The hunt for goldenfire (Afina and Jaela, later Surraruthru too)

[Anastasia]

Jaela opens the chest, only to vanish.

Congratulations, you chose the one chest that was indeed trapped. Irony. Your reward is to get into a new thread, which will be posted shortly.

[Ebiris]

"That's the reward for complacency," Afina grumbles as Jaela vanishes. "Mirajane, can you divine what happened to your mother?"

[Anastasia]

Mirajane starts to say something, but instead grimaces and averts her eyes. "All I see is light. Overwhelming light. Destruction. Seven verses of destruction. Se-" Mirajane stops, shivering and rubbing her arms. "Ugh. Mother is by something powerful. She says that around a gasp, "Something that has been watching."

[Ebiris]

"Well... I don't think any of our enemies could reach her in here without Lathander's say so, so it's probably just another part of the testing," Afina says. "Should we wait and see if she returns on her own or keep going?" While Mirajane figures out which course to pursue she flutters over to take a look in the chest.

[Iron Dragoon]

Surraruthru blinks at the disappearance and heads over to the chest, circling around it looking for the trap mechanism. Maybe he can get a better idea of what it did or where it sent Jaela.

> roll 1d20+34 Searching: Traps
<Serith> Iddy roll for Serith < 52 > [d20=18]

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urraruthru: 238/238 HP, Greater Mage Armor (CL 13), Fire subtype, Greater Invisibility, Spell Turning, Moment of Prescience (+25), Foresight
AC: 36+2Insight (Touch: 20, Flat Footed: 26+1) SR: 18, Immunity to Fear, Sleep, Paralysis, Reflective Fear, Darkvision 60 ft, Low-Light Vision, Waterbreathing, Immunity to Fire, immunity to Disease, Weakness to Cold, +4 Dex, +2 Int, +2 Cha, +4 Fort Save vs Poison, True Seeing
Spells/SLAs: http://www.soulriders.net/forum/index.php/topic,101754.msg1059635.html#msg1059635
Spell like abilities as follows: (1/day for each) burning hands, produce flame, flaming sphere, wall of fire, fire shield, fire seeds, firestorm, incendiary cloud, elemental swarm, plane shift (Fire only)

[Anastasia]

The chest is trapped. Opening it or taking what's inside will teleport you somewhere.

Afina looks inside, seeing a simple dagger lying within. It looks unremarkable, not even of masterwork quality. Just a dagger.

"Bah," Wand says from Surraruthru's claws, "Dungeon this, trap that. You know what fixes traps? Fire! A trap that's burned away isn't a threat."

[Iron Dragoon]

"Taking the dagger will teleport you, too. I don't know where to, though. Do we want to go after her? This is a pretty big detour from always go east... Unless it teleports us east... Does it teleport us east?"

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Surraruthru: 238/238 HP, Greater Mage Armor (CL 13), Fire subtype, Greater Invisibility, Spell Turning, Moment of Prescience (+25), Foresight
AC: 36+2Insight (Touch: 20, Flat Footed: 26+1) SR: 18, Immunity to Fear, Sleep, Paralysis, Reflective Fear, Darkvision 60 ft, Low-Light Vision, Waterbreathing, Immunity to Fire, immunity to Disease, Weakness to Cold, +4 Dex, +2 Int, +2 Cha, +4 Fort Save vs Poison, True Seeing
Spells/SLAs: http://www.soulriders.net/forum/index.php/topic,101754.msg1059635.html#msg1059635
Spell like abilities as follows: (1/day for each) burning hands, produce flame, flaming sphere, wall of fire, fire shield, fire seeds, firestorm, incendiary cloud, elemental swarm, plane shift (Fire only)

[Ebiris]

"That's actually interesting - all the other traps have been the kind that function once then deactivate. This is almost like an invitation isn't it?" she glances at Mirajane, "As if someone had foreseen that Jaela would open the chest without waiting to check for traps."

[Anastasia]

"It may be so," Mirajane remarks, "All I can see is light ahead. Blinding light, blinded by light."

[Ebiris]

"I think it's worth the risk," Afina says, laying a tiny finger under the dagger's blade. "Everyone pick up the dagger together and hopefully we can back Jaela up wherever she's wound up."

[Anastasia]

"It's for the best," Kascha agrees, laying a finger on it as well. Arrel manages to get to the side, resting a claw on it, while Mirajane does the same, ducking and twisting to get in.

[Iron Dragoon]

Surraruthru does as requested!

[Iron Dragoon]

Surraruthru picks it up once everyone's touching it!

[Anastasia]

Reality changes around the party, suddenly elsewhere.

Moving the party over to Jaela's thread. Locking this thread as well. Wait for my post over there.