Where hope dies (Afina, Surarruthru, Calleigh)

[Iron Dragoon]

'I'll cast Screen on the wall and past it to the tower. Afina will take care of blowing through the wall. I'll leave a small area on this side of the wall covered by Screen so we can all cast our spells without silence, and I'll cover Sylvie, Master, Afina, and myself for Mind Blank. Screen has a really, really long cast time, so cover me while I do it.'

Saying so, Surraruthru begins casting Screen.

Casting Screen, Silent Spell, Level 9 Slot. DC is 30, no SR, No Save unless directly interacted with, duration: 24 hours, area of 160 ft cube, altering to make a corridor leading from the wall to the tower, with a space big enough to cover all of us on the side we're on. I didn't see anywhere that said how far the wall was from the tower, so let me know if I don't have enough range for it.

[Anastasia]

Okay, you're good.

> roll 1d100 vs ???
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d100 vs ??? --> [ 1d100=64 ]{64}

With this, the party settles into wait as Surraruthru begins to weave the illusion. A long, tense time - but mercifully uneventful. Surraruthru casts Screen, his chosen illusion settling in over the wall.

[Yuthirin]

Manifesting Mind Blank on self, sharing across Calleigh & psicrystal.

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Tryll
HP: 183
AC: 45
Touch AC: 28
Flatfooted AC: 39
Active Effects: Inertial Armor, Mind Blank
Passive Effects: Incorporeal, Hide Mind
PP: 501

Calleigh
HP: 91
AC: 47
Touch AC: 25
Flatfooted AC: 36
Active Effects: Inertial Armor, Mind Blank
Passive Effects: Magic Circle Against Evil, Tongues, Incorporeal, Improved Evasion

Psicrystal
HP: 91
AC: 31
Touch AC: 14
Flatfooted AC: 29
Active Effects: Inertial Armor, Mind Blank
Passive Effects: Unanimated (currently being used by Calleigh as a staff, gains no bonuses to initiative. No strength or dexterity score)
Psi-like ability (Ectoplasmic Shambler): Ready

[Iron Dragoon]

Surraruthru follows Tryll's power usage with casting spells of his own!

Casting Mind Blank on myself, Sylvie, Master, and Afina.
DC: 28, CL: 24, Duration 24 hours.

[Anastasia]

The two are thus warded, a quick and quiet nod from Sylvie. The Master matches that, and under the illusion of silence says, "Good. War is close now."

Afina's up to go all disintegratery or however she's going to wreck things.

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Sylvie

HP: 290+11/290
Effects: Heroes Feast (CL20), Overland Flight (CL22), Deeper Darkvision (CL22), Greater Mighty Wallop (CL22), Endure Elements (CL22), Attune Form (CL22), Mind Blank (CL 24)
Boosts: Immune to fear and poison, +1 morale bonus to attack rolls and Will saves, immunity to planar conditions, mind blanked. (Note, her normal boosts aren't included since they're factored into her main stat block.)
Resources used: Arcane casting: 1st: Endure Elements 3rd: Deeper Darkvision, Greater Mighty Wallop 4th: Attune Form 5th: Overland Flightx3
Other: Current inspiration: 12/12

Master

HP: 295+15/295
Effects: Heroes Feast (CL20), Overland Flight (CL22), Attune Form(CL22), Mind Blank (CL25)
Boosts: Immune to fear and poison, +1 morale bonus to attack rolls and Will saves, immunity to planar conditions, mind blanked.
Resources used: -
Other: -

Tannin

HP: 218+11/218
Effects: Heroes Feast (CL20), Overland Flight (CL22), Attune Form(CL22)
Boosts: Immune to fear and poison, +1 morale bonus to attack rolls and Will saves, immunity to planar conditions
Resources used: -
Other: -

[Ebiris]

Once Surraruthru puts up his cunning illusion, Afina casts a few spells of her own while he does his helpful mind blanks.

Casting shield, greater heroism, and haste

After which she points at the obscured wall and projects forth a green beam to core out a ten foot cube of it and any forcefields hidden within!

[17:42] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+40 disintegrate ranged touch
[17:42] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+40 disintegrate ranged touch --> [ 1d20=11 ]{51}

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Afina: 208+20/208, heroes feast (CL 20), greater mage armour (CL 23), moment of prescience (CL 23), resist energy (cold) (CL 23), resist energy (acid) (CL 23), shadow form (CL 23), mind blank (CL 25), shield (CL 23), greater heroism (CL 24), haste (CL 24)
AC 65, spell resistance 38, blindsense 30, immunity to fire, water, disease, poison, fear, 50% miss chance (applies to spells as well), freedom of movement
Spell charges: 6/9/7/6/8/7/6/8/6/7

[Anastasia]

Sylvie does the same, casting a few spells of her own.

Shield, Resist Energy (Cold), Freedom of Movement.

Under illusion, the wall and wall of force are destroyed, a gap ahead revealed. With the party able to disbelieve it, you see it leads 20ft ahead to the side of the building. Nothing's immediately around, at least from this point of view.

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Sylvie

HP: 290+11/290
Effects: Heroes Feast (CL20), Overland Flight (CL22), Deeper Darkvision (CL22), Greater Mighty Wallop (CL22), Endure Elements (CL22), Attune Form (CL22), Mind Blank (CL 24), Shield (CL 22), Resist Energy(Cold) (CL22), Freedom of Movement (CL22)
Boosts: Immune to fear and poison, +1 morale bonus to attack rolls and Will saves, immunity to planar conditions, mind blanked, +4 shield bonus to AC, cold resistance 30,  (Note, her normal boosts aren't included since they're factored into her main stat block.)
Resources used: Arcane casting: 1st: Endure Elements, Shield 2nd: Resist Energy 3rd: Deeper Darkvision, Greater Mighty Wallop 4th: Attune Form 5th: Overland Flightx3
Other: Current inspiration: 12/12

Master

HP: 295+15/295
Effects: Heroes Feast (CL20), Overland Flight (CL22), Attune Form(CL22), Mind Blank (CL25)
Boosts: Immune to fear and poison, +1 morale bonus to attack rolls and Will saves, immunity to planar conditions, mind blanked.
Resources used: -
Other: -

Tannin

HP: 218+11/218
Effects: Heroes Feast (CL20), Overland Flight (CL22), Attune Form(CL22)
Boosts: Immune to fear and poison, +1 morale bonus to attack rolls and Will saves, immunity to planar conditions
Resources used: -
Other: -
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[Ebiris]

And now to penetrate Finality itself. Cautious of what defences may lie on the other side of that wall, Afina speeds herself up massively so she can take it down and then react before any defences can enact themselves.

7th level spell sacrificed for 2 rounds of time stop, round 1 spent blasting the side of the building with disintegrate under the screen to make a hole, round 2 pending on what she sees past it.

[20:51] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+40 ranged touch disintegrate
[20:51] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+40 ranged touch disintegrate --> [ 1d20=3 ]{43}

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Afina: 208+20/208, heroes feast (CL 20), greater mage armour (CL 23), moment of prescience (CL 23), resist energy (cold) (CL 23), resist energy (acid) (CL 23), shadow form (CL 23), mind blank (CL 25), shield (CL 23), greater heroism (CL 24), haste (CL 24)
AC 65, spell resistance 38, blindsense 30, immunity to fire, water, disease, poison, fear, 50% miss chance (applies to spells as well), freedom of movement
Spell charges: 6/9/7/6/8/7/5/7/6/7

[Anastasia]

The wall crumbles. Within you see a chamber full of skeletons. They hang from hooks and ropes, a few feet off the ground. Imps fly around and on them, painstakingly drawing strange runes that feature ninety degree angles and all sharp, clear lines. Lying in the center of this room is an angel, his body nude and covered in dozens of deep gashes and cuts. One imp is currently freshening his quill in the angel's blood, which has taken a dull, poisonous black color.

The angel's body has six mutilated, broken wings. His golden hair has mostly fallen out and his face is locked in a silent scream, white eyes leaking tears. His skull bulges out, as if inflamed and throbbing.

[Ebiris]

Flying through, Afina gets a look at the appearance of the interior walls before she creates a persistent image to fill in the disintegrated section in their image, then she returns to the party before time settles back down again.

"There's an angel inside being tortured by a large number of imps," she speaks softly despite the screen spell rendering it unnecessary. "If everyone's ready we go in hard to kill the imps before they can raise any alarm, then free the angel and see from there. Maybe check the angel over for diseases and curses first though - he looks bad off."

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Afina: 208+20/208, heroes feast (CL 20), greater mage armour (CL 23), moment of prescience (CL 23), resist energy (cold) (CL 23), resist energy (acid) (CL 23), shadow form (CL 23), mind blank (CL 25), shield (CL 23), greater heroism (CL 24), haste (CL 24)
AC 65, spell resistance 38, blindsense 30, immunity to fire, water, disease, poison, fear, 50% miss chance (applies to spells as well), freedom of movement
Spell charges: 6/9/7/6/8/7/5/7/6/7

[Anastasia]

Tannin's eyes narrow, "Right bastards they are, aren't they? We're going to do something about that rather firmly."

Sylvie nods, "Hopefully we can do it fast enough not to set off an alarm."

[Iron Dragoon]

"Is there any way we can restore the Angel quickly? He could be a valuable ally. Also, I might be able to make the imps fight each other if I can sneak in and get a spell off. That might let us retain surprise for longer."

[Ebiris]

"We can kill them quicker than they can kill each other, but if you can keep them running for help it would be useful," Afina answers. "We're short on specialised healers for that angel though. I think at best Sylvie can manage a heal?"

Basically waiting on Yuth to sort out any buffs he needs before we charge in.

[Anastasia]

"Imps are weak," Sylvie points out, crossing her arms. "Best to just be done with them. They're only a threat because we have to do this quickly and as quietly as possible. As for the angel, probably. I can cast a healing spell that may help."

[Yuthirin]

Tryll also manifests True Seeing & Energy Conversion.

True Seeing, Psionic.
Target: Personal, shared
Duration: 24 minutes
PP Cost: 9

Energy Conversion
Target: Personal, shared
PP Cost: 13

A dull field surrounds Calleigh for a brief moment before fading. 'We're ready!'

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Tryll
HP: 183
AC: 45
Touch AC: 28
Flatfooted AC: 39
Active Effects: Inertial Armor, Mind Blank
Passive Effects: Incorporeal, Hide Mind
PP: 479

Calleigh
HP: 91
AC: 47
Touch AC: 25
Flatfooted AC: 36
Active Effects: Inertial Armor, Mind Blank
Passive Effects: Magic Circle Against Evil, Tongues, Incorporeal, Improved Evasion

Psicrystal
HP: 91
AC: 31
Touch AC: 14
Flatfooted AC: 29
Active Effects: Inertial Armor, Mind Blank
Passive Effects: Unanimated (currently being used by Calleigh as a staff, gains no bonuses to initiative. No strength or dexterity score)
Psi-like ability (Ectoplasmic Shambler): Ready