, Claris returns. He brings a thick, old, yellowbound tome with him. "Seira?" he asks as he enters.
01[21:05] <Seira> "Still here," she calls back, floating in the center of the room. If she thinks about it as swimming and closes her eyes, it's actually quite relaxing.
[21:06] <Kotono> Going to a plain wood table in the room and placing the book down, "You can read Celestial, yes?"
[21:06] <Kotono> Amaryl sits on the bed, reading a thin booklet as she waits. She looks up at this, approaching Claris.
06[21:07] * Seira floats over as well. "Sure."
[21:10] <Kotono> Claris taps a page. It flows around an image, of an armored man holding a sword of golden sunshine, lines of light coming from it. The snippet reads 'The Swords of the Burning Sun are the sign of Lathander's favor. Please him in this world for his most devoted shall be gifted with them.' "It goes onto say a few pages later that Lathander gives them to servants who please them, as well as some of his personal heralds."
[21:12] <Kotono> as well as some of his personal heralds."
06[21:12] * Seira nods to that. "It's consistent with what I've expected. How could someone who doesn't serve him outright gain such a blade, however?"
[21:13] <Kotono> "Our clergy in this world is still weak and small. It is growing at a good speed, but such a boon is not one we can give out. Perhaps one day." Claris lets his hand fall away from the book. "To find a servant of Lathander or to summon one, or to go to his realm would be our best chances."
01[21:14] <Seira> "The latter is still my choice," Seira affirms. "I figure landing a blow against Shar's darkness is something Lathander would get behind, right?"
[21:18] <Kotono> "Yes.  However, in your current form, caution would be the watchword." Steepling his hands together, "Lest one make a mistake and a battle is joined before words can bring peace."
01[21:20] <Seira> "If it were easy...." Seira says, trailing off. "Anyway, it's not like just anyone could take me out before I got a chance to talk to them. Although I admit to being curious if I read as a shadow to your magical sense or not, Claris."
[21:25] <Kotono> "One way to find out," Claris invokes a few words under his breath, holding his holy symbol. After, he nods. "You do. As a faint one, but you do."
01[21:27] <Seira> "Order's Wrath would work on me and everything?"
[21:29] <Kotono> "Order's Wrath?" Claris looks puzzles, "I don't see how this would be a question of law or chaos. Good or evil, perhaps so."
01[21:29] <Seira> "Faint Evil, check. Faint not life, check?"
[21:31] <Kotono> "I cast to detect undead, not evil or law." Claris shakes his head again, "I don't have detection for evil memorized today. I can get another to cast it if you wish."
01[21:32] <Seira> "Nah, we could check come morning, just before we leave. You'll need enough plane shifting spells to get back as well. You said you'd help, right?"
[21:32] <Kotono> "I did. Until tomorrow then," Claris rises, "I must go prepare."
01[21:33] <Seira> "If I could trouble you for some basic information on where we're going, that would help," Seira admits. "I was never that interested in the planes, and I'm paying for that now."
[21:36] <Kotono> "Ah. The House of Nature is the realm of Lathander and other aligned Gods, such as Chauntea, Mielekki and Silvanus. It rests in the realm of Elysium. Where Lathander rules, it is said that it is always high noon. When those who revere Lathander pass from this world, they are born in the sun beams that shine down on His realm."
01[21:37] <Seira> "Seems like you'll be my eyes in more than one way," Seira says, glancing at Amaryl speculatively. She nods to Claris. "Sounds painful. Where should I head while there, if I want to seek out the help of powerful yet intelligent servants of Lathander?"
[21:39] <Kotono> "Dawnspire is the tower of Lathander. It touches the sun itself on it's highest layer, where Lathander holds formal court or councils of war against evil. The closer you get to it, the more followers and settlements that live under His norishing sunlight."
06[21:40] * Seira considers this. "A direct approach. I like it! I'll beat the stupid ones who won't listen to reason until they cry, and ask for help with my mission as I go along, even if I have to end up petitioning Lathander himself!"
[21:41] <Kotono> "
[21:41] <Kotono> "Cautious and soft, Seira," Claris rises, "Prepare for the morrow, for I will be here at dawn."
01[21:42] <Seira> "Right. Since I'm going to be there, want me to pick anything up for you? Something for the temple, as thanks for the help?"
[21:43] <Kotono> "Holy symbol, sacred texts, anything you can," Claris answers.
01[21:43] <Seira> "It's a promise."
[21:43] <Kotono> OOC: Skip ahead once you have your spells set?
01[21:44] <Seira> OOC: Yes
[21:45] <Kotono> OOC: Lemme know when you're set.
01[21:45] <Seira> OOC: Done
[21:48] <Kotono> Claris comes over the next morning. He's in golden robes, freshly cleaned and with a mace on his belt. Once he enters, "Are both of you ready to leave?"
01[21:49] <Seira> "Pretty much. Let's aim for Dawnspire, then!"
[21:50] <Kotono> Once the three manage to unite hands, Claris calls on the power of Plane Shift! Reality b ends around you, twisting and warping! (More)
[21:50] <Kotono> roll 5d100
06[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 5d100 and gets 317." [5d100=7, 99, 70, 44, 97]
[21:53] <Kotono> So bright. The sunlight dazzles Seira. It's bright all over. The sun dominates the sky, warmth filling everything with radiant sunlight. It's outright blinding for Seira: She can hardly see ten feet ahead of her face.  "Oh! It's so gorgeous!" Amaryl gawks, "I feel...like I'm home."
06[21:54] * Seira closes her eyes with a sigh. "I'm conflicted. It's nice, yes, but you don't mind guiding me, do you, Amaryl?"
[21:55] <Kotono> "Take my hand," Amaryl extends outwards.
06[21:55] * Seira tries to!
01[21:55] <Seira> roll 1d20+5
06[21:55] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+5 and gets 12." [1d20=7]
01[21:56] <Seira> "It's not as easy as it might seem," Seira laments.
[21:56] <Kotono> 'Try again," Amaryl urges, offering her hand out. "You can do it, Seira."
[21:56] <Kotono> Meanwhile Claris is looking about, eyes fixiated on the burning-bright sun.
01[21:57] <Seira> roll 1d20+5
06[21:57] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+5 and gets 6." [1d20=1]
01[21:57] <Seira> roll 1d20+5
06[21:57] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+5 and gets 24." [1d20=19]
[21:58] <Kotono> Third time is the charm! Amaryl takes Seira's hand! "Come on, Sir Claris," Amaryl says as she leads Seira along. Claris looks forward, "A-ah." After murmuring a quick prayer to Lathander, he follows along as well. OOC: Content with skipping along a bit?
01[22:00] <Seira> "Here," Seira says, dropping a ring into Amaryl's palm. "I can't really use it now, and you might need it if someone just goes and attacks without listening, first."
[22:01] <Kotono> "My role here is done," Claris begs off, "Travel safely, both of you. This place...I know from my studies that if I do not leave soon, I never will."
01[22:01] <Seira> "I was about to say that, but was hoping you would bring it up," Seira agrees, opening her eyes to look at Claris as he leaves, despite the pain. "I appreciate your help."
[22:02] <Kotono> "Travel with Lathander's life and aid," Claris bids, "May your quest reach a fruitful end."
01[22:04] <Seira> "We're together. How could we possibly fail?" Seira asks with a smile, settling comfortably on the pegasus next to Amaryl, although that takes far more effort than she makes it seem.
01[22:04] <Seira> OOC: Skip along?
[22:04] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[22:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 61." [1d100=61]
[22:05] <Kotono> roll 1d6
06[22:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6 and gets 1." [1d6=1]
[22:05] <Kotono> You walk for a little time, in a strange happy, pained daze. Keeping track of how long is hard, but Amaryl stops. "Wait, Seira," she says, "I see something coming towards us. It's like a glowing white ball."
01[22:06] <Seira> "How far is it?" Seira asks, knowing it would be futile to look herself.
[22:07] <Kotono> "About one hundred...no, ninety feet," Amaryl reports. "No, eighty. It's not hard to see...seventy now. It doesn't look dangerous or hostile."
01[22:08] <Seira> "Try greeting it?" Seira offers. "We might as well ask for directions."
[22:08] <Kotono> "Hello?" Amaryl calls. "Hello there?"
[22:09] <Kotono> "Hi!" A child-like voice calls, then, "...aaaaa!"
[22:09] <Kotono> "...um...it's running," Amaryl says, her cheerful words dropping.
01[22:10] <Seira> "Lantern Archon?" Seira chances. "Could you not run away, please?" she calls after the fleeing ball of light, raising her voice. "I need your help. If you're scared, you don't have to come closer, and I won't chase you!"
[22:10] <Kotono> OOC: Make a diplo check, -10?
01[22:10] <Seira> roll 1d20+15
06[22:10] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+15 and gets 19." [1d20=4]
[22:12] <Kotono> "Aaaaa!" No answer from it, but Amaryl does. "It's still going." With a sigh, "Let's hurry on. I can see something far on the horizon, Seira. Let's go to it and see what it is?"
01[22:14] <Seira> "Next time, let's try introducing ourselves first? It might help," Seira suggests, not letting the incident get to her. "And let me know when we're close enough to that something on the horizon? I've got a spell that would help me be more persuasive. You too, if you'd like!"
[22:22] <Kotono> "Right," Amaryl says agreeably, "I'll keep a watch out." The dazzling sunlight is even stronger, somehow. It's so bright here, so overwhelming. "Let me know if you need anything, Seira?"
01[22:23] <Seira> "I'm... surprisingly comfortable. If I just hold on to you and close my eyes."
[22:26] <Kotono> Amaryl reaches back, hugging Seira. "It's okay. I'll be the strong one today. I think I can do that."
[22:27] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[22:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 48." [1d100=48]
[22:30] <Kotono> After another hour or so, Amaryl speaks up, "Seira, something's coming. Several somethings. They look humanoids but have wings like gold."
06[22:31] * Seira casts Voice of the Dragon upon herself, before reaching out towards Amaryl and trying to do the same.
01[22:31] <Seira> roll 1d20+5
06[22:31] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+5 and gets 20." [1d20=15]
06[22:31] * Seira follows it up with Heroism, for good measure.
[22:32] <Kotono> The spells are cast! Amaryl peers ahead, "They're not trying to hide. Four of them - they're wearing armor, too. Angels, I think?" she says in a shaking voice, "Like Latha when she visited the court. They're so beautiful to look at, but I'm scared, too."
01[22:32] <Seira> "We're starting at a disadvantage, but remember that we're on a holy quest. Justice is with us," she tells Amaryl while they have the time. "And our story is so strange no one would try lying with it."
[22:35] <Kotono> "Right," Amaryl says. A few moments later, "Halt!" A powerful, commanding voice bellows in the sky, "In the name of the Morninglord!"
[22:37] <Kotono> "Seira?" Amaryl whispers back to her an instant later. "You heard that, didn't you? Obey them?"
01[22:37] <Seira> "Of course," Seira says aloud, thinking to Amaryl, 'How far away are they?'
[22:38] <Kotono> 'About 120 feet and closing,' she answers.
01[22:38] <Seira> "We came to see the Morninglord," Seira says loudly, "so we would follow legitimate orders given in his name, naturally."
[22:40] <Kotono> "We come in peace and for aid." Amaryl raises her voice, "We are not going to attack."
[22:42] <Kotono> Closer now, the voice sounds, "I see a creature of shadow. Identify yourself and why you have come to this realm, then. What aid do you seek?"
[22:43] <Kotono> "The shadow you see is Seira, a noble warrior who is trying to break the curse on one of Shar's vile t-tokens!" A slight stutter, but otherwise Amaryl's voice is in control. "In pursuit of this we need a Sun Blade and have come to this realm for that."
01[22:43] <Seira> "Even though I hold this form on the outside, can't you see past that, honored servant of Lathander?" Seira asks. "As Amaryl had said, this is but a curse from Shar's leftover influence."
[22:45] <Kotono> There is brief discussion amid the angels, voices only faintly heard. "Come with us," The angel commands. "We shall resolve this matter with one who can see past the follies of magica nd illusion, to see the heart of the matter."
01[22:46] <Seira> "Of course," Seira repeats. "A shame we had to meet under such circumstance, but like I said, my name is Seira and this is Amaryl. What about you?"
[22:50] <Kotono> "I am Staralia," The angel's voice - a man's voice, you think - declares. Thus your flight heads down. As it does, 'Oh! They're leading us to a small city, Seira.'
01[22:51] <Seira> 'If I scare any kids there, apologize for me, please?' Seira sends back.
01[22:52] <Seira> "Nice to meet you," she voices out loud to the angel.
[22:55] <Kotono> 'I will,' Amaryl soothes. Soon you touch down on the ground. Seira can see a city around her dimly, lead along. You come inside, at last to somewhere where your eyes function on a meaningful level. It is a warm house, decorated with furs and gold. Behind and around you are four angels, fearsome and clad in light golden armor. One turns to you, the voice of Staralia. "You may sit if you desire. I will return in a moment."
[22:55] <Kotono> "You may sit if you desire. I will return in a moment."
01[22:55] <Seira> "I really can't. I have to float all the time until I break the curse," Seira responds with an apologetic shrug. "Nice to finally put a face to the name, too."
[23:00] <Kotono> A nod before he vanishes back. Soon he comes with a woman of unsurpassed beauty. It is like looking on a ray of the morning's sun, her hair light-white. Her face is radiantw ithout being overpowering. Not a flaw is on her body, everything perfect. She wears gold full plate armor from head to toe, yet walks without a sound. Her eyes take onto Seira, "It is true. Behind the mask of shadows likes a creature with a noble, true heart and apperan
[23:00] <Kotono>  "It is true. Behind the mask of shadows likes a creature with a noble, true heart and apperance. An anklet is clamped to her ankle like a poisoned leech."
06[23:03] * Seira is briefly speechless, and it's hard for her to stop herself from thanking the beautiful angel. "Seira of Balmuria, here from Prime." She focuses on manifesting her hand before trying to place it on Amaryl's shoulder. "Amaryl, likewise. We're on a quest to destroy Shar's vile hold on the anklet in question."
01[23:03] <Seira> roll 1d20+5
06[23:03] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+5 and gets 6." [1d20=1]
06[23:04] * Seira winces, and retracts her hand.
[23:05] <Kotono> "I am a Dawnbringer, a Planetar in the service of the exalted Morninglord." Her voice seems to make the light more bearable. "Tell me, what in your quest brings you to the House of Nature?"
01[23:09] <Seira> "There was a conflict on Prime, between our forces and the servants of Shar," Seira starts with. "We prevailed, but far too many relics remained behind. After they sacrificed something priceless to me to that vile thing, it was only proper to retaliate in kind, won't you agree? As long as I get to see Shar's influence exorcised and the magic in the anklets used for good, a curse is nothing!"
01[23:09] <Seira> She pauses. "I appealed to Waukeen, and she said I had to return to the place of that battle, Shar's stronghold, on her plane of residence and strike the anklet down with a Sun Blade. What better place to find it than Dawnspire?"

[Corwin]

[16:21] <Blondezilla> >  "It is true. Behind the mask of shadows likes a creature with a noble, true heart and apperance. An anklet is clamped to her ankle like a poisoned leech."
[16:21] <Blondezilla> * Seira is briefly speechless, and it's hard for her to stop herself from thanking the beautiful angel. "Seira of Balmuria, here from Prime." She focuses on manifesting her hand before trying to place it on Amaryl's shoulder. "Amaryl, likewise. We're on a quest to destroy Shar's vile hold on the anklet in question."
[16:21] <Blondezilla> <Seira> roll 1d20+5
[16:21] <Blondezilla> * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+5 and gets 6." [1d20=1]
[16:21] <Blondezilla> * Seira winces, and retracts her hand.
[16:21] <Blondezilla> > "I am a Dawnbringer, a Planetar in the service of the exalted Morninglord." Her voice seems to make the light more bearable. "Tell me, what in your quest brings you to the House of Nature?"
[16:21] <Blondezilla> <Seira> "There was a conflict on Prime, between our forces and the servants of Shar," Seira starts with. "We prevailed, but far too many relics remained behind. After they sacrificed something priceless to me to that vile thing, it was only proper to retaliate in kind, won't you agree? As long as I get to see Shar's influence exorcised and the magic in the anklets used for good, a curse is nothing!"
[16:21] <Blondezilla> <Seira> She pauses. "I appealed to Waukeen, and she said I had to return to the place of that battle, Shar's stronghold, on her plane of residence and strike the anklet down with a Sun Blade. What better place to find it than Dawnspire?"
[16:26] <Blondezilla> "Sun Blades are rarely loaned or given to outsiders," Dawnbringer proclaims, her voice enrapturing. There is a magnetism to it that attracts attention, no, demands it. "Your quest is not without merit, however."
01[16:27] <Seira> "Because rarely is not never," Seira notes, agreeing. It should just be illegal to be this pretty and flawless.
[16:30] <Blondezilla> Amaryl stares, nodding along with Dawnbringer. Her eyes are wide, stuck on the angel. "There is a way you can prove yourself worthy of one, the Bringing of the Radiance."
06[16:32] * Seira is hardly different from Amaryl in that regard, she just hides it much better. "It is a given that I'll make the attempt. Can you tell me what I should do, Dawnbringer?"
[16:36] <Blondezilla> "Deep in the wild recesses of the House of Nature, in Mielekki's realm, lies an ancient fortress shrouded in eternal night. Travel there and bring a glorious dawn to it's blackened skies."
06[16:38] * Seira startles at the name. Could she-- but what are the odds, really. She forces herself to focus on the task before her. "How can even a corner of the House of Nature be shrouded in night, Dawnbringer?" she asks, not really understanding and resolving to learn more about the planes the next chance she gets.
[16:39] <Blondezilla> "That is a question you will understand when you arrive," Dawnbringer says, "Will you accept this task, Seira?"
01[16:40] <Seira> "Of course," she responds instantly. "I'm still not clear on the means to do so, mind, but it sounds like I'll understand it when I get there and you wouldn't send me on a task you thought was beyong my abilities at present, right?"
[16:43] <Blondezilla> "Correct. From here, travel under the sun's light for two days. You will then enter Mielekki's realm, where you will find the path to lead you to your goal." Dawnbringer stands and leaves, coming back with a scroll. PResenting it to Amaryl, "It is likely that your friend's form will incur other incidents. This bears my word that you are not a threat to this realm."
01[16:44] <Seira> "I told you there would be nice people who'd understand!" Seira tells Amaryl happily, floating around her in circles.
[16:49] <Blondezilla> "Thank you," Amaryl stands and bows, before grinning to Seira. "I had thought so. This is paradise."
[16:50] <Blondezilla> "The two of you may leave when you wish. Do you require food before you go," Dawnbringer inquires. "Natural food will not be difficult to find on the way, either."
01[16:51] <Seira> "I don't know if I need to eat like this," Seira admits, "but some food for the road would be great, if only for Amaryl. We won't forget your kindness, so if you're ever on Prime, feel free to stop by!"
[16:55] <Blondezilla> "I thank you for your kindness." One of the other angels hurries away, coming back with a travel sack. It bulges with fruits and vegetables, and also comes with a waterskin. He presents it to Amaryl, who opens it up, smiles and puts it away. "Thank you so much."
01[16:57] <Seira> "Let's go?" Seira offers to Amaryl. "It's probably important to follow directions precicely, so we won't teleport along the way."
[16:58] <Blondezilla> OOC: Skip along a bit then?
01[16:58] <Seira> OOC: Sure
[17:00] <Blondezilla> roll 1d100
[17:00] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=48 ]{48}
[17:00] <Blondezilla> roll 1d100
[17:00] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=36 ]{36}
[17:01] <Blondezilla> The day passes. Twice you encounter celestials under the blinding sun - one group of Hound Archons on a pilgrimage, the other a lone Astral Deva. Both relent when Amaryl shows them the scroll, little coming of it. While there is no night here, Amaryl makes camp at the right time, choosing to rest. "Do you want to keep watches, Seira?" she asks.
01[17:03] <Seira> "I'm afraid that's rather futile," Seira admits. "I can't see too far even if I make the effort. Lagann probably has a better range than I do, right now. I could just prepare an Alarm spell tomorrow if you think we'll get sneak-attacked here."
[17:06] <Blondezilla> "I doubt it, but...go ahead? It never hurts to be prudent." Setting up camp, "How do you feel, Seira?"
01[17:08] <Seira> "Really happy. Didn't think I'd be camping in heaven with you so soon. Might need to invest in better shades," Seira says thoughtfully, floating about idly. "For tonight, I'll just ask Lagann to keep a watch and float underground so no one spots me and attacks. Tomorrow, I'll have Alarm up and everything."
[17:09] <Blondezilla> "It's so nice here...I worry a little that we may never go home after this, but...Even if that's true, I'm okay with that as long as you're here, Seira." Amaryl smiles with warmth that rivals the blinding sunlight.
06[17:10] * Seira really hopes that they do, since being undead for the afterlife would be a pain. And she likes seeing past her toes. Even so, she can't help but think it would work out, smiling back.
[17:12] <Blondezilla> roll 1d100
[17:12] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=29 ]{29}
[17:12] <Blondezilla> The' night' passes without incident. OOC: Seira, switching spells?
01[17:13] <Seira> OOC: Seems prudent
[17:15] <Blondezilla> OOC: Let me know when you're done?
01[17:17] <Seira> OOC: Done
[17:20] <Blondezilla> The next day begins, travel resumed! As it goes...
[17:20] <Blondezilla> roll 1d100
[17:20] <Blondezilla> roll 1d100
[17:20] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=56 ]{56}
[17:20] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=40 ]{40}
[17:22] <Blondezilla> The second day of travel is a blur for Seira. It's too much sun and brightness, a headache throbbing in her head. Despite that, she loves it here. It's a strange combination, leaving her feeling confused. But as Amaryl begins to slow down, yawning, she exclaims, "Oh look! Seira! I can see forests ahead now! That will mean shade, too."
01[17:23] <Seira> "And right on cue, too!" Seira agrees. "Want to rest here, or make the push and get to the shade, first?"
[17:23] <Blondezilla> "Let's get in the shade," Amaryl says, hurrying.
06[17:24] * Seira does her best to follow suit.
[17:26] <Blondezilla> Aaah! Shade! AS you step in under the trees the sunlight is diluted. Brightness becomes tolerable, Seira's eyes able to see. You stand at the edge of a thick, well grown forest. It's peaceful here, birdsong and burbling brook noise filling her ears.
06[17:27] * Seira sighs in relief. "It feels even better here," she murmurs, settling down next to a large tree and gesturing for Amaryl to come closer.
[17:29] <Blondezilla> Amaryl does so, curling up near ghostly Seira. "It's like home. It smells just like it...so good." Closing her e yes, "One of the good things about Pallanth. Not that I miss it."
01[17:31] <Seira> In response, Seira starts reciting the very poem Amaryl was reading with Donald, taking her time.
[17:37] <Blondezilla> roll 1d100
[17:37] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=65 ]{65}
[17:42] <Blondezilla> The rest passes well enough. In the morning, Amaryl is eating breakfast. AS she munches down an apple, a sound is heard. It's the sound of a horse neighing, coming froma head somewhere.
01[17:43] <Seira> 'Want me to hide and let you handle it?' Seira asks telepathically, halway hidden in the tree's trunk.
[17:44] <Blondezilla> 'Go ahead.' Amaryl says, standing up.
06[17:45] * Seira disappears from sight entirely, staying close enough that should Amaryl need her, she would be right there.
[17:46] <Blondezilla> "What is it?" Amaryl can be heard shortly later. Then, 'Seira, there's a unicorn here! It's pressing aside some branchers with it's horn, showing an animal trail. It's starting tow alk down it, stopping to look back at me every few feet.'
06[17:46] * Seira flies back up. This must be the path Dawnbringer was talking about, and a clear invitation for them to follow!
[17:47] <Blondezilla> Ahead, Seira can see a little animal trail in the forest. A unicorn leads the wall, a slightly small one. It has a mane of blonde fur, keeping a fast pace as it proceeds on.
01[17:49] <Seira> "Let's go, then," Seira suggests. They'll have to proceed on foot, but that's not really a problem with the sun's glare mitigated here.
[17:59] <Blondezilla> The two take to the walk, heading along. The unicorn stays a few hundred feet ahead, often just glimsped. It's a wild path, overgrown at points but steadily leading deeper and farther in the forest. Hours pass by in this way. As you do, you notice the sunlight creeping in through the trees is lessening.
01[18:01] <Seira> "So this is what she meant," Seira muses, looking up to see if the sunlight seems to be disappearing naturally due to the abundance of flora.
[18:05] <Blondezilla> "Yes," Amaryl hurries along. After a little more, the sunlight has ceased. It's like a quiet night has settled over the forest. The only source of light is the unicorn - it's horn glows with radiance as it falls back, only twenty feet ahead now.
01[18:06] <Seira> "If you need more light, just tell me," Seira says quietly, herself able to see perfectly and feeling a bit guilty over that.
[18:08] <Blondezilla> "I'm fine," Amaryl says. With that, the two proceed on. Ahead, the forest thickens in an impenetrable screen. Here the unicorn stops, turning it's gaze right to Seira.
06[18:09] * Seira looks back at the unicorn curiously. "We're supposed to proceed on our own?" she asks, gesturing ahead.
[18:11] <Blondezilla> The unicorn nods, looking Seira in the eyes all the while.
06[18:12] * Seira floats closer to the screen of trees, so that she might tell whether Amaryl could make her way through them.
[18:13] <Blondezilla> It's thick, but one could pass through with some effort.
01[18:14] <Seira> "Could you look after Gurren?" Seira asks the unicorn, turning back. It would be horrible if he were just eaten by something while waiting for them.
[18:16] <Blondezilla> The unicorn goes over to Gurren, the two looking eye to eye. Then the unicorn goes back to Seira, bowing it's head at her.
01[18:17] <Seira> "Thanks!" Seira waves Amaryl over. "I'll scout ahead, but won't get too far. You're comign, right?"
[18:17] <Blondezilla> "Of course," Amaryl says, falling in step with Seira.
06[18:18] * Seira thus floats ahead through the foliage!
[18:31] <Blondezilla> Ahead, Seira sees that the foliage. In the center, in perfect black, rests a forgotten citadel. It's defensive walls are vacant and covered with fines. A river runs in front of it, no bridge across it's rapidly running waters.
01[18:33] <Seira> It certainly seems like a trial for Amaryl. And she had a pegasus along, too! Seira floats closer to one of the sturdier-looking vines, seeking to cut through it with the Resort and use it to help Amaryl get across the river.
[18:38] <Blondezilla> Many of the vines are thick and heavy, Seira able to take her pick of good ones. OOC: How are you using it exactly?
06[18:39] * Seira intends to find a reasonably lengthy vine of those that passed her initial check, and try to cut off one end. As long as she can carry it over to the other bank of the river, Amaryl could use it to climb across.
[18:49] <Blondezilla> This goes well enough. Amaryl eyes the vine, putting her bow away. "Climb it?"
01[18:51] <Seira> "I'm sorry, I didn't think we would need fly spells," Seira apologizes. "Just go over to this side slowly?"
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[21:04] <Blondezilla> With that, Amaryl starts to climb!
06[21:04] * Seira helps by imbuing Amaryl with Heroism, before watching over her!
[21:04] <Blondezilla> OOC: What's the boost on Heroism?
01[21:04] <Seira> OOC: +2 on saves/skills/attacks. Please take 10!
01[21:04] <Seira> OOC: I'll even aid if I can!
[21:06] <Blondezilla> OOC: You can try, sure. She can't take ten and make the DC as is, so she'll need to check.
01[21:09] <Seira> roll 1d20+5 trying!
[21:09] <Rei-chan> Seira rolled : 1d20+5 trying! --> [ 1d20=16 ]{21}
[21:10] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+4
[21:10] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+4 --> [ 1d20=2 ]{6}
[21:11] <Blondezilla> Amaryl starts to cross, but her muscles give out on her! With a cry she slips and falls into the river, splashing into the fast moving current!
06[21:13] * Seira tries to catch Amaryl before she's swept away!
01[21:14] <Seira> roll 1d20+5 cha
[21:14] <Rei-chan> Seira rolled : 1d20+5 cha --> [ 1d20=18 ]{23}
[21:15] <Blondezilla> OOC: Make a strength check, say, since you're trying to catch her?
01[21:15] <Seira> roll 1d20+5
[21:15] <Rei-chan> Seira rolled : 1d20+5 --> [ 1d20=6 ]{11}
[21:15] <Blondezilla> Fortunately, Amaryl is not heavy even with her gear Seira grunts and is able to catch her, flickering between shadow and reality!
06[21:17] * Seira struggles to help Amaryl over to the opposite bank.
[21:18] <Blondezilla> Flying over, SEira is able to make it, muscles straining! Amaryl falls on the far bank, down on her knees. "Oh Seira!" She sighs, "Sorry! My grip gave right away when I tried to pull myself along."
01[21:20] <Seira> "Don't worry about it," Seira tells her, shaking her head. "We should've prepared better. Spending a few moments to make a knotted rope would've helped you across easily, but I guess I got caught up in the moment." Calling on the magic of prestidigitation, Seira spends several moments to help Amaryl dry her clothes.
[21:22] <Blondezilla> Once dried, Amaryl stands. "Let's find an entryway to this now, or do you want ot just fly in?"
01[21:24] <Seira> "It would be inconsiderate to our hosts if we didn't try and go through the front gate," Seira responds. "Besides, we don't know the situation. No one said we actually had to get to the center of the citadel, and we might miss out on some important clues by taking a shortcut."
[21:27] <Blondezilla> Thus, the two advance ahead! The gate into the place is a long closed wood gate barred with a dark metal. It looks very sturdy and solid.
06[21:28] * Seira has scrolls of Knock, naturally, but first sees if there is a lock she could force open.
[21:28] <Blondezilla> OOC: Searching?
01[21:28] <Seira> roll 1d20+23 yes
01[21:28] <Seira> roll 1d20+23 also, traps
[21:28] <Rei-chan> Seira rolled : 1d20+23 yes --> [ 1d20=20 ]{43}
[21:28] <Rei-chan> Seira rolled : 1d20+23 also, traps --> [ 1d20=15 ]{38}
[21:28] <Blondezilla> Seira finds a lock mechanism in the center, binding everything together. She doesn't find any traps, though.
06[21:30] * Seira gets her tools, trying to make the mechanism cooperate. Manifesting at will can only help her, here, by getting straight to the core of the device.
01[21:30] <Seira> roll 1d20+15 open lock
[21:30] <Rei-chan> Seira rolled : 1d20+15 open lock --> [ 1d20=7 ]{22}
[21:31] <Blondezilla> No dice. Seira tries once but can't get it to go.
06[21:32] * Seira spends a bit more time positioning her tools just right, before trying again as many times as needed.
[21:32] <Blondezilla> OOC: Taking 20?
01[21:33] <Seira> OOC: I could roll 20 times
01[21:33] <Seira> OOC: Yes  >_>
[21:35] <Blondezilla> Fiddling with the lock awhile, Seira gets it to pop! The metal bars part and lift up, the gates folding open! Ahead is what looks to be a classical styled courtyard. Lying in it, surrounded by grasses...Seira's breath quickens. A gemstone the size of a large boulder rests there, as black as midnight's hues.
01[21:36] <Seira> If there was ever a time to cast Detect Magic....
[21:38] <Blondezilla> "Oh..." Amaryl gasps, hands to her mouth. "Is that...Is that a gem? Oh Seira, that...you could buy Pallanth ten times ovre with that!"
06[21:39] * Seira looks at Amaryl in surprise. "Any ideas? I don't see any magic, so can this really be related to the whole bringing the dawn back bit?"
01[21:39] <Seira> roll 1d20+10 I have appraise
[21:39] <Rei-chan> Seira rolled : 1d20+10 I have appraise --> [ 1d20=14 ]{24}
01[21:39] <Seira> OOC: Actually, +1, so 25
[21:44] <Blondezilla> "A gem that size, just sitting here? It must be," Amaryl shakes her head, "Most diamons are tiny! That thing must be thousand and thousands of carats!"
[21:44] <Blondezilla> *diamonds
01[21:44] <Seira> "You think anyone would mind if we took back a piece?" Seira wonders idly.
[21:45] <Blondezilla> "Let's worry about that after we finish? It would be a waste if we ruined our chances by doing that first thing," Amaryl considers,
[21:45] <Blondezilla> "Let's worry about that after we finish? It would be a waste if we ruined our chances by doing that first thing," Amaryl considers, "Maybe afterwards, just a little bit?"
01[21:45] <Seira> Nonetheless, she observes the diamond from close by. Perhaps it functions as a sun and merely went out? Then, she would need to reignite it.
01[21:46] <Seira> "Even a little fraction of a diamond costing in the tends of millions gold..." Seira says quietly, trailing off. Merely laying her eyes on the gem is enough to make her quite happy.
[21:47] <Blondezilla> The diamond looks flawless. It's cut surface reflects Seira's shadowy face a dozen times in each glance. "It's...amazing. Seira, even if we can't get a Sun Blade here, if we took that...we could just buy one somewhere else, couldn't we?"
01[21:49] <Seira> "I wonder whether that would be cheating?" Seira muses, reaching out to touch the diamond's surface. If it seems safe, she'll take a look inside it to see whether it's a normal diamond the rest of the way. 'Only horrible people would have such a blade after they killed its rightful owner and would be willing to just sell it. I don't want to finance them.'
[21:50] <Blondezilla> The gem is still a gem inside. It isn't hollow or anything.  "Well, maybe someone else would, someone good who has an extra." Going to run her hands along the surface, "It's cool to the touch, like ice."
01[21:51] <Seira> "Maybe," Seira allows, if skeptically, withdrawing from the enormous diamond and floating around to see what her options are now.
[21:53] <Blondezilla> There's a stairway on each of the four walls, letting one climb up to the battlements. There's adoor straight ahead, a small little attached stone room with a door in the southeast corner, and the gemstone. Amaryl lingers by the gem.
[21:53] <Blondezilla> OOC: Floating around or up or what? Gave you more detail now that you'r enot staring at the diamond.
01[21:53] <Seira> "Give me a moment to check out the battlements?" Seira requests, flying up and then making a sweep of the citadel's defenses.
[21:55] <Blondezilla> OOC: Make a search check?
01[21:55] <Seira> roll 1d20+23
[21:55] <Rei-chan> Seira rolled : 1d20+23 --> [ 1d20=20 ]{43}

[Corwin]

[17:34] <Kotono> > The diamond looks flawless. It's cut surface reflects Seira's shadowy face a dozen times in each glance. "It's...amazing. Seira, even if we can't get a Sun Blade here, if we took that...we could just buy one somewhere else, couldn't we?"
[17:34] <Kotono> <Seira> "I wonder whether that would be cheating?" Seira muses, reaching out to touch the diamond's surface. If it seems safe, she'll take a look inside it to see whether it's a normal diamond the rest of the way. 'Only horrible people would have such a blade after they killed its rightful owner and would be willing to just sell it. I don't want to finance them.'
[17:34] <Kotono> > The gem is still a gem inside. It isn't hollow or anything.  "Well, maybe someone else would, someone good who has an extra." Going to run her hands along the surface, "It's cool to the touch, like ice."
[17:34] <Kotono> <Seira> "Maybe," Seira allows, if skeptically, withdrawing from the enormous diamond and floating around to see what her options are now.
[17:34] <Kotono> > There's a stairway on each of the four walls, letting one climb up to the battlements. There's adoor straight ahead, a small little attached stone room with a door in the southeast corner, and the gemstone. Amaryl lingers by the gem.
[17:34] <Kotono> > OOC: Floating around or up or what? Gave you more detail now that you'r enot staring at the diamond.
[17:34] <Kotono> <Seira> "Give me a moment to check out the battlements?" Seira requests, flying up and then making a sweep of the citadel's defenses.
[17:34] <Kotono> > OOC: Make a search check?
[17:34] <Kotono> <Seira> roll 1d20+23
[17:34] <Kotono> <Rei-chan> Seira rolled : 1d20+23 --> [ 1d20=20 ]{43}
[17:39] <Kotono> The citadel's defenses are solid stone with mounted positions for archers to work. A few metal pots sit about as well. Nestled next to one, Seira finds a small book, having fallen between pot and wall. The smell of oil and smoke clings to this place as Seira sees the book.
06[17:41] * Seira tries to take the book!
05[17:42] -atarians.dejatoons.net:@#evildunes- Seira invited Hatbot into the channel.
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01[17:42] <Seira> roll 1d20+6
06[17:42] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 and gets 10." [1d20=4]
[17:44] <Kotono> Taking the book goes without incident, now in hand.
[17:44] <Kotono> OOC: STrike.
[17:44] <Kotono> OOC: Misread the numbers.
01[17:45] <Seira> roll 1d20+6 I'll try again!
06[17:45] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 I'll try again! and gets 10." [1d20=4]
[17:45] <Kotono> Seira's hand goes through the book like smoke in the air, twice in a row.
06[17:45] * Seira doesn't intend to give up, now that it's come to that.
[17:46] <Kotono> Seira now has the book in hand, after several more tries. "Find something?" Amaryl calls down from below.
01[17:47] <Seira> "Think so," Seira responds, floating back as she peruses the book curiously.
[17:49] <Kotono> It looks to be a journal of sorts. The first several pages are splattered with al iquid and ruined. Past those, it begins talking about the journey to Mieliekki's realm, to complete a trial put forth by agents of Lathander. The next entry reads the following: (More)
[17:52] <Kotono> Most of it is unsorted notes and ramblingas, if penned in here or there. "There's 12 dials. A clock's face????" "The gem's hard to move. Do we need it in there? I'm not sure. How do we move it??" "3rd: ???? Nothing happened???? 5th: Dangerous. 9th: DAngerous. 11th: Safe. Try more later." "It grows, then shrinks, then grows as the day passes? I don't get it."
06[17:54] * Seira drops the book next to Amaryl as she touches down, to allow her to read it as well. "Seems like the real goal is inside," she points out. "Let's go in and try the safe route first to see what the whole thing is about?"
[17:55] <Kotono> Amaryl takes the time to read the notes, "Hmph. It reads like a puzzle." Tucking the book into her backpack, "Okay, Seira. The door straight ahead, or that little attached room?"
01[17:57] <Seira> "I'm tempted to just go ahead, but you're right, let's examine the room by the southeast first," Seira responds after a moment. "It doesn't seem like a part of the puzzle, so we might find something useful to us there."
[17:59] <Kotono> HEading to the little attached building, Amaryl finds that the door opens without trouble. Inside lies a few old but clean beds. A fireplace still has old ashes lying in it, a window letting in a few rays of sunlight. There's a bookshelf with a few scattered books about, resembling the one Seira found, as well as quills, inkpots and various writing supplies.
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01[18:03] <Seira> If nothing particularly glows with magic, Seira will just brief through the scattered books, asking Amaryl to help with skimming through their contents.
[18:06] <Kotono> No magic about. The books are all unused, blank pages one and all. There's nothing else of note around that Seira sees as this occurs. "It's almost like this room is a hostel," Amaryl looks about it, "Will this trial take that much time?"
01[18:08] <Seira> "It might take days," Seira muses. "Especially since it's difficult for me to prepare for several different situations. Let's not think about the time and try to solve the puzzle we were handed?" She gestures towards what seems like the main entrance. "Time for us to see what the dials mean."
[18:10] <Kotono> The two head under the cover of eternal night to the door leading deeper into the citadel. Past it, there is a stairway going straight up, long and broad. Just before it are doors to the east and west, one crafted of glowing yellow quartz and the other of luminencent purple quartz.
01[18:11] <Seira> There would be time to explore those. For now, Seira decides to head up.
[18:14] <Kotono> The stairs go up several stories, the darkness absolute. Only the pair's darkvision allow them to see at all, climbing higher and higher! At last, you come to the top! Here, a long, square room stretches out in every direction. On the far wall is a circle, twelve points to it at regular patterns.  To the left and away from that a bit are a pair of levers. As you see this, a stone slab rises out of the ground in front of the wall, hovering i
[18:14] <Kotono>  a stone slab rises out of the ground in front of the wall, hovering in place and glowing with green faerie fire.
06[18:16] * Seira checks to see whether the clock's hands are pointed at a particular hour.
[18:17] <Kotono> Coming closer, you can see that the clock's 'points' are in fact dials. They are all set to the bottom, pointing down. There's no hands, just the circle of a clock's face. Amaryl trots along with Seira. "Seira, were you any good with riddles as a child?"
01[18:19] <Seira> "If they had patterns or required me to memorize something," Seira responds, frowning. "But I would often outsmart myself or fail to see the forest for the trees. Quite embarrassing, so I have mixed feelings about riddles if I have to work on them on my own."
06[18:22] * Seira decides to examine the surroundings for magic, even as she adds, "From the notes and what we've found here, it's quite possible that affecting the dials on the face of the clock somehow affects the size of the diamond. If it became smaller, it would be possible to carry here to this pedestal, and in turn, the faerie light might turn it into a sun, lighting things up?"
01[18:22] <Seira> She shrugs. "We probably would need to set the time to dawn, like Dawnbringer told us to."
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[18:32] <Kotono> All about is an ambient aura of strong magic.
[18:32] <Kotono> "What about the slab there, then," Amaryl points at it, "There's writing on it, if you haven't looked since we got closer."
01[18:33] <Seira> "Just thought it was there to serve as a pedestal for the diamond," Seira admitted, taking a closer look.
01[18:33] <Seira> *admits
[18:34] <Kotono> Written in Celestial is the following: "The key to the way ahead is at the hour of Celestia and the highest point of the day."
01[18:36] <Seira> roll 1d20+11 planes, what is the hour of Celestia?
06[18:36] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+11 planes, what is the hour of Celestia? and gets 19." [1d20=8]
01[18:37] <Seira> "Highest point of the day would be noon, which figures as being important," Seira muses. "I'm still going to try and go with dawn for the other one, unless you have a better idea, Amaryl."
[18:38] <Kotono> "The hour of Celestia and the highest point of the day," Amaryl crosses her arms as her face screws into thought. "Oh, that would make sense for that. For the other, is there an hour or number associated with Celestia, something thatw ould have meaning for a riddle?"
01[18:39] <Seira> "There is no number assosiated with the Seven Mounting Heavens of Celestia," Seira says indignantly. "The seven clearly doesn't count."
[18:40] <Kotono> "Oh." Amaryl then laughs, "That makes sense, too. That wasn't too hard. So the 12th and the 7th dial, as if it was a clock face?"
06[18:42] * Seira mutters to herself, checking the dials from proximity. She is still a bit unclear of whether they are set manually, or the two levers she had spotted off to the left are responsible for moving the mechanism, and decides to spend a bit of time analyzing it.
[18:43] <Kotono> The dials are in perfect position according to the numbers on a typical clock face. It looks like you can turn the dials so that they point upward instead of downward. Getting up to the 12 dial will require flight or some acrobatics, though.
06[18:45] * Seira can certainly fly, and has the Telekinesis spell prepared, so that part at least would be a breeze. "How about we do this together?" she offers. "I'll fly up to the twelfth dial, and once you see me grasp it, reset the one corresponding to seven. I'll make my move then."
[18:45] <Kotono> "Right," Amaryl says, going into position, "Tell me when you're ready, Seira?"
06[18:46] * Seira is prepared, and since seven was listed first, gives Amaryl the signal to turn her dial as soon as she manages to properly materialize and grab onto her own.
[18:47] <Kotono> Amaryl turns the seventh dial! As it turns up, a light glows just above the dial, materializing as it points up! A yellow, glowing stone of pure quartz hovers in the air, big enough to fill up the palm of a hand.
06[18:47] * Seira turns the twelfth dial upwards, at that.
[18:50] <Kotono> Above the twelth dial, a purple luminesence appears! As the dial reaches it's peak, a stone of purple quartz appears there, the same size as Amaryl's.
06[18:52] * Seira blinks. "Huh. So we have the keys to the two doors below," she says, reaching out for the purple quartz. "Let's take this one, first, and return for the other afterwards?"
[18:53] <Kotono> The stone is cool like a night breeze in Seira's hand. "As you like," Seira sees Amaryl looking up, "You're so smart, too. You're going to tear through these if they're all like this, like a dire bear on a rampage."
01[18:55] <Seira> "I'm kinda flattered," Seira says, floating down with the quartz and heading downstairs. "But also, kinda vexed, since I didn't realize the part about seven until you pointed that out. But that's okay, since we make a great team and will breeze through the challenges!"
[18:56] <Kotono> As you walk, click-claking on the ground, "Oh, good! I don't think that would've been missed too long. As soon as you pointed out it's full name, it was obvious."
06[18:57] * Seira seems embarrassed. "Maybe. And right after I told you how I sometimes miss what's right there in front of me."
[19:00] <Kotono> "Well," Blushing now, almost lighting up the air, "Don't sell yourself short! We'll get these!" As you talk, you reach the doors below once more.
06[19:02] * Seira floats over to the purple-themed door. If the quartz in her hands doesn't cause a change in it, she would try pressing it against the door's surface.
[19:04] <Kotono> Once Seira is in front of the door, the purple quartz floats out of her grasp! It pulses with a blinding purple light, dazzling your eyes! As they clear, vision returning, you see the door of purple quartz is gone. A pitch black path lies ahead, lit only with a few fake torches, made entirely of purple faerie fire.
06[19:06] * Seira grumbles about the brightness, before floating over to Amaryl and grasping her shoulder. "Even if it's wasted, a Blur spell as an extra precaution," she says, imbuing Amaryl with the magic.
[19:07] <Kotono> "Thank you," Amaryl says, starting to walk ahead, "I'm not sure I'm worried about a fight in the Heavens, but..." She sighs, "I still feel so happy here. When I close my eyes a moment, I have vivid daydreams of settling down here with you, letting everything else go to whatever it will."
01[19:09] <Seira> "There could still be magical traps that could be fooled by something so simple," Seira responds, smiling at Amaryl's words. "And it's strange, isn't it? How merely being here is so blissful?"
[19:10] <Kotono> "I read a few of your books after we came here the first t-time," Blushing more now, "How mortal life is a prelude to eternal life in these worlds. It reminds me of how a child wants to be an adult so badly."
01[19:12] <Seira> "I suppose that's one way of looking at it," Seira agrees, nodding thoughtfully. "If we do really well in the life we have, we might even get to skip the death part and proceed onwards!"
[19:15] <Kotono> As you proceed downward of the hall, you come to where a tower has been built into the wall ahead, it's circular length half shown as it juts out. A wooden door leads into it. As you approach, a stone slab rises from the floor, glowing with purple faerie fire.
01[19:16] <Seira> More for them to read! Seira obliges.
[19:18] <Kotono> "Night is not a time of death, but only a time of sleep and preparation for another day's brilliant life. Do not fear the night, for Selune dances with Lathander, one following the other's lead forever." This one is written in Celestial as well. On being read, the slab sinks back into the floor, the words vanishing from the stone. The door then opens wide, showing a stairway ascending up the circular tower's interior.
[19:18] <Kotono> showing a stairway ascending up the circular tower's interior.
01[19:19] <Seira> "This would be the night route, then," Seira voices, heading up the stairway.
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[19:23] <Anastasia> "Selune dancing with Lathander? What a lovely image," Amaryl smiles as you begin tow alk, "The sun and the moon, forever in a romantic dance, one doomed to fade out of sight as the other rises into the sky?"
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01[19:25] <Seira> "It has a very strong charm," Seira agrees with a smile. "Though I'd see it as an endless chase than being doomed to fade out."
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[19:32] <Kotono> Thus you ascend up! The stairs go up a time, coming up to a small chamber. Here, in pitch black darkness, you see a pedestool. It has a slot for a small, palm sized stone. Above, the ceiling is painted with murals: Of the sun and moon, twined together and yet always apart. A voice whispers in your mind, 'Tell, how can the sun and the moon unite into unison at last?'
01[19:33] <Seira> "Eclipse?" Seira chances, responding with the first thing that came to mind.
[19:34] <Kotono> "Hm?" Amaryl says aloud, looking around, "W-" As she speaks, a chuckle sounds in her mind. 'Spoken wisely.' In the pedestool, a purple luminescense glows! The stone that opened the way past the purple quartz door lies there now. 'Take your spoils of victory, wise one.'
01[19:36] <Seira> "Thanks!" Seira responds out loud, since it's obvious whatever guardians this citadel has can hear her. She briefly fills Amaryl in on the telepathic conversation through their bond, while going to claim the stone.
[19:37] <Kotono> "I heard it, too," Amaryl says aloud, "But you answered so quickly!" Seira takes the stone, holding it in her hand once more.
01[19:40] <Seira> "I wonder whether dusk and dawn would also qualify," Seira muses, leading the way back to the room with the clock. "I see the moon and the sun together on those a lot."
[19:41] <Kotono> "Maybe there was more than one answer?" Amaryl trots back down with Seira, the two reaching the stairway leading back up to the clock-dial chamber above without incident. "Some riddles can be answered in several ways."
01[19:42] <Seira> "That's what I'm banking on," Seira agrees. "You take the next one! It's bound to be the sun path, and I'll probably be blinded and in pain and have a headache on top of that. Not best for concentration."
[19:44] <Kotono> "Right," The two head back upstairs. As you do, you see that the stone slab here has changed color: This time glowing with black faerie fire. Amaryl goes to take the yellow, glowing stone.
01[19:44] <Seira> "Let's see how the diamond is doing outside?" Seira proposes. "Before we open the next door, I mean."
[19:45] <Kotono> "Okay," Amaryl says as she has the stone in hand, "Oh, it's warm!" Going to the slab, glancing at it, "Oh Seira, the writing changed!"
06[19:46] * Seira floats over to take a better look!
[19:47] <Kotono> Written in Celestial once more: Unite Day and Night together in front of the sun to create the beginning of the miracle of dawn.
01[19:50] <Seira> "So if I have the representation of night, and you've got day, we need to place them by the diamond?" Seira muses. "Then we should probably just go through the other door first or whoever's administering the test might think we're cheating."
[19:50] <Kotono> "Okay," Amaryl agrees, "Lead on then, Seira? You're the one who understands this better than I do."
01[19:52] <Seira> "A lot of this is just conjecture," Seira tells her with a shrug, leading the way to the golden door as requested. "We can't do much without a goal, so even a temporary one coming about from speculation is fine! If we learn more as we try to approach it, we can always adjust!"
[19:53] <Kotono> Reaching the golden door, the stone in Amaryl's hand floats up! A blinding flash of yellow light dazzles you, and when you can see again, the door ahead is open! A dark path is ahead, lit only by torches made of pure yellow faerie fire.
06[19:54] * Seira floats ahead, pleasantly surprised by the fact that the pain to her eyes was merely momentary.
[19:55] <Kotono> Ahead, you come to a tower, much like the path on the purple door. Identical, in fact. A stone slab coated in yellow faerie fire rises at just the same time as the other one did, too.
06[19:55] * Seira waits for Amaryl to approach it first, floating by her side.
[19:57] <Kotono> Amaryl approaches it! You can read the following: :Creation is the key to everything, yet one must not forget the blade of destruction. For the sun's rays can destroy if focused too harshly, burning away with fire.
[19:58] <Kotono> As it's read, the wooden door opens wide, showing a stairway going up.
01[20:01] <Seira> "Fire. I can deal with fire," Seira says, taking the lead once more.
[20:03] <Kotono> You come up into a room! A pedestool is here, a yellow, glowing stone sitting on it! It is surrounded by a cone of pure, bright white light from above, covering it in a sheath of illumination. Yet a shadow stays over the stone proper, keeping it in the center of the cone, yet unlit.
01[20:04] <Seira> "As expected," Seira says in resignation.
[20:05] <Kotono> "So what do we do here?" Amaryl asks, eyes on Seira.
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06[20:10] * Seira sighs. "It would probably hurt quite a bit. There is a certain chance that you would be allowed to pass without too much trouble, but I could also be wrong, and I'll never forgive myself if I asked you to do something like that." But promises of destruction and bright light seem very painful, so Seira decides to try another option.
01[20:10] <Seira> "It's not really cheating if I'm merely using all the resources at my disposal," she says, invoking Telekinesis and trying to pull the glowing yellow stone through the curtain of light and shadow towards her."
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[20:19] <Kotono> Seira pushes the stone through the curtain of light! As it passes through, the stone catches aflame! It exits the cone of light burning into ash, fading into nothing at all. A few moments later, the stone reappears in the center of the cone, where it was before.
[20:20] <Kotono> "Ah, it burned a stone up? That must be as hot as magma to do that!" Amaryl gasps.
01[20:21] <Seira> "Or it actually does count as cheating," Seira mutters. While the spell is still active, she tosses a copper coin in the air and guides it towards the curtain of light with her mind.
[20:24] <Kotono> The coin enters the cone of light! It shudders and melts down as it hits the light, bubbling into molten copper that quickly sizzles away into nothingness!
06[20:27] * Seira decides to try and discharge the spell's energy at once in a single, powerful thrust! She flings the stone towards her, seeking to get it through the defenses before it burns up, and catch it on the other side.
[20:28] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6
06[20:28] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 and gets 11." [1d20=5]
[20:29] <Kotono> Seira thrusts out of the gem quickly! But not quickly enough - before it gets out, the stone cracks and begins to melt! The stone hurtles towards Seira, the light in it fading as it crackles into hissing liquid, fading away. A moment later, it has returned to the center of the cone.
[20:30] <Kotono> "Hm," Amaryl eyes the entire process, "Getting it out fast doesn't look like it'll work. We need another way to approach this problem, then?"
01[20:32] <Seira> "Next plan it is," Seira agrees, getting another copper piece and considering it. She casts Darkness upon it, before tossing the coin in the direction of the deadly cone.
[20:33] <Kotono> The coin flies into the cone! It lands near the middle, the darkness momentarily stopping the cone of ilght - but then it's started to be pushed back, shrunken in duration and distance quickly!
06[20:36] * Seira repeats the process, but rather than throwing this coin keeps on holding it as she heads for the pedestal, relying on her memory. She invokes the Haste spell and Waukeen's gift to her beforehand, so that even if the protection lasts just for a little bit, it might just be enough!
01[20:38] <Seira> roll 1d10+10 FL
06[20:38] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d10+10 FL and gets 19." [1d10=9]
[20:39] <Kotono> OOC: Make a dex check, +7 bonus? Also make a charisma check, to see if you can grab the stone.
01[20:39] <Seira> roll 1d20+14 dex
06[20:39] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+14 dex and gets 27." [1d20=13]
01[20:39] <Seira> roll 1d20+6 cha
06[20:39] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 cha and gets 13." [1d20=7]
[20:41] <Kotono> Seira reaches out! She has the speed to do it, but there's a problem! She fails to grasp the stone! The darkness is being pushed away quickly, her hand still out around the stone she can't grasp! OOC: Go ahead and act and try again or withdraw or whatever.
06[20:41] * Seira won't get another chance like this until the next day, and thus tries again!
01[20:41] <Seira> roll 1d20+6 cha x2
06[20:41] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 cha x2 and gets 17." [1d20=11]
[20:42] <Kotono> OOC: MAke a dex check?
01[20:42] <Seira> roll 1d20+14
06[20:42] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+14 and gets 16." [1d20=2]
[20:42] <Kotono> With all her speed, Seira is just able to get the stone out in time! It doesn't fade away or melt, untouched by the searing lights!
06[20:44] * Seira stops well away of the fiery cone, before concentrating on the darkness and dismissing the magic altogether. "Barely safe?" she chances, taking a look around.
[20:45] <Kotono> "Got i1" Amaryl smiles from ear to ear, peering down at the yellow stone Seira holds. "Well done!"
01[20:47] <Seira> "Magic's nice and useful like that!" Seira agrees happily. "Let's go see if the writing's changed again?"
[20:47] <Kotono> "Back to the clock room then?" Amaryl says, starting to walk downstairs.
01[20:49] <Seira> "Yep!"
[20:49] <Kotono> On returning, you find that the text on the slab hasn't changed. IT still glows with black faerie fire.
01[20:50] <Seira> "Let's see if we're right about the diamond, then," Seira decides, leading the way out.
[20:51] <Kotono> The two return back outside into the night, the huge diamond sitting where the two left it before.
01[20:51] <Seira> "I'm worried about the levers," Seira admits. "Are they just for show, then?"
[20:52] <Kotono> "We can try them if we go back there?" Amaryl asks.
01[20:53] <Seira> "Let's see if bringing both keys over to the diamond won't change anything, first," Seira decides after mulling it over. "We'll just have to bet on not being able to utterly make an unrecoverable mess of things if we get something wrong."
[20:54] <Kotono> The two go over to the diamond! As you approach the diamond, the two stones begin to glow a little brighter.
06[20:56] * Seira offers Amaryl the purple stone. "Want to be Selune? I'll be Lathander!"
[20:56] <Kotono> 'Okay!" Then Amaryl laughs and blushes horrifically, "That means, um...you're the well...you're the man?"
06[20:58] * Seira laughs herself. "There's no deep meaning to it. If this stone gets warmer, it won't bother me as much, right?" With those words, she continues to approach the diamond.
[21:00] <Kotono> The two reach the diamond, the stones glowing more as they stand there right before it.
06[21:01] * Seira touches her stone to the one in Amaryl's hands after several attempts that go astray. "Caught you!" she says with a smile.
[21:02] <Kotono> The two stones unite! There isa  flash of light, thes tones shattering into dust! The dust sprinkles over the diamond, which shrinks! It is now the size of a basketball, much reduced in stature. It glows with black faerie fire for several seconds.
06[21:03] * Seira just stares, as soon as her eyes adjust and the pain recedes. "This was the quickest I've ever seen two dozen million gold vanish up in sparkles."
[21:04] <Kotono> "It's still bigger than any other precious gemstone I've seen is," Amaryl leans down, picking it up and holding it to her chest. "It's bigger than my head still!"
01[21:05] <Seira> "You know, I really wanted a small bit of it," Seira grumbles. "If only to bring back and show everyone a black diamond. And to make you something out of it."
[21:06] <Kotono> "Well, now what?" Holding the gem, "
[21:07] <Kotono> "Well, now what?" Holding the gem, "What do we do now, Seira?"
01[21:07] <Seira> "Black faerie fire to black faerie fire," Seira responds instantly, already floating back inside. "The writing did mention it would only be the start!"
[21:12] <Kotono> The two return to the clock room! Here, the center of clock's wall has recessed, a slot for an object just about the size of the gem. The slab of stone flaots there, covered in white faerie fire.
06[21:13] * Seira goes to read it, just in case.
[21:14] <Kotono> In Celestial once more: From the darkness, the birth of light will come. Night will once again change to day, lighting the sky above.
01[21:15] <Seira> "I think it's safe," Seira tells Amaryl with a nod. "Let's usher in the dawn."
[21:18] <Kotono> "Right," Amaryl goes to the wall, reaching up and slotting the black diamond in! As it's placed in, the gem turns into a white diamond! Brilliant sunshine comes from it, a ray from it angling upwards...but the ceiling is in the way! It diffuses on it, the entire room suddenly becoming very uncomfortable!
[21:18] <Kotono> roll 1d12 damage, divine typed, you can take an action after this
06[21:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d12 damage, divine typed, you can take an action after this and gets 2." [1d12=2]
[21:19] <Kotono> "Aaaah!" Amaryl staggers, "It hurts! Seira, what's happening!?"
01[21:22] <Seira> "The levers!" Seira exclaims, pointing at the nearest one. "Turn that one!" For her part, she floats closer to Amaryl and tries to make contact even briefly.
01[21:22] <Seira> roll 1d20+6
06[21:22] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 and gets 21." [1d20=15]
[21:23] <Kotono> OOC: Doing anything or just making contact/holding on?
06[21:23] * Seira imbues Amaryl with Draconic Might through that touch!
[21:25] <Kotono> AS Amaryl is strenghtened, she pulls the nearest level towards her! The ceiling pushes upwards, rising up smoothly several feet with that pull, before the lever resets it's position! Meanwhile, more burning light fills the room!
[21:25] <Kotono> roll 2d12
06[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d12 and gets 9." [2d12=1, 8]
[21:25] <Kotono> "Ugh!" Amaryl grimaces, "We're on the right track? Try the other one or pull this one in a...ow! in the other way?"
06[21:28] * Seira tries pulling the other lever in the same direction Amaryl had. "I think you're going about it the right way!" she calls over to her, asking for Lagann to pitch in as well!
01[21:28] <Seira> roll 1d20+6 cha
06[21:28] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 cha and gets 12." [1d20=6]
[21:29] <Kotono> Lagann is able to pull the level's metal, even if Seira is not! AS he pulls, the ceiling begins to retract, sliding back and opening up the sky! But it's not fast enough, even as it opens, more of the beam's light searing!
[21:29] <Kotono> roll 3d12
06[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d12 and gets 21." [3d12=11, 7, 3]
[21:29] <Kotono> "It's working," Amaryl cries even as the three of you are blistered by the light, going to the level and pushing it in the same direction, "Give this one all we have!"
01[21:29] <Seira> All Seira can do is keep on trying to pitch in!
01[21:29] <Seira> roll 1d20+6
06[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 and gets 15." [1d20=9]
[21:30] <Kotono> Together, the three pull! The ceiling retracts all the way, the beam now reaching into the sky! The black sky turns bright, illuminated! The pain ceases! For several moments the light lingers on, Amaryl sighing, "Ow...ow...ow..." she rubs herself, "We did it!"
01[21:31] <Seira> Worrying about her, Seira channels what little healing energy she possesses into Amaryl.
01[21:31] <Seira> roll 3d8+15
06[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 3d8+15 and gets 29." [3d8=7, 3, 4]
01[21:31] <Seira> roll 2d8+10
06[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2d8+10 and gets 21." [2d8=5, 6]
[21:32] <Kotono> "You did," From the light above, a glorious voice can be heard. "You have succeeded with lighting the dark sky." Amaryl's wounds mend in the meanwhile!
01[21:34] <Seira> "Better?" Seira asks, tilting her head. Thanking Lagann for his part silently, she looks up at the sky. "Even though it hurts to look at, now, having light really is nicer," she speaks, feeling the need to say something. "I can't help but wonder if it's just a test, and the forest will return to darkness once we've left."
[21:37] <Kotono> "It is a test, and now is the final chapter." The voice above descends down. It is a figure impossible to look at, clad in light overwhelming. The light around coaleses around it, shielding it. "Can you withstand the full fury of Noon? You have proven your brains are sufficient, prove that your bodies are!"
01[21:41] <Seira> "If that's how it has to be," Seira says guardedly, drawing her blade. Her first response was 'Bring it on!' but it seems a bit rude to say to some likely-angelic figure that's only doing its job in testing the two of them.
[21:42] <Kotono> "It is. For the glory of the Dawn Father, prepare!" The figure booms, 30 feet above! OOC: Initiative here, I think?
01[21:42] <Seira> OOC: Do I get some knowledge check on him?
[21:42] <Kotono> OOC: You can if you like. K:P
01[21:43] <Seira> roll 1d20+11
06[21:43] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+11 and gets 23." [1d20=12]
[21:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7 Amaryl
06[21:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 Amaryl and gets 17." [1d20=10]
01[21:43] <Seira> roll 1d20+6
06[21:43] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 and gets 20." [1d20=14]
[21:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8 light
06[21:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 light and gets 22." [1d20=14]
03[21:44] * Kotono changes topic to 'Figure of Light>SEira>Amaryl'
[21:44] <Kotono> The figure of light descends down to the floor, overwhelmingly glowing! Seira can hardly look at it! From it's hands a pair of beams of light come forth, one at Seira and one at Amaryl!
[21:44] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 ranged touch Seira
06[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 ranged touch Seira and gets 20." [1d20=1]
[21:44] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 ranged touch Amaryl lucky Seira
06[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 ranged touch Amaryl lucky Seira and gets 35." [1d20=16]
[21:44] <Kotono> roll 4d12
06[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4d12 and gets 29." [4d12=9, 7, 4, 9]
[21:46] <Kotono> Seira ducks and weaves out of the way of the blast, while Amaryl is zinged full on! She cries out in pain, "Sei..seira! Careful, it really hurts!" She staggers, shoulder smoking and seared! OOC: Seira.
01[21:50] <Seira> "Where the hell are you looking?" Seira snaps at their opponent, targetting it with a ray of her own.
01[21:50] <Seira> roll 1d20+6 cha
06[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 cha and gets 8." [1d20=2]
[21:51] <Kotono> Seira fires a ray, but it crackles and fizzles into shadow, wasted! Amaryl then steps up firm, firing a hail of arrows! "We won't lose!" she calls, "Seira needs that Sun Blade!"
[21:51] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 (+2 heroism, +2 draconic might)
06[21:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 (+2 heroism, +2 draconic might) and gets 30." [1d20=12]
[21:51] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 (+2 heroism, +2 draconic might)
06[21:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 (+2 heroism, +2 draconic might) and gets 38." [1d20=20]
[21:51] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 (+2 heroism, +2 draconic might) crit?
06[21:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 (+2 heroism, +2 draconic might) crit? and gets 30." [1d20=12]
[21:51] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 (+2 heroism, +2 draconic might) crit?
[21:51] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 (+2 heroism, +2 draconic might) crit?
06[21:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 (+2 heroism, +2 draconic might) crit? and gets 23." [1d20=10]
06[21:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 (+2 heroism, +2 draconic might) crit? and gets 14." [1d20=1]
[21:52] <Kotono> Amaryl fires several arrows! A few go off course, but several soar right for the figure, one even aimed right at it's heart! But light flares around it, incinerating the arrows into nothingness, not a single one touching it! OOC: Angel is up.
[21:53] <Kotono> This time, the figure of light stays put, firing two rays at Seira! "At you." It says, firing!
[21:53] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19
[21:53] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19
06[21:53] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 and gets 23." [1d20=4]
06[21:53] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 and gets 20." [1d20=1]
[21:53] <Kotono> OOC: Touch AC? That's also hilarious.
01[21:54] <Seira> OOC: Touch AC is 22, so yes, it is
[21:55] <Kotono> roll 4d12
06[21:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4d12 and gets 37." [4d12=8, 11, 11, 7]
[21:55] <Kotono> A burning hot ray hits Seira in the hand, the powerful light leaving even her seared! OOC: Seira.
01[21:55] <Seira> Scowling, Seira attempts to retaliate with a boosted cone of fire! It doesn't make much sense, but if she can be set on fire, maybe so could this upstart!
01[21:56] <Seira> roll 1d20+6
06[21:56] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 and gets 12." [1d20=6]
06[21:56] * Seira follows it up by breathing flames, getting slightly worried.
01[21:56] <Seira> roll 1d20+6
06[21:56] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 and gets 21." [1d20=15]
01[21:56] <Seira> roll 8d8+2d8 fire+holy dc20
06[21:56] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 8d8+2d8 fire+holy dc20 and gets 34." [8d8=1, 1, 7, 5, 3, 5, 2, 3][2d8=6, 1]
01[21:57] <Seira> roll 1d4
06[21:57] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d4 and gets 1." [1d4=1]
[21:57] <Kotono> The flames gush out around the angel! But more light concentrates around it, drawing in the radiance from all around! The fire is stopped, not harming the angel in the least! Amaryl is on the move now, snapping off two arrows that become four!
[21:57] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
[21:57] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
[21:57] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[21:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 14." [1d20=3]
06[21:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 26." [1d20=15]
06[21:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 29." [1d20=18]
[21:57] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[21:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 29." [1d20=18]
[21:57] <Kotono> OOC: +4 to all, dur.
06[21:57] * Seira moves closer to the angel, sword drawn.
[21:58] <Kotono> Amaryl fires well, more arrows going right at the being of light! Yet all of them burn away into nothing! "Seira!" She calls, "It's not working! I can't get an arrow past her light!" OOC: Angel is up.
[21:58] <Kotono> The angel continues to stand still, firing off a beam at each of them this time!
[21:58] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 Seira
06[21:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 Seira and gets 27." [1d20=8]
[21:58] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 Amaryl
06[21:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 Amaryl and gets 27." [1d20=8]
[21:58] <Kotono> roll 4d12 Amaryl ow
06[21:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4d12 Amaryl ow and gets 17." [4d12=4, 2, 6, 5]
[21:58] <Kotono> roll 4d12 Seira ow
06[21:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4d12 Seira ow and gets 17." [4d12=8, 1, 3, 5]
[21:59] <Kotono> Both women are struck again, seared by the overwhelming light! OOC: Seira.
01[22:00] <Seira> "If magic won't do it--"
06[22:01] * Seira attempts to attack the angel in melee, sending out a command to Lagann to support her!
01[22:01] <Seira> roll 1d20+6
06[22:01] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 and gets 23." [1d20=17]
[22:01] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7 Lagann attacks
06[22:01] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 Lagann attacks and gets 21." [1d20=14]
[22:01] <Kotono> OOC: Go Seira.
01[22:02] <Seira> roll 1d20+20 spellruin
06[22:02] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+20 spellruin and gets 23." [1d20=3]
[22:02] <Kotono> Seira and Lagann both hack at the angel! But their blows are lost in the light around it, blocked and not laying a speck on the divine figure of radiance! "Seira, any ideas? My arrows aren't working!" Amaryl calls. OOC: Amaryl's up.
01[22:03] <Seira> "Conjuration!" Seira calls over to her. "Something to summon allies to aid me!"
[22:05] <Kotono> Amaryl holds Seira's pendant, as...
[22:05] <Kotono> roll 1d4+1
06[22:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4+1 and gets 2." [1d4=1]
[22:05] <Kotono> A pair of celestial dogs appear, snapping and biting at the angel!
[22:05] <Kotono> roll 1d20+2 aiding another Seira
[22:05] <Kotono> roll 1d20+2 aiding another Seira
06[22:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 aiding another Seira and gets 18." [1d20=16]
06[22:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 aiding another Seira and gets 4." [1d20=2]
[22:05] <Kotono> OOC: +2 on your next attack on it, Seira. Angel's up.
[22:06] <Kotono> Beams of light once more come from the dazzling, overwhelming angel! It barely glances at the dogs, firing one at one of them and one at Seira!
[22:06] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 doggie zap
06[22:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 doggie zap and gets 28." [1d20=9]
[22:06] <Kotono> roll 1d2 which dog?
06[22:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d2 which dog? and gets 1." [1d2=1]
03[22:06] * Kotono changes topic to 'Figure of Light>SEira>Amaryl=Celestial Dog'
[22:06] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 Seira
06[22:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 Seira and gets 29." [1d20=10]
[22:07] <Kotono> roll 4d12 ow
06[22:07] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4d12 ow and gets 33." [4d12=5, 9, 8, 11]
[22:07] <Kotono> Seira is stricken once more! Light writhes and gathers to the angel, all while Seira is fried hard! OOC: Seira.
01[22:08] <Seira> If only she had another Darkness charge left....
[22:08] <Kotono> 'S-Seira!' Amaryl calls, 'We need to do something else, anything! We haven't even been able to scratch it!'
01[22:10] <Seira> 'We do,' Seira agrees, strangely calm. 'I'll try another attack. Whatever happens, I'll drop down afterwards. I'll need your help with a potion when I do, and then we'll think about our next move.'
01[22:10] <Seira> roll 1d20+6 stabbings?!
06[22:10] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 stabbings?! and gets 18." [1d20=12]
01[22:11] <Seira> roll 1d20+20 impromptu SA, lifetheft
06[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+20 impromptu SA, lifetheft and gets 35." [1d20=15]
[22:12] <Kotono> Seira stabs out again! Yet again, light clusters from the bright sky around the angel! Her blow is lost in it, stopped and foiled by the gathering light! OOC: Amaryl's up.
01[22:12] <Seira> OOC: No, I move now  >_>
[22:12] <Kotono> OOCL Okay then.
06[22:12] * Seira tumbles down to land next to Amaryl, utterly shocked.
[22:12] <Kotono> 'Any ideas? We're losing...you look bad and I hurt all over,' Amaryl thinks.
01[22:13] <Seira> 'It's not that we're losing,' Seira thinks back bitterly. 'It's that we can't win. In that case, we need to shift towards survival. Don't die, that's an order.'
[22:14] <Kotono> 'I'll try,' Amaryl says, 'What now? I can buy you somet ime if you need it.'
[22:15] <Kotono> Amaryl takes a potion out and feeds it to Seira!
[22:15] <Kotono> roll 3d8+5
06[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d8+5 and gets 22." [3d8=4, 7, 6]
[22:15] <Kotono> roll 1d20+4 hope for 15+
06[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+4 hope for 15+ and gets 11." [1d20=7]
[22:15] <Kotono> But the potion passes right through Seira, doing no gooda ta ll! OOC: Angel's up.
[22:17] <Kotono> More beams of light come! One at the dog, and one at Amaryl!
[22:17] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 wuff
06[22:17] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 wuff and gets 22." [1d20=3]
[22:17] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 Amaryl
06[22:17] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 Amaryl and gets 21." [1d20=2]
[22:17] <Kotono> OOC: Sec, need tos ee if Amaryl's touch AC is enough here. It's close.
[22:18] <Kotono> roll 4d12 nope, 18 with the +2 deflection
06[22:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4d12 nope, 18 with the +2 deflection and gets 31." [4d12=3, 5, 11, 12]
03[22:24] * Retrieving #evildunes modes...
[22:24] <Kotono> Amaryl is hit right int h echest, falling to her knees! She cries out in deep pain, "S-seira..." she whispers, "Sorry...I'm not sure if I can go on..." she says. Then in her head, 'We...we have to do something...to stop it...that light...we haven't gotten a blow in past it.' OOC: Seira.
[22:24] <Kotono> roll 4d12 dog
06[22:24] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4d12 dog and gets 33." [4d12=2, 10, 9, 12]
[22:24] <Kotono> The dog is also hit, fried as well in the meantime.
Session Close: Tue Apr 28 22:26:14 2009

Session Start: Tue Apr 28 22:26:14 2009
Session Ident: #evildunes
02[22:26] * Disconnected
02[22:26] * Attempting to rejoin channel #evildunes
03[22:26] * Rejoined channel #evildunes
03[22:26] * Topic is 'Figure of Light>SEira>Amaryl=Celestial Dog'
03[22:26] * Set by Kotono on Tue Apr 28 21:07:23
03[22:26] * ChanServ sets mode: +o CC
03[22:26] * CC is now known as Seira
01[22:27] <Seira> Paling, Seira directs Lagann to pull one of the levers in the opposite direction, while trying to take the potion Amaryl was holding earlier.
01[22:28] <Seira> roll 1d20+6 I'll use my move action after this
06[22:28] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 I'll use my move action after this and gets 17." [1d20=11]
01[22:28] <Seira> roll 3d8+5
06[22:28] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 3d8+5 and gets 19." [3d8=3, 4, 7]
[22:29] <Kotono> As Amaryl staggers back, the levels move the opposite way! The ceiling lowers and begins to close! As it does, "S-Seira!" Amaryl calls, "What happened the last time the beam got stopped from going into the sky?!"
01[22:31] <Seira> "I don't know what else to do!" Seira calls back. "Retreat, heal yourself. I'll be right behind you. Maybe it will be different once we're outside!"
[22:32] <Kotono> With those words, Amaryl runs to the stairs and out, hurrying with all her speed! OOC: Angel's up.
[22:32] <Kotono> The angel draws a blade, glowing with the radiance all around! Without a word, it charges Seira!
[22:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6
06[22:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 and gets 13." [1d20=7]
[22:33] <Kotono> Luckily for Seira, her blade passes through her harmlessly! OOC: Seira, you're up.
06[22:34] * Seira slips out of the angel's reach, and withdraws several steps before turning invisible.
[22:34] <Kotono> OOC: Amaryl's up and running in the meantime. Angel's up.
01[22:34] <Seira> Rather than a real hope that it would help, she wants to buy enough time for Amaryl to use her potions.
[22:35] <Kotono> Seira vanishes from sight, but the angel is inexorable! It matches her little step away, swinging right for her!
[22:35] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6
06[22:35] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 and gets 20." [1d20=14]
[22:35] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 (-4 nonlethal)
06[22:35] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 (-4 nonlethal) and gets 34." [1d20=15]
[22:35] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14
06[22:35] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 and gets 22." [1d20=8]
[22:35] <Kotono> roll 1d20+9 AC?
06[22:35] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 AC? and gets 24." [1d20=15]
[22:36] <Kotono> roll 3d6+13
06[22:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d6+13 and gets 28." [3d6=5, 6, 4]
[22:36] <Kotono> Seira is hit with the flat of it's blade, staggered and seeing stars all around her! OOC: Seira.
06[22:37] * Seira flees towards the outside, trying to move through the walls!
[22:38] <Kotono> Seira flees away, heading outside! If there's pursuit, she doesn't see it as she reaches the courtyard!
[22:38] <Kotono> roll 3d8+3
[22:38] <Kotono> roll 3d8+3
06[22:38] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d8+3 and gets 18." [3d8=2, 5, 8]
06[22:38] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d8+3 and gets 12." [3d8=3, 5, 1]
01[22:40] <Seira> 'If there's still light around the angel when it comes out,' Seira thinks to Amaryl, 'I'll try and draw its attention. Can you see about twisting the eleventh dial up? It was listed as safe, maybe that's what we need.'
[22:41] <Kotono> 'I'm halfway down the stairs? WAnt me to go back up?' Amaryl asks, the courtyard full of light.
01[22:42] <Seira> 'Wait for me and regain your strength, I'll join you there.'
[22:42] <Kotono> 'Right,' Amaryl responds.
06[22:42] * Seira does that without delay, since the angel didn't seem to have flied through the roof after her.
01[22:43] <Seira> *flown
[22:43] <Kotono> Seira gets halfway up the stairs, finding Amaryl leaning against a wall there. A potion is in her hand, a few empty ones lying at her feet.
06[22:43] * Seira tries to help herself to it.
01[22:44] <Seira> roll 1d20+6
06[22:44] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 and gets 17." [1d20=11]
01[22:44] <Seira> roll 3d8+5
06[22:44] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 3d8+5 and gets 19." [3d8=2, 7, 5]
01[22:44] <Seira> "This must be what Alicia felt like," she says quietly. "That was the strongest blow I have ever landed. It was just pushed aside, as if it were nothing."
[22:45] <Kotono> "There's got to be a trick we're missing," Amaryl rubs her side and winces. "I made a perfect shot and it didn't get through. It's that light around it, every time we do something, it fails."
01[22:46] <Seira> "I tried to lure it outside, and it didn't go for it," Seira says, catching her breath even as she tries to reach for another potion. "That dial is my idea. The other would be to just take the glowing stone and smash its face with it."
01[22:46] <Seira> roll 1d20+6
06[22:46] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 and gets 10." [1d20=4]
[22:46] <Kotono> "Worth a try," Amaryl says as she holds the potion up for Seira. "It has to be some riddle again."
01[22:47] <Seira> roll 1d20+6 again?
06[22:47] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 again? and gets 22." [1d20=16]
[22:47] <Kotono> Amaryl drinks the last potion down!
01[22:47] <Seira> roll 3d8+5
06[22:47] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 3d8+5 and gets 11." [3d8=2, 3, 1]
[22:47] <Kotono> roll 3d8+5
06[22:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d8+5 and gets 24." [3d8=5, 8, 6]
01[22:47] <Seira> "That's so cheap, after telling us it's a test of brawn and not brains!" Seira complains.
[22:48] <Kotono> "This entire thing has been about thinking. Mind games, riddles, tricks. That means this has to be a trick, right? IT'sr eally a final test of our mind."
01[22:50] <Seira> "A trick?" Seira muses. "We have another one, actually. Can I borrow your belt? Draconic Might should serve you just as well for the next dozen minutes or so, and if we don't get something done in that time it won't really matter."
[22:51] <Kotono> Amaryl hands over her belt. "What are you thinking of?"
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01[22:54] <Seira> "That it would buy me ten more seconds of serving as a distraction," she says, putting it on, before trying to cast a spell on Amaryl's bow. "If we succeed in taking down the aura of light, let's hit it with all we have. Use the ring I gave you, too. We can't afford to hold back."
01[22:54] <Seira> OOC: Weapon of Energy/Fire
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[23:01] <Anastasia> "Okay," Amaryl nods, "I'll do it."
01[23:02] <Seira> "Remember. Eleventh dial, it might even work!" And with that, Seira heads back into the fray!
[23:02] <Anastasia> The two hurry up the stairs! They find the angel waiting there, beams of light in her glorious hands! She says not a word, as...OOC: Init again?
01[23:03] <Seira> roll 1d20+6
06[23:03] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 and gets 17." [1d20=11]
[23:03] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+7
06[23:03] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+7 and gets 16." [1d20=9]
[23:03] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+8
06[23:03] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+8 and gets 18." [1d20=10]
03[23:03] * ChanServ sets mode: +qo Anastasia Anastasia
03[23:03] * Anastasia changes topic to 'Figure of Light>SEira>Amaryl'
[23:03] <Anastasia> Two beams of light come from the figure, standing ahead, 20 feet ahead of the far wall! One beam at Seira, one at Amaryl!
[23:03] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+19 Seira
06[23:03] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+19 Seira and gets 30." [1d20=11]
[23:03] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+19 Amaryl
06[23:03] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+19 Amaryl and gets 25." [1d20=6]
[23:03] <Anastasia> roll 4d12 S
06[23:03] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 4d12 S and gets 23." [4d12=8, 2, 12, 1]
[23:03] <Anastasia> roll 4d12 A
06[23:03] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 4d12 A and gets 22." [4d12=10, 4, 2, 6]
[23:05] <Anastasia> The beams fly forth, searing both women harshly! OOC: Seira?
06[23:05] * Seira waits to see whether her request from Amaryl bears any fruit, first!
[23:06] <Anastasia> Amaryl sprints ahead, running up to the dial! She hops up, twisting the dial! Nothing seems to happen! OOC: Sera?
03[23:06] * Anastasia changes topic to 'Figure of Light>Amaryl>Seira'
01[23:08] <Seira> 'Try getting our sun, next,' Seira sends dejectedly to Amaryl, holding the Resort ahead of her defensively.
[23:08] <Anastasia> The angel fires off beams at both once more as Seira defends herself, "Don't you see that you can't win?" It asks as it fires!
[23:08] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+19 Seira
06[23:08] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+19 Seira and gets 39." [1d20=20]
[23:08] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+19 Seira crit?
06[23:08] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+19 Seira crit? and gets 34." [1d20=15]
[23:09] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+19 Amaryl
06[23:09] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+19 Amaryl and gets 30." [1d20=11]
[23:09] <Anastasia> roll 8d12 SEira hope variance doesn't hate you
06[23:09] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 8d12 SEira hope variance doesn't hate you and gets 35." [8d12=6, 2, 6, 4, 5, 4, 7, 1]
[23:09] <Anastasia> roll 4d12
06[23:09] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 4d12 and gets 25." [4d12=9, 4, 10, 2]
01[23:10] <Seira> "Of course I see that!" Seira snaps back. "I'm not stupid!"
[23:11] <Anastasia> Seira gets hit right in the face, staggered back! Amaryl is hit in the back, slammed into the dial! But she shudders and leaps up, wretching the white diamond free! It turns back to black as it is removed, the beam ceasing! Darkness falls once more! The light around the angel fades...Dawnbringer is revealed, lowering her hands. "Just in time. I had feared you would get yourselves hurt or slain, for the answer seemed to elude you."
[23:11] <Anastasia> or slain, for the answer seemed to elude you."
[23:12] <Anastasia> Amaryl falls to her knees, sagging in relief. "Got it?" she says, "Oww...I'm exhausted and wounded. Did we do it?"
01[23:13] <Seira> "I tried to keep to the rules!" Seira protests. "It's only after we took pretty horrible damage that I decided to hell with those rules."
06[23:13] * Seira thinks they got hurt aplenty, at that.
[23:14] <Anastasia> "That was the point." With a warm smile to Seira, "You see, this place is used as a trial for followers of Lathander as well, to see if they are worthy of having a Sun Blade. The problem is, many are like Lathander himself - joyous, exuberant, bright. Like him, they occasionally tear off more than they should. Far too many Sun Blades were being lost in the Lower Planes or to evil menances, so we devised this as a screening test."
[23:14] <Anastasia> menances, so we devised this as a screening test."
[23:15] <Anastasia> Amaryl doesn't comment at all, resting instead.
06[23:15] * Seira returns the belt to Amaryl, worrying about her well being should the spell end before she does this. "Are you really this strong?" Seira asks Dawnbringer. "If I were to fight you, all this frustration would be my reward?"
[23:16] <Anastasia> "That was the power of the Sunstone Amaryl holds. It protected me, as no force you could muster could penetrate it. My own skill barely came into the battle."
01[23:19] <Seira> "I would be a bit worried about planetars lying as part of a test, but I don't exactly follow the rules myself all the time." Seira gestures at her shadowy, draconic form for good measure. "But that's just the banter portion of the fight we skipped. More to the point, we have a devil back on Prime that's apparently just as strong.
01[23:19] <Seira> I can't honestly promise that I won't try to fight him to protect others, so if that makes me ineligible for a Sun Blade, we'll have to look elsewhere."
[23:21] <Anastasia> "No. You succeeded." Going to Amaryl and gently taking the stone out of her hands, "Your purity was determined before I talked to you. This was a test of the mind and will and you passed." She floats up, going to place the Sunstone in place. Amaryl, you are the solid one. Stand about five feet, straight behind me, and hold out your hand? Worry not, the light will not harm you now."
[23:22] <Anastasia> Amaryl does so, holding out her hand.
06[23:22] * Seira floats over for a good viewpoint, but doesn't get in the way.
[23:24] <Anastasia> The Sunstone is placed back into the slot! A beam of light comes, forming around Amaryl's hand! It shapes into a golden blade, long and like a sunbeam givne form into metal! Amaryl gasps as she holds it, the blade glowing with sunlight!
01[23:28] <Seira> It doesn't matter than she was burnt within an inch of her life, or that sunlight is painful enough to look at that it almost overcomes the pleasure she gets from spending time in what amounts to paradise. As she witnesses such a unique event, Seira feels all the closer to her goals, and not just the immediate one of purifying the anklet.
01[23:28] <Seira> The thought of a return to Halla on the Shadow Plane does not bring about nothing but worry, for the first time.

[Corwin]

[15:57] <Komorningstuff> <Seira> I can't honestly promise that I won't try to fight him to protect others, so if that makes me ineligible for a Sun Blade, we'll have to look elsewhere."
[15:57] <Komorningstuff> > "No. You succeeded." Going to Amaryl and gently taking the stone out of her hands, "Your purity was determined before I talked to you. This was a test of the mind and will and you passed." She floats up, going to place the Sunstone in place. Amaryl, you are the solid one. Stand about five feet, straight behind me, and hold out your hand? Worry not, the light will not harm you now."
[15:57] <Komorningstuff> > Amaryl does so, holding out her hand.
[15:57] <Komorningstuff> * Seira floats over for a good viewpoint, but doesn't get in the way.
[15:57] <Komorningstuff> > The Sunstone is placed back into the slot! A beam of light comes, forming around Amaryl's hand! It shapes into a golden blade, long and like a sunbeam givne form into metal! Amaryl gasps as she holds it, the blade glowing with sunlight!
[15:57] <Komorningstuff> <Seira> It doesn't matter than she was burnt within an inch of her life, or that sunlight is painful enough to look at that it almost overcomes the pleasure she gets from spending time in what amounts to paradise. As she witnesses such a unique event, Seira feels all the closer to her goals, and not just the immediate one of purifying the anklet.
[15:58] <Komorningstuff> <Seira> The thought of a return to Halla on the Shadow Plane does not bring about nothing but worry, for the first time.
[16:00] <Komorningstuff> From the Sunstone and Sun Blade, waves of warm sunshine soothe your wounds away! Amaryl holds the blade close to herself, "It's so gorgeous..." she whispers. "Seira, we really did it!" OOC: HP restored to full.
01[16:00] <Seira> If there was ever a time for a victory pose, that time is now, and Seira obliges!
03[16:00] * Komorningstuff is now known as Kotono
[16:01] <Kotono> "Come with me. We will return to my dwelling, so that you may rest the night," Dawnbringer declares.
01[16:02] <Seira> "Would this place continue to be used by others for their trials?" Seira asks the planetar.
[16:03] <Kotono> "Yes," Dawnbringer answers, "It will be reset and restored to it's starting condition once you leave."
01[16:04] <Seira> "If you could wait a few moments, I would like to leave behind a note for those who might follow," Seira requests. "I've been thinking of doing that earlier, but it seemed impertinent before actually beating the trials."
[16:09] <Kotono> "As you wish," Dawnspire waves her hand.
01[16:14] <Seira> She can't really explain the trials as that would defeat their purpose, but just as she drew certain strength from the knowledge that others have been there before her and made progress, perhaps others could benefit from knowing their task is not an insurmountable one.
01[16:14] <Seira> In one of the books left in the small building by the gate, Seira writes down, "There might be more than one answer to every riddle, but as long as you keep your mind on the goal and have your wits with you, you can prevail!" She seals the note with her magical crest, and leaves the book behind, returning happily to Dawnbringer.
[16:17] <Kotono> An evening of rest passes, recovery and a chance to recharge passing. OOC: Do you want to adjust your spells?
01[16:20] <Seira> OOC: Done
[16:26] <Kotono> OOC: What are your plans after you rest, by the way? Do you know yet
[16:26] <Kotono> ?
01[16:27] <Seira> OOC: This is a nice chance to ask the pretty lady stuff. Is she up to answering a few of my questions?
[16:28] <Kotono> The next morning, after a pleasant rest, Amaryl and Seira rise. Dawnspire can be found in her dwelling. OOC: Knock yourself out.
06[16:30] * Seira floats over, before asking, "So what do your duties entail, Dawnbringer, if you don't mind me asking? Beyond administering that test, I mean."
[16:32] <Kotono> "I administer the challenge, as well as overseeing this immediate area of Lathander's realm. In life, I was long ago a cleric of Lathander, said to have never rested a day in a crusade against a world filled with demons. In the realms beyond, my soul found the peace and stability that eluded me in mortal life."
01[16:33] <Seira> "You actually remember your past life?" Seira asks curiously.
[16:35] <Kotono> With a wan, longing smile, "No. I know the stories, for long ago I stumbled on what I had been. I could have recovered the memories, but that life is behind me."
01[16:37] <Seira> "Well. Umm. You know how people can come back from the dead?" Seira looks slightly uncomfortable. "What if someone tries to bring another back after years have passed? Will they even understand what's going on?"
[16:37] <Kotono> Amaryl wears the Sun Blade at her belt, a faint, glowing yellow light enaminating from the hilt on occasion. She stays quiet for now.
[16:38] <Kotono> "Most do not remember anything but fragments of what waits after death, recovering their past selves instead." With a long look at Seira, "Is this a matter you are considering? Worry creases your brow."
01[16:41] <Seira> "More like I know someone who might be. I'm not unaffected, but I don't really know what to think, either." Seira does feel troubled. "I don't really understand the process. Donald was brought back pretty quickly. Then, in another case, it took a week, but I used Gentle Repose. Would that just put someone's afterlife on hold?" Realizing she's starting to ramble, Seira coughs.
01[16:41] <Seira> "In any case, everyone returned as themselves in any case of being back from the dead that I've seen, even if it took days. But shouldn't they have lost their memories of their mortal lives from the start?"
[16:44] <Kotono> "When they are restored, they regain themselves, regain those memories. If one was returned as an empty shell of what they were, what point would there be to raise the dead?"
01[16:45] <Seira> "And the memories they spent in their heaven are lost in turn?"
[16:47] <Kotono> "It varies somewhat, some do retain fragments, or more if a greater being intervenes. But generally not."
01[16:48] <Seira> "It might sound strange, but is there some sort of waiting period for souls to see whether they'll get returned to the mortal coil by their friends and all that?"
[16:51] <Kotono> "Most souls migrate to the Outer Planes fairly soon after death. They linger by the body for a short time, though it's exceedingly difficult to detect them there. Then they reappear in the divine realm or plane they are suited to, reborn as an outsider, a petitioner, or becoming one with a part of existance." A slight grimace passes her face, "The Lower Planes twist that, of course, turning you into tormented fodder or food for a horrible b
[16:51] <Kotono> The Lower Planes twist that, of course, turning you into tormented fodder or food for a horrible being and then oblivion."
01[16:55] <Seira> "Bad places all around," Seira agrees. "Well, that's enough for me to think about, for now. I did have other things I was wondering about, though. Information, mostly, which I can't easily get back home. Such as, is it considered bad form to look up people that have passed on and visit them? Or where I could find out more about a large group of red dragons that seem to live on Astral.
01[16:55] <Seira> Or how one bypasses fiendish defenses, because there's a balor I have a score to settle with, and he doesn't seem to leave his home much. Don't really know where to go for the answers, either, and I feel bad trying to turn to Waukeen for relatively minor things like that."
[17:02] <Kotono> "Most, evne if you find them, won't remember those they knew in mortal life. If that person was particularly a paragon or favored of a God, it is possible they might. So the exercise may very well be pointless." The Planetar considers this a short time, "I can tell you if I know anything of them. I may, for I have heard many things in my millenias."
01[17:05] <Seira> "The dragons are really the most pressing issue, I guess," Seira considers. "I think they are evil and stuff, but I have hope I'll change them! Isn't it pointless to stereotype entire types of dragons? All the red ones I've come across so far had been very nice, while the golden and silver ones were a mixed bag."
[17:06] <Kotono> "That is...unusual," But with a shrug, "Dragons are not outsiders, they have the potential to change short of catastrophic events, albeit rarely."
06[17:08] * Seira has seen or heard of plenty of examples of outsiders changing their stripes, so it can't be that hard! "I've been hoping to learn more of what drove them to Astral in the first place, and maybe see how I match up to a red dragon. Quests like this always have some sort of one on one duels, so I'd like to know where I stand there."
[17:12] <Kotono> "An older dragon is a deadly opponent, even for a powerful outsider. You possess considerable skill at arms, but the greater ones would still overcome you. Hm." Giving Seira a critical look, "Of course, you may continue to improve."
01[17:14] <Seira> "I'm been thinking about summoning a dragon or two and just fighting them, so maybe it'd help," Seira muses. "Okay. What about a balor going by Gurlan? He lives in this green castle thing. There's supposedly some defenses around it that make it very difficult for those who don't fit his worldview to gain entrance, so I was wondering whether there was another way in."
[17:16] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
06[17:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 28." [1d20=5]
[17:17] <Kotono> "I've heard of him, nasty demon." Thinking, "I haven't heard that much on him, however."
01[17:18] <Seira> "Where could I find more? Any ideas? I'd try Mechanus, but they don't like me much."
[17:21] <Kotono> "Celestia is completely opposed to the Abyss' ethos, in both order and good. I would start there, if you have any contacts or allies there." She says.
06[17:22] * Seira nods. "Is there actually point to going after him, beyond it being personal and all? From what I understand, someone will just take his place if I killed him, and even if I tried to stay and reform the realm, it would just end up destroying me in turn. So isn't this an exercise in futility?"
[17:28] <Kotono> There's a pause here, "Yes, I agree with you in part. When you fight Infinity, one cannot expect to win by simply killing one facet of it. The Abyss is infinite, endless horros waiting and lurking in it's darkest depths. From what I understand, this is a matter I grappled with long in my mortal life. As long as evil exists in the multiverse, we must fight it, all while fighting for and waiting for a day when reality itself can be saved. A d
[17:28] <Kotono> Your acts may seem like a single stone thrown into the ocean. Yet this stone is one of many by like minded souls, each one weakening the Abyss a little bit more."
01[17:32] <Seira> "Speaking of the evil infinity, another issue I've struggled with for quite some time is that it seems like the forces of both Hell and the Abyss have a stronger hold on Prime than, well, you guys. Sure, I won't say you don't help, especially when we ask for it against a particularly loathsome creature, but why are things set to work that way?
01[17:32] <Seira> We recently had a lantern archon visit, and her words were, I believe, that people are much safer even with a lantern archon around. Do you just lack in outsiders that you could send to help us out?"
[17:45] <Kotono> "Good doesn't force you to come to it, Evil tempts and tries to. Have you ever wanted to take an easier path, even though it was wrong? It's the nature of things, Seira. Good leaves you with the choice to come to it, not sending out bastions of angels to seduce you into doing the right thing."
01[17:48] <Seira> "And it really shouldn't, either! The seducing part, I mean." Seira coughs again. "But realistically, the vast majority of people can never hope to encounter one of you, so isn't there a missed opportunity in passing all your knowledge and values along? If it's being done through intermediaries, something inevitably gets lost in the process."
[17:52] <Kotono> "There are prophets and the like," Amaryl does speak up here, "Maybe it's because the words of the Gods wer ehidden from us for so long, in meaningful ways?"
01[17:54] <Seira> "So they're taking their time helping people adjust?" Seira muses. "Could be, I suppose. This also made me think of this hypothetical situation. Say someone, after triumphing over the self-styled God-King Daa-vid, decided to seal off Prime again, but only from the lower realms. Shar and her friends won't like it much, but would the dwellers of Elysium and Celestia lend a hand in that?"
[17:55] <Kotono> "I don't know. Those are matters far beyond my dealings," Dawnspire admits. "Such a thing woul be a cosmic event."
01[17:57] <Seira> "If we keep on succeeding, maybe one day we'll get to find out," Seira says, smiling. "Oh, and about those people I mentioned before?" She floats closer still to the planetar and whispers two names to her. "Like I said, I wouldn't want to just drop in on someone who passed on and bother them, but if there's a chance to meet them and they don't mind...."
[18:01] <Kotono> "It would depend on what realm they migrated to, and if they retained memories. Do you know where they would have ended up?"
01[18:03] <Seira> "Mielliki's realm, for the first. That's just next door, right? She was a champion, too, so there's that chance you mentioned. And, uhh, not a clue for the... second person. She died almost two decades ago, when I was just a baby."
[18:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23 Shamal K:P check for her. Could also be K:L for her, but the mod's the same
06[18:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 Shamal K:P check for her. Could also be K:L for her, but the mod's the same and gets 25." [1d20=2]
[18:05] <Kotono> "I don't know the name, but if you head back to Mielekki's realm, you may be able to find her, if you're right," Dawnspire answers after some thought. "Shamal, you said?"
06[18:07] * Seira nods. "I might return some time, then. When I look like myself."
[18:10] <Kotono> "After this...but still, careful. I want to stay more and more," Amaryl murmurs. "It's been three or four days, hasn't it? If we stay much longer for now, we may never leave."
01[18:13] <Seira> "Speaking of that, would you be able to help us get back?" Seira asks their host. "We've recovered enough, and it's really time for us to head back to Prime and prepare for the next part of our quest."
[18:14] <Kotono> "Very well. I understand your need, for to tarry and get to a portal may take you too long to resist Elysium's lure." Standing now, "Come to me and tell me of where you wish to go."
01[18:16] <Seira> "Home, the city of Balmuria that rests by the Bay of Sparkling Stars," Seira says without hesitation. "We can't travel across the planes on our own just yet, and we'll find help there with traveling through Shadow and back."
[18:17] <Kotono> With that, Dawnspire calls on the proper names! In a flash, you appear there! The western gate into Balmuria is visible in the distance, Dawnspire nodding to you before vanishing a few moments later.
06[18:19] * Seira can't help but be impressed. "She's so strong..." she mutters. "I'm months away still from even an inaccurate form of transportation, but that woman--" Seira shakes her head. "I don't suppose it matters. I can make myself invisible for a quarter of an hour. Let's try and reach Elle's shop in that time?
01[18:19] <Seira> If she's ready to help us, we could teleport to our destination and have the quest over with by noon!"
[18:21] <Kotono> Going to Elle's is without incident. Certainly, you get looks, but the city guard give syou an escort, just in case. Elle is found at her shop, "Oh Seira...wow, you look horrible. What happened to you?"
01[18:23] <Seira> "To break the curse on this anklet, I have to be a shadow of myself," Seira responds with a fake smile. "We've already completed the first part of the quest, so all that remains is me asking you for your help in getting me to the Plane of Shadow over Halla. You can call upon Shadow Walk, right?"
[18:24] <Kotono> "I can if I need to," Elle continues on, "Do you need a scroll of it?"
01[18:25] <Seira> "You can just cast it on the two of us, if you're capable of it today, and I'll teleport us the rest of the way," Seira responds. "If all goes well, we'll be back today!"
[18:34] <Kotono> "I have a scroll of it," she says, "That should work just as well for it." Elle goes to the scroll rack, coming back with one of them.
01[18:35] <Seira> "It would do," Seira agrees. "Thanks, I'll pay you back."
[18:36] <Kotono> "Go on," Elle says, "We can talk after you're done with that."
06[18:37] * Seira nods, and after taking Amaryl's hand, focuses on the entrance to Shar's temple.
01[18:37] <Seira> roll 1d100
06[18:37] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d100 and gets 78." [1d100=78]
[18:38] <Kotono> OOC: You mean in Halla proper?
01[18:39] <Seira> OOC: Yes
01[18:39] <Seira> OOC: I've viewed it more than once, I should be fine
[18:39] <Kotono> OOC: You do remmeber it was too far to go in one normal TP shot? You had to make a stop in the jungle or use greater TP, remember.
01[18:39] <Seira> OOC: My bad. Interim stop, Kelara, works?
01[18:40] <Seira> roll 1d100 Kelara, ring TP
06[18:40] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d100 Kelara, ring TP and gets 40." [1d100=40]
[18:40] <Kotono> Seira and Amaryl appear in Kelara, a little outside the city proper. It's gray and rainy here today, serving as cover as the two appear.
06[18:41] * Seira doesn't waste time before the next teleport!
[18:42] <Kotono> It's still before the dawn in Halla. The crater stands at your feet, left as you left it before. There is a faint chill in the air here, as well as utter silence. Not an animal stirs, not a bird sings.
01[18:44] <Seira> "Almost there," Seira says quietly. "Want to try fighting with the blade, Amaryl, or going to stick to your bow?"
[18:46] <Kotono> Amaryl draws the Sun Blade forth. Sunshine seems to spring from it, pushing away the shadows of night. Her face is illuminated by it, "This," she says, "If the Plane of Shadow is as you say it is, doubtless that we will need this weapon's power before the day is done."
01[18:47] <Seira> "Right. Besides, we've used up the Flame Arrow spell, and there wasn't any time to replenish it, yet," Seira muses, secretely chiding herself over that. "I figure I'll just place Weapon of Energy into the ring as a placeholder. As soon as we encounter the enemy, you could invoke it. Even a Sun Blade becomes more formiddable, then."
06[18:50] * Seira contemplates further, and then snorts. "I hope it doesn't become a habit, but let's trade again. That belt for a spell that helps you out with the blade."
06[18:53] * Seira casts Heroism and Draconic Might upon Amaryl, and stores Shield into the ring. "Use that one," she says, "since it'd go a long way towards helping with Shadows. Then, we'll just place the combat spell within the ring, and I'll use the scroll. Simple, so far, wouldn't you say?"
[18:55] <Kotono> Amaryl uses the spell in the ring, shield invoked, "I get it so far," she says.
06[18:56] * Seira places Weapon of Energy into the ring after making contact with Amaryl, and then reads from the Shadow Walk scroll!
01[19:00] <Seira> roll 1d10+10
06[19:00] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d10+10 and gets 12." [1d10=2]
[19:02] <Kotono> "I'm ready," Amaryl says once all the spells are cast. "Are you?"
01[19:04] <Seira> "I'd like to think so," Seira affirms, calling upon the magic in the scroll upon them both. "Don't forget, you can break the spell at any time and return!"
02[19:09] * Kallen (Mokou@c122-107-246-130.eburwd9.vic.optusnet.com.au) Quit (Ping timeout)
[19:10] <Kotono> Calling on the mage, the roiling, coiling dark Plane of Shadow draws you in! You stand in a twisted visage, darkness all about you. The shadows are mammoth here, neverending! There is no color here, only darkness. Ahead of you is not a crater, but a grand temple, crafted of shadows and immeasurably immense. In it you can faintly hear singing, paeans of praise being belted out.
[19:11] <Kotono> Amaryl's blade glows with a faint sunlight, holding the all consuming shadows at bay. She shivers all over, "It's so cold here, so...wrong." She draws her blade in closet o her, "B-but...the Sun Blade, it's warm now."
01[19:12] <Seira> "We're... supposed to deal with that temple, aren't we?" Seira asks, with equal parts wariness and resignation.
[19:13] <Kotono> With a badly shaking hand, Amaryl goes to rest against Seira. "I...I think so. Was that why we were quested to come here, Seira?"
01[19:15] <Seira> "Unfinished business... I guess." Seira slaps her cheeks twice to waken herself, before drawing the Resort. "Alright! I can do this. I have my magic, and I'm not alone. We can do this, Amaryl!"
[19:15] <Kotono> "We will!" Amaryl nods, "Forward bravely?"
06[19:18] * Seira casts Bull's Strength upon herself from a scroll, and then grows in size as transformative magic she had not used in ages flows through her again. "I'll open the way," she promises, flying ahead!
[19:20] <Kotono> Ahead, the temple is unfenced and unguarded. Vast doors, as tall as a ten story tower, lead the way in. As you approach, you can hear the singing growing louder. Only one word of it can be made out to your ears, but it is made out clearly. "Seira....Seira....Seira...." The vast doors open ajar, a path to enter if one wished.
06[19:21] * Seira enters, seeking to end this mockery of a temple!
[19:25] <Kotono> Thus the two enter in! Everything is morphic, shadows twisting around you! Seira sees the shadows writhing all aroun dher! Masks of dying smiles and twisted love, all singing the same dreadful song. It is narrow here, narrow and small. A hall? A narrow hall. It's not a natural place. You cannot process it. It is of shadow and nothingness, yet as soild as everything. Ahead, they shamble towards you. The skeletons of ogres and minotaurs, club
[19:25] <Kotono> Ahead, they shamble towards you. The skeletons of ogres and minotaurs, clubs and greataxes at the ready. In the rearguard, skeletons with bows and arrows mechanically, coldly ready them!
[19:25] <Kotono> "W-what's going on,' Amaryl thinks to Seira, a note of fear in her voice. 'I...everything's wrong here. Aaah! Skeletons!' Amaryl has the Sun Blade out and drawn, readied!
06[19:27] * Seira is beyond terrified herself, but she can't show that side of her to Amaryl, not now. It might prove fatal. "You want oblivion?!" she shouts angrily. "Have it, then! Perish in fire!"
[19:27] <Kotono> OOC: Init, then. I think the intent on boths ides is obvious.
[19:27] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7 Amaryl
06[19:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 Amaryl and gets 11." [1d20=4]
[19:27] <Kotono> roll 1d20-1 Ogre 1
06[19:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20-1 Ogre 1 and gets 15." [1d20=16]
[19:27] <Kotono> roll 1d20-1 Ogre 2
06[19:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20-1 Ogre 2 and gets 17." [1d20=18]
[19:27] <Kotono> roll 1d20-1 Ogre 3
06[19:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20-1 Ogre 3 and gets 6." [1d20=7]
01[19:27] <Seira> roll 1d20+6
06[19:27] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 and gets 9." [1d20=3]
[19:27] <Kotono> roll 1d20-1 Minotaur 1
06[19:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20-1 Minotaur 1 and gets 4." [1d20=5]
[19:27] <Kotono> roll 1d20-1 Minotaur 2
06[19:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20-1 Minotaur 2 and gets 14." [1d20=15]
[19:27] <Kotono> roll 1d20-1 Archer 1
06[19:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20-1 Archer 1 and gets 13." [1d20=14]
[19:27] <Kotono> roll 1d20-1 Archer 2
06[19:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20-1 Archer 2 and gets 18." [1d20=19]
03[19:29] * Kotono changes topic to 'Archer 2(18)>Ogre 2(17)>Ogre 1(15)>Minotaur 2(14)>Archer 1(13)>Amaryl(11)>Seira(9)>Ogre 3(6)>Minotaur 1(4)'
[19:29] <Kotono> The first of the archers reacts the quickest, firing a single arrow at Seira!
[19:29] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7
06[19:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 and gets 10." [1d20=3]
[19:30] <Kotono> But it's not even close, a miserable shot! The second ogre lumbers forward, striking at Seira with it's club! It's bones crackle and move mechanically, unhidden by flesh!
01[19:30] <Seira> OOC: My ac at the moment is 30
[19:30] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[19:30] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 13." [1d20=2]
01[19:30] <Seira> OOC: No, wait. 26.
[19:31] <Kotono> But Seira easily jumps over the club swing, dodging deftly! The first ogre does the same, dumbly swinging at Seira!
01[19:31] <Seira> OOC: If base is 26, then Large drops it by one and it's 25. Okay!
[19:31] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[19:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 31." [1d20=20]
[19:31] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11 crit?
06[19:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 crit? and gets 23." [1d20=12]
[19:31] <Kotono> roll 2d8+9 ow
06[19:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d8+9 ow and gets 18." [2d8=3, 6]
[19:32] <Kotono> This one catches Seira before she's recovered from her jumping leap, a club slam that hits her foot, sending a thrill of pain through her! One of the minotaurs makes it as well, going to try and put an axe right into Seira's skull!
[19:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+12
06[19:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+12 and gets 17." [1d20=5]
[19:32] <Kotono> But this one Seira deflects away with a filck of her blade, as an archer fires on Amaryl!
[19:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7
06[19:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 and gets 19." [1d20=12]
[19:33] <Kotono> But Amaryl's armor stops the arrow cold, sending it to the ground instead of any closer to her! OOC: Amaryl's up.
[19:33] <Kotono> 'Use the ring?' Amaryl quickly asks.
01[19:33] <Seira> 'I'll hold them off, go for it!' Seira responds mentally.
[19:33] <Kotono> Amaryl invokes Seira's ring, the Sun Blade glowing with red hot flames! OOC: Seira.
06[19:36] * Seira focuses her attack on the minotaur, ignoring the ogre that managed to hit her as a lucky strike!
01[19:36] <Seira> roll 1d20+19 Resort
06[19:36] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+19 Resort and gets 38." [1d20=19]
01[19:36] <Seira> roll 4d8+11
06[19:36] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4d8+11 and gets 27." [4d8=2, 5, 1, 8]
01[19:37] <Seira> 'Lagann!' she calls upon her little buddy's aid, entrusting him with the hammer she's carrying, even as she proceeds to tear into the skeletons.
01[19:37] <Seira> roll 1d20+14
06[19:37] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+14 and gets 18." [1d20=4]
[19:38] <Kotono> OOC: Also hit.
01[19:38] <Seira> roll 4d8+11
06[19:38] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4d8+11 and gets 36." [4d8=5, 7, 5, 8]
01[19:38] <Seira> roll 1d20+13 claw
06[19:38] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+13 claw and gets 16." [1d20=3]
01[19:38] <Seira> roll 1d20+13 bite
06[19:38] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+13 bite and gets 29." [1d20=16]
[19:38] <Kotono> OOC: Hit. It's still up, so damage. Hit on claw and bite, I mean.
01[19:39] <Seira> roll 1d6+3 magic
06[19:39] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d6+3 magic and gets 6." [1d6=3]
01[19:39] <Seira> roll 1d8+3 magic
06[19:39] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d8+3 magic and gets 10." [1d8=7]
[19:40] <Kotono> Seira slashes the minotaur's ribs apart, rips off one of it's horns with ease! However, the unholy beast yet lingers to unlife! The third ogre comes around, going near by not quite to range of hitting Seira, as does the other minotaur! (More)
[19:40] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8 Lagann dur
06[19:40] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 Lagann dur and gets 18." [1d20=10]
[19:41] <Kotono> roll 1d8+2
06[19:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+2 and gets 3." [1d8=1]
[19:43] <Kotono> Lagann has the Hammer of the Shard smash into the zombie minotaur as well, rocking it further! It yet stays up, as the second archer fires, this time at Amaryl!
03[19:43] * asdgsdfasdfhdfgsdfg is now known as Demedais
[19:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7 okay, pausing after this roll resolves
06[19:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 okay, pausing after this roll resolves and gets 23." [1d20=16]
03[20:06] * Ebiris (WinNT@user-544794a8.wfd84b.dsl.pol.co.uk) has joined #evildunes
03[20:06] * ChanServ sets mode: +ao Ebiris Ebiris
[21:42] <Kotono> Amaryl dodges the arrow, as the second ogre pounds Seira again!
[21:42] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[21:42] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 14." [1d20=3]
[21:42] <Kotono> But this blow fails completely, sidestepped, as another orge dumbly tries this on Seira!
[21:42] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[21:42] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 23." [1d20=12]
01[21:42] <Seira> OOC: Still 25
[21:42] <Kotono> But again, another miss, the minotaur swinging now as large sized Seira withstands the storm of challengers!
[21:42] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[21:42] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 15." [1d20=2]
[21:44] <Kotono> Clang! The sound of metal is heard as it hits the ground, also missing Seira, as the first archer goes for Amaryl!
[21:44] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7
06[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 and gets 24." [1d20=17]
[21:44] <Kotono> But she deflects this blow, then surges forward! She's going for the ogre creeping around Seira, taking it's potshot as she gets close enough to slash at it with her Sun Blade!
[21:44] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 14." [1d20=3]
[21:45] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
06[21:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 18." [1d20=3]
[21:45] <Kotono> roll 2d10+16+1d6+3d6 (Undead is a favored enemy and skirmish with swift hunter)
06[21:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d10+16+1d6+3d6 (Undead is a favored enemy and skirmish with swift hunter) and gets 39." [2d10=9, 4][1d6=2][3d6=1, 3, 4]
[21:46] <Kotono> The Sun Blade cuts through it's bony body like it's smoke on the wind, greviously slicing much of it apart! OOC: SEira.
06[21:47] * Seira decides to persist against her own target! Once it has been destroyed, she'll see about advancing slightly to take on the other ogre, as Amaryl seems to have her own handled.
01[21:47] <Seira> roll 1d20+21 flanking?
06[21:47] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+21 flanking? and gets 39." [1d20=18]
01[21:47] <Seira> roll 4d8+11
06[21:47] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4d8+11 and gets 26." [4d8=2, 8, 1, 4]
03[21:49] * Kotono changes topic to 'Archer 2(18)>Ogre 2(17)>Ogre 1(15)>Archer 1(13)>Amaryl(11)>Seira(9)>Ogre 3(6)>Minotaur 1(4)'
[21:49] <Kotono> OOC: It's down. Two orges are still on you, remember.
06[21:50] * Seira strikes against the other ogre, as planned, commanding Lagann to switch targets to help Amaryl.
01[21:50] <Seira> roll 1d20+14
06[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+14 and gets 23." [1d20=9]
01[21:50] <Seira> roll 1d20+13
06[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+13 and gets 19." [1d20=6]
01[21:50] <Seira> roll 1d20+13
06[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+13 and gets 23." [1d20=10]
[21:50] <Kotono> OOC: All hit.
01[21:50] <Seira> roll 4d8+11
06[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4d8+11 and gets 25." [4d8=3, 3, 1, 7]
01[21:50] <Seira> roll 1d6+3
06[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d6+3 and gets 6." [1d6=3]
01[21:50] <Seira> roll 1d8+3
06[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d8+3 and gets 11." [1d8=8]
[21:51] <Kotono> Seira hacks intot he other one, nearly sundering it apart with a claw and a bite! Her mouth tastes of dead bones and ash, revolting her, yet the unholy creature is nearly destroyed! The ogre and minotaur on Amaryl go to try and level her down hard!
[21:51] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[21:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 22." [1d20=11]
[21:51] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[21:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 31." [1d20=18]
[21:52] <Kotono> But Amaryl, protected and magicked, is able to move like the wind, dodging each blow nimbly! The second archer slowly, achingly fires another shot at Seira!
[21:52] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7
06[21:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 and gets 20." [1d20=13]
[21:52] <Kotono> As it misses, the two orges swing at her, as the other archer fires at Seira!
[21:52] <Kotono> OOC: Amaryl, I mean.
[21:52] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[21:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 12." [1d20=1]
[21:52] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[21:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 15." [1d20=4]
[21:52] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7
06[21:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 and gets 9." [1d20=2]
[21:53] <Kotono> But none of them land a blow, as Amaryl holds her ground! Light spills from the Sun Blade, pushing the walls of pressing shadow back! "Go back to rest!" Amaryl shouts in Elven!
[21:53] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
06[21:53] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 29." [1d20=14]
[21:53] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10
06[21:53] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 and gets 21." [1d20=11]
[21:53] <Kotono> roll 4d10+32+2d6 ogre
06[21:53] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4d10+32+2d6 ogre and gets 64." [4d10=4, 10, 5, 6][2d6=2, 5]
03[21:53] * Kotono changes topic to 'Archer 2(18)>Ogre 2(17)>Ogre 1(15)>Archer 1(13)>Amaryl(11)>Seira(9)>Minotaur 1(4)'
[21:55] <Kotono> Hacking the ogre apart, it's bones burst into golden flame and burn away! Amaryl sighs in relief, turning to face the minotaur! Meanwhile, the Hammer of the Shard dances about! (Taking Lagann's missed action real quick.)
[21:55] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8
06[21:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 and gets 23." [1d20=15]
[21:55] <Kotono> roll 1d8+2
06[21:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+2 and gets 8." [1d8=6]
[21:56] <Kotono> Lagann hits the ogre in the back, crunching a few more bones and staggering it even more! OOC: Seira, you're up.
06[21:56] * Seira works on methodically dispatching the ogre with the Resort, first!
01[21:57] <Seira> roll 1d20+19
06[21:57] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+19 and gets 27." [1d20=8]
[21:57] <Kotono> OOC: Hit. Rolld amage?
01[21:57] <Seira> roll 4d8+11
06[21:57] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4d8+11 and gets 20." [4d8=2, 2, 4, 1]
03[21:57] * Kotono changes topic to 'Archer 2(18)>Ogre 1(15)>Archer 1(13)>Amaryl(11)>Seira(9)>Minotaur 1(4)'
06[21:57] * Seira advances on the minotaur, calling out, "I'll try to clear the path, take out the archers!"
01[21:57] <Seira> roll 1d20+14
06[21:57] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+14 and gets 21." [1d20=7]
01[21:58] <Seira> OOC: Strike, then!
06[21:59] * Seira proceeds into melee with the minotaur!
[21:59] <Kotono> The ogre's skeleton is ripped apart one last time, crumbling around Seira! The minotaur menaces Seira, but her enhanced reach lets her fend off it's blows, before it takes another bigs wing at Amaryl!
[21:59] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[21:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 15." [1d20=2]
[22:00] <Kotono> But it's another bad one, missing her completely! OOC: Archers and ogre are up.
[22:00] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7 Amaryl
06[22:00] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 Amaryl and gets 19." [1d20=12]
[22:00] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7
06[22:00] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 and gets 25." [1d20=18]
[22:00] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11 Seira ogre charge
06[22:00] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 Seira ogre charge and gets 28." [1d20=17]
[22:00] <Kotono> OOC: AC, Seira?
01[22:00] <Seira> OOC: Still 25
[22:00] <Kotono> roll 2d6+9
06[22:00] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6+9 and gets 13." [2d6=2, 2]
[22:01] <Kotono> More arrows fly, missing! Seira gets clubbed in the back, her open flank taken advantage of by the skeletal ogre, slamming her hard! "Got it," Amaryl calls, running past the minotaur who takes a quick swipe at her!
[22:01] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[22:01] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 26." [1d20=13]
[22:01] <Kotono> But Amaryl makes it past, charging the first archer!
[22:01] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17
06[22:01] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 and gets 20." [1d20=3]
[22:01] <Kotono> roll 2d10+16+3d6+1d6
06[22:01] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d10+16+3d6+1d6 and gets 27." [2d10=1, 1][3d6=4, 1, 3][1d6=1]
03[22:01] * Kotono changes topic to 'Archer 2(18)>Ogre 1(15)>Amaryl(11)>Seira(9)>Minotaur 1(4)'
[22:01] <Kotono> It's skull is cracked open, body withering away in a blast of sunlight! OOC: Seira.
01[22:02] <Seira> Two enormous skeletons surround her, so Seira strikes at them equally, a blow reserved for each!
01[22:02] <Seira> roll 1d20+19 ogre
06[22:02] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+19 ogre and gets 30." [1d20=11]
01[22:02] <Seira> roll 1d20+14 minotaur
06[22:02] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+14 minotaur and gets 18." [1d20=4]
01[22:02] <Seira> roll 1d20+13 ogre
06[22:02] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+13 ogre and gets 24." [1d20=11]
01[22:02] <Seira> roll 1d20+13 minotaur
06[22:02] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+13 minotaur and gets 33." [1d20=20]
01[22:03] <Seira> roll 4d8+11+1d6+3 ogre
06[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4d8+11+1d6+3 ogre and gets 33." [4d8=7, 1, 1, 4][1d6=6]
01[22:03] <Seira> roll 4d8+11+1d8+3 minotaur
06[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4d8+11+1d8+3 minotaur and gets 43." [4d8=8, 7, 4, 3][1d8=7]
[22:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8
06[22:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 and gets 9." [1d20=1]
[22:04] <Kotono> Seira fights well, chipping away at both of them with jeweled strikes and claws! As they withstand, the minotaur takes another swing at her!
[22:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[22:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 17." [1d20=4]
[22:04] <Kotono> But misses, as the ogre does the same, while the last archer fires at Seira!
[22:04] <Kotono> OOC: Amaryl. Dur.
[22:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[22:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 22." [1d20=11]
[22:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7
06[22:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 and gets 13." [1d20=6]
[22:04] <Kotono> But both fail once more, as Amaryl advances on the last archer!
[22:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17
06[22:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 and gets 26." [1d20=9]
[22:05] <Kotono> roll 2d10+16+3d6+1d6
06[22:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d10+16+3d6+1d6 and gets 42." [2d10=4, 6][3d6=4, 5, 1][1d6=6]
03[22:05] * Kotono changes topic to 'Ogre 1(15)>Amaryl(11)>Seira(9)>Minotaur 1(4)'
[22:05] <Kotono> Cutting it apart, the unholy monster vaporizes into motes of pure white sunshine! OOC: Seira.
06[22:05] * Seira repeats her previous attack pattern, not having anything witty to say to the soon-to-be-dead skeletons.
01[22:05] <Seira> roll 1d20+19
06[22:05] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+19 and gets 25." [1d20=6]
01[22:05] <Seira> roll 1d20+14
06[22:05] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+14 and gets 33." [1d20=19]
01[22:05] <Seira> roll 1d20+13
06[22:05] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+13 and gets 33." [1d20=20]
01[22:05] <Seira> roll 1d20+13
06[22:05] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+13 and gets 29." [1d20=16]
01[22:05] <Seira> roll 4d8+11+1d6+3 ogre
06[22:05] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4d8+11+1d6+3 ogre and gets 36." [4d8=6, 5, 4, 2][1d6=5]
01[22:06] <Seira> roll 4d8+11+1d8+3 minotaur
06[22:06] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4d8+11+1d8+3 minotaur and gets 32." [4d8=2, 4, 5, 2][1d8=5]
[22:07] <Kotono> With that last surge, the two skeletons crumble into ruin! Amaryl looks about, face framed in angelic, glowing sunlight! "Is that the last of them," she asks, still carrying on in Elven.
01[22:08] <Seira> "Of the welcoming party," Seira responds with a shrug, shaking ashes off her sword. She keeps to Elven herself, not having a particular attachment to Common, approaching Amaryl.
[22:09] <Kotono> Amaryl's hand is steady now, as she starts to walk. "Come on," she says, "There's more of them, you're right."
01[22:09] <Seira> "You're sensing them?" Seira asks in surprise, keeping next to her.
[22:11] <Kotono> "The Sun Blade, it's burning like a torch in my hand. I just...I don't know. I just think there are." she shrugs, not even stopping her step.
01[22:11] <Seira> "Maybe you lucked out and it's a blade with a purpose," Seira suggests, smiling. "Those are fun."
[22:13] <Kotono> As you walk, you get the feeling of walking downstairs. The shadows grow longer, darker. All around you, whispering the deadly song of emptiness. The caroling grows stronger, you can hear it reverbating in your soul...like as weet, sweet song to close your eyes...
06[22:14] * Seira unconsciously shifts closer to Amaryl and the Sun Blade.
[22:15] <Kotono> Amaryl shivers, as the sensation of walking down stairs grows sharper, more like plummeting down a chasm. "I..." Amaryl slows briefly.
[22:15] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8
06[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 and gets 11." [1d20=3]
[22:15] <Kotono> She stops entirely, bowing her head, "What...it..." she blinks, "Seira, I feel like I should close my eyes and go to sleep...I feel tired, suddenly."
03[22:16] * Demedais is now known as deadtai
01[22:18] <Seira> "We'll die if we stop," Seira tells her quietly. "Or worse. We won't be allowed to die. The blade, focus on--" Seira's eyes widen suddenly. "Call upon its special powers! It might help!"
[22:19] <Kotono> "It's not so bad...everything dies, anyway." Amaryl's eyes droop down, her gaze down at the floor. "There's no point to any of it..." But with a sluggish movement, Amaryl manages to weakly spin the Sun Blade overhead! Bright sunlight bursts around you, shadows banished back immediately! The singing sounds farther away, a whisper held easily at bay.
06[22:20] * Seira has been hoping to reserve that spell, but....
01[22:21] <Seira> "No point? I thought that, too, when I was taken to Shar," she admits bitterly. "But then I got away. And now, we're back, on our own terms!" She calls upon Haste, so that they might reach their destination quicker, and hopefully before the Daylight runs out.
[22:26] <Kotono> "Y-you're right," Amaryl stammers out, as she spins the blade further! The sunlight extends out farther, as the two start to hurry along! Then...you are there. No change, no movement, just there. Chills run up and down Seira, for you stand in the altar room of the Temple of Shar! You can see where the sacrifices are made, the unholy altar dripping with fresh blood! Far above, twisting like mirages on the horizon, you can see the balconies.
[22:26] <Kotono> a falchion in it's hand. From it's mouth comes the song of oblivion, sung by a million voices crying in a tandem of profound despair. Behind him stands another shadow, smaller. It sings a song of regret and vengence, hiding away in the darkest places of the heart. The third stands to the other side of the first, singing of grinding your foes into the dust, hastening the eternal descent into oblivion.
01[22:30] <Seira> "So all you can do now is cry and lament your fate?" Seira calls to the shadows. "Come, and I'll end you once and for all!"
[22:40] <Kotono> "Begone!" Amaryl calls! As you talk, the shadows advance! They continue to sing those dreadful songs, all the while! OOC: Init?
01[22:40] <Seira> roll 1d20+6
06[22:40] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 and gets 11." [1d20=5]
[22:40] <Kotono> roll 1d20+3
06[22:40] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 and gets 11." [1d20=8]
[22:40] <Kotono> roll 1d20+2
06[22:40] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 and gets 14." [1d20=12]
[22:40] <Kotono> roll 1d20+4
06[22:40] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+4 and gets 16." [1d20=12]
[22:40] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7 Amaryl
06[22:40] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 Amaryl and gets 12." [1d20=5]
03[22:40] * Kotono changes topic to 'Shadow 3>Shadow 2>Amaryl>Seira=Shadow 1'
[22:41] <Kotono> The third shadow leaps at Seira, singing as black flames crackle around it's fist!
[22:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 (+3 arcane strike) AC?
06[22:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 (+3 arcane strike) AC? and gets 31." [1d20=11]
01[22:42] <Seira> OOC: 26 due to haste
[22:42] <Kotono> roll 2d8+6+3d4 and 1 vile
06[22:42] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d8+6+3d4 and 1 vile and gets 23." [2d8=5, 6][3d4=1, 1, 4]
[22:42] <Kotono> The shadow is relentless, striking hard into Seira's stomach! The blow is not yet overwhelming, but it is a strong, quick one! The second shadow follows, going for Amaryl!
[22:42] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19
06[22:42] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 and gets 38." [1d20=19]
[22:43] <Kotono> roll 2d8+2 and Amaryl needs a fort save
06[22:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d8+2 and Amaryl needs a fort save and gets 16." [2d8=7, 7]
[22:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[22:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 35." [1d20=19]
[22:44] <Kotono> The shadow strikes Amaryl once and falls back, 15 feet away! Amaryl grows as she staggers, "No, I will return you to whence you came!" she declares bodly, Sun Blade glowing as she runs in and strikes!
[22:44] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17
06[22:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 and gets 33." [1d20=16]
[22:44] <Kotono> roll 2d10+16+3d6+1d6
06[22:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d10+16+3d6+1d6 and gets 35." [2d10=1, 1][3d6=5, 4, 4][1d6=4]
[22:45] <Kotono> The blow cuts through the shadow, making it sparkle, crackle and wither partially! OOC: Seira, you're up.
02[22:47] * deadtai (~ferixstad@76.236.179.191) Quit (screw this, i can't deal with it)
06[22:48] * Seira downs a tonic and calls upon holy fire, seemingly uncaring of whether her actions would harm Amaryl! Even as she does so, ten pairs of phantom teeth assault the falchion wielder, striking it from all sides!
01[22:48] <Seira> roll 10d6 manyjaws, first, force, ref DC 22
06[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 10d6 manyjaws, first, force, ref DC 22 and gets 40." [10d6=4, 2, 4, 6, 6, 2, 6, 5, 3, 2]
[22:48] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8
06[22:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 and gets 16." [1d20=8]
01[22:49] <Seira> roll 10d6 holy fire, swift spell, ref dc 23
06[22:49] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 10d6 holy fire, swift spell, ref dc 23 and gets 40." [10d6=1, 4, 2, 6, 4, 3, 3, 5, 6, 6]
[22:49] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8
06[22:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 and gets 12." [1d20=4]
[22:49] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
06[22:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 21." [1d20=6]
01[22:49] <Seira> OOC: Tonic makes it empowered, so that's 60 holy damage
[22:49] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[22:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 14." [1d20=3]
01[22:49] <Seira> roll 1d4
06[22:49] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d4 and gets 1." [1d4=1]
03[22:50] * Kotono changes topic to 'Shadow 3>Amaryl>Seira=Shadow 1'
[22:51] <Kotono> The jaws and wash of holy fire are overwhelming! The shadow attacking Amaryl is burnt away inot nothing (A song of loss, a final, despairing cry from a young woman) as the falchion one is savaged! It nonetheless charges Seira!
[22:51] <Kotono> OOC: You have reach on him.
06[22:51] * Seira strikes it with the Resort, smiting her enemy!
01[22:52] <Seira> roll 1d20+19 smite, impromptu SA
06[22:52] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+19 smite, impromptu SA and gets 23." [1d20=4]
[22:52] <Kotono> Despite the quick attack, it misses as it swings at Seira, singing all the while!
[22:52] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22 (+2 charge, -7 PA)
06[22:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 (+2 charge, -7 PA) and gets 33." [1d20=11]
[22:53] <Kotono> roll 2d4+28+1d6 (cold) and 1 vile, Seira
06[22:53] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d4+28+1d6 (cold) and 1 vile, Seira and gets 36." [2d4=3, 3][1d6=2]
[22:54] <Kotono> The blow cuts into Seira's side, a deep but not threatening wound to it! Meanwhile, the third one swings hard at Seira!
[22:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 (+2 arcane strike)
06[22:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 (+2 arcane strike) and gets 22." [1d20=3]
[22:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 (+2 arcane strike)
06[22:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 (+2 arcane strike) and gets 35." [1d20=16]
[22:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14
06[22:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 and gets 20." [1d20=6]
[22:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+9
06[22:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 and gets 13." [1d20=4]
[22:55] <Kotono> roll 2d8+6+2d4 and 1 vile
06[22:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d8+6+2d4 and 1 vile and gets 20." [2d8=4, 3][2d4=3, 4]
[22:55] <Kotono> A black-flaming fist hit's Seira's jaw, knocking her back a few steps! Amaryl takes the change, looping around and going to the back of the falchion shadow with nary a word!
[22:55] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17
06[22:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 and gets 20." [1d20=3]
[22:55] <Kotono> But her blow misses, glowing blade blocked by shadows! OOC: Seira?
06[22:57] * Seira dances out of reach, maintaining her focus despite the heavy damage she is taking, and sending a second gout of holy flame towards her enemies!
01[22:57] <Seira> roll 10d6 holy fire, first
06[22:57] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 10d6 holy fire, first and gets 41." [10d6=5, 4, 6, 3, 4, 3, 4, 5, 3, 4]
01[22:57] <Seira> OOC: 60 holy, dc is 23
[22:57] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8
06[22:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 and gets 25." [1d20=17]
[22:57] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[22:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 14." [1d20=3]
03[22:58] * Kotono changes topic to 'Amaryl>Seira=Shadow 1'
01[22:58] <Seira> roll 10d10 die, dammit!
06[22:58] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 10d10 die, dammit! and gets 53." [10d10=5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 6, 9, 7, 6, 4]
01[22:58] <Seira> OOC: Force, dc22
[22:58] <Kotono> OOC: d10s? Also, I'm not done yet.
01[22:58] <Seira> OOC: Sorry! It was me maintaining the concentration for my Manyjaws, should be d6
01[22:58] <Seira> roll 10d6 still die!
06[22:58] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 10d6 still die! and gets 31." [10d6=2, 1, 1, 6, 4, 1, 6, 5, 2, 3]
[22:59] <Kotono> The breath is too much! The shadows both start to break apart! As they perish, the main shadow takes it's swings!
[22:59] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 (-7 PA) Seira
06[22:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 (-7 PA) Seira and gets 22." [1d20=2]
[22:59] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 Amaryl
06[22:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 Amaryl and gets 26." [1d20=11]
[22:59] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10 Seira
06[22:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 Seira and gets 24." [1d20=14]
[22:59] <Kotono> But not a single blow of this lands, as the shadows are vaporized! OOC: Free act.
06[23:00] * Seira laughs in triumph! "Two thousand gold was a small price to pay to watch them burn!" she declares vengefully.
[23:02] <Kotono> Amaryl looks about, "Whew." Looking to Seira, "Who were they?"
01[23:03] <Seira> "If I had to guess?" Seira asks, walking wearily towards the altar. "The same ones who trapped me here, and killed my familiar in this very room."
[23:04] <Kotono> "Really?!" Amaryl gasps as youw alk up. "I don't believe it, but...." she slows, "Seira, was that it? If this is the altar room, do we finish the quest here?"
06[23:06] * Seira snorts. "I was detached when I was telling the story to our new friend, asking him to help Giselle. But yes. This must be why Waukeen gave me this mission, a chance to face them and clear my doubts." She smiles at Amaryl, dispelling her transformative spell. "There's no one else I would rather have had at my side for this, or for any other adventure."
[23:06] <Kotono> That makes blushes creep all over Amaryl's face, "Seira...I...thank you."
06[23:08] * Seira offers her hand to Amaryl. "Let's finish this, then? I'm wearing the anklet, and you have the Sun Blade. We can complete this quest together, like we petitioned Waukeen, and then trash this accursed altar and go home."
[23:09] <Kotono> "Right," Amaryl holds the Sun Blade, "Hm. Raise your leg up so I can get a clean swipe at the anklet?"
01[23:09] <Seira> "It's probably symbolic, so a touch of its tip is fine," Seira voices.
[23:12] <Kotono> Amaryl touches the Sun Blade to the cursed anklet! In that moment, sunlight spills from the blade as if it was a waterfall, gushing out and filling the room! Shadows are banishes from your sight, as the anklet shudders and cracks all over! With a tear it breaks into pieces, each bit flying about, glowing like a sunstone!  The temple is torn apart in an instant, rendered into nothing but shadowstuff! "The...the sword!" Amaryl gasps, as her a
[23:12] <Kotono> rendered into nothing but shadowstuff! "The...the sword!" Amaryl gasps, as her arms point upwards! You see now that you stand int he real world, at the lip of the crater to Halla. The sun is just beginning to rise, it's dawn rays catching the sky pointed Sun Blade. (More)
[23:13] <Kotono> Around you fly the glowing specks of the ruined bracelet. They glitter like stars, falling to the ground. Dozens of them, tiny gemstones of yellow now, dotting everything like a cascade of stars.
06[23:15] * Seira laughs. "One foul temple to Shar, history!" But however wounded she is, there's something far more important, and she gathers Amaryl into a hug.
[23:16] <Kotono> With the sword nearly knocked behind her back, Amaryl is held, "C-careful!" she sputters, "Not while I have a sword overhead..." But once it's positioned better, it's returned. "That was so exciting!"
01[23:17] <Seira> "Plus I'm over my case of etherealness!" Seira exclaims happily. "Ah, it's been such a pain these days!"
01[23:18] <Seira> roll 3d8+15
06[23:18] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 3d8+15 and gets 32." [3d8=8, 8, 1]
01[23:18] <Seira> roll 2d8+10
06[23:18] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2d8+10 and gets 18." [2d8=3, 5]

[Corwin]

01[19:59] <Seira> roll 1d100
06[19:59] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d100 and gets 67." [1d100=67]
01[19:59] <Seira> roll 1d100
06[19:59] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d100 and gets 7." [1d100=7]
01[19:59] <Seira> roll 1d100
06[19:59] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d100 and gets 8." [1d100=8]
01[19:59] <Seira> roll 1d100
06[19:59] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d100 and gets 23." [1d100=23]
[20:01] <Kotono> ---
[20:02] <Kotono> A day or two of teleportation work goes without incident. Once that required if mundane task is finished, Seira returns home and rests. Donald is with her the next day, "So," he begins, "You're going to Lathander's realm and you're inviting me?"
01[20:04] <Seira> "That's it in a nutshell," Seira agrees. "There was a very nice planetar I could introduce you to, so if you ever had any questions for Lathander's celestial servants, it would be a good chance to ask them."
03[20:09] * Ebiris (WinNT@user-5af0c5df.wfd107.dsl.pol.co.uk) has joined #evildunes
[20:11] <Kotono> "Oooooh! I'm in!" Donald nods very quickly, "Is anyone else coming?"
01[20:13] <Seira> "Amaryl and Gilartal." Seira checks her weapons briefly. "I'm ready, in any case. How about you?"
[20:14] <Kotono> Donald hurries away, coming back in armor and weapon both. He carries his helmet under his armor, "Oh yeah," he says, "I'm really ready for this!"
06[20:15] * Seira leans over and whispers to him, "It's the first planetar I befriended. Please don't make her hate me."
[20:18] <Kotono> "Why would I do that?" Donald's face twists into a puzzle, "A Planetar is an angel, isn't she?"
06[20:21] * Seira shrugs. "No idea how you could do this, either. But seeing you so eager, I just had to say it." She smirks, pulling Donald along. "Let's go, we're late as is."
[20:23] <Kotono> Hurrying along, over Donald's protests, the two head to the Temple of Waukeen. Gil is there with Amaryl, waiting. Gil paces and waits, while Amaryl has the Sun Blade rest on her lap. She runs her fingers along the flat of it, sparkles of light rippling along it's length.
01[20:23] <Seira> "It's just like a new toy, isn't it?" Seira asks, announcing her presence.
[20:24] <Kotono> "Oh!" Amaryl turns red as the insides of a watermelon, half rising and then sitting, nearly dropping her weapon onto the ground. "S-S-Seira! Ah...well....maybe a little?"
01[20:25] <Seira> "Let's go and ask Dawn if it's okay to keep it, then!" Seira says happily.
[20:26] <Kotono> Gilartal grimaces slightly as he approaches, "Drop you off and then return back," he clarifies as the four gather.
01[20:27] <Seira> "You could come and meet her, too, if you'd like," Seira offers.
[20:29] <Kotono> Gilartal shakes his head, "I'll pass on it," he says after a few moments, beginning to intone his prayers to Waukeen!
[20:29] <Kotono> roll 5d100
06[20:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 5d100 and gets 301." [5d100=84, 30, 61, 36, 90]
[20:31] <Kotono> You appear in the warm sunshine, standing in an open field. The feelings of bliss overwhelm you immediately, as Donald looks around. He looks up the sun and waves at it, "Oh, it's so WARM here!"
06[20:33] * Seira takes the time to enjoy it, herself. "If I can't find an easy way back, I'll contact you, alright?" she tells Gilartal. "I think we'll be fine, though. Thanks again!"
[20:35] <Kotono> Amaryl smiles as she watches Donald, "It's very pleasant here, and this time Seira doesn't look like a shadow monster!"
[20:35] <Kotono> Gil nods and quickly casts Plane Shift once more, WAukeen's blessings moving him along.
06[20:35] * Seira pouts. "A monster is a bit much," she protests.
[20:38] <Kotono> "Did you look that bad," Donald glances to Seira.
01[20:39] <Seira> "Claris made warding signs, and a lantern archon ran away, crying," she says with a sigh, grabbing hold of Amaryl and Donald and teleporting them to the settlement Dawnbringer lives at.
01[20:39] <Seira> roll 1d100 I saw it twice, I guess?
06[20:39] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d100 I saw it twice, I guess? and gets 16." [1d100=16]
[20:44] <Kotono> "Oh, that-" Donald begins as the two teleport! The settlement is appeared in without incident. It's bright here, the sun's light radiating warmth over all.
06[20:44] * Seira cheerfully heads for the home she met Dawnbringer at, believing it to belong to her.
[20:47] <Kotono> INside the home you find Dawnbringer, who lets you in. "Seira, Amaryl. You have been victorious?"
01[20:48] <Seira> "As you can see!" Seira announces, turning around. "No shadowy bits or creepy aura of undeath!"
[20:50] <Kotono> Amaryl nods and blushes, "Seira was magnificent!
[20:50] <Kotono> "
[20:50] <Kotono> "Hi," Donald follows along, "Nice to meet you. Wow, this is really the House of Nature? I can feel it in my bones!"
01[20:52] <Seira> "Amaryl was the magnificent one," Seira counters. "I wish I could show you the way she seemed to glow as she tore through Shar's evil servants-- actually, wizard. I so can!" At Donald's words, she appears embarrassed. "Ah, and this is Donald, a knight of Lathander! He's kinda my student, so I brought him along. Do you mind?"
[20:56] <Kotono> "You have my congratulations on your victory over Shar's depravity." To Donald she nods, "Welcome to this holy realm, warrior. I do not, as long as you possess means to ensure that he is not entrapped here forever."
[20:57] <Kotono> "Student?" Donald begins to protest, but smiles, "I don't know, I like it here," Donald scratches the back of his head, "It feels like home and happiness and a really good day all rolled into one."
01[20:57] <Seira> "I'm stronger," Seira says simply in answer.
[20:58] <Kotono> "You do. It is not a bad fate, but one who serves Lathander should have patience. Come to this place when your work in the mortal realm is done." Dawnbringer says.
01[21:01] <Seira> "Pretty much the real reason I think he'll go back without coercing when it's time," Seira agrees. "He can't possibly feel like he earned it if he didn't prove himself to Lathander more on Prime to deserve the afterlife, right? But I also thought that some form of positive encoragement was in order. It was pretty hard on him for a while, since he really wanted to become a paladin and just couldn't."
[21:09] <Kotono> "Hey, it's not like I wasn't here before, technically," Donald crosses his arms, "If you look at it like that, everything since then has been extra work."
01[21:10] <Seira> "Shh, we're not supposed to talk about that."
[21:10] <Kotono> Dawnbringer laughs, "Seira is right. There is a time and a place to be here. Until then, enjoy your mortal life."
[21:12] <Kotono> Amaryl clears her throat, "Ma'am, about the Sun Blade...."
01[21:13] <Seira> Ah, the other reason they came. "Yes," Seira adds. "Shar's temple went up in flames, and our quest is done. But the weapon was formed in our hands, and not loaned out. We're not really clear on protocol with what happens next, I have to admit."
[21:20] <Kotono> "Amaryl, you wielded it?" the planetar asks, and after Amaryl nods, "Amaryl, if you would, would you show me your hands?"
06[21:21] * Seira is curious what this is all about, herself.
[21:25] <Kotono> Amaryl approaches, presenting her hands to the planetar. She takes them in her own, putting them palm up and peering at them. In her eyes dance sunlight, blazing as hot as fire.
[21:25] <Kotono> Donald stands on tip-toes, watching.
[21:43] <Kotono> Letting Amaryl's hands go, "You'll bear it well," she decides, "For now, take it. Should it be fated to return here, it will in it's own time."
06[21:45] * Seira couldn't really see anything unusual, and so dismisses it as an angel thing. "Thanks! I'm sure it would serve Amaryl well!"

[Corwin]

[17:28] <Kotono> > Dawnbringer laughs, "Seira is right. There is a time and a place to be here. Until then, enjoy your mortal life."
[17:28] <Kotono> > Amaryl clears her throat, "Ma'am, about the Sun Blade...."
[17:28] <Kotono> <Seira> Ah, the other reason they came. "Yes," Seira adds. "Shar's temple went up in flames, and our quest is done. But the weapon was formed in our hands, and not loaned out. We're not really clear on protocol with what happens next, I have to admit."
[17:28] <Kotono> > "Amaryl, you wielded it?" the planetar asks, and after Amaryl nods, "Amaryl, if you would, would you show me your hands?"
[17:28] <Kotono> * Seira is curious what this is all about, herself.
[17:28] <Kotono> > Amaryl approaches, presenting her hands to the planetar. She takes them in her own, putting them palm up and peering at them. In her eyes dance sunlight, blazing as hot as fire.
[17:28] <Kotono> > Donald stands on tip-toes, watching.
[17:28] <Kotono> > Letting Amaryl's hands go, "You'll bear it well," she decides, "For now, take it. Should it be fated to return here, it will in it's own time."
[17:28] <Kotono> * Seira couldn't really see anything unusual, and so dismisses it as an angel thing. "Thanks! I'm sure it would serve Amaryl well!"
03[17:28] * CC is now known as Seira
[17:28] <Kotono> Amaryl colors from head to toe at that, drawing her hands to her chest, "T-thank you..." she whispers, "I....I'll use it well.
[17:28] <Kotono> "
01[17:31] <Seira> "Since we're here and all, can I trouble you with something?" Seira asks Dawnbringer. "You told me your stance on interefering with Prime, but just giving some guidance in the form of passing along scripture is fine, isn't it?"
[17:31] <Kotono> "Congratulations!" Donald comes over to thump Amaryl on the back.
[17:31] <Kotono> "What do you wish?" Dawnbringer asks.
01[17:32] <Seira> "Something for this one to make him a better knight of Lathander, and a bit of guidance for the clergy of Lathander in our country. Since our world was blocked off for a pretty long time, some of the doctrine is a bit aged. A refresher course can't go amiss!"
[17:34] <Kotono> "Oh, that sounds pretty good. I admit, I have some questions. I'm not as good with doctrine as a priest, but..." Starting to think, "Oh, and there are some more normal question. Like, for example, how come the majority of the members in the Crimson Guard are girls? That doesn't even make sense, almost all soldiers and warriors are men."
[17:36] <Kotono> "We'll talk," Dawnbringer goes to Donald, "Why don't you two rest here while we do?"
[17:37] <Kotono> "Oooph!" Rolling with the thump to her back, Amaryl turn.s On Donald's words, she turns very red. "What's wrong with that," she murmurs under her breath, "Men are so garish and brutish..."
01[17:37] <Seira> "Maybe Dawn'll fix him," Seira whispers to Amaryl. "I've yet to lose hope!"
[17:45] <Kotono> --------------
[17:45] <Kotono> Okay, just the two of you 'porting over?
01[17:47] <Seira> OOC: Yeah, after casting nondetection upon myself
03[17:47] * Ebiris is now known as Alicia
[17:48] <Kotono> Okay.
[17:48] <Kotono> ----
[17:48] <Kotono> Oh yes, dur. Where in Pallanth? Once you declare, roll your trusty d100.
01[17:49] <Seira> roll 1d100 Cel's home, we can walk the rest
06[17:49] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d100 Cel's home, we can walk the rest and gets 69." [1d100=69]