Hammer (Ithea, Moore)

[Anastasia]

As Ithea and Moore talk, the hut begins to fly forward, right for the strike team.

Orders, Ithea?

[Merc]

"Everyone, prepare for combat! Moore, keep an eye on Jaela's team so we don't get too distracted by whatever's in that hut!"

Any further details that could be gleaned via a Spot check towards the hut?

[Nephrite]

Moore does as he's asked! "Oh, we really should've come up with some sort of easy-to-understand signal for this sort of thing..."

[Merc]

"I'll trust you to summarize when necessary," Ithea replies at that.

[22:54] <Merc> roll d20+51 spot
[22:54] <Penuche> Merc invokes Penuche's magic: < 53 > [d20=2]

[Anastasia]

It's a great, big building of obsidian. It's rusting right at the strike force's front lines.

Any commands to issue here or just going to let your troops do their thing, Ithea?

[Merc]

They can do their own thing. If things look bad, I may be more hands on but if they seem ok, I'll leave em to their own devices.

[Anastasia]

Okay.

> roll 1d20+10 Baleruk
<Serith> Ko-Thehuntforkappamech roll for Serith < 23 > [d20=13]

"Forward!" Baleruk roars, pouncing on the building as if he were a tiger and the house a deer. He intercepts it and grapples it, spraying prismatic and elemental breath all over it. The adamantine golems follow, slamming into the held building on both sides. Mighty fists pound down walls, opening them up. From it gushes skeletons like pus from a boil, running out rapidly in all directions. These skeletons are strange - twisted things, hunks of disorganized and throbbing flesh growing in places, often not matching from patch to patch on the same skeleton.

But your troops are ready. Lantern archons fire as air elementals and students of the Graceful Blow meet the skeletons. "Now! Strike!" The Graceful Blow rips through the skeletons and dance away, almost entirely untouched. Above courre fly, rain down arrows and shout, "For Lifasa!" in cutesy voices, as Ysgardian warriors crash into them. It's not a long battle, the skeletons shattered with minimal wounded and losses. Inside the building, Ithea can see it is full of bones and metal - strange, alien shapes of steel and other metals.

Ball's in your court to how to go from here. Skirmish was largely a rout in your favor.

[Merc]

At a glance, does it look like it'd be worth spending a scroll of gate to recover the metals? Or money-loss venture?

[Anastasia]

You'd have to look in with someone with skill in Appraise. Speaking of...

Baleruk roars, the building still in his grip. "This treasure shall go to my hoard," the dragon bellows, clinging to it like it is a precious gemstone.

[Merc]

"Alright. You have a way to get it back, I hope?" Ithea asks.

[Anastasia]

"Yes, I DO HAVE SO!" Baleruk declares, going around and batting the building with his tail. Like a ball, it is hit and sent flying in the direction of Aurora.

> roll 1d100 to see how well he aimed, since it's essentially a luck check Kobot
<Kobot> Ko-Thehuntforkappamech rolled 1d100 to see how well he aimed, since it's essentially a luck check Kobot --> [ 1d100=75 ]{75}

[Merc]

"If Afina thinks they're under attack, they might destroy that, you know," Ithea points out drily before gesturing at the rest of the group to keep moving forward.

[Anastasia]

Past the rock, the group finds ahead is fields of fire. Roaring flames, as if Fire's wrath has spilled out here, blocking the way dead ahead. Crystal flies up as Ithea takes this in, nodding to both Moore and Ithea. "If we go up 250 feet or so, we hit water instead. It can be swum through. If we go around on the right 380 feet, we hit open space with floating obsidian buildings. 600 feet to the right looks to be free floating plains. If we go down 400 feet, there's more solid earth blocking the way."

[Nephrite]

Moore offers Crystal a wave and a smile.

"Would it be less of an issue to simply try and quell the fires and proceed forward?" Moore asks, glancing to Ithea. "I would imagine Jaela's forces won't want to go swimming if they can help it."

[Merc]

"Let's see if I can keep opening a path up. If not, we'll figure out which path to take, probably the floating planes will be easiest," Ithea says, as she concentrates on the roaring flames, trying to smother them or at least grow out some of the solid earth from below to create a vast tunnel for a group their size.

[22:05] <@Harley> roll d20+8+8 wisdom+anarch bonus
[22:05] <Kobot> Harley rolled d20+8+8 wisdom+anarch bonus --> [ 1d20=3 ]{19}