Finding Afame's fame (Afina)

[Ebiris]

"Don't worry, I had a recent problem with Mei choking and I know a solution if it happens again," Afina says reassuringly, standing up herself. "Go grab your things and I'll meet you by the gates?"

[Anastasia]

Recruiting anyone else and taking any preparations?

[Ebiris]

Just Simmer, I'll tell people that I'm going and to Sending me if we get word about Yggdrasil, I'll drop everything for that.

[Anastasia]

You meet Simmer by the gate. She's pointedly looking anywhere there's not water, waiting for you.

Set up where you're gating to and all that good stuff.

[Ebiris]

As is her wont (and as is particularly vital so Simmer doesn't freak out), Afina casts a gate flush against the very border of Aurora's dimensional interdiction so that one can pass from the demiplane and through it without getting wet. On the other end is the plane of Smoke with the Gasping Tomb dead ahead!

[19:17] <@Ebiris> roll 1d8+10 heroes feast temp hp
[19:17] <Rei-chan> Ebiris rolled : 1d8+10 heroes feast temp hp --> [ 1d8=5 ]{15}

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Afina: 277+15/277, heroes feast (CL 20), mind blank (CL 17), fortunate fate (CL 15), planar tolerance (CL 7), greater mage armour (CL 23), moment of prescience (CL 23)
AC 72, spell resistance 38, blindsense 30, immunity to fire, water, earth, cold, disease, poison, fear, 50% spell failure (1 hour)
Spell charges: 6/10/10/8/9/9/9/8/7/7

[Anastasia]

You appear in fog and smoke. Choking black smock, thick as the thickest fog. It roils all around you, yet you can breathe it. So can Simmer, "Mmm, smells like burning," she says in approval.

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Simmer
HP: 322+15/322
Spells Active: Heroes Feast (CL2), Mind Blank (CL15), Fortunate Fate (CL13), Planar Tolerance (CL7), Greater Mage Armor (CL22), Superior Resistance (CL22)
Bonuses: +1 morale attack rolls, immunity to poison
Negative Conditions:
Resources Used:

[Ebiris]

"Shame we can't see so well," Afina says, flying up to sit off the side of Simmer's shoulder. "I can still sense things nearby though. Just keep moving straight ahead?" she suggests, closing the gate behind them.

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d100
<Rei-chan> Koaway rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=4 ]{4}

You fly on a bit. You hear it from far away - the sound of choking, coughing wheezing for any air at all. The sound of suffocation, ahead somewhere in the thick smoke.

[Ebiris]

Hey what are the planar traits here? Anything that enhances air magic?

"Hmm, I might be able to do something about the smoke after all," Afina says with some thought when she hears that smoking, using her innate connection with Air to pick up a spiralling wind around them that siphons off the majority of the smoke and keeps it blowing out, making it even thicker just outside her influence but allowing them to see better within as well as easing breath for those not so well attuned to fire.

Using Control Winds sla to affect a 40ft radius around me with strong winds blowing in a circular pattern and a small eye of the storm where Simmer and I are.
http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/controlWinds.htm

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Afina: 277+15/277, heroes feast (CL 20), mind blank (CL 17), fortunate fate (CL 15), planar tolerance (CL 7), greater mage armour (CL 23), moment of prescience (CL 23), control winds (CL 23)
AC 72, spell resistance 38, blindsense 30, immunity to fire, water, earth, cold, disease, poison, fear
Spell charges: 6/10/10/8/9/9/9/8/7/7

[Anastasia]

Empowered and enlarged, Afina. More on the traits tomorrow, just knocking this post out before bed. You and Simmer both negate the damaging ones anyway, so it's not urgent.

Ahead you can see an open space. Here float smoke para-elementals of all sizes, from the size of a small dog to taller than a giant. They all share one thing - they grasp at their smoky throats and choke to death, fading into loose smoke thereafter. As they perish, more come forth and take their position and promptly start to choke.

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Simmer
HP: 322+15/322
Spells Active: Heroes Feast (CL2), Mind Blank (CL15), Fortunate Fate (CL13), Planar Tolerance (CL7), Greater Mage Armor (CL22), Superior Resistance (CL22)
Bonuses: +1 morale attack rolls, immunity to poison
Negative Conditions:
Resources Used:
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[Ebiris]

Neither affects control winds, so that's fine.

"Is this it?" Afina wonders, looking at the newly revealed area. "When it was described as a tomb I expected more of a structure to the place."

[Anastasia]

"There might be more ahead?" Simmer says, "I don't understand why, though. Why?" she calls in Ignan, "Why do this?"

No immediate reply from the elementals, who continue a steady stream of death by suffocation and choking.

[Ebiris]

"Lets just keep going?" Afina suggests, alighting off Simmer's shoulder now that there's sufficient clear air to see by and flying on at a slow enough pace that Simmer can keep up and remain within the eye of her miniature storm. "They seem to come here voluntarily after all."

[Anastasia]

How long does control winds last?

[Ebiris]

10 minutes per level so 4 hours