Smith (Jaela, Calleigh, Surraruthru)

[Corwin]

"Make for the gith ship!" Jaela commands. "Baleruk, Moore! See if this place is malleable! Balyss! Check for affects of varied holy magic! Tryll, same with dimensional locks!"

She waves Cresiel over to her as the army begins to move once more, telling him, "You're back in charge of the vanguard. Take any small forces down. Once we're ready to execute our primary plan for the rift, you're taking over for Ithea for our defense."

[Anastasia]

Eb with the authentic Iddy rolling experience.

Both can identify those as astral dreadnaughts, albeit strangely mutated ones.

Chance to react if that changes your plans.

[Nephrite]

"Astral dreadnaughts!" Moore points toward them.

At that, he'll see if he can manage anything about the current area with his powers.

[13:45] <Nephrite> roll 1d20+9
[13:45] <Penuche> Nephrite invokes Penuche's magic: < 23 > [d20=14]

[Corwin]

No. The desc suggests the action/rift/enemies are ~4.5 miles away. If we're almost in melee, please let me know. In any case, requesting tentative numbers/locations/distances. Once we have that and the experimental data from response to my previous post we might adjust the approach.

[Iron Dragoon]

If we start combat, feel free to fire off a Greater Heroism and Iron Bones or Stoneskin.

[Anastasia]

The numbers are as follows:

The Blood War recreation is about 3 miles away. It's largely land-based and large enough to be seen clearly despite the distance. There are some aerial elements however, so simply flying past isn't easy.

The gith vs astral dreadnought showdown is 4.5 miles away, right before the rift.

Does that impact any plans? Let me know, and if not, I'll move you along.

[Corwin]

We're going for the gith, and if we can will avoid the Blood War losers.

[Anastasia]

The party takes to the air, ignoring the ancient devil vs demon brawl in favor of progressing on. You make it half a mile, 6 miles within the rift in total, when suddenly a light breeze passes over the party. It disturbs the stillness of the air - and several people cry out moments afterwards.

[Corwin]

And response to my commands?

[Nephrite]

"What the...?" Moore looks around and frowns at the cries. He'll try and detect magic, in case that's what it was.

Taking 10 on a Spellcraft for 45

[Anastasia]

Sorry, got lost in the shuffle and the eye delay. Stupid eyes.

Moore is able to test and find the area is malleable - barely. His anarch powers may work here but not well.

Balyss flies over and casts, "I wouldn't recommend it here. Things are so unstable that adding holy and unholy energies together could risk a serious breakdown."

Tryll can try the dimensional locks if he likes.

"Understood," Cresiel nods briefly, "We will win."

[Anastasia]

After a brief IRC discussion where Cor wanted one of his soldiers to test the dimensional anchor thing...

Tryll, make a K:P check. If Tryll's not around and since it's just a simple check, go ahead and roll for him.

[Nephrite]

[13:07] <Nephrite> roll 1d20+26 Tryll K:P
[13:07] <Penuche> Nephrite invokes Penuche's magic: < 46 > [d20=20]

[Anastasia]

Woah. Tryll has to cut it off - anchoring of any sort is a bad idea this close to the rift. Rather than balance things, the different paradigm here means it'll just cause a collapse. Things are just too new and too changing to stop right now. You'll have to deal with things as you deal with them.

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Moore doesn't detect any magic.

[Yuthirin]

'A dimensional anchor here would cause the area to collapse, not stabilize. I recommend against anchoring the area unless you want strange things to happen.' Tryll broadcasts.

"Yeah!" Calleigh says, stopping near Jaela. "Unless you want it to rain squirrels or something. That'd be fun, actually! All those cute beady eyes and big fluffy tails!" Calleigh squirms gleefully in place before zipping off again.