Surraruthru's endless quest for treasure (Surraruthru, Jaela)

[Anastasia]

Surraruthru and friends are joined by a fourth - Jaela, fresh back from a trip to the Prime Material. They meet in Surraruthru's burgeoning hoard room, Kascha smiling to Jaela. "Do you need me to catch you up on what's going on?"

Very plain intro, if there needs to be IC expo, we can get that out of the way ASAP and move on.

[Iron Dragoon]

"There's a vault with eight chests of treasure in it. We've gotten one, but the defenses are formidable. A closed loop door, orbs of acid, electricity, fire, cold, and sonic that shoot rays, and an undying hoardheart zombie. We'll need additional help with dispelling the magic in the orbs and holding off the zombie to get enough time to retrieve all eight chests."

[Anastasia]

"That also assumes that's everything, which may not be the case," Ebony adds, "The defenses had a sense of escalation."

[Corwin]

"Dispelling something and holding off the zombie's doable," Jaela muses. "Rays, right? Did you try the ray-deflecting spell?"

[Anastasia]

"That's an idea as well, as well as being hard to hit in the first place," Kascha says.

For OOC clarity, which spell are you thinking of?

[Corwin]

Ray Deflection, sorc/wiz4

[Anastasia]

"Thank you," Ebony says, "Surraruthru, would you be able to use that through your tapestry?"

[Corwin]

Let's go for a brief recap so we know what magic and stuff got used. What worked, what didn't.

[Anastasia]

Okay, quick notes.

- It took a powerful dispel to weaken the vault door long enough for follow up dispels to eliminate it. Scanning indicated physical force would be useless on it.
- Attempting to spellcraft or analyze the various orbs on the wall resulted in an attack that disrupted any attempt to study them. This was the 10-fold ray attack.
- Opening a chest caused the same ray attack.
- Getting a chest out resulted in beams fired out that attempted to drag you back into the vault, then the vault slammed shut and knock out gas was pumped in, followed by merciless barrages of beams at the knocked out Ebony. Fortunately, she was warded against every element but sonic and a silence spell stopped that.
- A silence spell on the room worked, but proved to also be a problem since it interfered with spellcasting. Didn't seem to slow the defenses down.
- On escaping a second time (Kascha managed to melt the vault door with a twinned greater fireburst) a hoardheart was released after the party.

[Corwin]

I presume that we'll be using the five-fold energy resistance and anti-gas measures again?

[Iron Dragoon]

"Yes, I can use it with the tapestry. It's a fairly short duration spell, but I'll prepare it."

[Anastasia]

That's entirely up to you all. The plan is on your shoulders, so prepare accordingly, you two.

[Corwin]

"Alright, so let's cover the obvious. The five elements, ray deflection, shield, protection from the gases-- would anyone benefit from stoneskin and its kind? I can bring a prismatic sphere as the ultimate defense, or a disjunction in its place, so my spells would depend on whether you'd like me to hold any attacks off or blow past the opposition. Either works."

[Anastasia]

"Flexibility," Kascha says, "If Ebony's right about it, we'll need to adapt to further things. What spells can we bring that would maximize our defenses?"

[Iron Dragoon]

"I can use Stoneskin with the tapestry as well. That'll save you spells. Same with Energy Absorption, Iron Bones, Shield, and Greater Magic Armor. I'll prepare Celestial Valor, Might of the Planetar, and Draconic Might. Many of those overlap a bit, but they're all usable with the tapestry and will give some level of benefit. I'll also memorize two castings of Energy Immunity and Life Font. Any other suggestions? I can use up to 7th level spells with the tapestry."

Basically anything that's tagged (harmless) or is an abjuration spell, even with range personal, I can pump into the tapesty.