Anvil (Afina)

[Anastasia]

Soon enough they do just that. THey push the undead back and break the tide, victory obtained. "Well damn," Dana says, grinning.

[Ebiris]

"That was actually quicker than expected," Afina admits. "Given the size of the obsidian mass I thought there'd be vastly more undead within." Shifting the view over she takes a look inside to see what Arrel saw while he was within.

[Anastasia]

Peeking in, you can see within are twisted rooms of pulsing, moving obsidian. Several burnt patches are here, as if something was once there and now is not.

[Ebiris]

She'll ask Arrel or someone what exactly was in here when they get back. Pulling the view back she recentres it on the two armies to monitor their continued progress.

[Anastasia]

As she does, Dana says, "So..." she trails off, "Miss your forges yet?"

[Ebiris]

"They actually were quite nice to lie inside before we set up those lava baths," Afina notes. "But I can survive not creating any magic items for a few hours at least."

[Anastasia]

"Need to fucking try that," Dana grins, "But hell, I thought you went into withdrawal if you weren't making things every hour."

[Ebiris]

"I don't, but I'm pretty sure a lot of people around here would suffer some sort of withdrawal if I stopped."

[Anastasia]

"No shit," Dana chuckles, as she watches the army advance. "Are those walls fucking alive?"

[Ebiris]

"Or undead. It's not a nice look," she says, zooming the view in against the pulsating walls. "Unseelie of the Summer court often go for that sort of aesthetic, life run riot and twisted, choking everything around it."

[Anastasia]

"Figures," Dana says, "Though you fey seem to keep that out of Aurora, yeah?"

[Ebiris]

"Every one of us here is Seelie," Afina answers. "There were plenty of Unseelie on Lifasa but we've not heard anything of them. I'd be willing to put aside our differences to focus on the devils if one did appear, but... well, either they all perished or are so deep in captivity Tannin hasn't been able to find trace of them."

Or they escaped and went to Unseelie realms and forgot about Lifasa, but that's less exciting.

[Anastasia]

"Or they're collaborating somehow," Dana points out, "Or some dirty shit went down that did something."

[Ebiris]

"Collaboration's a bit doubtful, aside from Willah - I do actually wonder what court she was from originally but no one here's ever heard of her before she became a devil. But in general devils view us fey purely as breeding stock. We'd have heard by now if any were openly serving Hell I think."

[Anastasia]

"Yeah, but hell, I'd expect Hell to have a curveball or three. They jerk themselves off thinking about how well they plot." Dana points, "Like that dumb motherfucker who came with that flag of truce. Should have ripped his guts out and ass fucked him with them."

Meanwhile, Elena appears. "There's a message from Celestia that Gisfal wants passed on. The majority of the githyanki ships have managed some sort of accelerated advance into the rift. It is held that it is the work of Queen Vlaakith."