Smith (Jaela, Calleigh, Surraruthru)

[Corwin]

"Same as before. Ithea and Baleruk counter the frog anarchs once we hit their defensive lines. Our forces will stabilize the area and provide long-range magical support while Ithea's detachment breaches. If she's stuck for whatever reason, she'll use our prearranged signal, a fireball, to call on us to get into things directly. And if we come across anything weird beforehand, we deal with that."

[Yuthirin]

"Okay. Just let us know when to blow stuff up!"

[Anastasia]

Thus the group goes on - not much farther. You're traveling in good order, when suddenly you feel a breeze ripple across everything.

K:P.

[Corwin]

[21:27] <@Annerose> roll 1d20+48
[21:27] <Kobot> Annerose rolled 1d20+48 --> [ 1d20=7 ]{55}

[Yuthirin]

<Kobot> LobsterSquid rolled 1d20+26 K:P --> [ 1d20=19 ]{45}

[Anastasia]

Uh oh. Both of you can recall this is likely the first and only sign of a psychic storm. This can blow you well out of the sphere and into the open Astral, not to mention that it can have extremely hazardous effects on your mind. If one is coming, it's going to start in a matter of seconds, or maybe minutes if you're extraordinarily lucky.

Tryll can also note that stopping one's hard. Solid objects of sufficient size can help, but they're rare on the ground in the Astral.

Jaela can note that and also note that with the bleed in from Gehenna and Limbo, that the effects are likely to be even more unpredictable and destructive.

[Corwin]

Will dropping an astral island help? Also, can you describe our surroundings better so I know where we might take cover?

Since I'd know our forces, do I know if people can cast walls of any sort? If so, would they help, assuming something to anchor them to?

We're not anarchs but what if all our mages concentrated on a single goal? Could we summon/shape earth to block the worst of the effects or counter the storm?

10 for K:P 58 is necessary.

[Yuthirin]

Is there any way to divert/disrupt it or protect ourselves beyond a physical barrier? Matching force with force or something?

"Psychic storm! Need cover NOW!" Calleigh shouts.

[Anastasia]

Jaela thinks an Astral island could provide a sufficiently large cover for at least a good chunk of your forces.

The area around you is currently free-floating water above you. To the left side is open space that crackles with electricity. To your right is free-floating stone. Below you is boiling water that gives off no heat.  Ahead of you is openness, another path cleared by Baleruk and Ithea.

Jaela thinks it might be possible, but it would be a gamble.

Meanwhile, Calleigh think it might b epossible, but you'd need an extraordinarily strong force to do so. A powerful psychic force.

[Corwin]

"What she said!" Jaela yells. "Everyone, regroup around Kascha! Do it now!" That's the most central position in their forces, not to mention the center of the web of protection laid down by both Surraruthru and Tryll.

"Candy! I want an island and I want it there!" Jaela calls out next, gesturing at an angle to the free-floating stone to their right. "We need the cover!"

She moves along with the others, even as orders continue to go out. "Vul'lath, speed up the troops! Tepen, seal any crack between earth and island with Walls! Everyone else, focus on stopping the storm cold! Tryll, focus them! Surraruthru, boost them!"

Her own magical power is used to create two Walls of Stone to wall their group off from the threat once the island had been summoned to shield the center of their formation.

[Yuthirin]

What kind of psychic power are we talking about here? Like use of an overcharged Energy Barrage or an Intellect Fortress or just throwing my oversized brain at it and hoping for the best?

[Anastasia]

The strongest power you have. A raw reality revision may well do it, otherwise throwing your mental powers at it could work, but the results would be extremely unpredictable.

I'll wait a sec on Jaela pending anything Tryll does here.

[Yuthirin]

Manifesting Reality Revision.

Tryll uses BRAIN POWER to directly alter the local reality, diverting the storm around the army!

He also coordinates with the rest of the army telepathically in order to help them focus at the right points in case his power doesn't work.

[Iron Dragoon]

Surraruthru closes in with the group, trying to peek over everyone's heads to see what happens.

[Anastasia]

The army regroups around Kascha as commanded, Canderella doing so while reading off the scroll. It causes motes of light to fly from it, forming into a massive island-wall in mere moments. Magic flows through the army, speeding them up as Elder Magi Tepen casts magic, calling on earth and stone to bolster the walls.

Amid all of it, Tryll invokes his mind. Reality ripples around him like soggy tissue paper, slowing down and almost stopping. He hears them, feels them, senses them. Presences, mental presences. Hundreds of them, rotting and foul. Black things that drip ethereal ichor that stains everything around them. Half formed images of monstrosities, of things powerful and empty. The sheer psychic presence of them is overwhelming, clearly the root of the storm to Tryll.

You have sufficient ranks in the relevant knowledges that another roll isn't needed here.

The psychic imprint of fiends, roiling amid the Astral like a poison racing in the blood stream. It is a powerful hive-mind, a psychic force that could tear a city apart into a hellscape of death and fire. Tryll thinks he could try and shield the party further from it...or try and siphon the strength from it directly and use it as his own. It would be an extremely risky move, but the sheer power there could invigorate him.