228.1 The Sealed Sword, Arondaaq

[Corwin]

[18:20] <Kotono> Getting Celebrimbor to Balmuria goes relatively without incident. As the two walk one evening towards Elle's shop, "What is it you wished to discuss?" Celebrimbor asks, "The council's time is rather occupied lately, as repercussions from Amaryl's departure continue to slide and snake about. In these days, reasonabe brevity is a virtue."
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01[18:21] <Seira> "I don't suppose there's anything I could do to help with that?" Seira asks, really hoping the answer won't be along the lines of 'you've done enough'.
[18:27] <Kotono> "For the moment, no." Celebrimbor turns his gaze back to Seira, "Most of these matters have to resolve themselves. In a month or a year, when it's all settled, there will be opportunity. Then again..." A slow and a stop there, "Kortan has been busy, more concerned with his realm than council politics lately. Hm. There may be..."
01[18:28] <Seira> "It sounds like you've got an idea after all," Seira points out.
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[18:31] <Kotono> Stopping as he climbs up the hill, the sunset's last rays playing across the building tops, "The saying is that nature abhors a vacuum. When a predator dies, or a king is slain, someone else rises up to take that place in due time. In essence, the Council's short membered right now."
01[18:32] <Seira> "You want me to find someone worthy, then?" Seira muses, tapping her lips. "I'm pretty sure I could corner dad. If I use dirty tactics and pretend to cry, it's as good as a done deal."
[18:36] <Kotono> "That was exactly my thought," With a little smile on his face, "How long as he been off in the far reaches, reading books? I do believe he could use a returned to more civilized pursuits."
06[18:38] * Seira nods. "We're certainly moving ahead with that project. He would do more good for it if he actually stepped back and coordinated that effort." The tips of her lips curve into a smile. "If someone told us several years ago that Malmuth, the Baronies and Pallanth would be cooperating on the magical rejuvenation of the world, would we have believed them or called them fools, I wonder?"
[18:43] <Kotono> "The latter, certainly," As you walk up the hill, yous ee people heading down it. A motley assortment of natives, travelers and even an elf, going here and there and everywhere. "This feels like a time the bards will sing of in the future."
01[18:45] <Seira> "I hope to provide them with plenty to sing their hearts out about," Seira agrees, still smiling. "This is part of why I asked you to come, you know. Together with Elle, you'll be able to tell me if what I want to achieve is possible with mortal abilities."
[18:48] <Kotono> "Very well then. Let's go meet her and discuss this, then?" Tot hat, Celebrimbor continues his walk, heading right for Elle's shop.
06[18:49] * Seira skips ahead of him, opening the door with, "Hi, Elle!"
[18:51] <Kotono> Alice, not Elle is found inside. She's examining the scrolls, looking over. "Goa head into the back," she bids them, "Countess Stronger's resting there."
06[18:52] * Seira waves at Alice, and proceeds inside.
[18:55] <Kotono> Elle is back in her sitting room, eyes closed and a wet rag on her forehead. She opens her eyes as Seira enters, slowly peeling it off.
01[18:55] <Seira> "Bad day?"
[18:56] <Kotono> "Headache. I've been busy...well, busier." Sitting up straighter, "Scion," she stands up as he enters, "I've been running between Mihail's caves and here and a dozen other things lately."
01[18:57] <Seira> "I've been running around, too," Seira responds, "though I delegate more than you do, it seems. Need any help with those caves?"
[18:59] <Kotono> "Right now it's all in the theoretical stage," Waving her hand, "We can talk about it later. You came to visit about something tonight?"
[19:00] <Kotono> Celebrimbor goes to sit, resting deep in a chair.
06[19:01] * Seira nods, closing the door behind them. "See, it's like this. In fact, it might even help you out! We have all these mages learning spells and casting them together and all that. But a lot of the magical energy just ends up being wasted, and I figure that's a shame." She taps her lips again.
01[19:01] <Seira> "You know how if you climb, someone could help you? Or if you fight against someone, or any other time. So why should magical spells and rituals be any different?"
[19:02] <Kotono> "What do you mean, exactly?" Elle goes to put the wet cloth back on her forehead, "Tutoring more upcoming wizards? I had the impression your school does that in spades."
[19:04] <Kotono> "I doubt that's it," Celebrimbor eyes towards Seira, gaze sliding towards her. "This wouldn't require getting the three of us together, three of the best wizards in the region."
01[19:04] <Seira> "More like aiding one another," Seira tells her, nodding at Celebrimbor. "It might be easier to explain if you know of this spell... I think it was the Mystic Surge? You empower another with magical energy, much like Heroism does for the mundane tasks."
[19:09] <Kotono> roll 1d20+24
06[19:09] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+24 and gets 26." [1d20=2]
[19:10] <Kotono> "I'm familiar with it," Celebrimbor nods, "It's a universal schooled primer spell, that enhances the capacity of a spell you or the target casts within the next few seconds."
[19:11] <Kotono> "It works well enough," Elle considers, rubbing her forehead with her wet cloth, "I've not used it, but it sounds useful, especially for an appretence to cast on a master to aid in casting or combat."
06[19:12] * Seira nods. "It's pretty limited in what it does, but I think it helps drive the idea on. Let's say we're faced with an ancient arcane seal. Is our only recourse to leave it alone and get stronger, so that we might overwhelm it one day? Right now, I would say yes. But if several mages banded together.... Right now, even a dozen casting Dispel at once would only have the same result, but if eleven of them cast it into you...."
[19:14] <Kotono> "There's a problem with that," Celebrimbor speaks up here, "One casting of Mystic Surge is the same as ten. Seperate castings of the same spell don't work as multiples, they overlap with the same energies. Otherwise, casting Mage Armor six times would make you a walking slab of impenetrable defense."
[19:14] <Kotono> "That just means Mystic Surge wouldn't be suitable," Elle murmurs there, "If Mystic Surge was the answer, we wouldn't be here, anyway."
[19:15] <Kotono> "Yes, so there must be more to this," Celebrimbor glances at Elle, before curling up into a slight smile, "There should be."
01[19:15] <Seira> "Well, yeah," Seira speaks. "If it were as easy as finding a dozen capable of casting it, we wouldn't need to meet." She smirks at Elle. "Seems like we're finally on the same page! In any case, what about a ritual? They often do what we normally can't. Like the one granted to the Temple of Mystra and spread onwards, of purying evil artifacts. Perhaps a ritual is the right direction."
[19:17] <Kotono> "In theory, many things are possible, as long as they aren't forbidden. I believe magic to manipulate time's the best example here? It's a matter of how efficient or realistic it is." Now thinking to herself, "Hmm. In other words, you see all your studens as part of a possible magical link or ritual circle?"
01[19:18] <Seira> "On some level, it would be even more wasteful than magic being cast separately," Seira theorizes. "I can't really see all that magical energy being fully channeled into the designated caster, not as we just try to make it happen, anyway. But at the same time, it would allow feats of magic that for now lie beyond mortals." At Elle's words, she nods. "Voluntary participation, of course."
[19:18] <Kotono> roll 1d20+24
06[19:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+24 and gets 37." [1d20=13]
[19:19] <Kotono> "It can take years or lifetimes to move something beyond theoretical and into reality," Celebrimbor's brow furrows here, "It would be, most likely, wasteful, pouring on much to accomplish relatively less in a straight return for the power, though still more than one alone could do. You would need something to channel this, be it special training, a magical focus or what have you. In theory."
[19:20] <Kotono> "Yes, but if it takes a hundred years, what's the point," Elle laughs, "We don't have a century to throw away on a research project. Faster results are far more desirable."
01[19:20] <Seira> "Special training is easy enough," Seira points out. "And if something could be done in a century, it could be done faster, too. Didn't we just talk about how the world was changing before our very eyes?"
[19:21] <Kotono> "That doesn't mean anything is possible with minimal effort," Celebrimbor retorts, "Though I concede the basic point."
[19:22] <Kotono> "You'd need to develop the basic training, have willing students who are willing to train and retrain until it's shaped into something viable," Thinking now, "That you can provide, Seira."
[19:22] <Kotono> "As well as replacements, just in case. What if the magical energy overwhelms one of them, or it draws too much and slays some? Relying on the bare minimum is always a way to court folly."
01[19:23] <Seira> "I figure that teaching the methods is easy enough," Seira responds. "As long as they don't have to give away their magical energy, it's the same as learning about any other facet of magic. And I believe many would volunteer for the practicals, too, since nothing about the procedure I want to develop would prevent them from being the beneficiery, either."
06[19:25] * Seira snaps her finger suddenly. "Remember the book on spellgem research?" she asks Celebrimbor suddenly. "It had two ways about drawing power, too. Since it offered a safe route, can't we use the knowledge you have from that?"
[19:26] <Kotono> "...!" Celebrimbor's face changes entirely, "Why yes, I do. That...that..." He bows and closes his eyes, "That may just be possible, or at least a very useful key to figuring this out."
06[19:28] * Seira nods at his words. "I hardly expected to walk out of here today with the practical means of joining wizards together for the purpose of casting a spell of truly epic powers. It's bound to take time. I just hope we'll find a rough draft towards achieving it."
[19:29] <Kotono> "I'll need copies of the relevant notes, and I'll need some time to do my own research on it," Elle decides, "But it could very well be possible if that's as applicable as we think it is. Working with an aide is much easier than working blind."
01[19:30] <Seira> "So we invest a bit of energy into it now, but all future ventures become easier thanks to help from others," Seira adds. "And they learn from the experience, too, far more than normal apprentices would."
[19:31] <Kotono> "My main concern is finding a way for it to work without harm to the contributors," Celebrimbor now faintly smiles, "Excuse me a moment." He stands and rises, leaving the room.
[19:31] <Kotono> Elle waetches him go, "How long have you been thinking over this idea, Seira?"
06[19:33] * Seira feels guilty that Celebrimbor left at such a time, but finds herself admitting, "Ever since I realized that even with a Teleportation Circle scroll and the material components, I still couldn't cast the portals on my own just yet."
[19:34] <Kotono> "Portals are incredible magic. Opening a Gate is at the pinnacle of mortal magic as it stands." Elle shrugs, "Then again, I wonder. I never dreamed I'd cast sixth circle magic as freely as I do now. You may be right."
06[19:34] * Seira winces. "Don't get me wrong! I always hoped that my students would be able to achieve greater cooperation, and this would bring them all that closer! And I wanted to make some artifacts one day that would require magic like this, but-- well, it was all into the distant future, and this is now."
[19:35] <Kotono> "Oh yes, yes." Elle starts to laugh, which makes her cloth slide down over her face. The muffled laughter turns into an irritated sigh, taking it off and flinging it onto a table. "Lately, every day's been the future."
01[19:37] <Seira> "It's fun, isn't it?" Seira asks with a sudden grin.
[19:39] <Kotono> "Tiring. I need to go get a healing spell if these headaches continue," Rubbing her temples, "I'm overdoing it. I need to take an enforced few days off soon. I know it's because I'm doing too much right now."
06[19:40] * Seira considers, before touching Elle on the forehead.
01[19:40] <Seira> roll 2d8+10
06[19:40] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2d8+10 and gets 22." [2d8=7, 5]
01[19:40] <Seira> "Better?"
[19:40] <Kotono> Elle sighs in deep relief. "Yes, thank you." She looks up with a smile, "That should remedy them for the immediate time." As she speaks, Celebrimbor returns. On sittin again, "Where we were?"
[19:40] <Kotono> *where were we?
01[19:42] <Seira> "Magical cooperation, and what I intend to achieve with it. I wish I could take credit for all this stuff, but it's mostly legends I read about. I don't know if they're true or not, but they're certainly worthy goals, I find.
01[19:42] <Seira> Such as... if my students could share in the making of one spell stronger, couldn't they store that magical energy into an artifact they were all attuned to? It might, in fact, make it safer to participate in rituals, if the magical energy went through such an intermediary!"
[19:45] <Kotono> "Like a storage for energy? Speaking of..." Elle speaks up now, "I've been thinking about something ike that, if one of my plans works out."
06[19:46] * Seira looks briefly distracted, but then nods. "In a way. It could draw magical energy from those mages, much like a spellgem undergoing refinement, but not store it in any particular pattern. And not be hazardous, of course."
[19:49] <Kotono> "It could," Elle nods, "The trick would be working it all out." As she speaks, there's a brief noise outside. Then Alicia enters in.
01[19:50] <Seira> "Hi!" Seira greets her. "Sorry I couldn't meet you back at the inn. How have you been?"
[19:50] <Alicia> "Alice said I-" Alicia blinks and pauses. "How did you know I was just there?" she asks Seira curiously.
01[19:51] <Seira> "Amaryl told me. Come in!" Seira waves Alicia inside. "We're having a discussion that'll surely please Mystra!"
[19:53] <Alicia> "Er... okay," Alicia nods, slightly offput as she fully enters Elle's backroom. Catching up can wait if they're having an important discussion... although she should still be polite. "Elle, Lord Drake," she nods to each in turn by way of greeting.
[20:01] <Kotono> "Oh, Alicia. We're talking about magic circles and cooperative magic...or would it be more a form of metamagic?" Thinking on that, "A way for many to contribute to a greater effect. ARe you familiar with Mystic Surge?"
[20:01] <Alicia> roll 1d20+10 knowledge arcana?
06[20:01] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+10 knowledge arcana? and gets 24." [1d20=14]
01[20:01] <Seira> "If it's metamagic, it would be a new brand of it," Seira muses, quickly catching Alicia up on the conversation so far.
[20:03] <Alicia> "I think it's a fourth circle spell that boosts a spell cast immediately afterwards, somehow?" Alicia hazards. "Sorry, but my understanding of magical theory probably lags behind all of yours."
[20:03] <Kotono> "It would be. As I was saying, with those caves, I was thinking of a way to be able to contain vast amounts of heat energy at once, and steam energy if things come to it."
[20:04] <Kotono> "No apology." Celebrimbor chuckles, "Magic's not a science to you but an art. Besides, practical experience is important, too."
01[20:04] <Seira> "You want to provide free heating for the city, essentially?"
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[20:06] <Kotono> "I don't know." Elle shrugs, "I was looking at Mihail's caverns and wondering about things to do with them. I was thinking...the sea's a serious problem with them, but how about embracing it instead of constantly holding it at bay? The idea I have," Elle stands up, grabbing several long scrolls and spreading them out. You can see diagrams of the city beneath and the caverns, as well as several pillars and waterways drawn in. "Half collapse
[20:06] <Kotono> as well as several pillars and waterways drawn in. "Half collapse the walls into controlled flows and use that for cooling. The problem is that it requires heat management on a level far beyond anything easily produced."
06[20:07] * Alicia peers over the table to see what Elle's drawn, but lacking in any scholarly knowledge of geology or architecture she's somewhat lost.
[20:08] <Kotono> "Some sort of permanent item to absorb or vent steam into another dimension or space?" Celebrimbor proposes, "Or some means of dealing with it, like ice paraelementals that are strong enough to constantly endure the steam and convert it to water that could be funneled out safely?"
01[20:09] <Seira> "Why not just went it though, I don't know, the walls or the ground?" Seira suggests. "Or even into a metalworks?"
[20:09] <Alicia> "If a greater ice paraelemental dies in an area of volcanic activity it can have strange permanent effects," Alicia volunteers, happy to have some practical experience to chip in.
[20:09] <Kotono> "Well, the point is to make those damned caverns less of a glaring disaster waiting to happen," Elle continues on, tapping her work, "The question is how? This is the best idea I've had and I've been fooling with those ways to deal with all the excess steam and heat. It reminds me something of your idea for containing and channeling energy."
[20:10] <Kotono> "Really?" Celebrimbor raises an eyebrow, "What example do you speak of?"
01[20:12] <Seira> "Is the amount of lava even finite?" Seira wonders.
[20:12] <Alicia> "I just got back from Ysgard where I was training on one of the floating islands of Muspelheim," Alicia explains. "It was a strange land where ribbons of frozen cold ice criss-crossed mere feet away from liquid hot magma. Apparently a wizard had summoned an ice paraelemental there while making his last stand aeons ago, and the effects still linger."
01[20:12] <Seira> "Nasty!"
[20:12] <Kotono> "The metal cost would be prohibitive. The heat is enough to possibly melt and wear metal or iron. I would need adamantine or more exotic or magically treated materials. And to be honest, I'm not quite sure," Sighing as she rubs her head, "I've been meaning to send some fire elementals to probe as deep into the works as they can, but I've never gotten to it."
01[20:12] <Seira> "I can do it," Seira volunteers. "Not a problem."
[20:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+24
06[20:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+24 and gets 36." [1d20=12]
[20:13] <Kotono> "Ah, the outer planes. Such are a finite but useful example, for often times they rely on rules in contrast to our own." Nodding nonetheless, "Muspelheim is a land of fire, much like these caves sound. It is an apt comparison."
[20:14] <Kotono> "Will drowning be a problem? You may ahve to go into lava," Elle warns with a raised eyebrow.
01[20:14] <Seira> "I don't think we can do much until we know just what we're facing down there," Seira voices. "If the lava will keep on flowing, then there's no way but to find a solution for diverting it. If the amount is finite, it could possibly be drained, perhaps in batches. And I have a spell to breathe in lava, so I'll be fine!"
[20:15] <Alicia> "What about using walls of force to channel the lava?" Alicia suggests. "They would be expensive to make permanent, but surely cheaper than such a vast amount of adamantine."
01[20:16] <Seira> "I'd really like to make use of that resource than spend effort on containing it," Seira admits with a frown. "Can't we try the former, first?"
[20:27] <Kotono> "That's worth a try," Elle agrees to them, "The next day you're free, let me know. It doesn't have to be right away. And yes, that may very well be more economical."
01[20:29] <Seira> "Plus..." Seira hesitates. "I didn't see it at the time, but the whole matter with Mihail was a mistake. An unfortunate misunderstanding. If we could use what he build towards benefitting Balmuria...."
[20:30] <Kotono> "It would do something to make that fiasco mean something," Elle nods crisply.
01[20:31] <Seira> "I doubt we'll get somewhere further today," Seira says, looking over the gathered mages. "The first step seems to be exchanging the notes we have on similar processes, studying them, and gathering again afterwards. Would that be alright?"
[20:32] <Kotono> "In a few weeks?" CElebrimbor concludes at that.
01[20:32] <Seira> "Might as well," Seira agrees. "I do have plans that would eat up a week or two."
[20:33] <Alicia> "What would those be?" Alicia asks curiously. "Also, I heard from the Commander that you did something with one of those horrible things we found in Halla. What happened there?"
[20:34] <Kotono> "Oh yes, how was your trip," Elle asks at that. "I almost forgot in the rush."
01[20:35] <Seira> "Two of them, actually," Seira responds. "I petitioned Waukeen, and managed to redeem that chakram. But then I tried to do something about the anklet, and Waukeen turned me into a shadow and sent me to destroy Shar's temple on the Plane of Shadow. Did you know that while there's a crater in our world, there, an actual temple remained on that plane?"
[20:37] <Alicia> "The plane of shadow isn't a precise mirror of our own world," Alicia agrees with a faint frown. "Personally I found the crater to be a vast improvement."
01[20:39] <Seira> "I made a matching one over there, along with Amaryl," Seira says with a snort. "Those losers were also around, in shadow form. But I made a far superior shadow to them."
06[20:40] * Alicia covers her mouth as she almost snorts. "Twice? Couldn't happen to a nicer lot, at least."
06[20:41] * Seira nods. "The anklet broke into gems. Elle here should have your share of it, actually!"
[20:42] <Kotono> "I can produce the money if you like, though if you're going to buy anyway," spreading her hands, "I can just as easily give you store credit."
01[20:42] <Seira> "I want to buy something, too," Seira admits. "I'll need to go bug Dad for cash, first, though."
01[20:43] <Seira> "It's so expensive I'm just too impatient to save up for it," she mutters a moment later.
[20:43] <Alicia> "We had the anklet appraised at fifty thousand, didn't we? So between the three of us that'd be... sixteen six six six and change? Assuming the gems worked out to the same value," Alicia considers before nodding to Elle, "Store credit is probably fine, I'll get back to you on that. What about the chakram?"
01[20:44] <Seira> "It's holy and stuff." Seira nods. "Very shiny."
[20:45] <Alicia> "I can't use a chakram any more than I can use a shuriken. I take it it's otherwise worth the same?"
01[20:45] <Seira> "Pretty much. I could use it, but I just lack a good reason to do so."
06[20:47] * Alicia nods. "Speaking of things left here, has Elle passed on Esthan's 'gift'?" she asks the colonel, voice dripping contempt on the last word.
01[20:48] <Seira> "I heard about it," Seira affirms. "I petitioned Waukeen and looked over it myself. There are no traps or strings attached, so I'm quite amused at how he helped me get one step closer to defeating him for good."
[20:51] <Alicia> "I suppose that's one way to look at it," Alicia replies dubiously. "Anyway," she turns to Elle, "You were asking about my trip? It actually went really well - we had to prove ourselves first, but the training was very beneficial. I feel better than I have in years, and I know for a fact I'm a lot tougher than I was, now."
[20:51] <Alicia> To her credit, she keeps a perfectly straight face at the reference to feeling better than she has in years.
01[20:53] <Seira> "If it meant giving him a quarter, well, things would be different," Seira muses. "I won't seek power at any price. How about yours? I told Elle that if you didn't want it, I could buy it off your hands and just... I don't know, give the money to some public works project of yours. Some worthy cause." She shrugs. "I could probably make it if I sold a few things."
06[20:56] * Alicia grimaces unhappily at Seira's offer. "I'm not going to profit off of a devil's dubious goodwill," she replies sternly. "If you're fine with putting yourself in his debt that's your decision to make, but I'm not having anything to do with it."
01[20:59] <Seira> "That's your call, of course," Seira responds, sounding equally dubious. "I don't really see it as putting myself in his debt. It's not like I asked for the book from Esthan."
01[20:59] <Seira> "And there are no bad effects from your familiar using the bow he delivered, once it was cleared by Mystra, right?" she adds, curious.
[21:03] <Alicia> "It's not about 'bad effects' it's about symbolism," Alicia retorts. "That bow was an obvious trap designed to empower his master, yes, and was effectively destroyed and remade by Marie's actions into something worthwhile."
[21:03] <Alicia> "Even if I don't use that book to imprint a part of it onto my very being, however, even if I sold it, that would be me accepting his generosity at face value. Any benefit I could gain is tainted by that, and I find that unacceptable."
01[21:04] <Seira> "But it's weird, isn't it?" Seira asks, pouting. "You're going to toss it in his face when we see him next, right? So what happens if we kill him then? Is it okay to use or sell it at that time?"
[21:07] <Alicia> "At that point I might consider myself to have earned it like any other treasure we might claim from a fallen foe," Alicia shrugs. "That's different from putting myself in a position where Esthan can pop up after any triumph I might claim and be able to truthfully say that I did it thanks to his help."
[21:07] <Alicia> "You might just think it's a matter of pride, and you're not far off, but it's important to me that I can succeed without his charity."
01[21:07] <Seira> "Oh, it's not like I desperately need it or anything," Seira mentions. "I just wanted to understand you better."
[21:08] <Alicia> "I don't think it's that hard to understand," Alicia looks away. "Sorry for coming across so preachy, but everything happening with Esthan lately has me highly strung..."
01[21:10] <Seira> "I just look at it from a different viewpoint, that's all," Seira elaborates. "Say that using something like this ends up being the difference between wounding Esthan and dealing with him once and for all. Or will let me use one more spell, which will end up mattering and saving another.
01[21:10] <Seira> If I think of it that way, it's strange for me to wait until I can triumph over him normally. In any case! You asked what I had in mind for the next week or two, right?"
06[21:12] * Alicia nods, encouraging Seira to go on.
01[21:14] <Seira> "I have a pretty good idea where a certain sword is sealed, several spells and skills that help with finding and analyzing wards, and the troubling knowledge that Esthan is closing in on it, that it would keep on harming innocent people if left alone, and that I can't just bear it without dying in a matter of months. Therefore, I intend to try and seal it off once more."
[21:15] <Alicia> "Ahh," Alicia nods in dawning understanding. "Sealing it away, or putting it where it can do no harm would be a good idea, yes. So you know where it is, specifically?"
01[21:16] <Seira> "I have a very good idea, and I don't really want to say more until I've used Nondetection for good measure," Seira responds. "I was going to head to Pallanth to talk with Lord Desjardin about this. While petitioning Waukeen for a few answers, she assured me that I could rely on him in this matter."
06[21:18] * Alicia nods again, having grown to respect the old elf over her dealings with him. "Well, if there's anything I can help with on that, let me know. It's not something I want left lying around freely, either."
01[21:18] <Seira> "I was going to try and see him later today. Want to come along, then?"
[21:20] <Alicia> "I'd like some time to catch up with my sister and familiar, since I got back less than an hour ago, but sometime after lunch would suit, yes," Alicia agrees.
01[21:21] <Seira> "You know where to find me," Seira tells Alicia. "If you'd like, I could even delay by a day or two. It's an urgent matter, but not so much that I'd rush off unprepared if a few days would help me along."
[21:31] <Kotono> OOC: So you guys are going to 'port to Pallanth? I'll use your roll way back at the start for this.
[21:31] <Kotono> ---
[21:33] <Kotono> Appearing in Pallanth is wtihout incident. Finding Desjardin is a little more work, requiring some walkinga nd hustle. But eventually you are taken into his presence. He is in grand sitting room, as large as an open field. The ceiling is made of leaves that emit soft sunshine through them. He sits in one of these patches, music floating in the air, it's source unseen.
01[21:34] <Seira> "It's quite the pleasant room," Seira says as they are taken to see him. "Thank you for seeing us on such short notice."
[21:36] <Alicia> "Lord Desjardin," Alicia bows respectfully to the elderly elf, letting Seira handle the talking since she knows what she's actually here to request.
[21:36] <Kotono> "Is it about the Resort?" He asks, "Or what happened as you obtained it?"
01[21:37] <Seira> "Only very indirectly so," Seira responds, alert at his words. "Has there been trouble in Pallanth as the result of all the fey being released from their ancient prison?"
[21:39] <Kotono> "The Council has been more interested in chasing it's own politics," With a cold, bitter snort, "Because the fair lady Gaial eloped with you. There have been...murmurings," he lingers on that word, "Of stranger things. A village that gave into a week of festive celebration spurred on by nothing. Of dancing faeries and will o' the wisps in the moonlight."
[21:40] <Alicia> "At least that all sounds harmless enough," Alicia offers, not wanting to be drawn at all on the subject of Seira's love-life and its political ramifications. "Certainly they deserve a celebration after finally being relieved of their ancient duty."
01[21:41] <Seira> "I'm certain things would calm down soon enough on the festive fey front," Seira responds, studiously ignoring any talk of elopment. "In any case, what we've learned as we got towards the Resort is the reason we are here today."
[21:45] <Kotono> "Go on," Gesturing to Seira, "Speak what is on your mind, then."
01[21:47] <Seira> "I'll get straight to the point, then, Lord Desjardin. It concerns the sword your family helped Talinn the Seeker seal off, once it was no longer needed. During our quest, we've learned that the seal was breaking, and that the devil Esthan was getting close to it. And if that was not enough,
01[21:47] <Seira> the effect of the failing wards was what had corrupted that dragon and lead to the deaths of several elves nearby. We simply cannot leave such a matter unattended."
[21:51] <Kotono> "So that's what was behind that?" With a murmur as he rubs his chin long, "What are you going to do about it?"
01[21:53] <Seira> "Reseal it," Seira says firmly. "Both the heretical Time Magus guarding the Resort and Waukeen herself seem to agree that together, we should be up to the task. With such words, how could we not give it a try?"
06[21:54] * Alicia is here for moral support!
[21:55] <Kotono> "I wish the two of you well then," Desjardin says. "When will you do it?"
01[21:57] <Seira> "As soon as possible, really," Seira admits. "If you cannot spare the time for such a task, Lord Desjardin, would it be possible to have what information you have on the original seal? I figured that if it existed at all, it would be safely with you."
[21:58] <Kotono> "You mean for myself to come as well?" Eyeing Seira now, standing up, "Irregardless of if so, I know little to nothing about it. If I had, perhaps I could have diagnosed the dragon's condition or what happened at Council."
01[21:59] <Seira> "It was an option," Seira admits.
[22:01] <Kotono> "My ancestors did not have much faith in the future. By and large, they seemed to want the past to be forgotten. What they left us was often little to none." Juai Desjardin sighs.
06[22:02] * Seira presents a confident front. "We'll just have to prove them wrong, then! Thank you for your time; we'll get right on that riddle of the seal."
06[22:03] * Alicia diplomatically says nothing about cleaning up their messes. "Well, we'll see what we can do ourselves to unravel it from the start. If nothing else perhaps we can move it to a place it can do no harm."
[22:04] <Kotono> "When it's done, come back to me," he says, and then after a moment, "If you do so, you deserve a reward from Pallanth, and not in the least myself."
01[22:05] <Seira> Any reward is hardly why she'd do this. Seira just nods noncommittally, and waits to be dismissed.
[22:06] <Alicia> "Avoiding another tragedy like with that maddened dragon is paramount," Alicia affirms.
[22:06] <Kotono> After af ew more moments, "You've done more help to Pallanth than our esteemed ancestors or the Gods above. Why a half breed and few humans care so much about us..." He shakes his head there. "For that reason, go and succeeed.
[22:06] <Kotono> "
06[22:07] * Seira is yet again reminded why she doesn't reside in the land of her birth.
[22:09] <Alicia> Normally Alicia would say something nice like 'you'd do the same for us,' but she gets the feeling it wouldn't be welcomed. "We simply want to live in the best world we can," she replies diplomatically. "By your leave," at that she departs.
06[22:09] * Seira bows, and follows after Alicia.
[22:09] <Kotono> "Thank you," he says, and after a pause, "...and for what it's worth, this old elf means it."
06[22:10] * Alicia gives Lord Desjardin one last smile before exiting. "Alright, shall I take us to the hoard chamber or somewhere else?" she asks Seira as she prepares to teleport once outside.
01[22:11] <Seira> "Let's try the main entrance. I would like to start from scratch," Seira requests.
[22:11] <Alicia> "You mean the ravine we landed in the first time?" Alicia clarifies before taking Seira's hand and attempting to teleport there!
[22:11] <Alicia> roll 1d100 studied carefully
06[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 studied carefully and gets 69." [1d100=69]
[22:12] <Alicia> OOC: first teleport is to Elandra's Rest or whatever, seen once I guess, just outside.
[22:12] <Alicia> roll 1d100 to the mountains
06[22:12] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 to the mountains and gets 64." [1d100=64]
[22:15] <Kotono> OOC: Just outside the main entrance, yes?
[22:16] <Alicia> OOC: the junction leading to the big open ravine and the tunnel with the spell shooting riddle about immortal things and one other tunnel that goes I can't remember where
01[22:16] <Seira> OOC: Yep
[22:17] <Kotono> Woosh! On command, Seira and Alicia teleport twice! They appear in the frozen mountain. The cold instantly clings to them, like the grips of a grappling demon. The short air is noticed instantly, breathing becoming a tricky, difficult task.
06[22:18] * Alicia belatedly casts resist energy (cold) on both of them.
01[22:18] <Seira> "I wonder," Seira says, as they appear in the cold mountains, after thanking Alicia for the spell. "I have pretty ears, don't I? Just like any elf's!" She fetches a mirror to observe them critically. "But it's always half-breed this, half-breed that. Because someone I never got to meet was human and gave birth to me. And they all treat it so naturally, like I'm in the wrong if I'm offended by that."
[22:20] <Kotono> The floor is still coated in thick ice, the air still thing. It is much how you remember it, nothing having obviously changed in this ancient, primal place.
[22:21] <Alicia> "Well, it's been my observation that most elves consider themselves innately superior to humans, even if they're nice about it," Alicia shrugs. "They probably see your human half as a failing... although since a dragon could be considered a step up..." she trails off thoughtfully.
01[22:23] <Seira> "Far too many occupy themselves with what's on the outside," Seira grumbles. "I even worry, sometimes, that I should have stayed away from this if I need to keep this disguise going all the time or risk people swear and gape at me."
[22:25] <Alicia> "People don't react that badly to your appearance, for all that red dragons are stereotypical creatures of terror and legend," Alicia offers. "Although I suppose they do stare, at the least. Still, better for them to get used to it than to hide it, surely?"
01[22:26] <Seira> "I'll let you in on a little secret," Seira says, starting to head towards the area she believes holds Arondaaq. "I may not look like it, but I'm actually quite vain, so it bothers me."
[22:30] <Alicia> "Well, Amaryl doesn't seem bothered by your appearance in the slightest," Alicia consoles as she trots alongside Seira. "Isn't that what matters most?"
01[22:31] <Seira> "Pretty much," Seira agrees. "As long as she and you guys are fine, I'll get over it."
[22:32] <Alicia> roll 1d20+1 aid?
06[22:32] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+1 aid? and gets 11." [1d20=10]
06[22:34] * Seira intends to start searching as soon as she reaches the area where the chill becomes supernatural. By calling upon an extended Detect Magic spell, Lagann's help with metal-detection, be they mechanisms, traps or the actual sword, and is normal senses, as well as help from Alicia and the deck-granted power, she hopes to discover something they overlooked last time.
01[22:34] <Seira> A difference in the magical ambience, a nook, anything that points to the sword they now know indeed resides there.
[22:36] <Kotono> OOC: This will take four hours. Roll a fort save, each of you? I'll tell you to roll another or inform you of a failure and the bad results after the first one.
[22:37] <Alicia> OOC: I'll recast resist energy when relevant
[22:37] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22
06[22:37] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+22 and gets 24." [1d20=2]
[22:37] <Kotono> OOC: Sorry, read take 10 as take 20. That's only an hour, make one check?
01[22:38] <Seira> roll 1d20+15
06[22:38] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+15 and gets 32." [1d20=17]
[22:39] <Kotono> The two search away! They find no unusual magic, first of all. As for Lagann, he detects some trace metals in the rocks. Nothing like a sword, just odds and ends and the like. After an hour, you feel poor, the negative energy of the area weakening you with the thin air. Nonetheless, the two heroines endure the worst of it, finishing up in the now treasureless lair. With a collapsed giant statue nearby, the two finish with no obvious leads.
[22:39] <Kotono> With a collapsed giant statue nearby, the two finish with no obvious leads.
01[22:41] <Seira> "Depressing," Seira admits. "I'll need to try again tomorrow. I've thought of using Arcane Eye to start things off."
06[22:42] * Alicia wheezes slightly with every breath but doesn't seem too bothered. "Nothing? Maybe the aura here is something else... anyway, I can teleport us back to Balmuria so we can try again tomorrow in that case."
01[22:42] <Seira> "Let's go with that," Seira agrees dejectedly. "If we get nowhere after a few attempts, I'll try to think of a fresh approach."
[22:43] <Alicia> "Alright," Alicia takes Seira's hand and teleports them to one of the rest stops they used between the Citadel and Elandra's Rest on their first trip here.
[22:43] <Alicia> roll 1d100 studied carefully
06[22:43] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 studied carefully and gets 40." [1d100=40]
[22:43] <Alicia> And from there back to Balmuria!
[22:43] <Alicia> roll 1d100 very familiar, my house
06[22:43] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 very familiar, my house and gets 19." [1d100=19]
[22:44] <Kotono> OOC: You get home and rest up and feel better. Change your spells and let me know when you're good, Seira, and you guys and roll the 'prots back.
01[22:46] <Seira> OOC: I'll only have Nondetection, Greater Resistance, Break Enchantment and TK memorized (the first two precast), the rest would be open slots for later memorization.
[22:48] <Alicia> Today Alicia brings her familiar, leaving Antenora in charge back home and teleporting the group first to the same rest stop as yesterday.
[22:48] <Alicia> roll 1d100 studied carefully
06[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 studied carefully and gets 44." [1d100=44]
[22:48] <Alicia> Then she casts resist energy on herself and Seira to ward off the cold and then teleports to the mountains.
[22:48] <Alicia> roll 1d100 studied carefully
06[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 studied carefully and gets 8." [1d100=8]
[22:50] <Kotono> OOC: Entrance again?
[22:50] <Alicia> OOC: yeah, same as yesterday
[22:50] <Kotono> Woosh! The two women and Marie appear in the mountains! Once again it's cold(Abated!) and thin of air, as if life is not meant to thrive here, but to wither away and die.
01[22:51] <Seira> "We'll try to scout a bit, and if it doesn't work, I'll try just breaching the seal," Seira says. "If that also doesn't work, I have a few spells I want to try out next."
[22:51] <Alicia> "Okay, first thing's first, we never did get past that door," Alicia points to the southwest. "We assumed it was a trap, but even so, Marie can investigate safely." Walking over to the passage without entering, she asks her familiar to go and look on the other side of the door.
[22:51] <Alicia> Marie salutes, turns ethereal, and zips off to do as requested.
01[22:52] <Seira> "Another thing," Seira says once Marie's left. "I have Telepathic Bond available, so we could connect ourselves to her so that we could help if there's any trouble on Marie's end."
[22:53] <Alicia> "Marie, wait!" Alicia calls.
[22:53] <Alicia> Marie stops and flies back, turning corporeal once more. "What is it?"
[22:53] <Alicia> "Seira can set up a telepathic bond so we can stay in contact," Alicia explains. "Go ahead, Seira?"
01[22:53] <Seira> "Or we could do that! Okay, I just need ten minutes...."
01[22:53] <Seira> OOC: Preparing it, then casting on us three.
[22:54] <Kotono> The casting goes without incident.
[22:54] <Alicia> 'Don't think anything naughty!' Marie titters before turning incorporeal and going to see what's past the door.
[22:55] <Kotono> Marie flies down the corridor! On reaching the door, she pokes through! She finds out that behind is nothing but a trap mechanism. No passage seems to rest behind the locked, obvious door.
01[22:55] <Seira> 'Do I seem like a person who does that a lot?' Seira wonders.
[22:56] <Alicia> She flies back. 'I was talking to Alicia,' she reassures Seira, before speaking aloud. "Anyway, nothing there but some gears and junk flush with the door. Looks like your first guess was right."
01[22:58] <Seira> "I studied it with quite the overwhelming amount of time and magic," Seira confirms. "But Alicia is right, too, it was very much worth a check. Let's try the dangerous area next? I could cast, umm, Heroism on you to help with that."
06[22:59] * Seira blinks. "I think it works with Greater Resistance, too, so that would help even more."
[23:00] <Alicia> "Help me with what?" Marie asks curiously. "Are there other doors?"
01[23:00] <Seira> "Possible effects from being near the sword, if they extend into your ethereal form? It was forged with divine inspiration, after all, so who knows."
[23:02] <Alicia> "If it's magic it can affect me," Marie nods. "Just... not all the time. It's like flipping a coin," she shrugs. "Lead on?"
06[23:03] * Seira nods. "There is only a certain part of these caverns that reeks of death magic, right? Since we can't find anything, the next logical step is to check the walls, ground and ceiling around that section. Can you look for evil or magic and such?"
06[23:04] * Seira gets Lagann out into the open. "You could also take this guy along. He's really nice, now, and maybe he'll get a feel for the sword if you get near it."
[23:05] <Alicia> Marie nods before looking at the stabby ball of hate. "I'm not sure if I can - any objects I carry vanish when I turn incorporeal, and creatures just drop right through me."
01[23:06] <Seira> "Worst case, he'll just reappear when you return, right? Lagann won't be upset over that."
[23:07] <Alicia> "You're sure he won't stab me?" Marie seems a bit hesitant. "I've got a lot of sharp metal objects in my quiver..."
01[23:07] <Seira> "He promised he wouldn't stab my friends when I asked a few weeks ago."
[23:08] <Alicia> "Okay. Cast your other spells on me first?" Marie asks.
06[23:08] * Seira calls upon the pearl to cast the Greater Resistance spell, and takes a bit of time to memorize and cast Heroism.
[23:09] <Alicia> Duly empowered, Marie flitters a bit closer and struggles to wrap her arms around the metal sphere that's as big as she is, wings fluttering madly to keep herself afloat as she holds on tightly before turning incorporeal!
06[23:10] * Seira is ready to catch Lagann if this doesn't work!
[23:10] <Kotono> Marie's arrows shake slightly, but no stabbing doom comes to immediately claim her.
[23:14] <Kotono> Marie vanishes, Lagann drops, as does her gear and clothing!
06[23:14] * Seira catches Lagann, raising an eyebrow. "Huh."
[23:15] <Alicia> Alicia blinks. "Marie?"
[23:15] <Alicia> "Hey!" Marie bobs in the air in a semblance of confusion. "That's never happened before!"
01[23:16] <Seira> "Should we feel honored to be witnessing a historical event?" Seira asks with a smirk.
[23:17] <Alicia> "Not funny!" Marie protests, blinking back into her humanoid form in all her perky glory, proving that purple is her natural colour. She then dives down to recover her clothes which are quickly shucked on before she turns incorporeal again.
[23:18] <Kotono> Marie's clothing once again decides her natural chaotic glory is not to be denied, falling right off. Lucky for Seira, maybe?
06[23:18] * Seira turns towards Alicia. "It's a tiny bit funny, though, isn't it?"
[23:18] <Alicia> "It's alarming more than anything else... why didn't that happen a minute ago?" Alicia asks in confusion.
[23:19] <Alicia> "Grrr!" Marie growls cutely despite lacking lips right now. "Just... just hold onto my stuff, Alicia. We'll figure it out when we get home."
06[23:20] * Seira shrugs. "Beats me. Want to try this another day and return to Balmuria? Maybe Elle could figure it out."
06[23:20] * Alicia dutifully bends over to pick up Marie's items. "Do you feel okay otherwise?"
[23:22] <Alicia> "I'm fine... I think," Marie returns. "Lets just get this over with, can we?"
01[23:22] <Seira> "Sure thing. Let us know if there's a problem, and we'll blast the wall apart coming after you, if we have to!"
[23:23] <Alicia> "Where do you want me to search, anyway?" asks the disgruntled eladrin.
01[23:24] <Seira> "All over. It might be best if you just went into the rock and back again, on straight lines, to not get lost."
[23:24] <Alicia> "Okay... I'll do that now." With that Marie drops straight down through the floor, dropping down sixty feet unless she encounters anything strange, then she retreats back up to rejoin the other two.

[Corwin]

[19:03] <Kowork> OOC: That dropdown search first, where was it? Back in that entire trapped hall or right in the entryway where you're standing?
01[19:03] <Seira> OOC: In the -2 con area
[19:03] <Alicia> OOC: right in the entryway
[19:03] <Alicia> OOC; what seira said
03[19:03] * Kowork is now known as Kotono
[19:04] <Kotono> OOC: So let me get this straight. You're going sixty feet down and 15 feet in walls?
01[19:05] <Seira> OOC: I think we changed the 15ft to 60ft. She'd ideally go down the 60, then go back up. Then go right 60, then back. Etc, to complete a circle.
[19:05] <Kotono> OOC: Okay.
[19:05] <Alicia> OOC: yeah, we're doing this now
[19:09] <Kotono> Thus, Marie goes searching! The first parts are mundane and of no interest. The caves and the chasm both reveal little of note. As you get closer to the lair, Marie's search not having turned anything up yet...OOC: MAke a fort save, you guys.
[19:10] <Alicia> roll 1d20+21 A
06[19:10] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+21 A and gets 35." [1d20=14]
[19:10] <Alicia> roll 1d20+10 M
06[19:10] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+10 M and gets 11." [1d20=1]
01[19:10] <Seira> roll 1d20+15
06[19:10] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+15 and gets 20." [1d20=5]
[19:10] <Alicia> OOC: 50% chance of affecting Marie if she's incorporeal? (if it's magic)
[19:10] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[19:10] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 47." [1d100=47]
[19:12] <Kotono> As you search near the defeated, Polar Ray shooting statue, there is a ripple in the air. Alicia is able to defend herself, spirit long used to these sort of attacks! Marie is missed by pure fiat chance, but Seira shudders! She feels utterly drained, exhausted! The walls and air itself seems to thin further, losing color and luster. OOC: You're exhausted, Seira.
[19:13] <Alicia> "There's nothing here but ice and rock," Marie observes as she returns from a foray into the wall.
01[19:14] <Seira> roll 1d20+22
06[19:14] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+22 and gets 35." [1d20=13]
06[19:16] * Seira slumps, using Alicia to keep herself upright. "Time to try and break the enchantment?" she suggests, staring at the statue balefully.
[19:17] <Alicia> "You want me to try dispelling it?" Alicia clarifies as she offers her shoulder to Seira. "That didn't have much affect when it was stretched across the tundra and I tried it there."
01[19:18] <Seira> "No, I'm thinking of trying the actual spell myself. If something bad happens, get us out?"
06[19:18] * Seira shrugs lethargically. "It breaks curses, doesn't it? Worth a shot."
[19:19] <Alicia> "Okay. Marie, come here?" Alicia beckons her familiar over, who turns corporeal and parks her naked bottom on top of Alicia's head as if it was the most natural thing in the world. Luckily Alicia can't see anything, and by force of habit doesn't think anything untoward is occuring as she prepared to teleport them out if needed.
06[19:21] * Seira tries Break Enchantment on the off chance it would actually do anything!
[19:22] <Kotono> Seira casts break enchantment! Seira doesn't feel any better after invoking it.
01[19:23] <Seira> "This curse is so unfair," Seira mutters, invoking Heroism. She follows it up with Arcane Sight, taking her time, before trying to study the freaky necromantic death pattern.
01[19:23] <Seira> OOC: Spellcraft, taking 10 +1 ignorance for 35?
[19:24] <Kotono> OOC: Isn't that the exact same result you rolled a few lines ago?
[19:24] <Alicia> "Maybe it's a red herring?" Marie wonders, turning incorporeal once more and floating around idly.
01[19:26] <Seira> OOC: That was to tell what happened to me, now I'm trying to basically analyze it like I did the Sharran portal.
06[19:40] * Seira blinks. "What if... there is a sliver in the sword's prison?" she theorizes. "Just a tiny one, so it projects its death energy at this section of the lair. To be certain, we should look at the magic just outside the mountain, about the same height and location as the death aura."
[19:50] <Alicia> "You mean like a light from a lighthouse?" Alicia asks uncertainly. "But where would it be projecting from?"
06[19:52] * Seira nods. "It would be a very good analogy," Seira agrees. "I originally considered such a possibility unlikely since the entire lair would surely have been caught in it, as well as other reasons... but what if it's a very focused beam? Then, we could calculate a rough trajectory, and check both directions. We'll just draw a line between both affected walls in the tunnel and extend them outwards."
[19:53] <Alicia> "Alright, I think I get what you mean," Alicia nods, pausing a moment to cast Fly on herself. "So we want to check the exterior and then track it back to its source."
01[19:55] <Seira> "Yep! Even if I can't help with bypassing any traps it might have in my present condition, my mind's still as sharp! I could help you find it, at the very least!"
[19:56] <Alicia> "We can always come back later once we know where to look," Alicia decides as she starts to head back to the ravine exposed to air and then fly up and over to check the near side of the mountain's exterior.
[19:57] <Kotono> OOC: You guys are going to walk bac to the main entrance and fly out, basically>
06[19:57] * Seira follows as best she can in her state.
[19:57] <Alicia> OOC: sure, yeah
[19:57] <Alicia> Marie follows along as well, chipper as ever.
[19:58] <Kotono> The thin air burns at your lungs as you walk back out. Despite the dizziness that follows, the party returns to the icy floor of the lair's entrance without incident. OOC: This puts you out of the -2 con zone for now, adjust HPa ccordingly.
[20:01] <Alicia> And the party continues onwards on their previously planned course to check the mountain exterior.
01[20:02] <Seira> Picking one of the two possible direction at random by flipping a coin, Seira decides to check that one first.
06[20:02] * Alicia was going to go for the nearest, but defers to Seira's expert judgement and reasoning.
06[20:03] * Seira believes Waukeen would guide her to their destination!
[20:03] <Kotono> The flight up without incident. The sky is breathtakingly blue and clear today, not a single cloud in the sky. They ascend over the latest cluster of peaks, flying on and down. On the far side, this set of peaks generally descends down for a time, a relative valley below. OOC: Could all of you make spot checks here?
01[20:03] <Seira> roll 1d20+13
06[20:03] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+13 and gets 24." [1d20=11]
[20:04] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 A
06[20:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 A and gets 26." [1d20=19]
[20:04] <Alicia> roll 1d20+6 M
06[20:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+6 M and gets 24." [1d20=18]
[20:04] <Alicia> OOC: +2 for Marie
[20:07] <Alicia> "There looks to be something strange over in that valley," Alicia points down, "Hard to tell, but it looks like something unnatural sticking out of the rock. That might be worth investigating once we've checked the mountainside."
01[20:08] <Seira> "Great!" Seira agrees. "More clues already. That's pretty nice."
06[20:09] * Alicia decides to stuff Marie's belongings in the portable hole as she flies down the mountainside, since she's getting sick of carrying them and Marie is staying incorporeal for now.
[20:10] <Kotono> As you continue to ascend down, it happens. With a sagging chill, the mountainside's air seems to thin. Your bodies feel numb, weakened. The aura of necromancy has returned. You are descending down the far side - nothing is immediately different here at all. Just more jagged upturning rock.
[20:12] <Alicia> "Lets see if we can work out if its at an angle?" Alicia suggests. "You stay here and I'll move a bit away from the mountain, then we can both move up and down together to work out its angle if it stops affecting one of us?"
01[20:13] <Seira> "You've read my mind," Seira agrees, not minding remaining in the deathly aura since she was already caught in it.
06[20:13] * Alicia and Marie fly two hundred feet away from the mountain. She then points up and starts ascending until the aura ceases to affect her.
06[20:14] * Seira follows at a far more lethargic pace.
[20:15] <Kotono> Doing this, the group finds that the aura is less an angle and more of a spreading circular radius. It's width and range spread out, a defininte curve to it found. The far end of the circle slices into the mountain and the dragon's lair. Below, it would logically engulf all of the ground, including the odd things Seira saw. OOC: I'm also ruling it's been about an hour now, Alicia. Make a fort save, you two? Seira, you're already exhausted,
[20:15] <Kotono> OOC: I'm also ruling it's been about an hour now, Alicia. Make a fort save, you two? Seira, you're already exhausted, so this won't make you any worse for now.
01[20:15] <Seira> roll 1d20+15
06[20:15] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+15 and gets 29." [1d20=14]
[20:16] <Kotono> OOC: By you two, I emant Alicia and Marie.
[20:16] <Kotono> OOC: Since Seira's already exhausted.
[20:16] <Alicia> roll 1d20+21 A
06[20:16] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+21 A and gets 22." [1d20=1]
[20:16] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15 M incorporeal
06[20:16] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 M incorporeal and gets 34." [1d20=19]
[20:16] <Kotono> The work gets to Alicia. She feels tired and exhausted, fatigue catching up to her inevintably.
06[20:17] * Alicia wheezes softly with each breath, but continues with the task at hand. This shouldn't take long, and once they have a direction they can make a fresh start in the morning.
[20:18] <Alicia> "I'm a bit tired, but lets see if we can investigate those strange objects on the ground before we return?" Alicia suggests as she flies back to rejoin Seira. Being at a lower altitude would be nice, anyway.
01[20:18] <Seira> "Alright," Seira agrees. "Think that strange spot in the valley is the epicenter?"
[20:19] <Alicia> "I'm not certain, but we can test that theory tomorrow if we don't actually find anything today," Alicia shrugs as she starts to fly down.
06[20:20] * Seira descends slower, letting Alicia take the lead.
[20:24] <Kotono> Alicia flies down! About 500 feet from the ground, the aura grows worse, more debilitating. Her vision swims, body shaking. Below, you can see that it looks like crumbled, ancient, huge tents of a sort, far bigger than what humans might use. But you also see no activity down there, many of the tents downed or ripped or forgotten. OOC: -3 con modifier now instead of -2, Alicia hits it first since she's at point.
06[20:25] * Alicia promptly retreats back up, swaying dizzily. "It gets worse. We should come back with protection against negative energy," she suggests to Seira, eager to go home and rest.
01[20:25] <Seira> "Rest sounds good. Let's go for it, then."
[20:26] <Alicia> Marie alights nudely on Alicia's head as she returns to physical form, and the paladin takes Seira's hand before teleporting them all to the road between the Citadel and Elandra's Rest...
[20:26] <Alicia> roll 1d100
06[20:26] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 and gets 99." [1d100=99]
[20:26] <Alicia> OOC: similar area, since that was studied carefully
[20:27] <Kotono> Woosh! With a jarring sensation, you stand on a chunk of road. Nothing immediate is happening: Looks pretty dull. Road is road is road is road, even if it's not the road you were looking for.
06[20:28] * Alicia doesn't even stick around long enough to check, simply assuming she had it right and attempting to teleport to her house in Balmuria.
[20:28] <Alicia> roll 1d100 very familiar assuming we're within 1500 miles, else it becomes a false destination
06[20:28] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 very familiar assuming we're within 1500 miles, else it becomes a false destination and gets 11." [1d100=11]
[20:30] <Kotono> Woosh! Alicia and company appear at Alicia's house once more. It's very pleasant here. It's warm, it's alive, Dawnhope is screaming bloody murder to an amused Antenora, the former keeping her dignity with her arms.  You know, same old same old home.
01[20:31] <Seira> "Until tomorrow," Seira bids Marie and Alicia, staggering back towards her own place.
[20:31] <Alicia> "Did it happen to you as well?!" the naked Marie asks as she flies off Alicia's head towards Dawnhope.
[20:31] <Alicia> "Uh... bye," Alicia waves to Seira, not liking the way things are developing at home.
[20:31] <Kotono> "Oh it's terrible!" Dawnhope whimpers, "And she's thinking it's funny and won't give me my clothes back!"
[20:33] <Alicia> "What if it's happened to all eladrin?!" Marie wails as Alicia sighs and takes out her familiar's belongings from the portable hole and puts them on the table. "I heard once that the Yugoloths found a way to stop all the devils and demons from teleporting! What if someone's targetting us the same way?!"
[20:33] <Alicia> "Targetting you by making your clothes fall off?" Alicia asks dryly.
[20:34] <Kotono> Antenora chuckles as she passes over the clothes without incident. "Clearly, th e forces of Sune and Sharess are waging a BITTER campaign against the clothed state of coure eladrins. Excuse me now." Nearly laughing, but not quite, Antenora nods to Alicia and walks away.
[20:34] <Alicia> "I promise Marie, we'll... look into it, once things with that sword are settled," Alicia placates her familiar before joining Antenora in retreat.
[20:35] <Kotono> Dawnhope quickly dresses, "It really isn't fair? What if Marie's right! I need to look into it? Let's do that, Marie?"
[20:35] <Kotono> What happens there is anyone's guess, but the next day, after resting up, the three gather once more. OOC: What are your preps here?
[20:36] <Alicia> OOC: two, Marie's work is done
[20:36] <Kotono> OOC: Okay.
[20:38] <Alicia> roll 1d100 to rest stop studied carefully
06[20:38] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 to rest stop studied carefully and gets 43." [1d100=43]
[20:38] <Alicia> roll 1d100 to amongst those tents, seen once
06[20:38] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 to amongst those tents, seen once and gets 79." [1d100=79]
[20:38] <Kotono> OOC: Off target.
[20:38] <Kotono> roll 1d10
06[20:38] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d10 and gets 8." [1d10=8]
[20:38] <Kotono> roll 1d10
06[20:38] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d10 and gets 9." [1d10=9]
[20:38] <Kotono> roll 1d9
06[20:38] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d9 and gets 3." [1d9=3]
[20:43] <Kotono> Woosh! It's...not so cold here? It's chilly but not cold. You stand on hilly ground, a wind from further east bringing inevitable, steady warmth. To your west lie mountains beyond any ken, seen and familiar in a way, like the eastern mountans of the tundra. Ahead of you lies hilly lands, warmer hilly lands. Sparse trees decorate them, an untamed wilderness as far as the eye can see.
06[20:44] * Seira gets a good look. She might return here to explore, one day!
[20:44] <Alicia> "I... overshot?" Alicia blinks and looks around briefly. "Well, now we know what's on the other side, but lets not delay while we're warded." She then tries to teleport back.
[20:44] <Alicia> roll 1d100 seen once
06[20:44] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 seen once and gets 51." [1d100=51]
[20:45] <Kotono> OOC: Aiming at the tents or above them?
[20:45] <Alicia> OOC: the ground about 50 feet from them
[20:46] <Kotono> You now stand in the air once more, flying. The negative aura buffers you, weakening you once more. (-3 con is in effect.) You stand above ancient tents, nature having done much to weather away the giant structures.  Yet several of them remain, like a campsight placed in this inhospitable mountain.
[20:47] <Kotono> OOC: Sorry, forgot about Death Ward. No con lossf or now.
[20:47] <Alicia> "Lets look around while we have the time?" Alicia suggests, walking over to the nearest intact tent to look inside.
01[20:48] <Seira> "Do you mind checking for magic while we're here?" Seira requests of Alicia. "I only have the one charge of the spell." She does agrees to searching through the ancient tents.
06[20:48] * Alicia obligingly casts detect magic. "Surely strong necromantic?" she murmurs.
[20:49] <Kotono> Alicia enters the first tent.  Inside, she finds it's abandoned and empty. Pots and animalskin bags lie here, far, far oversized. Most of them are drawn tight or lidded, but some of the bags have developed holes. From one, hunks of metal ore spill out. From another, salt lies in a puddle on the ground around it.
01[20:50] <Seira> "I figure the wards might have abjuration or conjuration, and there might be something else of note," Seira explains, asking Lagann to keep a tab of the metals found nearby.
[20:51] <Alicia> "A giant camp?" Alicia wonders, pausing to soak in the magical auras and identify them. If she can. It's not really her forte.
[20:51] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 spellcraft
06[20:51] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 spellcraft and gets 10." [1d20=3]
06[20:52] * Seira nods to herself, doing a customary search through the tent as Alicia looks at the magical side of things.
[20:52] <Alicia> "Strong magic, but I was never too good at telling the schools apart," Alicia apologises, going to search the next tent.
01[20:52] <Seira> OOC: 10 for 35
[20:53] <Kotono> The next tent has several cradles large as a full grown man. One of them as a skeleton lying in it, it's body smashed savagely and mostly reduced to powder. The sides of that cradle are broken and shattered. The other cradles are intact and empty.
06[20:53] * Seira will keep with the mundane searches alongside Lagann for now. She could always take a look at the auras Alicia discovers afterwards.
[20:53] <Kotono> Seira finds that this was perhaps storage. Salt, various non precious rocks, animal furs, sealed jars of frozen water, a bag with gold and silver ore, primitive and oversized tools, that sort of thing.
[20:54] <Alicia> roll 1d20+2 knowledge nature, can I id the giant type from the skeleton?
06[20:54] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+2 knowledge nature, can I id the giant type from the skeleton? and gets 20." [1d20=18]
[20:54] <Kotono> The furs are somewhat decayed and rotted, though they were well kept and thus not totally gone.
01[20:54] <Seira> roll 1d20+16 nature!
06[20:54] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+16 nature! and gets 20." [1d20=4]
[20:55] <Alicia> "Frost giants," Alicia tells Seira, continuing to search the tents in sequence.
06[20:55] * Seira nods in agreement, following.
[20:56] <Kotono> The next tent looks to have been a religious center of sorts. A statue fo the Frostmaiden Auril is here, crudely carved out of stone. Her features are exaggerated, the entire thing well overscaled. A band of blue ice like a dagger shaped lightning bolt resides in her hand.
[20:56] <Kotono> Seira searches the second tent, finding little of interest besides the cradles. However, the cradles has writing on the sides. OOC: What languages can you speak?
01[20:57] <Seira> OOC: Common, Elven, Draconic, Sylvan, Orc, Celestial, Gnome, Dwarven, Abyssal, Infernal, Aquan, Ignan, Auran, Terran
[20:57] <Kotono> OOC: Make an int check?
01[20:57] <Seira> roll 1d20+10 okay
06[20:57] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+10 okay and gets 29." [1d20=19]
06[20:58] * Alicia examines the dagger for a moment - is it a sculpted part of the statue or is it a seperate item? And is it magic?
06[20:59] * Seira copies the script, her hand quite steady as she writes the names down on a scroll, before moving on.
[21:02] <Kotono> The dagger is made of ice and not a part of the statue, but fitted into Auril's stony grip. It radiates no magic. As Alicia examines it, Seira searches the room. Hidden at the foot of the statue's back lies animal furs, writing enscribed into them like crude scrolls.
01[21:02] <Seira> roll 1d20+17 architecture
06[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+17 architecture and gets 20." [1d20=3]
[21:03] <Alicia> Auril already hates Alicia, but Alicia isn't so petty as to trash her statue when it's been sitting idly here for who knows how many hundreds of years. Moving on, she continues searching the tents one after the other.
06[21:03] * Seira copies them onto the same scroll, noting carefully which lines came from which tent, and follows. She leaves the search for metals to Lagann, as usual.
[21:04] <Kotono> The next few are more or less empty, nothing of note. Three later, as the tents to search find down, Alicia finds a room lined with animal furs. Each fur has verses written in an unknown tongue on it, as if banded together they tell a great tale. Lagann finds no metals of note in that or any of the rooms, including the current room.
06[21:05] * Seira opts to inscribe them as well, rushing herself a bit, before moving onwards.
06[21:06] * Alicia wishes she's brought Marie along, now, but sees that Seira is transcribing the writings so she goes to search the remaining tents.
[21:06] <Kotono> One other tent is without incident. The last tent is full of broken items and weapons and armor, all crude and alls hattered beyond repair.
01[21:07] <Seira> "Alright," Seira declares. "Let me take a look at the magic, now?"
06[21:07] * Alicia stops at the entrance to this tent. "Something's... wrong, here," she intones, checking for evil within as she shudders.
06[21:07] * Seira casts Detect Magic!
[21:09] <Alicia> "It's in the rubble, something buried... it's evil," Alicia warns Seira as she steps forward and uses Hell Striker to sweep away much of the junk around the source of the aura.
06[21:10] * Seira takes a look for evil, herself, staying alert.
[21:13] <Kotono> As Alicia sweeps the junk around, there is a dreadful howling, like the gust of a winter blizzard! In words Alicia can't understand(Seira, make an int check), furious anger is vented! Shimmering, pale blue and ghostly, the image of a vast frost giant appears! It wears crude, heavy full plate armor and carries a frost hissing axe in it's hands! It's apperance shakes you utterly, as...OOC: Fort saves, you two.
01[21:14] <Seira> roll 1d20+10 int
06[21:14] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+10 int and gets 18." [1d20=8]
[21:14] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24
06[21:14] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 and gets 34." [1d20=10]
01[21:14] <Seira> roll 1d20+19 fort
06[21:14] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+19 fort and gets 35." [1d20=16]
[21:14] <Kotono> Despite it's visage, an apperance of nightmares and terror, the two women stand brave and true! A moment later...OOC: Initiative. Whatever it is, it's -not- fucking friendly. At all.
[21:14] <Alicia> OOC: if it's a summon it can make a DC 20 will save or gtfo
[21:15] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7
06[21:15] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 and gets 25." [1d20=18]
[21:15] <Kotono> OOC: It's not.
[21:15] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5
06[21:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 and gets 19." [1d20=14]
01[21:15] <Seira> "We didn't do it!" Seira protests in Aquan.
01[21:15] <Seira> roll 1d20+6
06[21:15] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 and gets 8." [1d20=2]
03[21:15] * Kotono changes topic to 'Alicia>????>Seira'
[21:16] <Alicia> OOC: what creature type is it?
[21:17] <Kotono> OOC: Use K:R.
[21:17] <Alicia> roll 1d20+12 knowledge devotion and basic info
06[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+12 knowledge devotion and basic info and gets 16." [1d20=4]
[21:19] <Alicia> "A ghost?" Alicia decides to see if her blade can touch it, rushing forward to slash at the giant's mid-section!
[21:20] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18 -9pa
06[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 -9pa and gets 30." [1d20=12]
[21:20] <Alicia> roll 1d100
06[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 and gets 57." [1d100=57]
[21:20] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
[21:20] <Alicia> roll 1d8+32+2d6+1d6+1d8
06[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d8+32+2d6+1d6+1d8 and gets 54." [1d8=5][2d6=2, 5][1d6=4][1d8=6]
[21:22] <Kotono> Alicia's blade slams into the howling giant, ripping into it's ghostly stomach! If this slows it much, it doesn't seem to notice!  It swings it's ethereal axe in a fury at Alicia!
[21:22] <Kotono> roll 1d20+27 (-3 PA)
06[21:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+27 (-3 PA) and gets 29." [1d20=2]
[21:22] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22
06[21:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 and gets 28." [1d20=6]
[21:23] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17
06[21:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 and gets 22." [1d20=5]
[21:23] <Kotono> roll 1d20+12
06[21:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+12 and gets 13." [1d20=1]
[21:23] <Kotono> roll 4#1d100
06[21:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4#1d100 and gets 257." [4#1d100 = 84, 33, 70, 70]
[21:23] <Kotono> OOC: AC without armor, Alicia?
[21:24] <Alicia> OOC: 15 touch AC, 20 if natural armour is counted
[21:24] <Kotono> OOC: Second fails to get through it's own incorpreality, so two hits.
[21:24] <Kotono> roll 3d6+24 (Omitting cold damage)
[21:24] <Kotono> roll 3d6+24 (Omitting cold damage)
06[21:24] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d6+24 (Omitting cold damage) and gets 39." [3d6=5, 5, 5]
06[21:24] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d6+24 (Omitting cold damage) and gets 29." [3d6=1, 1, 3]
[21:25] <Kotono> One axe blow passes through Alicia like water and does no harm, and another misses! But two are real enough, cutting and hacking into her with a bloody fury! OOC: Seira.
01[21:26] <Seira> roll 1d20+13
06[21:26] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+13 and gets 32." [1d20=19]
06[21:30] * Seira doesn't waste time calling upon Stoneskin upon seeing the effect the ghost's axe had on Alicia's body. She moves to a superior spot, drawing the Resort, and gestures at the ghost, calling upon a boosted cone of fire!
01[21:30] <Seira> roll 18d6 fire?!
06[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 18d6 fire?! and gets 55." [18d6=2, 2, 5, 4, 1, 6, 2, 5, 3, 2, 2, 6, 3, 3, 2, 2, 4, 1]
01[21:30] <Seira> roll 1d100 hit?
06[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d100 hit? and gets 52." [1d100=52]
[21:30] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 DC, Seira?
06[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 DC, Seira? and gets 24." [1d20=11]
01[21:31] <Seira> OOC: Ref 25, haha, go go domain spells
[21:31] <Kotono> The fire burns through the ghost, the tent aflame! Fire burns around you, shedding heat! This tent is old and looks to be VERY FLAMMABLE! Flames are running about it with a quickness, some of the rubble on the ground burning! Smoke begins to fill the air! OOC: 'licia.
06[21:32] * Alicia decides it's time to buy some room and backflips away from the giant before fleeing out of the tent and casting mirror image!
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[21:33] <Alicia> roll 1d4+5
06[21:33] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4+5 and gets 8." [1d4=3]
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01[21:33] <Seira> roll 1d10+10 forgot to roll the precast F:
06[21:33] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d10+10 forgot to roll the precast F: and gets 15." [1d10=5]
[21:33] <Kotono> Alicia hurries out, avoiding the smoke and fire! The giant roars in utter anger at Seira, before charging her dead on, one overwhelming assault!
[21:34] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 (+7 smite good, -12 PA)
06[21:34] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 (+7 smite good, -12 PA) and gets 33." [1d20=8]
[21:34] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[21:34] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 25." [1d100=25]
[21:34] <Kotono> The blow is enough to cleave a mountain apart, but the axe passes through Seira as if it wasn't even there, doing no harm! OOC: Seira.
06[21:35] * Seira strikes back herself with the Resort, before breathing yet more fire at the bloodthirsty giant and flipping out of reach towards the outside and Alicia!
01[21:35] <Seira> roll 1d20+22 smite
06[21:35] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+22 smite and gets 28." [1d20=6]
[21:36] <Kotono> OOC: d100.
01[21:36] <Seira> roll 1d100
06[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d100 and gets 80." [1d100=80]
[21:36] <Kotono> OOC: Damage.
01[21:36] <Seira> roll 3d8+11+6d8
06[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 3d8+11+6d8 and gets 51." [3d8=5, 1, 7][6d8=8, 4, 4, 4, 1, 6]
01[21:37] <Seira> roll 8d8+2d8 fire+holy breath
06[21:37] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 8d8+2d8 fire+holy breath and gets 53." [8d8=8, 5, 2, 7, 3, 6, 4, 3][2d8=7, 8]
01[21:37] <Seira> roll 1d100
06[21:37] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d100 and gets 99." [1d100=99]
01[21:37] <Seira> OOC: Save 23
[21:37] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[21:37] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13  and gets 20." [1d20=7]
01[21:37] <Seira> roll 1d20+17 tumble away~
06[21:37] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+17 tumble away~ and gets 25." [1d20=8]
[21:38] <Kotono> Seira tumbles out of the tent, as the ghost shudders and ripples away! It's gone, as the tent catches aflame and burns like a piece of paper in the pits of Hell! OOC: Free act.
06[21:39] * Seira quicky douses the edges of the fire with summoned water, to avoid the rest of the camp catching fire as well. "So it's been dispelled for a while," she tells Alicia. "Seems like the only way to put it to rest is to take care of what lead to this state, and he yelled something about daring to slaughter his home."
[21:40] <Alicia> "Well... that was unexpected," Alicia relents a bit, looking to see if the evil aura is there. "This must have happened hundreds of years ago... would the ones responsible even still be alive?"
01[21:41] <Seira> "I was thinking more of taking the corpse back with us and interning it on hallowed ground," Seira elaborates. "If last rights are read to it, it might be enough?"
[21:42] <Alicia> "They worshipped Auril. Do you know any of her clergy who'd actually care to help?" Alicia asks, raising an eyebrow as she backs away from the pungent smoke of ancient burning tent.
01[21:42] <Seira> "No, but I'm pretty sure I could find someone who doesn't like her and can make sure the ghost won't return," Seira muses.
06[21:45] * Alicia belatedly heals herself. "How would they ensure it doesn't return? He doesn't seem as easy to convince as the last ghost we met."
01[21:46] <Seira> "Asking the clergy of Selune might help," Seira muses. "It's not like we can do anything right away, I suppose. Did you see any distinct magical auras here besides the necromancy?"
[21:46] <Kotono> The tent burns, collapsing soon and making a bonfire of sorts.
06[21:47] * Seira heals Alicia herself, as well.
[21:47] <Alicia> "Why Selune?" Alicia asks uncertainly, before shaking her head, "No I couldn't pick out any auras. But I mean if any deity besides Auril were to care about this ghost, wouldn't it be Kelemvor?"
01[21:47] <Seira> roll 3d8+15
06[21:47] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 3d8+15 and gets 23." [3d8=2, 2, 4]
01[21:48] <Seira> "Whatever works," Seira agrees. "Let's take the precious metals along, and head somewhere where we can decypher the writings in peace?"
[21:50] <Alicia> "Before that I want to see what the source of that evil aura was - it's still there, just fainter," Alicia replies, casting resist energy again to protect herself from heat and wading into the ruins to find the source.
06[21:51] * Seira comes close enough for Lagann's detection range, and pin-points the aura for him, asking whether he sense anything from there.
[21:52] <Kotono> OOC: Where exactly are you going, Seira? With Alicia into the tent ruins?
01[21:53] <Seira> OOC: Detect Metal ranges 30ft, right? I want to spot the aura of evil with DE, and come within 30ft of it.
[21:53] <Kotono> OOC: Okay.
[21:54] <Kotono> Between detect evil and Lagann, the two are able to pinpoint the place in question. 10 feet down into the cold ground(Not so frozen thanks to the inferno you're surrounded by, it's embers finishing up now.), as if buried.
[21:56] <Alicia> "There must be a hollow, otherwise I wouldn't be able to detect it through so much dirt," Alicia tells Seira, clearing away some of the debris and then stabbing Hell Striker through the ground directly above the aura source, and jostling it around a bit to loosen the surrounding earth.
06[21:57] * Seira observes the proceeds, switching to focus on her magical sight.
[21:57] <Kotono> Ripping into the ground, Alicia finds that there is indeed a hollow. Resting in the ground is an old skeleton, a lareg axe still in it's grip. It's body still wears crude plate armor. An old cloak, decorated with eagle's feathers, sits on it's shoulders and covers it's skull and face.
[21:59] <Alicia> "Look familiar?" Alicia wonders aloud, digging a bit more of the earth away so she can hopefully see the source of the vile aura.
[21:59] <Kotono> The aura comes from the skeleton itself. It's about the same size as the ghost you just fought, more or less.
01[22:00] <Seira> "Nothing reads as magical, so he must already be inbued with this horrible aura rather than keep on drawing upon it."
01[22:00] <Seira> *imbued
06[22:00] * Alicia hums thoughtfully, and is then surrounded by a shimmering aura of white energy before she taps the skull to discharge the holy power into it.
[22:00] <Alicia> OOC: Dispel Evil
01[22:01] <Seira> roll 1d20+13
06[22:01] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+13 and gets 31." [1d20=18]
[22:01] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[22:01] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 22." [1d20=9]
[22:01] <Kotono> OOC: DC?
[22:02] <Alicia> OOC: 23
[22:03] <Kotono> The skull crumbles into dust at Alicia's touch. Much of the skeleton does the same, breaking apart, as if the years catch up to it all at once. However, Alicia can see that the faint evil continues to taint this place.
[22:05] <Alicia> "What?" Alicia takes a step back. "I... didn't expect that to happen," she admits. "Why would the corpse crumble but the aura remain? It should've been the other way around..."
01[22:06] <Seira> "For what it's worth, I think we need to resolve whatever issued it had in life and his frustration in death before it could be destroyed for good," Seira says with a shrug. "Hopefully this would put it down long enough."
[22:08] <Alicia> "Exorcism would be better. I can't imagine anything he cared about however many centuries ago has any relevance today," Alicia decides. "Regarless it seems like this is irrelevant to the sword we seek."
01[22:09] <Seira> "I'm somewhat tempted to ask you to blast a hole through the wreckage of this tent. What we seek could be below... but it's probably best to avoid something like that until we've decyphered the writings on the furs, isn't it?"
[22:11] <Alicia> "Lets go home and investigate that angle, then," Alicia nods and backs out of the ruined tent, wiping her feet in the snow to get the ash off. "Ready?"
06[22:11] * Seira gathers all that drew her interest, and nods. "Sure!"
06[22:12] * Alicia teleports them back to the roadside rest stop!
[22:12] <Alicia> roll 1d100
06[22:12] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 and gets 70." [1d100=70]
[22:12] <Alicia> And then to Seira's inn!
[22:12] <Alicia> roll 1d100
06[22:12] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 and gets 14." [1d100=14]
[22:14] <Kotono> You appear at Seira's inn without incident. As you appear, blessed warmth once again embracing you. Seira's backyard has a fair bit going on - Amaryl and Pollyanna are there, shooting at targets set up! Seira appears just as a pair of arrows whizz by her, one going by her left ear and one by the right!
[22:15] <Alicia> "Gyah! Didn't think it was in use!" Alicia exclaims, ducking down.
01[22:15] <Seira> "It's okay," she says, not in any hurry to get out of the way. "Fire can't hurt me and I have Stoneskin. I'm sure it'll be fine!"
[22:15] <Kotono> A flaming arrow gets Alicia where he head was a moment ago, the narrowest sort of miss! "S-Seira!" Amaryl yelps! "Gaaah! Duck! We're practicing out here!"
[22:16] <Kotono> Pollyanna winces, "Sorry, sorry! I didn't get you, did I, Alicia?"
06[22:16] * Seira laughs, approaching the pair of archers. "That's one of the more exciting greetings I got in a while!"
06[22:17] * Alicia pats her head as she stands up and quickly strides out of the firing line. "Just missed. Lucky I was warded against flame or I might've been singed... I didn't think anyone would be here."
[22:17] <Kotono> "That's why we're practicing here," Amaryl colors bright. "Seira, how was it out east?"
01[22:18] <Seira> "Cold. How are the goblin recruits? All those arrows flying around made me think of that affair, for some reason."
[22:19] <Kotono> "They're doing alright. I'm off duty today, so," Putting her bow up, "Why don't we go inside and talk, at least?"
01[22:19] <Seira> "So who was winning, before we showed up?" Seira asks curiously as she starts heading inside.
[22:25] <Kotono> OOC: What's your setup for the next day?
01[22:26] <Seira> OOC: I'll cast Extended Heroism on myself and Alicia, and presume she uses cold res, then we'll teleport to the mountain and go east~
[22:26] <Alicia> OOC: since fighting looks in the offing I'll bring Marie and Anty, we'll teleport to say five hundred yards to the east of the camp and keep waking from there
[22:28] <Kotono> OOC: Okay, so Amaryl, Marie and Antenora. Make sure they're in the #elysium topic? Heroism on those two, and cold res on everyone?
01[22:28] <Seira> OOC: I'll use the second extended Heroism on Amaryl, actually. You don't mind, Alicia?
[22:28] <Alicia> OOC: got to look  out for your girlfriend I guess
[22:29] <Alicia> OOC: cold resistance on PCs and Amaryl. The two outsiders have innate resistance.
[22:29] <Kotono> OOC: Okay.
[22:29] <Kotono> OOC: Roll your TPs when ready?
[22:29] <Alicia> roll 1d100 to rest stop
06[22:29] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 to rest stop and gets 48." [1d100=48]
[22:29] <Alicia> OOC: greater magic weapon on team Alicia as well
[22:29] <Kotono> OOC: Okay.
[22:30] <Alicia> roll 1d100 to camp seen casually?
06[22:30] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 to camp seen casually? and gets 18." [1d100=18]
[22:31] <Kotono> Woosh! The fiv eappear! The moment they do, they feel weakened and dull, vitality sapped away! Amaryl whimpers low in her throat, coughing, "I can barely breathe. This place is horrible!" she declares. "It feels as if I have one step into my sickbed."
[22:31] <Kotono> OOC: -3 con to all due to ongoing effect, ect.
[22:32] <Kotono> Antenora sniffs the air, and with a scowls, "Reminds me of Caina, only without the charm," she observes.
[22:32] <Alicia> "Lets just keep moving, hopefully with distance we'll feel better," Alicia sighs, starting to march to the east.
[22:33] <Alicia> "And the crushing glaciers?" Marie asks perkily, today dressed in a loose green dress that's easy to throw on, and with her bow and arrows slung around her hips.
01[22:33] <Seira> roll 1d10+10
06[22:33] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d10+10 and gets 18." [1d10=8]
[22:34] <Kotono> As the party travels in the relative 'lowlands', 45 minutes pass. It starts sloping upward jaggedly, though nothing the party can't handle. The camp is left behind. Here, there is a break. The rocky ground has a cairn of stones lying there, weathered but intact.
[22:35] <Kotono> Amaryl lingers closer to Seira, her hands standing on the hilt of the sun blade strapped to her belt.
[22:36] <Kotono> Antenora approaches, poking the cairn with the butt of her spear. "Mean anything to any of you?"
01[22:36] <Seira> "It will be a beautiful place once more, as soon as we take care of what caused this to come into being," Seira whispers to Amaryl, keeping close to her in turn.
[22:37] <Alicia> "Could be a burial marker," Alicia wonders, having a quick look for any evil while Marie checks for magic.
[22:37] <Kotono> "Probably." Antenora agrees, "I don't see any evil. Keep going?"
[22:37] <Alicia> "There might be directions like on the endless plains?" Marie wonders, looking all around on the cairns for any inscriptions.
[22:38] <Kotono> OOC: Search check, Marie?
[22:38] <Alicia> roll 1d20+1
06[22:38] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+1 and gets 4." [1d20=3]
[22:39] <Alicia> "No such luck," Marie shakes her head and then flies up on the off chance they show an arrow from above to indicate a direction.
[22:39] <Kotono> Marie flies up. It's an irregular pile of stones, pointing in no particular direction. The center ones look to hav emoved out slightly, as if something has pushed them from below, perhaps. Rising ground?
06[22:40] * Seira decides to check the cairn as well!
[22:40] <Alicia> "Hey, it looks like something pushed up from below!" Marie cries, fluttering back down. "Could be undead! Want me to check it out?"
01[22:40] <Seira> roll 1d20+25
06[22:40] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+25 and gets 40." [1d20=15]
06[22:40] * Alicia sighs and holds out her hands. "I'll hold your things," she agrees as Marie hands over her weapons and then turns incorporeal, her dress falling onto Alicia's arm before she descends through the earth where it rises.
06[22:41] * Seira returns to Amaryl's side, since Marie has taken the direct route.
[22:41] <Kotono> Marie descends down! Ten feet into the earth,s he comes onto a skeleton! It's the framework of a giant, long ago rendered unto it's grave. It's fleshless bones move, constantly pushing upwards in fain, struggling.
[22:42] <Kotono> Antenora peers down and then coughs. "Damnably short air. Is there anything magic can do about it?"
01[22:42] <Seira> "Clerical magic. Don't have it, sadly. Yet."
[22:42] <Alicia> "At least we're not actually up any of the mountains. It's far worse there," Alicia shakes her head as Marie returns.
[22:42] <Alicia> "There's an animated skeleton down there trying to dig its way out, but without much luck," the eladrin explains. "Another giant."
01[22:43] <Seira> "Want me to set it on fire?"
[22:43] <Alicia> "There's ten feet of earth in the way," Marie bobs in the air. "I doubt it's going anywhere, and if we deal with the source of the necromantic aura that'll make it settle down, right?"
01[22:44] <Seira> "That's the idea," Seira agrees. "Let's go further east?"
[22:44] <Kotono> "Let's," Antenora hurries along, a slow but ground eating pace.
[22:45] <Alicia> Marie returns to corporeal form and starts to get dressed again, recovering her weapons as well, while Alicia sighs. "I know it's difficult, but you should still wear underwear if you're going to wear dresses, Marie," she remonstrates.
[22:45] <Alicia> "Layers take too long!" the angelic fairy huffs in reply.
[22:45] <Kotono> "Besides, it's not like she has anything to hide. For a fairy, she's very cute," Antenora snickers.
[22:46] <Kotono> Amaryl coughs and leans on Seira briefly, "Will this get worse before we reach it, Seira?" she asks.
[22:46] <Alicia> "There's nothing wrong with a bit of modesty," Alicia replies primly, batting Marie off her head and continuing her journey.
01[22:46] <Seira> "For all that they protest when I say something like that..." Seira mutters quietly to Amaryl, shaking her head. "Probably," she responds to her query. "It's worse that the aura back in the lair, after all."
01[22:46] <Seira> *about that
[22:47] <Alicia> "I like wearing lots of clothes, but I just can't anymore!" Marie folds her arms indignantly. "I can't even wear shoes since they take forever to lace up!"
[22:47] <Alicia> "Don't worry, we'll get to the bottom of your new limitations," Alicia reassures half-heartedly. "Then you can go back to normal."
[22:49] <Kotono> Another thirty minutes of walking. The lower altitude, relatively, at least means the thin air isn't quite so bad. Still, as you walk, you csee something ahead. Flickering in and out of vision is a tall pillar, about another ten minutes away. It's about as large as a wizard's tower, as if crafted greatly over scale.
03[22:49] * miseryballosheadache is now known as LouisCypher
01[22:50] <Seira> "If that wasn't an invitation...."
[22:50] <Alicia> "A mirage? Or a symptom of the failing wards?" Alicia shades her eyes as she regards the tower ahead, before picking up her pace towards it.
01[22:51] <Seira> Once they've cut the distance to the tower in half, Seira intends to cast a Bull's Strength spell upon herself.
01[22:51] <Seira> *upon Amaryl.
[22:52] <Kotono> After another 5 minutes, they can see that the pillar is covered in vast arcane symbols. OOC: Make spot checks, all.
[22:52] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 A
06[22:52] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 A and gets 25." [1d20=18]
[22:52] <Alicia> roll 1d20+6 M
06[22:52] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+6 M and gets 21." [1d20=15]
01[22:52] <Seira> roll 1d20+13
06[22:52] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+13 and gets 17." [1d20=4]
[22:53] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19
06[22:53] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 and gets 34." [1d20=15]
[22:53] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[22:53] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 25." [1d20=9]
[22:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[22:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 24." [1d20=11]
[22:55] <Kotono> Antenora stops here, holding up her spear. "Careful!" she peers ahead, "Thirty feet ahead, they're barely visible, but I can see wraiths hiding in the ground, poking up to look."
01[22:55] <Seira> Sounds like a great time to cast Draconic Might!
[22:56] <Alicia> "Damn," Alicia pauses, starting to cast shield while Marie hovers close by her shoulder to benefit from the same spell while protecting Alicia in her own way.
[22:57] <Kotono> As the party reacts and prepares, teh wraiths come rising up and out! Seven of the ghostly things, shaped like shady men and women, hands reaching out! Amid them are two others, large ones that seem to throb with unholy undeath! OOC: Well, you avoided a painful ambush. Initiative?
[22:57] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 A
06[22:57] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 A and gets 13." [1d20=6]
[22:57] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 M
06[22:57] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 M and gets 13." [1d20=6]
06[22:58] * Seira casts Shield as well!
[22:58] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 Antenora
06[22:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 Antenora and gets 15." [1d20=10]
01[22:58] <Seira> roll 1d20+6
06[22:58] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 and gets 14." [1d20=8]
[22:58] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7 Amaryl
06[22:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 Amaryl and gets 19." [1d20=12]
[22:58] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7 seven wraiths
06[22:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 seven wraiths and gets 21." [1d20=14]
[22:58] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 big wraith 1
06[22:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 big wraith 1 and gets 24." [1d20=11]
[22:58] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 big wraith 2
06[22:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 big wraith 2 and gets 14." [1d20=1]
03[22:59] * Kotono changes topic to 'Dread Wraith 1>Wraiths(7)>Amaryl>Antenora>Seira=Dread Wraith 2>Alicia=Marie'
[23:01] <Kotono> One of the large ones charge right at Alicia, cold hands going to try and touch her and siphon away her life force!
[23:01] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 touch AC, Alicia?
06[23:01] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 touch AC, Alicia? and gets 33." [1d20=17]
[23:01] <Alicia> OOC: 23 vs incorporeal
[23:01] <Kotono> roll 2d6 and fort
06[23:01] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6 and fort and gets 8." [2d6=2, 6]
[23:01] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20
06[23:01] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 and gets 39." [1d20=19]
[23:02] <Kotono> Alicia's body is touched by the hands, making her shudder all over! The mere contact is a violation, undeath energies lapping at her soul! A moment later, the wraithes surge forward in a wave! Two go at Alicia first, flanking her on either side!
[23:02] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5
[23:02] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5
06[23:02] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5  and gets 20." [1d20=15]
06[23:02] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5  and gets 15." [1d20=10]
[23:02] <Kotono> OOC: Forgot flanking, doens't matter.
[23:02] <Kotono> But Alicia's quick reflexes save the day, as two others go for Seira and two for Antenora!
[23:03] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7 AC here, Seira?
06[23:03] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 AC here, Seira? and gets 10." [1d20=3]
[23:03] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7 AC here, Seira?
06[23:03] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 AC here, Seira? and gets 18." [1d20=11]
01[23:03] <Seira> OOC: 27 vs incorporeal
[23:03] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7 Antenora, AC 18
06[23:03] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 Antenora, AC 18 and gets 26." [1d20=19]
[23:03] <Kotono> roll 1d4 doesn't penetrate her DR
06[23:03] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 doesn't penetrate her DR and gets 4." [1d4=4]
[23:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 no 1
06[23:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 no 1 and gets 40." [1d20=15]
[23:05] <Kotono> The last goes for Amaryl, tearing at her!
[23:05] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5
06[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 and gets 18." [1d20=13]
[23:05] <Kotono> roll 1d4 and fort
06[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 and fort and gets 3." [1d4=3]
[23:05] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 25." [1d20=9]
[23:06] <Kotono> The horde of spirits is on them, tearing and ripping at the party! But none of them score the wounds that siphon away life and herald the eternal damnation of undeath! OOC: Amaryl.
[23:06] <Kotono> Amaryl's golden blade is out, shining with sunlight that shines right through the wraithes! Yet, unlike normal, they seem a little more solid, undisturbed! "Go back to the grave!" she calls.
[23:06] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
06[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 16." [1d20=1]
[23:07] <Kotono> But her blow misses the wraith, the sun blade a narrow, weak miss onto it! OOC: Anty's up.
[23:08] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10 not my finest moment there
06[23:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 not my finest moment there and gets 29." [1d20=19]
[23:08] <Kotono> roll 3d10+24
06[23:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d10+24 and gets 46." [3d10=6, 6, 10]
03[23:08] * Kotono changes topic to 'Dread Wraith 1>Wraiths(6)>Amaryl>Antenora>Seira=Dread Wraith 2>Alicia=Marie'
[23:08] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10 not my finest moment there why did I not confirm the crit first why
06[23:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 not my finest moment there why did I not confirm the crit first why and gets 19." [1d20=9]
[23:09] <Kotono> As Amaryl slashes, one glowing pass of the sword dissolves the wraith into nothingness! Antenora flies up away from her attackers quickly, hurling her rope at the large dread wraith menacing Alicia!
[23:09] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19
06[23:09] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 and gets 31." [1d20=12]
[23:10] <Kotono> The rope wraps around the wraith, making it's body seem even more solid! It struggles in it's grasp, bound by the rope! OOC: Seira and the second dread wraithe are up.
[23:11] <Kotono> The second wraithe is quick, going right for Amaryl with a panicked haste, reaching out for her!
[23:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[23:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 26." [1d20=10]
[23:11] <Kotono> roll 2d6 and fort
06[23:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6 and fort and gets 7." [2d6=4, 3]
[23:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[23:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 21." [1d20=5]
[23:11] <Kotono> roll 1d8 con drain owwies
06[23:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8 con drain owwies and gets 7." [1d8=7]
[23:12] <Kotono> OOC: +2 for heroism, still fails the DC.
[23:12] <Kotono> The touch of the beast turns Amaryl into gray, waxen color, making her nearly fall over! She cries out in wordless dismay!
06[23:16] * Seira snarls at the presumptious shadow, ducking away from her own assailants and making her way to Amaryl's side. Once there, she dives right into the large shadow with the Resort!
01[23:16] <Seira> OOC: Stoneskin, I'll tumble as much as I can
[23:16] <Kotono> OOC: You can tumble. Carry on.
01[23:16] <Seira> roll 1d20+20 smiting the wraith
06[23:16] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+20 smiting the wraith and gets 27." [1d20=7]
[23:17] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
01[23:17] <Seira> roll 3d8+11+6d8 die!
06[23:17] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 3d8+11+6d8 die! and gets 63." [3d8=8, 4, 7][6d8=4, 6, 7, 3, 8, 5]
[23:17] <Kotono> OOC: d100, Seira, dur dur.
01[23:18] <Seira> roll 1d100
06[23:18] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d100 and gets 58." [1d100=58]
[23:18] <Kotono> OOC: Carry on.
01[23:18] <Seira> OOC: I did, feel free to let it die!
[23:18] <Kotono> The dread wraithe is smitten by the power of the Third Resort, staggered back and steaming in the sunlight! IT hisses at SEira, intact if woundeD! OOC: Team Alicia's up.
[23:18] <Alicia> roll 1d20+10 knowledge devotion
06[23:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+10 knowledge devotion and gets 16." [1d20=6]
06[23:19] * Alicia attempts to slay the larger wraith currently harassing her!
[23:19] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 -5 power attack
06[23:19] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 -5 power attack and gets 34." [1d20=14]
[23:19] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 -5 power attack
06[23:19] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 -5 power attack and gets 39." [1d20=19]
[23:19] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 -5 power attack crit check
06[23:19] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 -5 power attack crit check and gets 33." [1d20=13]
[23:19] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15 -5 power attack
06[23:19] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 -5 power attack and gets 19." [1d20=4]
[23:19] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15 -5 power attack
06[23:19] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 -5 power attack and gets 29." [1d20=14]
[23:19] <Alicia> roll 1d20+10 -5 power attack
06[23:19] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+10 -5 power attack and gets 15." [1d20=5]
[23:20] <Alicia> roll 1d20+10 -5 power attack
06[23:20] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+10 -5 power attack and gets 22." [1d20=12]
[23:20] <Kotono> OOC: 4 hits, no d100s thanks tot he ghost rope.
[23:20] <Alicia> roll 5d8+80+4d6+8d6+4d8
06[23:20] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 5d8+80+4d6+8d6+4d8 and gets 164." [5d8=1, 6, 6, 3, 6][4d6=1, 1, 6, 2][8d6=5, 3, 2, 6, 2, 1, 3, 6][4d8=5, 6, 5, 8]
03[23:20] * Kotono changes topic to 'Wraiths(6)>Amaryl>Antenora>Seira=Dread Wraith 2>Alicia=Marie'
[23:21] <Alicia> Marie meanwhile fires a barrage of arrows at one of the wraiths flanking Alicia, sticking protectively close!
[23:21] <Kotono> With it's body visible and an easy target, Alicia obliterates the wraith, it's form withering back into the realms beyond!
[23:21] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23
06[23:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 and gets 33." [1d20=10]
[23:21] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18
06[23:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 and gets 30." [1d20=12]
[23:21] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13
06[23:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 and gets 27." [1d20=14]
[23:21] <Alicia> roll 3#1d100
06[23:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3#1d100 and gets 90." [3#1d100 = 4, 53, 33]
[23:21] <Alicia> roll 1d4+3+1d6+1d4
06[23:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4+3+1d6+1d4 and gets 13." [1d4=1][1d6=6][1d4=3]

[Corwin]

[19:37] <Kotono> <Alicia> Marie meanwhile fires a barrage of arrows at one of the wraiths flanking Alicia, sticking protectively close!
[19:37] <Kotono> > With it's body visible and an easy target, Alicia obliterates the wraith, it's form withering back into the realms beyond!
[19:37] <Kotono> <Alicia> roll 1d20+23
[19:37] <Kotono> * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 and gets 33." [1d20=10]
[19:37] <Kotono> <Alicia> roll 1d20+18
[19:37] <Kotono> * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 and gets 30." [1d20=12]
[19:37] <Kotono> <Alicia> roll 1d20+13
[19:37] <Kotono> * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 and gets 27." [1d20=14]
[19:37] <Kotono> <Alicia> roll 3#1d100
[19:37] <Kotono> * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3#1d100 and gets 90." [3#1d100 = 4, 53, 33]
[19:37] <Kotono> <Alicia> roll 1d4+3+1d6+1d4
[19:37] <Kotono> * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4+3+1d6+1d4 and gets 13." [1d4=1][1d6=6][1d4=3]
[19:39] <Kotono> Marie fire an arrow at the horde, shooting off and with one shot shocking and disturbing her target! The two wraiths on Alicia continue to assail her, flanking the paladin!
[19:39] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7
[19:39] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7
06[19:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 and gets 24." [1d20=17]
06[19:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 and gets 21." [1d20=14]
[19:39] <Kotono> OOC: Touch AC?
[19:39] <Alicia> OOC: 23 vs incorporeal
[19:39] <Kotono> roll 1d4 and a fort save
06[19:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 and a fort save and gets 1." [1d4=1]
[19:39] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22
06[19:39] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+22 and gets 24." [1d20=2]
[19:41] <Kotono> As Alicia fends off the ghosts, one touching her but coming to little effect, with the two on Seira flying over at the movement! One goes to Seira, however, while one goes to Amaryl's flank!
[19:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 Seira
06[19:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 Seira and gets 24." [1d20=19]
[19:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7 Amaryl ACs?
06[19:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 Amaryl ACs? and gets 16." [1d20=9]
01[19:41] <Seira> OOC: 27 vs them
[19:41] <Kotono> roll 1d4 and fort save
06[19:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 and fort save and gets 3." [1d4=3]
[19:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11 DC 15
06[19:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 DC 15 and gets 12." [1d20=1]
[19:43] <Kotono> roll 1d6 at least she can hope this one rolls low
06[19:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6 at least she can hope this one rolls low and gets 6." [1d6=6]
[19:45] <Kotono> The touch gets Amaryl right between the shoulderblades! She screams at the top of her lungs, yet it barely makes any sound! 'S-Seira...!' the thought slams into Seira's mind, as Amaryl crumples over! Of the last two, one pursues Antenora, while another goes for Marie!
[19:45] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 Antenora
06[19:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 Antenora and gets 21." [1d20=16]
[19:45] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 Marie
06[19:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 Marie and gets 20." [1d20=15]
[19:45] <Alicia> OOC: AC 25 for Marie
[19:46] <Kotono> roll 1d4 and fort
06[19:46] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 and fort and gets 1." [1d4=1]
[19:46] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22
01[19:46] <Seira> "This can't be happening!" Seira exclaims in disbelief, looking around wildly at the surrounding wraiths.
06[19:46] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 and gets 40." [1d20=18]
[19:46] <Kotono> Antenora is grazed, not seeming to even feel it in her fury! Amaryl lies there, as...
[19:46] <Kotono> roll 1d100 stabilization
06[19:46] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 stabilization and gets 62." [1d100=62]
[19:47] <Kotono> "Dammit!" Antenora swears, holy fury filling her! Healing energy touches Amaryl, as she charges all out at the dire wraith!
[19:48] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21 (+2 charge, +7 smite -9 PA 9/10 FS +10 HP Amaryl)
06[19:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 (+2 charge, +7 smite -9 PA 9/10 FS +10 HP Amaryl) and gets 23." [1d20=2]
[19:50] <Kotono> roll 1d100 since that puts her just at it's AC
06[19:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 since that puts her just at it's AC and gets 76." [1d100=76]
[19:51] <Kotono> roll 2d8+62
06[19:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d8+62 and gets 74." [2d8=4, 8]
03[19:52] * Kotono changes topic to 'Wraiths(6)>Amaryl>Antenora>Seira>Alicia=Marie'
[19:53] <Kotono> Antenora pounces forward, impaling the dread wraith in the back! It's form twists as holy power fills it, ripping apart into it's second oblivion! Amaryl rises to her knees at this, dazed and shaking all over! Her flesh is pale as fresh milk, her gaze bloodshot and hands shaking! OOC: Seira.
01[19:57] <Seira> "Lagann, strike!" Seira snaps angrily, gesturing at the Sun Blade. She breathes a gout of flame at the wraith that's right in her face, ducking to step protectively over Amaryl and summoning phantom teeth of force to gnaw at the one that almost destroyed the elf!
01[19:58] <Seira> roll 10d8 fire
06[19:58] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 10d8 fire and gets 44." [10d8=3, 6, 7, 3, 2, 4, 4, 3, 4, 8]
01[19:58] <Seira> roll 1d100
06[19:58] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d100 and gets 91." [1d100=91]
01[19:58] <Seira> roll 10d6 force
06[19:58] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 10d6 force and gets 40." [10d6=5, 1, 4, 6, 6, 5, 1, 5, 2, 5]
01[19:58] <Seira> OOC: Saves are 23 and 22, respectfully
01[19:59] <Seira> roll 1d4
06[19:59] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d4 and gets 3." [1d4=3]
[20:00] <Kotono> roll 1d20+4
06[20:00] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+4 and gets 13." [1d20=9]
[20:00] <Kotono> roll 1d20+4
06[20:00] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+4 and gets 9." [1d20=5]
[20:00] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 second will AoO you since they crave liiiife
06[20:00] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 second will AoO you since they crave liiiife and gets 9." [1d20=4]
03[20:01] * Kotono changes topic to 'Wraiths(4)>Amaryl>Antenora>Seira>Alicia=Marie'
[20:03] <Kotono> The two close wraiths are torn apart by flame and force, as the Sun Blade raises up! It goes for one of the nearby wraiths, directed!
[20:03] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10
06[20:03] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 and gets 26." [1d20=16]
[20:03] <Kotono> roll 2d10+8
06[20:03] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d10+8 and gets 12." [2d10=2, 2]
[20:03] <Kotono> One of the surviving wraiths screams, shaking all over as the Sun Blade penetrates it! OOC: Alicia and Marie.
[20:06] <Alicia> "Marie, get Amaryl out of there!" Alicia snaps as she slices into the two wraiths surrounding her, while her familiar disengages 30 feet from the wraith attacking her before trading places with a hopefully willing Amaryl.
[20:06] <Alicia> OOC: wraith gets aoo on Marie
[20:07] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 Marie liiife
06[20:07] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 Marie liiife and gets 9." [1d20=4]
[20:07] <Kotono> OOC: Resolve Alicia's attacks first.
[20:07] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 -5pa, will attack the two flanking me in sequence, moving to the next after the first dies
06[20:07] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 -5pa, will attack the two flanking me in sequence, moving to the next after the first dies and gets 37." [1d20=17]
[20:07] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 -5pa
06[20:07] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 -5pa and gets 26." [1d20=6]
[20:07] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15 -5pa
06[20:07] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 -5pa and gets 19." [1d20=4]
[20:07] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15 -5pa
06[20:07] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 -5pa and gets 27." [1d20=12]
[20:07] <Alicia> roll 1d20+10 -5pa
06[20:07] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+10 -5pa and gets 12." [1d20=2]
[20:07] <Alicia> roll 1d20+10 -5pa
06[20:07] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+10 -5pa and gets 22." [1d20=12]
[20:08] <Kotono> OOC: All but the 12 hit. Roll d100s.
[20:08] <Alicia> roll 5#1d100
06[20:08] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 5#1d100 and gets 237." [5#1d100 = 4, 23, 73, 57, 80]
[20:08] <Alicia> roll 1d8+16+2d6+1d6+1d8
06[20:08] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d8+16+2d6+1d6+1d8 and gets 35." [1d8=2][2d6=4, 2][1d6=3][1d8=8]
[20:08] <Alicia> roll 1d8+16+2d6+1d6+1d8
06[20:08] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d8+16+2d6+1d6+1d8 and gets 38." [1d8=1][2d6=5, 4][1d6=4][1d8=8]
[20:08] <Alicia> roll 1d8+16+2d6+1d6+1d8
06[20:08] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d8+16+2d6+1d6+1d8 and gets 39." [1d8=5][2d6=5, 1][1d6=4][1d8=8]
03[20:08] * Kotono changes topic to 'Wraiths(2)>Amaryl>Antenora>Seira>Alicia=Marie'
[20:09] <Kotono> Alicia rips through the phantasms with aggressive fury, putting th em to rest! A moment later, Marie is where Amaryl was! Amaryl lies on the rocky ground, spasming and coughing! OOC: Wraiths are up.
[20:09] <Kotono> The wraith on Antenora continues to chase her, going to claim her life force!
[20:09] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5
06[20:09] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 and gets 7." [1d20=2]
[20:10] <Kotono> The other reaches out for Seira!
[20:10] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5
06[20:10] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 and gets 24." [1d20=19]
[20:11] <Kotono> But they both miss, foiled away quickly! Amaryl staggers, trying to rise and failing, 'S-seira...I can't...see right...it hurts...are you there, Seira? What should I do? I'm so cold...'
01[20:13] <Seira> If she's like that, using the ring is dangerous! 'Get ready to leave,' Seira thinks back to Amaryl. 'I'll be there soon. It'll be alright!'
[20:14] <Kotono> In her daze, Amaryl thus defends herself and waits! Antenora flies back 30 feet in an instant, boots glowing, before she charges the wraith on her!
[20:15] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 (+7 smite, +2 FS 8/10, +2 weapon, +2 charge, -14 PA)
06[20:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 (+7 smite, +2 FS 8/10, +2 weapon, +2 charge, -14 PA) and gets 25." [1d20=5]
[20:15] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[20:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 70." [1d100=70]
[20:15] <Kotono> roll 2d8+1d6+82
06[20:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d8+1d6+82 and gets 92." [2d8=3, 3][1d6=4]
03[20:15] * Kotono changes topic to 'Wraiths(1)>Amaryl>Antenora>Seira>Alicia=Marie'
[20:16] <Kotono> Charging right into the phantasm, Antenora's charge obliterates the defiant wraith, leaving only one lefT! OOC: Seira.
06[20:16] * Seira would like nothing more than to tear the wraith apart with her bare hands, but she can't lose herself like this, not when Amaryl needs her. She makes her way over to Amaryl, reaching her due to calling upon Waukeen's power, and redirects the phantom teeth at the wraith to destroy it.
01[20:16] <Seira> roll 10d6 force
06[20:16] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 10d6 force and gets 33." [10d6=1, 6, 1, 4, 5, 1, 5, 3, 4, 3]
[20:16] <Kotono> With those teeth of force, the last phantasm is obliterated! The rocky heighs are silent, savef or the hard, strained intake of breath in the thin air! OOC: Free act.
06[20:17] * Seira picks Amaryl up, holding her close to her chest. "Can you take us back, Alicia?" she requests.
06[20:17] * Alicia puts her sword away and marches straight towards Seira and Amaryl. "Marie, Antenora, get over here. We're leaving," she announces in a clipped voice.
[20:18] <Kotono> "Far too close," Antenora says, trotting along. "Everyone else alright?" Then, looking down at Amaryl, "We'll get you safe."
06[20:18] * Alicia first teleports the group to the rest stop on the road.
01[20:18] <Seira> roll 2d8+10 heal
06[20:18] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2d8+10 heal and gets 19." [2d8=4, 5]
[20:18] <Alicia> roll 1d100
06[20:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 and gets 42." [1d100=42]
[20:18] <Alicia> And then to the temple of Waukeen in Balmuria.
[20:18] <Alicia> roll 1d100 studied carefully
06[20:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 studied carefully and gets 6." [1d100=6]
[20:20] <Kotono> The temple of Waukeen is sunny and busy. The apperance of the five gets many a look from the churchgoers, while Amaryl groans softly in Seira's arms.
01[20:21] <Seira> They can wait in Gilartal's chambers, and Seira strides towards them. It is hard to believe the temple lacks in restorations or even a heal spell.
[20:26] <Kotono> The next day, the group meets at Seira's inn. Amaryl isn't there this time as they meet, ready to go...OOC: Do your dicing for the TPs?
[20:26] <Alicia> roll 1d100 to rest stop
06[20:26] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 to rest stop and gets 99." [1d100=99]
[20:26] <Alicia> OOC: off target
[20:27] <Kotono> roll 1d10
06[20:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d10 and gets 6." [1d10=6]
[20:27] <Kotono> roll 1d10
06[20:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d10 and gets 10." [1d10=10]
[20:27] <Kotono> roll 1d9
06[20:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d9 and gets 7." [1d9=7]
01[20:27] <Seira> roll 1d10+10
06[20:27] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d10+10 and gets 20." [1d10=10]
[20:28] <Kotono> Woosh! The party teleports...and my, it's...green here. Very green. You stand in the middle of Pallanth somewhere, not your destination at all. The trees are all wrong, the path far different from the one you aimed for.
[20:28] <Kotono> Antenora cocks her head about, "Miserable luck. Try again?"
[20:29] <Alicia> "We might still be close enough, anyway," Alicia hazards, attempting to reach the site of yesterday's battle.
[20:29] <Alicia> roll 1d100 seen once
06[20:29] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 seen once and gets 12." [1d100=12]
[20:29] <Alicia> OOC: wait, that should've been similar area, not off target above, if it actually matters
[20:30] <Kotono> OOC: It's fine, nothing happened in this case so I'm just going to handwave it.
[20:30] <Kotono> With a second teleport, the party appears at the bttleground from yesterday!
06[20:31] * Seira quietly casts an extended Shield.
[20:31] <Alicia> At this stage Alicia casts shield, sharing the benefit with her familiar who remains close at hand. "Keep an eye out for any other troublemakers," she suggests as she leads the way towards the tower ahead.
[20:31] <Kotono> As you start to walk ahead, "Can you imbue with that spell as well," Antenora asks, "I'm not entirely confident about stopping ethereal attackers again, I had trouble with the lesser wraiths."
06[20:32] * Seira glances at Antenora. "Left the ring at home, but Alicia could, probably."
[20:32] <Alicia> "Sure," Alicia nods to Antenora, channeling a shield spell into her sword and tapping the erinyes lightly to transfer it over.
06[20:32] * Seira decides she might as well activate her boots, at that.
[20:32] <Kotono> "How's Amaryl doing?" Antenora asks as they start to walk ahead towards the pillar again. "Resting comfortably?"
01[20:33] <Seira> "It's not fair. Bad luck like that... it's not easy for her to come along as it is."
[20:34] <Kotono> "She survived. She'll grow stronger after that," Antenora peers ahead, a hand over her eyes to stop sunglare. "Alicia trains the city guard, you know. Have her do some drills with her, focusing on speed and defense?"
[20:35] <Alicia> "It wasn't bad luck, she was facing things she really shouldn't have been," Alicia puts in her thoughts. "I wouldn't even dream of bringing any of the guardsmen along for something like this - they'd get massacred."
01[20:35] <Seira> "I know you mean well," Seira responds, "but I'm actually quite confident in my own methods."
01[20:36] <Seira> "It is a simple truth that our homes are hardly safe. It's not like our enemies will just cooperate on that out of the goodness of their hearts."
[20:37] <Kotono> As you approach, you can see the pillar more clearly. It flickers in and out of sight, more towards in sight as you approach. It is often only an outline, sometimes flaring into full visibility.  From it, lines of barely visible power run, wrapping around in the starts of what might be some sort of dome.
[20:38] <Alicia> "They're safer than here," Alicia replies bluntly. "None of those wraiths were able to really hurt any of us three, but Amaryl didn't stand a chance against them. She shouldn't be pressed to fight the same things we do."
01[20:39] <Seira> "She's really strong and one day you'll see it, too," Seira says stubbornly.
[20:39] <Kotono> "She's stronger than most," Antenora agrees, "But even a strong man dies if they face something too much for them." But she stops here, looking ahead at the pillar.
06[20:41] * Alicia frowns as she approaches the dome. "She won't thank you for your faith in her abilities if it gets her killed."
06[20:42] * Seira doesn't react besides looking depressed.
06[20:43] * Alicia experimentally picks up a rock or clod of dirt and tosses it at the dome once she's fifty feet away from it.
[20:43] <Kotono> The dome ripples as the rock slowly pushes through it, landing on the other sidea fter several long seconds of extra hang time.
[20:44] <Kotono> The start of the dome is large, with the entire thing perhaps reaching high into the sky. It's no small affair, but instead the start of something vast. Perhaps, as you can only see a few of the lines near the pillar, fading into unseen-ness after.
06[20:44] * Seira tries pushing past the dome herself.
[20:45] <Kotono> Seira pushes past the pillar! It's like walking through mollasses. Slow and hard, but not impossible. On the other side she feels as if death has come to touch her! She is bombarded with feelings of her end, as if another breath will be her very last. OOC: Seira, the -3 you're under increases to -6 here. If you don't run back out immediately, note that in topic HP.
06[20:46] * Seira grunts. "Horrible place."
[20:47] <Kotono> "How bad?" Antenora calls, her voice sounding drawn out and distorted to Seira's ears, but normal to everyone else.
01[20:48] <Seira> "Very."
06[20:48] * Seira tries going ahead a bit to see if the situation would get worse. "But nothing here can hurt us, really, right?"
[20:48] <Kotono> Seira goes ahead several steps. It doesn't feel any more hellish than it already is.
[20:49] <Alicia> "Marie, wait here for a second, then try to swap places with me once I'm through? I want to check in case it blocks teleportation," Marie tells her familiar as she pushes through the barrier. Once she's through, Marie uses her bracelet to trade places.
[20:49] <Alicia> *Alicia tells her familiar
[20:49] <Kotono> "Is this the barrier, then?" Antenora trots over to the pillar, eyeing it long.
[20:49] <Kotono> OOC: d100?
[20:49] <Kotono> OOC: I know it's not TP.
[20:49] <Alicia> roll 1d100
06[20:49] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 and gets 16." [1d100=16]
[20:50] <Kotono> Marie appears outside of the barrier! Alicia doesn't travel, however.
[20:50] <Kotono> OOC: Gah, premature.
[20:50] <Kotono> Marie appears outside of the barrier! Alicia doesn't travel, however. This results in Marie being right pressed against Alicia's stomach, under her breastplate and armor and against her skin.
[20:51] <Alicia> Marie cries out before promptly turning incorporeal to escape!
06[20:52] * Alicia grimaces and proceeds to pull several sharp objects along with Marie's clothing out from under her own attire, handing them over as Marie reverts to her humanoid form and redresses. "We won't be able to teleport out of here... and I bet that's what's also holding back the worst of the deathly aura, so I wouldn't dispel it even if I could."
[20:53] <Kotono> Antenora turns and shakes her head, "That's almost funny," she observes. "At least you didn't end up inAlicia's innards."
01[20:53] <Seira> "This actually isn't funny," Seira mutters. "But pretty damn horrible. Let's go."
06[20:53] * Alicia looks even more queasy at Antenora's observation, but nonetheless draws her sword and advances to the tower itself, Marie warily following.
06[20:54] * Alicia also recasts shield on Marie so she won't have to stay too close to benefit.
[20:54] <Kotono> The others step past the barrier, Antenora grimacing all over. "Just trying to lighten the mood," she notes as they head in! OOC: Just going to head further in?
06[20:54] * Seira draws the Sun Blade with a grimace. "The air itself is dead, the mood stillborn with it."
[20:55] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[20:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 48." [1d100=48]
[20:55] <Alicia> OOC: till we reach the tower itself and see what's what
[20:56] <Kotono> OOC: You're AT the pillar mentioned. You approached it and saw the lines of power coming out from it.
[20:56] <Kotono> OOC: Hell, Antenora went to look at it.
06[20:57] * Seira looks for a door to kick in.
[20:57] <Alicia> OOC: sorry, I thought there was a dome around it and we were at that
06[20:57] * Seira casts Draconic Might for that very exalted purpose.
[20:58] <Kotono> The pillar doesn't seem to have a door. Just magical runes and symbols all over it's surface, as it flickers in and out of sight! The dome is only hinted at, the pillar being a part of it, or perhaps a stake driven into the ground, like a tent's stake.
01[20:58] <Seira> roll 1d20+24 spellcraft
06[20:58] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+24 spellcraft and gets 36." [1d20=12]
[20:58] <Kotono> OOC: Studying the symbols or some such?
01[20:59] <Seira> OOC: Yes
[20:59] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 I'll aid
06[20:59] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 I'll aid and gets 20." [1d20=13]
[20:59] <Alicia> roll 1d20+9 as will Marie
06[20:59] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+9 as will Marie and gets 21." [1d20=12]
[20:59] <Kotono> OOC: Can you aid spellcraft untrained?
01[20:59] <Seira> OOC: Familiars use the master's skills, no?
[20:59] <Alicia> OOC: it's trained only
[21:00] <Kotono> OOC: I mean Antenora may try to help if it's not trained only. But it is, so moot.
[21:01] <Kotono> It takes some time, the flickering pillar making it harder. But with patience and skill and help, Seira starts to decypher the symbols. They are marvelously complex and of high magical skill, beyond that of wizards of this age. It is an abjuration, to ward against the energy of Arondaaq and to stop teleportation, travel, divinations, almost everything that could get through. Four pillars are connected on the cardinal compass points, this is
[21:02] <Kotono> Four pillars are connected on the cardinal compass points, this is the eastern one. The dweomer connects in the center. This pillar has started to fail, it's magic damaged and eroded. Seira notices that the way it's designed is very friendly to read, making understanding it and replacing what was lost not too difficult at all. It's as if someone made an effort to make it so.
01[21:03] <Seira> "They tried to contain the sword, as we've thought, and block teleportation, divinations and just about anything. And they left a manual behind. I'm a bit insulted, but that's just my bad mood talking, likely."
06[21:04] * Seira tries to estimate just how easy fixing the pillar would be, or which materials and magics would be required.
[21:04] <Kotono> OOC: K A check?
[21:04] <Alicia> "Why insulted?" Alicia asks, rubbing her eyes briefly after straining to read the flickering symbols herself.
01[21:05] <Seira> OOC: I'll take 10 for 32
[21:05] <Kotono> "If they did that, did they suspect the wards may fail eventually?" Antenora keeps her gaze travelling around all the while, keeping watch.
03[21:05] * taibed is now known as asdgsdfasdfhgdfsa
01[21:06] <Seira> "It's like an explanation for a child," Seira elaborates unhappily. "Desjardin wasn't kidding when he said the old fogies didn't have a bit of hope for the future generations."
06[21:06] * Seira tries to estimate where the other pillars would be, how one might approach a working pillar, and where the epicenter is.
[21:07] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19
06[21:07] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 and gets 21." [1d20=2]
[21:07] <Kotono> "I'll take the condesension if it seals this sword back up." Antenora's peers ahead briefly, before turning back to Seira.
[21:07] <Alicia> "Yes, perish the thought that magic not only be the preserve of ancient hidebound scholars who fear sunlight," Alicia muses dryly. "Makes you wonder why they didn't just use the permanency spell, though."
01[21:07] <Seira> "Yes, well. If we can't even handle sealing the sword that only wounded the God-King, we're pretty damn far from taking him on."
06[21:08] * Seira frowns. "Maybe they had. This energy cheats pretty strongly, given the wraiths operated in sunlight."
[21:09] <Alicia> "They probably didn't care about anyone fighting that guy, they just wanted to make sure anyone who found this place could reseal it easily. Y'know, to stop it making local dragons go crazy and stuff?" Marie wonders.
01[21:10] <Seira> "Okay, I have what we came here for," Seira announces. "We need a week and about ten thousand gold worth of diamond dust and ink and all the good stuff."
[21:11] <Alicia> "I can afford that. Lets get out of here and teleport home, then?" Alicia suggests, eager to be away.
[21:11] <Kotono> "Let's," Antenora agrees. "The sooner the better."
01[21:11] <Seira> "I'll pitch in, naturally," Seira says, hardly sounding happy. "Let's go, yes."
06[21:12] * Alicia attempts to retreat back out of the barrier!
[21:12] <Kotono> The party is able to leave the barrier without incident.
[21:13] <Kotono> "I can contribue, too," Antenora offers, "I have some money and it's a good cause. Are you going to reseal the barrier and let Arondaaq lie?"
[21:13] <Alicia> "We'll probably need it eventually, but best to keep it well protected until that day comes," is Alicia's opinion on the matter.
01[21:13] <Seira> "I'll key myself in," Seira responds. "It seems possible. When it's time, I'll wield it."
[21:14] <Alicia> "We'll see what happens when the time comes," Alicia replies ambivalently as she teleports them to the rest stop.
[21:14] <Alicia> roll 1d100
06[21:14] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 and gets 55." [1d100=55]
[21:14] <Alicia> And then back home.
[21:14] <Alicia> roll 1d100
06[21:14] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 and gets 33." [1d100=33]
[21:15] <Kotono> OOC: What are you guys going to do now?
01[21:15] <Seira> OOC: This
[21:15] <Kotono> OOC: Going to go buy supplies and reagents and come back to this, eh? Same party/setup as last time? Post in the loot topic for how much you're buying?
[21:15] <Alicia> OOC: we'll pay 3,333gp each while Seira does secretive magic work for a week?
01[21:16] <Seira> OOC: Pretty much. Any final check will have IGNORANCE behind it.
01[21:17] <Seira> OOC: And the wards would be hacked so only I could return if we ever decide to go there.
[21:18] <Kotono> OOC: Declare who's going back on the next day and make your TP rolls?
01[21:18] <Seira> OOC: Alicia will watch over me, hopefully?
[21:18] <Alicia> OOC: Shouldn't be any fighting, so Marie and Anty can stay behind.
[21:18] <Alicia> roll 1d100 to rest stop
06[21:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 to rest stop and gets 77." [1d100=77]
[21:18] <Kotono> OOC: Okay.
[21:19] <Alicia> roll 1d100 to just outside barrier
06[21:19] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 to just outside barrier and gets 77." [1d100=77]
[21:19] <Alicia> OOC: seen casually, sinc we spent a while there
[21:19] <Kotono> The pair teleports to the mountains! It's a cloudy, bitterly cold day. Seira and Alicia appear as desired, the flickering barrier ahead of them.
[21:20] <Alicia> "How long do you expect this to take?" Alicia asks, looking around to make sure no fresh undead are in the vicinity.
[21:20] <Kotono> OOC: Spot check?
[21:20] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7
06[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 and gets 14." [1d20=7]
[21:20] <Kotono> It looks pretty quiet today. Nothing's afoul.
01[21:20] <Seira> roll 1d20+13
06[21:21] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+13 and gets 25." [1d20=12]
[21:21] <Kotono> It looks pretty quiet to Seira, too. Nothing's off or wrong.
01[21:21] <Seira> "A lot. If spending prolongued time here will be bad for our health, we'll just have to take more than a week."
[21:23] <Alicia> "Well, better get to work," Alicia braves the barrier, pushing towards the pillar so she can make herself comfortable as possible while watching over Seira.
06[21:23] * Seira starts working on the wards.
[21:23] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[21:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 61." [1d100=61]
[21:23] <Kotono> OOC: Make a spellcraft check, Seira?
01[21:23] <Seira> roll 1d20+24
06[21:23] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+24 and gets 41." [1d20=17]
[21:24] <Kotono> The first day passes in a painful, wheezing haze. Alicia and Seira feel tired and worn outat the end, but the day's work seems to have gone well enough. It was mostly setting the stage for the more complex repairs.
[21:26] <Alicia> roll 1d100 to rest stop
06[21:26] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 to rest stop and gets 78." [1d100=78]
[21:26] <Alicia> roll 1d100 home
06[21:26] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 home and gets 33." [1d100=33]
[21:29] <Kotono> The next day, the two meet at Alicia's house, ready to go whenever they are ready.
[21:30] <Alicia> Before they do, Alicia asks, "Seira, did you notice any sores or lesions on your body last night?"
06[21:30] * Seira shakes her head. "You had, then?"
[21:31] <Alicia> "Yes. I'm assuming it's a symptom of the negative energy at the wards - channelling positive energy cleared it right up, but if it didn't affect you maybe it's something else... Well, I'll see how I feel after today. Ready to go?"
01[21:32] <Seira> "I'd suggest you stay outside the dome, and I've prepared an Alarm spell. That should help."
[21:32] <Alicia> "Alright. I'll be close at hand if necessary, regardless," Alicia agrees, teleporting them to the rest stop.
[21:32] <Alicia> roll 1d100
06[21:32] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 and gets 91." [1d100=91]
[21:32] <Alicia> And then to the dome.
[21:32] <Alicia> roll 1d100
06[21:32] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 and gets 28." [1d100=28]
[21:33] <Kotono> Woosh! It's still overcast and death-cold here, the thin air brutal. But there's no immediate problems here at all, the pillar and dome waiting for you.
06[21:33] * Alicia settles just outside the dome, lighting a campfire while she keeps watch.
06[21:33] * Seira casts Alarm first, setting it to be audible, before breeching the barrier and resuming her work.
[21:34] <Kotono> roll 1d10
06[21:34] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d10 and gets 6." [1d10=6]
[21:34] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[21:34] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 54." [1d100=54]
[21:34] <Kotono> OOC: Make a spellcraft check, Seira.
01[21:36] <Seira> roll 1d20+24
06[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+24 and gets 28." [1d20=4]
[21:36] <Kotono> Seira works hard this day, making more progress. She's used about 1/5th of the reagents now, the pillar flickering ever so slightly less. An unnatural silence stays over the area the entire day, utter lifelessness.
01[21:37] <Seira> "Let's go," she says after a miserable day's work, backing away from the pillar. "I don't think I can do more today."
06[21:38] * Alicia is only too eager to go home after today. A trip to Ysgard would be nice once this is done, she reflects.
[21:38] <Alicia> roll 1d100 rest stop
06[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 rest stop and gets 57." [1d100=57]
[21:38] <Alicia> roll 1d100 home
06[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 home and gets 10." [1d100=10]
01[21:40] <Seira> roll 2d8+10
06[21:40] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2d8+10 and gets 18." [2d8=6, 2]
[21:41] <Kotono> The next morning, the two meet up at Seira's inn, another day of this looming.
[21:41] <Alicia> "Another lesion last night," Alicia reports. "I think once this is done I'll go back to Ysgard for an afternoon. The positive energy there will be good for me."
01[21:42] <Seira> "I'm not immune to this, either," Seira admits. "I'll try to push myself today, in hopes of getting the critical part done."
[21:42] <Alicia> "The sooner the better," Alicia agrees as she teleports them onwards.
[21:42] <Alicia> roll 1d100 rest stop
06[21:42] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 rest stop and gets 53." [1d100=53]
[21:43] <Alicia> roll 1d100 dome
06[21:43] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 dome and gets 96." [1d100=96]
[21:43] <Alicia> OOC: off target
[21:43] <Kotono> roll 1d10
[21:43] <Kotono> roll 1d10
06[21:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d10 and gets 10." [1d10=10]
06[21:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d10 and gets 2." [1d10=2]
[21:43] <Kotono> roll 1d9
06[21:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d9 and gets 1." [1d9=1]
[21:43] <Kotono> Splash! The two of you appear amid loose ice floes! The problem is that the ice isn't that solid - you plunge right through after a second into hyperfreezing water!
[21:44] <Kotono> OOC: Strike.
[21:44] <Kotono> Thet wo appear on a floe of ice! It's freezing here! It's just solid enough to support you, cracks and cobwebs forming, but the entire thing isn't giving!
[21:45] <Alicia> "Off target," Alicia grimaces, thankfully warded against cold. "One moment..." she tries again.
06[21:45] * Seira commits the spot to memory out of mere curiousity.
[21:45] <Alicia> roll 1d100
06[21:45] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 and gets 24." [1d100=24]
[21:45] <Kotono> This time you appear without incident! There is no sunlight at all, dead black clouds hiding the sky. Alicia finds she can barely see anything, Seira's darkvision helping her out.
06[21:46] * Alicia pops down a fire from her survival pouch to provide light and warmth.
06[21:46] * Seira just grimaces, and gets to work after setting the Alarm spell.
[21:46] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[21:46] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 57." [1d100=57]
[21:46] <Kotono> OOC: Make a spot check, Alicia?
06[21:47] * Alicia settles into a routine of channeling a fraction of positive energy into herself every hour in hopes of staving off the negative energy before it becomes a problem.
[21:47] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7
06[21:47] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 and gets 10." [1d20=3]
[21:48] <Kotono> At perhaps noon, give or take some time as it's all a blur, '60 feet away, past the barrier. They're coming right at Seira. 4 of them.' Hell Striker dutifully reports to Alicia.
[21:49] <Alicia> "Seira, get over here! You've got trouble coming!" Alicia calls, igniting her blades and casting shield as she prepares for battle.
01[21:50] <Seira> "Tch." Seira retreats instantly, taking Alicia's warning seriously despite detecting nothing herself.
01[21:51] <Seira> roll 1d10+10 FL
06[21:51] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d10+10 FL and gets 20." [1d10=10]
[21:52] <Kotono> As Seira comes over and Alicia snaps off a spell, four figures can be seen charging forward! Four giant skeletons, each having an ancient, rusty greataxe in hand! Yet these skeletons spring and move with stunning, nimble agility and grace! OOC: They're about 50 feet away now, let's roll initaitive.
[21:52] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7
06[21:52] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 and gets 13." [1d20=6]
01[21:52] <Seira> roll 1d20+6
[21:52] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6 Giant 1
06[21:52] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 and gets 18." [1d20=12]
06[21:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 Giant 1 and gets 20." [1d20=14]
[21:52] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6 Giant 2
[21:52] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6 Giant 3
06[21:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 Giant 2 and gets 23." [1d20=17]
06[21:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 Giant 3 and gets 17." [1d20=11]
[21:52] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6 Giant 4
06[21:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 Giant 4 and gets 11." [1d20=5]
03[21:53] * Kotono changes topic to 'G2>G1>Seira>G3>Alicia>G4'
[21:53] <Kotono> With dazzling speed for creatures of their size, the first and second skeleton sprint ahead! They charge, one going for Alicia and one going for Seira!
[21:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 (+2 charge) Seira
06[21:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 (+2 charge) Seira and gets 29." [1d20=9]
[21:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 (+2 charge) Alicia ACs?
06[21:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 (+2 charge) Alicia ACs? and gets 34." [1d20=14]
01[21:54] <Seira> OOC: 27
[21:54] <Kotono> roll 4d6+18 Seira
06[21:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4d6+18 Seira and gets 34." [4d6=2, 6, 3, 5]
[21:54] <Alicia> OOC: 33
[21:54] <Kotono> roll 4d6+18 Alicia
06[21:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4d6+18 Alicia and gets 31." [4d6=1, 5, 3, 4]
[21:55] <Kotono> The two catch the women on the defensive, each wounded from the axe slash! The wounds feel worse than they are, bodies already overstrained! OOC: Seira.
01[21:58] <Seira> Stoneskin comes into being belatedly around Seira, as she stares balefully at the giant assaulting her. She flips away, the Sun Blade appearing in the hands as she touches down in a crouch, but rather than use it Seira sends a boosted cone of fire at the giant, angling it upwards and with a shift sideways, close enough to strike its buddy as well!
01[21:58] <Seira> roll 18d6 fire
06[21:58] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 18d6 fire and gets 61." [18d6=2, 1, 1, 4, 3, 6, 2, 4, 3, 1, 6, 2, 5, 6, 4, 6, 1, 4]
01[21:58] <Seira> OOC: DC 25
[21:59] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10
[21:59] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10
06[21:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 and gets 13." [1d20=3]
06[21:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 and gets 17." [1d20=7]
[22:00] <Kotono> The flames lick and burn the two skeletons, sending cracks all over! The third giant does not attack directly, but instead makes a massive leap into the air!
[22:00] <Kotono> roll 1d20+45
06[22:00] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+45 and gets 65." [1d20=20]
[22:00] <Kotono> Leaping dozens of feet high, it sends it's axe flying at Alicia in a deadly missile of death!
[22:00] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
06[22:00] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 33." [1d20=15]
[22:00] <Kotono> OOC: AC?
[22:00] <Alicia> OOC: 33
[22:01] <Kotono> roll 4d6+18 and make a ref save
06[22:01] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4d6+18 and make a ref save and gets 26." [4d6=1, 3, 1, 3]
[22:01] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16
06[22:01] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 and gets 28." [1d20=12]
[22:02] <Kotono> Alicia is hit by the axe dead on! It clobbers her, nearly sending her flying like a discus! Only her supernatural toughness and balance keeps her where she is! OOC: Alicia.
[22:02] <Kotono> The axe lands besides her, heavily lying there!
06[22:02] * Alicia elects to fight defensively, keeping her guard up as she steps around the giant attacking her so Seira's former playmate can't get at her easily, flaming blades slicing viciously into the oversized bones!
[22:02] <Alicia> roll 1d20+10 devotion
06[22:02] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+10 devotion and gets 23." [1d20=13]
[22:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23 divine might, -4 fighting defensively, 4th level arcane strike
06[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 divine might, -4 fighting defensively, 4th level arcane strike and gets 27." [1d20=4]
[22:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23 divine might, -4 fighting defensively, 4th level arcane strike
06[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 divine might, -4 fighting defensively, 4th level arcane strike and gets 29." [1d20=6]
[22:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18 divine might, -4 fighting defensively, 4th level arcane strike
06[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 divine might, -4 fighting defensively, 4th level arcane strike and gets 33." [1d20=15]
[22:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18 divine might, -4 fighting defensively, 4th level arcane strike
06[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 divine might, -4 fighting defensively, 4th level arcane strike and gets 36." [1d20=18]
[22:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13 divine might, -4 fighting defensively, 4th level arcane strike
06[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 divine might, -4 fighting defensively, 4th level arcane strike and gets 16." [1d20=3]
[22:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13 divine might, -4 fighting defensively, 4th level arcane strike
06[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 divine might, -4 fighting defensively, 4th level arcane strike and gets 17." [1d20=4]
[22:04] <Kotono> OOC: All hit. Pain.
[22:04] <Alicia> roll 6d8+66+12d6+6d6+24d4
06[22:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 6d8+66+12d6+6d6+24d4 and gets 220." [6d8=2, 5, 5, 8, 1, 5][12d6=3, 6, 4, 6, 1, 6, 4, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3][6d6=6, 5, 6, 4, 3, 3][24d4=1, 3, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 2, 3, 4, 2, 3, 2, 4, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 2, 1, 3, 2]
03[22:04] * Kotono changes topic to 'G2>Seira>G3>Alicia>G4'
[22:06] <Kotono> Alicia runs to the side, flaming blance dancing a duet of death with the skeleton! It's bones are shattered, raining down like fresh fallen snow around her! The last giant comes to join in the blizzard, rushing ahead and making a more restrained leap, hurling it's axe at Seira!
[22:06] <Kotono> roll 1d20+45
06[22:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+45 and gets 54." [1d20=9]
[22:06] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 AC Seira?
06[22:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 AC Seira? and gets 25." [1d20=7]
01[22:07] <Seira> OOC: Still 27
[22:07] <Kotono> Seira flips back, landing on the haft of the axe and using it to jump to safety, avoiding the spinning blade of death! The first giant lunges forward, swinging at the retreated Seira!
[22:07] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
06[22:07] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 34." [1d20=16]
[22:08] <Kotono> roll 4d6+18
06[22:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4d6+18 and gets 30." [4d6=3, 2, 4, 3]
[22:08] <Kotono> Slash! Another heavy slash draws more blood from Seira! Stoneskin serves her well, as she feels dizzy from the wound! OOC: Seira.
01[22:11] <Seira> Hmph. Who the hell does this giant think she is?! Seira carves her seal with the Sun Blade's glowing form into the skeleton's bones!
01[22:11] <Seira> roll 1d20+20
06[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+20 and gets 33." [1d20=13]
01[22:11] <Seira> roll 1d20+15
06[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+15 and gets 33." [1d20=18]
[22:12] <Kotono> OOC: Two hits.
01[22:12] <Seira> roll 4d10+18
06[22:12] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4d10+18 and gets 45." [4d10=4, 3, 10, 10]
01[22:12] <Seira> Rather than hit it with her claw, Seira breathes fire at the skeleton in conclusion!
01[22:13] <Seira> roll 8d8+2d8 fire+holy
06[22:13] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 8d8+2d8 fire+holy and gets 55." [8d8=7, 6, 5, 5, 5, 6, 4, 4][2d8=6, 7]
[22:13] <Kotono> OOC: Irrelevant for the save, it's dead on a pass or a fail.
03[22:13] * Kotono changes topic to 'Seira>G3>Alicia>G4'
01[22:13] <Seira> roll 1d4
06[22:13] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d4 and gets 2." [1d4=2]
[22:14] <Kotono> The skeleton collapses, fire and sunblade wrecking it into worthless old bones! The third one charges Alicia, hand twisted into a grotesque claw as it menaces her!
[22:14] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20
06[22:14] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 and gets 35." [1d20=15]
[22:14] <Kotono> OOC: Current AC?
[22:14] <Alicia> OOC: 36
[22:14] <Kotono> Clang! Ailcia's breastplate absorbs the impact, stopping the claw from carving into her! OOC: Alicia.
06[22:14] * Alicia retaliates, trying to put this skeleton down as efficiently as she did the last!
[22:14] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23 divine might, -4 fighting defensively, 4th level arcane strike
06[22:14] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 divine might, -4 fighting defensively, 4th level arcane strike and gets 42." [1d20=19]
[22:15] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23 divine might, -4 fighting defensively, 4th level arcane strike crit check
06[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 divine might, -4 fighting defensively, 4th level arcane strike crit check and gets 36." [1d20=13]
[22:15] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23 divine might, -4 fighting defensively, 4th level arcane strike
06[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 divine might, -4 fighting defensively, 4th level arcane strike and gets 33." [1d20=10]
[22:15] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18 divine might, -4 fighting defensively, 4th level arcane strike
06[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 divine might, -4 fighting defensively, 4th level arcane strike and gets 30." [1d20=12]
[22:15] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18 divine might, -4 fighting defensively, 4th level arcane strike
06[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 divine might, -4 fighting defensively, 4th level arcane strike and gets 29." [1d20=11]
[22:15] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13 divine might, -4 fighting defensively, 4th level arcane strike
06[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 divine might, -4 fighting defensively, 4th level arcane strike and gets 16." [1d20=3]
[22:15] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13 divine might, -4 fighting defensively, 4th level arcane strike
06[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 divine might, -4 fighting defensively, 4th level arcane strike and gets 17." [1d20=4]
[22:15] <Kotono> OOC: All hits. Pain, ect.
[22:15] <Alicia> roll 7d8+77+12d6+6d6+24d4
06[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 7d8+77+12d6+6d6+24d4 and gets 228." [7d8=4, 5, 8, 7, 5, 1, 8][12d6=3, 5, 1, 3, 1, 5, 1, 6, 4, 1, 2, 6][6d6=4, 2, 1, 6, 3, 5][24d4=4, 4, 4, 3, 1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 1, 4, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]
03[22:15] * Kotono changes topic to 'Seira>Alicia>G4'
[22:16] <Kotono> As more bone cofetti flies, the last survivor mindlessly charges Seira with it's claw!
[22:16] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
06[22:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 34." [1d20=16]
[22:16] <Kotono> OOC: AC?
01[22:16] <Seira> OOC:L 27
[22:16] <Kotono> roll 1d8+12 It wishes it still had it's axe
06[22:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+12 It wishes it still had it's axe and gets 18." [1d8=6]
[22:17] <Kotono> It's not a deep wound, but Seira gets another stab in her leg, another injury! OOC: Seira.
01[22:17] <Seira> It seems another wishes to learn more about pain, Seira muses to herself, striking at it with all her might before relying on Waukeen's blessing to open up the distance between them.
01[22:17] <Seira> roll 1d20+20
06[22:17] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+20 and gets 28." [1d20=8]
01[22:17] <Seira> roll 1d20+15
[22:17] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
01[22:17] <Seira> roll 1d20+14
06[22:17] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+15 and gets 28." [1d20=13]
06[22:17] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+14 and gets 30." [1d20=16]
01[22:17] <Seira> roll 1d20+14
06[22:17] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+14 and gets 29." [1d20=15]
[22:17] <Kotono> OOC: All hit.
01[22:18] <Seira> roll 4d10+18
06[22:18] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4d10+18 and gets 39." [4d10=7, 3, 4, 7]
01[22:18] <Seira> roll 1d6+2
06[22:18] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d6+2 and gets 4." [1d6=2]
01[22:18] <Seira> roll 1d4+2
06[22:18] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d4+2 and gets 4." [1d4=2]
[22:19] <Kotono> Seira's blade is highly effective against the skeleton, scarring it's bones with yellow light! Her claws and bite, not quite so much, as it still survives! It rocks a bit, but still looks defiantly dangerous! OOC: Alicia.
06[22:20] * Alicia charges the giant, leaping high up to stab her blade right into its spine!
[22:20] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15 -12pa divine might
06[22:20] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 -12pa divine might and gets 35." [1d20=20]
[22:20] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15 -12pa divine might crit check
06[22:20] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 -12pa divine might crit check and gets 17." [1d20=2]
[22:20] <Kotono> OOC: It has reach on you with it's claw and since it's freakin'g huge. Just FYi, though I suspect you'll take it since you did crit.
[22:20] <Alicia> OOC: tumble
[22:20] <Kotono> OOC: Why do I always forget that? Better than not, I suppose. Anyway, damage.
[22:21] <Alicia> roll 2d8+54+2d6+1d6+1d8
06[22:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d8+54+2d6+1d6+1d8 and gets 72." [2d8=5, 2][2d6=1, 2][1d6=2][1d8=6]
[22:21] <Kotono> Leaping up, Alicia shatters the spine of the giant, sending a third rain of bone down around her! OOC: Battle's done. Free act.
06[22:21] * Seira heals up the damage, not wasting time.
01[22:22] <Seira> roll 3d8+15
06[22:22] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 3d8+15 and gets 35." [3d8=7, 5, 8]
[22:22] <Alicia> "Urgh..." Alicia heals herself, not wanting to let wounds fester in this environment.
[22:22] <Alicia> roll 10d4+10
06[22:22] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 10d4+10 and gets 31." [10d4=1, 3, 1, 4, 1, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1]
[22:22] <Alicia> roll 4d4+4 for me
06[22:22] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 4d4+4 for me and gets 13." [4d4=2, 3, 1, 3]
[22:22] <Alicia> roll 2d4+2 for Seira
06[22:22] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d4+2 for Seira and gets 9." [2d4=3, 4]
[22:23] <Alicia> OOC: and the remaining 3 with lay on hands for me
01[22:23] <Seira> "It better not ruin my work from earlier," Seira mutters. "I've tried to be methodic, today."
[22:23] <Alicia> "Why did they throw away their weapons, anyway?" Alicia looks at the discarded axes after healing herself. "Anyway, we do still have a few hours left in the day, so might as well get back to it."
06[22:24] * Seira checks them axes for awesome magic that would have destroyed her very spirit had it struck.
[22:31] <Kotono> The axes are non magical.
01[22:32] <Seira> "Skeletons," she says as if it explains everything, and shambles back to the pillar.
06[22:32] * Alicia resumes her wait, continuing her habit of channeling a smidge of positive energy into herself each hour until they depart.
[22:32] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[22:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 8." [1d100=8]
[22:32] <Kotono> OOC: Make a spellcraft check, Seira?
01[22:33] <Seira> OOC: Can I take 10?
[22:33] <Kotono> OOC: No.
[22:33] <Kotono> OOC: This is very complex, long work. I need a check here.
01[22:33] <Seira> roll 1d20+25 (+1 ignorance)
06[22:33] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+25 (+1 ignorance) and gets 31." [1d20=6]
[22:34] <Kotono> Despite the interruption, SEira is able to compensate! She reaches the end of the day feeling satisfied with her work. It's been a good effort, she feels. Good work, good stuff.
[22:34] <Alicia> Time to go home!
[22:34] <Alicia> roll 1d100 rest stop
06[22:34] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 rest stop and gets 90." [1d100=90]
01[22:35] <Seira> "They broke up my rhythm, but I think things went even better this way," Seira muses.
[22:35] <Alicia> roll 1d100 home
06[22:35] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 home and gets 15." [1d100=15]
[22:37] <Kotono> OOC: Make a fort save, Alicia?
[22:37] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22
06[22:37] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+22 and gets 29." [1d20=7]
01[22:39] <Seira> roll 2d8+10 heal
06[22:39] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2d8+10 heal and gets 19." [2d8=6, 3]
06[22:42] * Seira bums some more healing from the Temple of Waukeen, including a lesser restoration for good luck. Mia could surely help her.
[22:43] <Kotono> This goes without incident, clearing up the last of Seira's problems. The two meet at Alicia's the next day...
01[22:43] <Seira> "If something happens, I've made some notes in Draconic," Seira tells Alicia quietly. "My dad or Celebrimbor should be able to continue the work on the seal. I don't think we should pause it."
06[22:44] * Alicia seems a bit tired when she greets Seira, but nothing major. "We're halfway done by now, aren't we? Just keep at it - I'll take you somewhere nice once we're done," she promises.
01[22:45] <Seira> "I hope I don't rot from the inside before we're done!" Seira says cheerfully, and casts all her spells in preparation.
06[22:45] * Alicia does likewise before teleporting away.
[22:45] <Alicia> roll 1d100 rest stop
06[22:45] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 rest stop and gets 13." [1d100=13]
[22:45] <Alicia> roll 1d100 dome
06[22:45] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 dome and gets 61." [1d100=61]
[22:46] <Kotono> The two appear at the dome without incident! It's snowing here, a light snow that turns your flesh numb when a flake comes in contact with it. A thin crust of it is on everything, like half frozen, leaking pus.
01[22:47] <Seira> "Oh, for crying out loud," Seira mutters, setting up two Alarm spells this time, both further into this cursed area so that they touch each other and just come up to her.
[22:48] <Alicia> You'd think things would get better from their efforts, not worse... Alicia sets up a campfire by the edge of the barrier as she settles in for the miserable wait.
[22:48] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 80." [1d100=80]
[22:48] <Kotono> roll 1d100+20
06[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100+20 and gets 118." [1d100=98]
[22:52] <Kotono> The snow is starting to fall harder. Nonetheless Seira continues to work, brushing flakes out of her eyes, occasionally letting out tiny jets of fire to do so too. Alicia stays by her campfire, keeping a watch out in a small zone of warmth. OOC: Would the both of you make listen checks?
[22:52] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7
06[22:52] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 and gets 22." [1d20=15]
01[22:52] <Seira> roll 1d20+3
06[22:52] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+3 and gets 14." [1d20=11]
01[22:53] <Seira> roll 1d10+10 FL
06[22:53] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d10+10 FL and gets 17." [1d10=7]
[22:55] <Alicia> "Seira, get out here!" Alicia calls, getting up. "Something's coming!" And it's almost certainly not friendly.
01[22:55] <Seira> Stoneskin's up as soon as she receives the warning, now, and Seira swiftly retreats towards Alicia, casting Shield as soon as she is able to do so.
06[22:55] * Alicia casts mirror image, for her part.
[22:55] <Alicia> roll 1d4+5
06[22:56] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4+5 and gets 8." [1d4=3]
[22:56] <Kotono> As Seira retreats, the two have a little time. Faraway, they can hear song on the snowy breeze. It's words are becoming clear - it's a song, singing of loss and death, of eternal seperation in winter's heart. OOC: Would both of you make will saves? This is a mind effecting ability.
[22:57] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24
06[22:57] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 and gets 29." [1d20=5]
01[22:57] <Seira> roll 1d20+23
06[22:57] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+23 and gets 24." [1d20=1]
[22:58] <Kotono> Great sadness fills the two women at that song. The singer must be so dreadfully lonely, for her melancholy fills every word she sings.
[22:59] <Alicia> "Oh, Mystra... it's hopeless..." Alicia moans, her posture slumping. "We should just go..."
01[22:59] <Seira> "It's doing something to my mind again," Seira laments, torn between anger and despair. "It's always like that!"
[23:00] <Kotono> The song is getting closer. "Help me...I'm so cold..." The singer laments, "I beg of you, help me!" Far away, int he snowy winds, you can see something approaching, wearing a thick fur mantle and cloak against the storm.
01[23:01] <Seira> "Let's help her?" Seira asks Alicia uncertainly. "Anyone caught in this horrible place could use a hand."
[23:02] <Alicia> "Lets just go," Alicia sighs bitterly, calling over to the figure, "We'll take you somewhere warmer!" she tries to encourage her, before muttering, "For all the good it'll do."
[23:02] <Kotono> It comes closer. You can't see her face, hidden b a fur hood. But you can see glimpses of a body beneath, blue and unclad, the cloak undone int he center. Yet the blue body is torn with festering, rotting wounds, ruining any beauty.
[23:03] <Kotono> "Come to me, please. I don't want to be alone any more," The woman begs, reaching her fur clad arms out.
06[23:03] * Alicia replaces her freedom of movement ring with her plane shift one before she takes Seira's hand and holds out her free one to the maimed woman. "Take my hand, I'll get us out of here."
01[23:04] <Seira> "Let's go!" Seira adds, reaching out her own hand. "This place is horrible. There's no point in staying here!"
[23:05] <Kotono> The woman is close. She smells of charnel death and rot, her hood not hiding her face now. A skull looks back at you, tears of blood falling from her empty eyes, like fragile rubies. "Oh, free me," she offers a half bone, half dead flesh hand out.
06[23:06] * Seira is briefly stunned into inaction by such a horrific display.
[23:06] <Alicia> It's all Alicia can do not to flinch at the appearance. But as she isn't acting hostile, she gives her the benefit of the doubt, taking the walking corpse's hand before plane-shifting them to Ysgard. That place might lift their spirits, and even if not at least it's better than here.
[23:06] <Alicia> roll 5d100 she gets SR and a will save if she doesn't want to come
06[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 5d100 she gets SR and a will save if she doesn't want to come and gets 133." [5d100=9, 49, 58, 14, 3]
[23:07] <Kotono> The two teleport away! They appear standing on a mountain's slope, a brilliant fjord of glaciers and water below. The sun is high in the sky, providing warmth to the cold air. The figure screams, gripping her sides. "W...what is this place? It HURTS!" Yet Seira and Alicia feel better, constitution restored and bodies filling with pure healing energy!
[23:08] <Alicia> "I... I don't understand, it should be healing you?" Alicia is stunned by this development, considering that - physically at least - she feels great.
01[23:09] <Seira> "Would it heal someone already dead?" Seira asks, looking at the figure in a sort of horrified fascination.
[23:09] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 planes, would it?
06[23:09] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 planes, would it? and gets 21." [1d20=1]
01[23:10] <Seira> roll 1d20+13 likewise
06[23:10] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+13 likewise and gets 20." [1d20=7]
[23:11] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20
06[23:11] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 and gets 27." [1d20=7]
[23:12] <Alicia> "Then... she'll either find her rest, or she'll be restored fully to life like anyone else who dies here," Alicia replies uncertainly, before trying to console the figure, "Bear with the pain - it'll be over, soon!"
01[23:14] <Seira> Feeling responsible, Seira hugs the figure, channeling more of that healing energy into her. Prolonguing it seems just too cruel.
[23:14] <Kotono> The woman writhes, her cloak blowing back as she does. A dead body greets you - skeleton and rotten flesh, face a skull screaming out. Her bones shudder all over, cracks running over them. Putrid flesh screams out, dissolving as she falls to her knees! Words come, garbled words. "Why...it...hurts...so alone...please..." She looks upa t Alicia, "Don't...want to be...al...one..."
[23:14] <Kotono> OOC: Roll it then?
01[23:14] <Seira> roll 3d8+15
06[23:14] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 3d8+15 and gets 32." [3d8=4, 7, 6]
[23:15] <Alicia> She may be undead, but she's done nothing wrong in her existence that Alicia can see, and she'd prefer to offer comfort. Clasping the rotting hand, Alicia follows Seira's example. "Shhh," she whispers. "I know it hurts, but you'll feel better soon," she promises.
[23:15] <Alicia> OOC: 15hp lay on hands
[23:15] <Kotono> The screams echo in your ears as you touch her, deathly chill running through you. While the chill doesn't damage you, but raw negative energy does as you hold her.
[23:16] <Kotono> roll 2d6+10 both of you. You have fast healing 2 each round while here, remember.
06[23:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6+10 both of you. You have fast healing 2 each round while here, remember. and gets 17." [2d6=1, 6]
06[23:16] * Seira doesn't despair, channeling yet more of the positive energy!
01[23:16] <Seira> roll 2d8+10
06[23:16] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2d8+10 and gets 15." [2d8=1, 4]
[23:17] <Kotono> Despite the dreadful, deathful touch, you hold to the woman. Her body crumbles as you 'heal' it, collapsing into a pile of dust. Her skull is intact, empty eyes looking up at you. No more words come, time erasing her undead existance in this realm.
01[23:17] <Seira> "If she'll be restored," Seira says, looking uneasily at the skull, "how long would it take?"
06[23:18] * Alicia looks faintly sick as she steps back. "If... if it'll happen, she'll be reborn with the dawn tomorrow. If not then at least she'll have found peace in her proper place."
06[23:19] * Seira hopes that Waukeen guides the woman's soul along, if no one else is up to the task.
[23:20] <Alicia> "We should stay here until then, at least, all things considered... we can bury her if necessary when the time comes," Alicia says morosely. "Someone back home will probably contact us with a sending when we don't return at the usual time, but it can't be helped."
[23:21] <Kotono> The day passes. The crushing despair leaves after about an hour, mood restored. That evening...
[23:21] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[23:21] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 72." [1d100=72]
[23:21] <Kotono> 'Alicia, are you alright? Respond if in trouble or confirm if not.' Shankar's voice is heard in Alicia's head.
[23:22] <Alicia> "We're fine, had to make an unexpected trip to Ysgard. We'll be back later tomorrow," Alicia replies before glancing to Seira. "That was Shankar. He never told me he could cast fourth circle spells, now. Good for him," she smiles faintly.
01[23:23] <Seira> "Congratulations," Seira says earnestly. "Things are fine back home?"
[23:24] <Alicia> "I hope he would've said if there were any problems, although it's possible he would've wanted to avoid alarming me if there were," Alicia admits with a shrug. "Sounded okay, so I'll assume things are fine."
01[23:25] <Seira> "Alright," Seira agrees. "I'll leave myself the ability to memorize a fifth circle spell the next morning, so that I could respond to any situation like this without waiting a day next time."
[23:25] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[23:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 25." [1d100=25]
[23:27] <Kotono> The night passes. With the coming dawn...as light comes over the mountain tips, the dust swirls and forms! Legs and arms of ice blue are formed, a body and head reappearing! A naked blue woman lies there, of impeccable beauty. The ground beneath her frosts over with ice in an instant, her breathing beginning. It turns the air around her face into a mask of white mist.
06[23:28] * Seira comes closer, smiling at her. "Are you alright, now?" she asks, keeping her eyes on the woman's face.
[23:28] <Alicia> "It did work!" Alicia grins... although something should be done about her modesty. Did any of her furs survive?

[Corwin]

[20:17] <Kotono> <Seira> "Alright," Seira agrees. "I'll leave myself the ability to memorize a fifth circle spell the next morning, so that I could respond to any situation like this without waiting a day next time."
[20:17] <Kotono> > roll 1d100
[20:17] <Kotono> * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 25." [1d100=25]
[20:17] <Kotono> > The night passes. With the coming dawn...as light comes over the mountain tips, the dust swirls and forms! Legs and arms of ice blue are formed, a body and head reappearing! A naked blue woman lies there, of impeccable beauty. The ground beneath her frosts over with ice in an instant, her breathing beginning. It turns the air around her face into a mask of white mist.
[20:17] <Kotono> * Seira comes closer, smiling at her. "Are you alright, now?" she asks, keeping her eyes on the woman's face.
[20:17] <Kotono> <Alicia> "It did work!" Alicia grins... although something should be done about her modesty. Did any of her furs survive?
03[20:17] * Ebiris is now known as Alicia
[20:17] <Kotono> Her fur cloak survived. It's old, ratty and stained with rather unpleasant things, but it survived. The woman's gaze flickers about as she sits up. She looks at her hands and then her arms, holding the up. "Am I alive again? Is this another winter's dream?"
01[20:18] <Seira> "Oh, you're alive, alright," Seira says, her smile widening as she offers her a hand. "Nice to meet you! I'm Seira, and this is Alicia!"
[20:19] <Kotono> The freezing woman takes Seira's hand. Frost lines her palms, sending numbness up to Seira's shoulder, as if her arm was flash frozen. She stands up, looking herself over. "It seems to be true...This is no dream. I am alive?"
[20:19] <Kotono> roll 2d6+10 cold damage, Seira.
06[20:19] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6+10 cold damage, Seira. and gets 17." [2d6=1, 6]
[20:19] <Alicia> Well there's some magic that could fix that, although since it's just us girls right now... Seira's preferences notwithstanding - hopefully they can wait a bit to get the woman settled. "We brought you to the Heroic Domains of Ysgard," she explains. "I wasn't really thinking straight at the time, but it seems to have been to your benefit since the power of this realm has restored you."
01[20:21] <Seira> "It's not a dream," Seira affirms. "I can't move my arm. I'm sure in a dream things would go much smoother."
[20:22] <Kotono> "I know not that realm," she mutters as she then looks to the sky and then the ground. Her eyes - like pools of blue ice, snowflakes spiralling in endless revelry within - lock onto the half dragon. "What is you desire from me, then? For what reason have you restored me to life?"
01[20:22] <Seira> "You asked for help," Seira responds, sounding a bit confused. "You didn't want to be alone or suffer, so we tried to help you."
[20:23] <Alicia> "To be honest, it was an accident - a happy one, admittedly," Alicia explains, picking up the cloak and casting a mending cantrip on it. "Do you know how you came to be in your undead state?"
[20:24] <Kotono> "Help? Fah, who believes that against the heart of winter? An accident, eh?" You can feel a cold wind flowing from her, the temperature around you dropping, sending gooseflesh up your arms.
[20:25] <Alicia> "Would you rather we had left you to rot?" Alicia asks dryly as she follows up with a cleaning cantrip, restoring the cloak to full and fluffy untainted goodness before she holds it out towards the woman.
01[20:25] <Seira> "Restoring you to life in this way was the accident," Seira clarifies. "But the desire to help you was real enough. And if you want to achieve something and try, you sometimes arrive at your destination!"
[20:29] <Kotono> "...." There isn't a reply straight away. She looks at her cloak and then Seira, "...mph." She crosses her arms, looking away. "...." "...." "...." There isn't a reply for the longest time. "No matter, I owe you a debt." Now turning back to Alicia, taking her cloak and putting it on before continuing, "Is there anything you desire from me?"
[20:30] <Alicia> "Information would be nice," Alicia replies. "You're obviously a fey spirit of winter. How was it that you came to become a walking corpse instead?"
[20:33] <Kotono> "My mind is hazy. I recall falling weak and ill. A fey does not sicken as you humans do, yet I remember it well. I remember lying in the snow, fading away. I remember being tormented by lesions and disease, falling into a haze of fever. Then...endless days of hunger and groping, never finding what I needed."
01[20:33] <Seira> That sounds disturbingly familiar, but hopefully they'll be done before it happens to them, Seira muses to herself.
03[20:34] * thebladewillkeepondescending is now known as Demedais
06[20:34] * Alicia nods regretfully. "A symptom of the necromantic energy pervading the mountains you call home. We were working to resolve that problem when you appeared before us yesterday - do you have a name we can call you, by the way?"
03[20:34] * ChanServ sets mode: +o Demedais
[20:37] <Kotono> "Neve." The air grows cold and colder around you, frost forming on the tips of Alicia's armor and the tip of Seira's claws. "The source of what laid me low?" She looks long into Alicia's eyes, "It seems I owe you another debt to come."
01[20:37] <Seira> "Wanna be friends, Neve?" Seira jumps in with, sounding quite eager and unable to restrain her excitement any longer. It seems like the fey isn't a bad person after all!
[20:38] <Alicia> "Well met, Neve," Alicia tries not to show discomfort at the decreasing temperature. She smiles faintly at Seira's enthusiasm, and makes a more restrained question of her own, "The question is, what will you do now with your restored life?"
[20:54] <Kotono> She walks around the two, eyes on them all the time. A chill wind blows, carrying flakes of delicate, sharp snow. It forms around them, a small, loosely organized tornado of frost. "I am winter's heart. Those who stumble into my blizzards die a frozen, loneyl death. There is no mercy in winter, only the inevitability of Auril's breath and touch." THe wind picks up, sending the snow flakes into you like bullets, leaving numbing patches. "By
[20:55] <Kotono> THe wind picks up, sending the snow flakes into you like bullets, leaving numbing patches. "By all rights, you would hate what I will do. Every lost traveler would motivate you to stop me, in the names of mercy, protection and good." (More)
[20:57] <Kotono> Her hand reaches out, drawing freezing death on Seira's cheek, then Alicia's. It freezes your blood in your veins, heartbeast slowing, slowing, slowing, slowing. Her cloak starts to blow in the wind, each flap sending gusting flurries scattering about. "Knowing all this, what will you do?"
06[20:57] * Alicia actually starts to smile as she wipes the snow from her face. "There would be no worse fate for one such as you than to simply leave you here in this realm, if that is your creed," she observes knowingly.
01[20:58] <Seira> "Talk you out of doing bad things to innocent people?" Seira asks with a shrug. "If you were just some evil, mindless killer you would've attacked us by now, so you must actually be really nice on the inside and understand reason!"
[21:01] <Kotono> "Hmph." Of the two, the fey's attention goes to Alicia. "A smart mouth, but I cannot deny you may be right. You hold me in your debt and in your power, like a lost traveler in the blizzards. What will you do with me." She leans in to breath this into Alicia's ear, her mind freezing over. She can barely think, thought processes crawling. Then she goes to Seira, "Eternal optimism." She almost scowls, but instead smiles like silk. "You see muc
[21:01] <Kotono> She almost scowls, but instead smiles like silk. "You see much light in your view of the world?"
[21:01] <Alicia> "This is a realm of stunning snow-capped mountains, and vast frozen glaciers," Alicia explains, spreading her arms to encompass the wide vista spread out before them. "Yet look, our flesh mends even now from your hoary frost," she indicates her deadened cheek as it tinges pink and then reverts to its normal fleshy tone.
[21:01] <Alicia> "Even those who would freeze to death in your unforgiving blizzards will rise, hale and whole, with the next dawn. There is no merciless Winter to be found here, Neve."
01[21:03] <Seira> "I tend to take the proactive approach," Seira tells Neve brightly, trusting Alicia to explain the situation to the fey. For her part, she just wants to offer another option, rather than coerce Neve into cooperating. "So I guess I do. See light, I mean. Lots of it!"
[21:06] <Kotono> With a sigh, "It seems I am wholly within your powers, then. I am in debt to you and you hold me over a fate I cannot abide." She stops, the cold lessening. "What will you do now, then?"
01[21:07] <Seira> "I was thinking of going back home," Seira muses, glancing at Alicia. "Sounds good to you?"
[21:09] <Alicia> "Certainly, but we could hardly bring a spirit of ice and frost to the more temperate climes we call home," Alicia replies. "Honestly, though, for all that I find Neve's creed repugnant... how dangerous is she if left alone? You speak of waylaying travellers, but how many have you even seen in your mountains?" she asks curiously, eyeing the fey.
[21:09] <Alicia> Considering their legendary status even among the elves of Pallanth, she can't imagine anyone ever braves them.
01[21:10] <Seira> "I was pretty much thinking about Prime, sorry," Seira voices. "And hey, if you're looking for a place to stay, Neve, I've got a lair I'm not using in the area. It's pretty cold and the mountains are beautiful!"
[21:14] <Kotono> "A lair? So you desire a guardian for it?" She turns her attention to Seira. Her eyes flicker over to Alicia,b ut she doesnt' reply to her question.
06[21:15] * Alicia frowns a bit at the direction this is turning, but waits in case Neve chooses to address her concerns in her own time.
01[21:15] <Seira> "I was just thinking you might want it. For yourself, not to serve me or anything like that."
[21:17] <Kotono> With a hiss, "Just giving it to me? This grows beyond comprehension! Are the two of you so mighty and well planned that I am nothing but a toy to you, to aid on a lark? Are you even the humans you look to be?"
01[21:18] <Seira> "If I lost my home, it would be nice if someone let me stay at their place. That's how I think. So if I want to be treated like that when I fall on bad times, I need to act like that to others myself. That's just how it works, I think. Is that so strange?"
[21:19] <Alicia> "Seira perhaps... doesn't quite appreciate your nature," Alicia allows diplomatically. "Now, as to my own question?" she presses, eyeing the ice spirit warily.
[21:22] <Kotono> "I am not sure, my mind is still hazy," she snaps at Alicia, like a smack of cold air across her brow. "...mph. Where do the two of you live? Somewhere warmer?"
[21:23] <Alicia> "Far, far to the South of your home, yes," Alicia replies. "You would not like it there."
06[21:23] * Seira nods. "It's pretty warm. Not desert-warm, but we live near one. I suppose if you wanted to visit and see it for yourself, I could take you some time."
[21:24] <Kotono> "...." More silence, long silence. At last, Neve replies, "I accept your offer of the lair," she speaks.
06[21:25] * Seira smiles!
[21:25] <Alicia> "Now we come to the question of how you will repay your debt," Alicia announces. "We will return you to the mountains, and you may act as you see fit there, following your natural impulses as you would like," she begins, baiting the hook...
[21:26] <Kotono> "And?" Neve approaches Alicia now, "Speak. Will you want to come play with me, cute kitties? Or use me to further your own ends, to freeze the lifeblood of your enemies, or bury them under a tombstone of snow?"
[21:29] <Alicia> "It's a simple bargain for you to fulfill - surely unimportant if travellers are so rare," Alicia smiles winsomely in reply, knowing her fairy tales. "On your travels across your frozen home, should you come across any traveller who calls out to you by your name, you are to show them mercy."
[21:29] <Alicia> "You will offer them succor and shelter as befits their needs, and guide them safely to where they wish to go." She leans closer, "A trifle, is it not?"
[21:30] <Kotono> A low, freezing snap of a growl comes from Neve's throat. "So I see. This is your entertainment and price? But I have little choice but ot accept."
[21:32] <Alicia> "It is not entertainment," Alicia shakes her head, expression grim. "It is insurance - I would rather not have your future victims on my conscience. If you dislike it then you can stay here, where your own brand of 'entertainment' will have no permanent repercussions on your victims."
01[21:33] <Seira> "Isn't it better if you teach those you come across about the harshness of winter, anyway?" Seira asks. "If they die, they can't spread the word to others, after all."
[21:35] <Kotono> A smile full of chill takes over Neve's face. She reaches out, touching Alicia's cheek again. She feels so cold, so frozen. "Tsch. You can't fool me. You would do well as one of my sisters, were I to feed you my blood. No matter how you dress it up, I understand cruelty. But again, I have no choice. I accept."
01[21:36] <Seira> The blood-feeding part is a bit creepy, but Seira tries to show it. She didn't know there were fey vampires!
[21:37] <Alicia> "One creature's cruelty is another's salvation. Compared to others I've dealt with, you're an innocent babe, Neve," Alicia replies, letting Ysgard work its magic on her frozen cheek. "If the terms are accepted, however, we shall return to the Prime."
[21:40] <Kotono> Neve nods, "Lead back to that fair realm, then."
06[21:41] * Seira offers Neve a hand, taking Alicia's with the other.
[21:41] <Alicia> "Mother of all magic, gird us with your protection against Auril's frozen embrace," Alicia incants first, warding herself and Seira against the cold. That done, she holds hands with the other two.
[21:42] <Kotono> This time, the freezing touch only lines Alicia's grip with painless ice.
06[21:43] * Alicia then plane shifts the party to the mountains, aiming for the pillar but knowing they'll be lucky to land within a hundred miles of it.
[21:43] <Alicia> roll 5d100
06[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 5d100 and gets 190." [5d100=8, 16, 11, 89, 66]
[21:46] <Kotono> roll 1d9
06[21:46] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d9 and gets 5." [1d9=5]
[21:48] <Kotono> Uh oh. Oh sure, freezing water and icebergs don't hurt you right now. Warding against the cold helps. Splashing down is a bit of a pain, as you land in a great frozen sea, floes of ice about! Neve hovers an inch over the water, he toes barely not touching it.
06[21:49] * Alicia doesn't delay, following up with a teleport spell to reach the pillar.
01[21:49] <Seira> As Seira is still holding onto Alicia, even as she sputters, she imbues the both of them with the ability to breathe the water safely!
[21:49] <Alicia> roll 1d100
06[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 and gets 38." [1d100=38]
[22:02] <Kotono> Woosh! The pillar has bleak sunshine trickling down from above. Crusty snow stays about, but no more falls from the skies.
01[22:03] <Seira> "As always, so bleak and lifeless," Seira mutters, staring balefully at the pillar.
[22:04] <Alicia> "The mountain lair Seira talked about is over there," Alicia points to the nearby cracked mountain for Neve's benefit. "Keep going till you feel better, if you stay within the vicinity of this pillar you'll just get sick again until we've fixed it, which is still going to take a few days."
01[22:05] <Seira> "Also, it has a few defenses which might be dangerous even to you," Seira picks up from where Alicia's left off. "If you listen carefully, you won't have any trouble whatsoever!"
[22:05] <Kotono> Shuddering, Neve does so. She glances back and nods, flying off without comment, hurrying.
06[22:08] * Seira imbues herself and Alicia with extended Heroism, and then proceeds to make up for lost time with the sealing of the pillar.
06[22:09] * Alicia keeps guard just outside the worst area, using her previous habit of channelling a bit of positive energy into herself on the hour every hour.
06[22:09] * Seira goes with the same Alarm pattern as last time, although it did prove ineffective so she places the indicators fifty feet away, now.
[22:10] <Kotono> OOC: Roll spellcraft, Seira?
01[22:10] <Seira> roll 1d20+24
06[22:10] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+24 and gets 40." [1d20=16]
[22:14] <Kotono> Seira makes good progress. The pillar is flickering far less as she finishes. Oftentimes she has trouble touching it. Near the end of the work, Alicia notices she feels better, not so oppressed. OOC: Alicia, your con modifier outside of the pillar is -2 now instead of -3.
06[22:16] * Seira hopes she wouldn't need to make use of magic along the lines of ethereal jaunt to finish the job, retrieving her tools of the trade and rejoining Alicia. "I think tomorrow will be the decisive day," she confides in the paladin.
[22:18] <Alicia> "Good, the sooner it's over the better," Alicia smiles, taking them home.
[22:18] <Alicia> roll 1d100 rest stop
06[22:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 rest stop and gets 20." [1d100=20]
[22:18] <Alicia> roll 1d100 home
06[22:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 home and gets 39." [1d100=39]
[22:20] <Kotono> OOC: Alicia, into #dunes?
[22:20] <Alicia> OOC: sure

[Corwin]

[22:22] <Kotono> Alicia was asleep. Keyword on was. Her sleep is broken some time before the dawn, Antenora's voice and knock calling. "Aliica, Alicia. Marie, wake her up, there's a messenger from the garrison here."
06[22:23] * Alicia fortunately wakes up before Marie has a chance to disturb her. "I'll be down in a second!" she calls, putting on her houserobe and quickly brushing the tangles out of her hair before she makes sure she's decent and heads downstairs to see what the fuss is.
[22:25] <Kotono> Antenora waits down there as well, a bleary eyed messenger saluting Alicia. "Sorry to wake you, ma'am, but Commander Oberuth needs your presence in the meeting room of the garrison as soon as possible."
06[22:25] * Alicia decides not to waste time asking questions that will be answered at the briefing. Except, "Will I need my weapon and armour?" she asks, returning the salute.
[22:27] <Kotono> "Yes, ma'am." He nods once more, "It is two hours before the dawn. WE have torches prepared outside if you want them, ma'am."
[22:28] <Alicia> "Thank you, I'll be out in a moment," Alicia nods, going back upstairs to get properly attired. A few minutes later she returns, her hair tied up as is usual and dressed in her breastplate with weapons prepared. "Marie, Antenora, I'll let you two know what's happening once I'm back," she tells her housemates.
[22:30] <Kotono> "I'll be on guard," Antenora nods briefly, before Alicia heads out. OOC: Skip along?
[22:31] <Alicia> OOC: by all means
[22:32] <Kotono> Alicia comes to the garrison room. Several tired, red eyed people are here. Commander Oberuth, Pollyanna, Abagail, Demedais' training paladins. Just behind Ailcia Seira trots along as well. "Sit down," Oberuth says shortly.
06[22:33] * Seira does so with a curt nod. "Sir."
06[22:33] * Alicia nods in greeting to the others present, taking the first available seat.
[22:38] <Kotono> "Apologies for the night time wake up, especially to our arcane minded officers here," Commander Oberuth begins. "We received word from Uatu and the sea elves that there was a nighttime attack on their village. An incursion from mermen and sagahuagin lead by a warlord from the sea to the north. Uatu has requested aid from Balmuria to help them. There is concern there could be another attack coming, so haste is a priority."
[22:38] <Kotono> OOC: Oolu. Blarlegjlewkg.
06[22:39] * Alicia pales, hoping Darlina and Namor are okay. "I went to bed early enough that I'm ready to go right away," she says immediately.
01[22:39] <Seira> "Of course I'll be there to aid," Seira promises. "But unless we have the means to breathe underwater ready, only Alicia and myself would have this ability at the moment, and I can't use it again until the day begins in earnest."
01[22:41] <Seira> OOC: Strike~
01[22:41] <Seira> "Of course I'll be there to aid," Seira promises. "Alicia and myself would have the ability to breathe underwater at the moment, and I can imbue others with it before we leave."
[22:43] <Kotono> "I've already had Elle woken and had her muster as many scrolls of water breathing as possible, too" Another nod, "The complication is that you're also busy with another important matter. We're going to send a few boats full of soldiers to patrol the mouth of bay, while a few members of the Guard submerge below as well. "I'd like one of you two to lead this force, while the other continues on. More pertinent, it's a matter of how we divide our
[22:43] <Kotono> More pertinent, it's a matter of how we divide our forces, too."
[22:45] <Alicia> "Seira's the only one who can seal the sword," Alicia admits. "As for who we bring, it would be best to have a focus on those specialised with piercing weapons, given the nature of undersea combat."
06[22:46] * Seira taps her finger against the chair's side in irritation. "It vexes me to agree," she finally says with a sigh. "Archers would likely be pointless, either, and are better used to bolster Balmuria's defense while a size of its force is gone."
[22:47] <Kotono> "The hanging question is, how many people do you need to protect yourself there, Seira?" Oberuth asks. "That will determine other matters, too."
[22:48] <Kotono> Xavier speaks up, "Sir. Most of us have at least sufficient martial training with a spear or polearm. Also, I believe there's a warrior serving Captain Reynes who uses a spear?"
[22:49] <Kotono> "Eudard's still down in Parsifal," Pollyanna says around a yawn, "And Demedais isn't available right now."
01[22:49] <Seira> "It's not so much about protection as it is about keeping a guard out, as my work is distracting and every single precaution I've taken so far had been circumvented," Seira says with a quieter sigh. She raises her head to look about the room. "Pollyanna, feel like taking a trip with me?"
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[22:49] <Kotono> "Of course, Seira," Pollyanna says, "I can be ready whenever you want."
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01[22:50] <Seira> "A couple more hours. I'll need new spells, now, which means delaying for the preparations. Make your own, and meet me at my home?"
[22:50] <Alicia> "Yes, Antenora," Alicia nods to Xavier. "Ideally I'd attach her to the ship-board group, where her aerial mobility would prove an asset in communication and rapid response."
[22:51] <Kotono> Commander Oberuth grunts, "Make it so then. We're going to muster the ships as fast as possible. Can you be ready to leave at the dawn, Alicia? The sooner we get at least a few people to Oolu, the better."
01[22:52] <Seira> "Dawn's fine by me as well," Seira speaks, standing up. "By your leave, Sir?"
[22:53] <Kotono> AFter a moment, "Assigna nd arrainge the guardsmen you want. You'll be the commanding officer for this mission."
[22:53] <Kotono> "Go," A nod to Seira, "You as well, Pollyanna."
[22:53] <Alicia> "Easily," Alicia nods. "I can also teleport myself and an advance force of five others directly to the village... on reflection I'll actually bring Antenora and put Marie at the disposal of the ships. She's more suited for that role, I think."
[22:54] <Kotono> "Any of us will be glad to go, sir," Morund speaks up, "By your leave of course, Captain."
[22:54] <Kotono> "Sir," Pollyanna salutes and goes to Seira's side. Once there, she simply asks, "When should we meet up to go?"
06[22:55] * Alicia really wishes she'd had a chance to get to know these guys - she has no idea what they're capable of. Then again, they were trained by Demedais, weren't they? She looks to see if they're wearing full plate.
01[22:55] <Seira> "An hour, two at the most," Seira responds, and then offers to cast Water Breathing on those going.