To cure rotting earth (Ithea, Moore)

[Anastasia]

It's a long chasm down, about 30ft wide. Plenty of space to stretch in. Unfortunately the walls are sheer and fairly smooth, only a few handholds and no places to stand. The gravity's decidedly stronger here, pulling at Ithea even with just her head peeking out. No sign of enemies at least, just free fall.

[Merc]

Ithea quickly calculates the distance to the ground below and heads back up before the gravity sucks her out of the ceiling wall. Once back up top, she gathers the others. "Okay, I'm going to teleport all of us down there. There's no good place to land unfortunately, meaning that I'm just going to teleport us inside the middle of the cavern. Rosa, prepare whatever means you grabbed for flight, everyone in general, be aware that the gravity is much stronger down there. You may get dragged down quickly if you don't adjust for it."

I'll let everyone say anything else if they want to. I can cast Dimension Door and take all of us down there, I think. Ithea's caster level is high enough to drag 8 others with her, however the spell has distinction that large creatures count as two medium. If two small creatures count as a medium though, then it should still be doable for me to do it on my own.

[Anastasia]

"...ah." Suddenly Rosa turns really rather red. "I believe there is one complication. I forgot."

So did I in the shuffle. Whooooops!

[Ebiris]

Smrgol, despite being having wings, can't fly either.

[Merc]

...dammit Ko! I gave her plenty of time for that! *smacks forehead*

As for Smrgol...well, unless someone else knows that or he can talk to let Ithea know, he's just going to end up crashing into the cavern floor and heal it off unfortunately. Ithea would just be assuming with the wings that he can fly at this point.

"...I see," Ithea says with a sigh. "Well, uhm, I suppose I can carry you on my back if there's no other option. Hopefully we can find a spot to land in before we reach Lixer's mines."

If nothing else comes up, then once Rosa is positioned to have a good hold on her, Ithea will teleport everyone down to the cavern.

Edit: Moore or someone can also suggest having the shredstorms making a good landing spot for us so we don't just all have to be flying, and having them eat a path for us? So outside of the initial teleport/damage to Smrogl, we should be able to travel on the ground after that?

[Nephrite]

"If it comes to it, I can build us stairs or something to get us down." Moore offers as the others prepare. "Just let me know."

[Ebiris]

"I CANNOT FLY EITHER, FOR MY EARTHLY MAJESTY IS ILL SUITED FOR BEING BORNE UPON MERE AIR!" Smrgol announces with all the bombastic flair of his favourite draconic role model.

[Nephrite]

"It sounds like that pathway might be necessary then." Moore reasons. "Ithea, can you take me with you? Then I can build the path for everyone else who can't fly and we'll go from there."

[Merc]

"Very well. I'll take you and the shredstorms first, they should be able to help you with that," Ithea says in agreement.

"I'll be back soon," Ithea says as she heads back down with just Moore and the shredstorms for now.

[Nephrite]

For reference, plan is to use the Lyre of Building to basically create a slowly slanting path down all the way until we get to the bottom, however long that is.

[Anastasia]

A quick dimension door takes the shredstorms, Moore and Ithea to the chasm. They're able to fly despite the heavier gravity, pulling on them tremendously hard. From there Moore takes out his enchanted harp and begins to play. Bits of rock and dirt fly from the walls, forming a sloping path (with guard rail) that loops on and downwards.

[Merc]

Ithea waits until Moore's work and the shredstorms' is completed, or at least covers enough safe landing space for all the others including the ironwyrm, and then travels back up, teleporting with them all back down to the chasm.

[Anastasia]

Ithea notes she can't see the bottom of the chasm, so Moore'll be at it awhile. Another dimension door gets them back and forth, Rosa bowing to Ithea. "I apologize," she says, "My lapse was an unforgivable one of focus and control. I had one simple task and I failed through sheer mental negligence."

"Eh, go fuck someone, put your big girl pants on and shut the fuck up," Dana calls, readying her gear as she starts to follow the path down.

[Merc]

"Don't worry too much about it. We would have had the same problem with the ironwyrm anyway," Ithea says with a shake of her head. "Let's just find the devils and kill them all. That'll make you feel better, and it'll certainly do the same for the rest of us."

[Anastasia]

"W-what?" Rosa gapes at Dana and tries to formulate a reply.

Crystal flutters over to Rosa, "Peace. Her words merely betray her lack of elegance and refinement. Allow her to wash over you as steel washes harmlessly over your shield and armor."

Stille chuckles, "I do think there is a certain savage charm to how you speak, Dana. An ability to strike to the truth of things, no matter how unpleasantly said. In this case I feel she has merit - relax. It is merely a mistake. Cope with it and move on."

"Or," Balyss heads on down as the others talk, "Get over it and come on. Pray to Selune for guidance if you need it, or the Triune or whomever you prefer. As Ithea says, let's get going and get to the devil killing."