The past burns (Afina, Tryll)

[Ebiris]

"Or actually can you do a mind probe? Rip it from her mind," Afina gestures dismissively at Willah, casting floating disk so her worthless bulk can be carried around. "And if decerebrate means what I think it does then by all means, please."

Of course she knows Gathgorian's guarding Lief, but she might be wrong! It could be a delaying tactic.

[Anastasia]

Tryll doesn't see anything special, but a door is between him and where the voice came from.

As you hesitate, suddenly Afina feels dreadfully ill, spreading through her like needles into her veins.

Fort.

[Ebiris]

[23:04] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+29+24 blowing moment of prescience (+4 vs poison)
[23:04] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+29+24 blowing moment of prescience (+4 vs poison) --> [ 1d20=11 ]{64}

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Afina: 287+20/287, heroes feast (CL 20), mind blank (CL 17), fortunate fate (CL 15), planar tolerance (CL 7), epic mage armour (CL 24), greater heroism (CL 24), interplanar telepathic bond (CL 23), planar bubble (CL 24), haste (CL 24), shield (CL 24), fires of purity (CL 24)
AC 103, spell resistance 39, blindsense 30, immunity to fire, water, earth, cold, disease, poison, fear, 50% miss chance, freedom of movement
Spell charges: 6/9/8/10/9/8/3/6/6/5/7/4

[Yuthirin]

'I can, though it may take me some time.'

[Anastasia]

You resist. How could you not? You are no longer a fey.

You resist Lief's call. You hear his cries with every fiber of your being, endless poison flowing. This is not your fate. The pain recedes, leaving you whole and untouched. Your bones ache and resonate with the fading pain. Lief is ahead.

[Ebiris]

"Forget it, we're leaving," Afina says, sending telepathically to Tepen. 'Willah is in our custody but Gathgorian is guarding Lief, we're going to flee.'

This has gone so well, why would she want to ruin it by fighting Abigor's replacement on a battlefield of his choosing? Accelerating herself suddenly, she rushes through the closed door like a shadow, faster than even a Goddess's eyes can perceive!

10th level slot dropped for 5 rounds of time stop.
Round 1: Cast moment of prescience and move towards where I felt Lief.
Will resolve further rounds depending on what I see.

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Afina: 287+20/287, heroes feast (CL 20), mind blank (CL 17), fortunate fate (CL 15), planar tolerance (CL 7), epic mage armour (CL 24), greater heroism (CL 24), interplanar telepathic bond (CL 23), planar bubble (CL 24), haste (CL 24), shield (CL 24), fires of purity (CL 24), moment of prescience (CL 24)
AC 103, spell resistance 39, blindsense 30, immunity to fire, water, earth, cold, disease, poison, fear, 50% miss chance, freedom of movement
Spell charges: 6/9/8/10/9/8/3/6/5/5/6/4

[Yuthirin]

'Decerebration is the isolation of the brain from the rest of the body. While it won't instantly kill her, the body will die in a normal mortal after a few days. I'm unsure what an outsider's body would do, as they require neither food or water.' Tryll says as Afina blurs away.

[Anastasia]

'Understood,' Tepen sends back. Afina rushes into the next room. It is small, comfortable - and utterly undamaged, stable. Lying on a simple bier of onyx is Lief, pale as death and surrounded by visible to your see invisibility enhanced eyes spheres of glowing force. Gathgorian stands besides it - he does not move, save for his eyes. His eyes follow you as you enter, face frozen in a dreadful grin. His blade is in hand and he wears his armor.

The rest of the room is taken by arcane diagrams and markings. They look dreadfully complex and you'd need to spend some time studying them.

[Ebiris]

That's actually somewhat disconcerting, not even Sehanine could track her like this! But it only emphasises that their best option is to neutralise the threat and then leave rather than give Gathgorian the pitched battle he craves.

I don't care about the arcane diagrams and markings but I'm spellcrafting the spheres of force surrounding Lief. Taking 10 for 54

[Anastasia]

They're simple spheres of force. As the wall, except a defense around him. Something in the room's working around the problem of it mucking with contact with him, but odds are there's a great degree of magical bullshit going on here that makes it work anyway.

[Ebiris]

Rather than wasting a bunch of time and spells on disintegrating her way through the spheres, Afina just flies right through them with the benefit of her shadow form until she's close enough to touch Lief. No time for sentimentality here, a hand pressing against his chest and a flare of green light as she disintegrates his remains.

round 2
[23:25] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+38 ranged touch
[23:25] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+38 ranged touch --> [ 1d20=11 ]{49}

[Anastasia]

Roll damage, it might matter here.

[Ebiris]

DC 31 fort save if he's a creature rather than an object. But if he's a creature I can't actually target him during time stop.

[23:29] <@Ebiris> roll 40d6
[23:29] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 40d6 --> [ 40d6=136 ]{136}
[23:29] <@Ebiris> roll 5d6
[23:29] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 5d6 --> [ 5d6=19 ]{19}

5d6 is damage if the save is made

[Anastasia]

It's one of those weird half and half situations due to what he currently is.

Before you, Lief's body disintegrates. Around you is warmth, a happy laugh you haven't heard in some time. It brings to mind better days, of Lief racing about in his training. You hear him, "Thank you, Afina." As you process that, you feel new knowledge left behind. Fragments of Lief's practices and bow skill, coming to crystal clarity within your mind.

Afina gains weapon focus (longbow) as a bonus feat.

Do you have any more timestop time left?

[Ebiris]

I've got 3 rounds and I'm gonna use them!

Phasing back out from the now redundant spheres of force, Afina meets Gathgorian's eyes as she works some magic to keep him out of the way.

Round 3
Prismatic wall cutting off Gathgorian's side of the room.
Round 4
Wall of stone directly behind the prismatic wall (on my side)
Round 5
Summon Monster X to summon 1d3 elder earth elementals with orders to delay Gathgorian once he gets past the walls
[23:42] <@Ebiris> roll 1d3 elder earth elementals
[23:42] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d3 elder earth elementals --> [ 1d3=2 ]{2}
And then she returns back to the room with Willah and the others.

"It's done, Lief is saved now we need to go before Gathgorian gets out of there. Can you get Willah up onto the roof?" she asks the Master. It'll be quicker to go that way than to push their way through the crumbling castle to get past the unhallowed dimension ward.

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Afina: 287+20/287, heroes feast (CL 20), mind blank (CL 17), fortunate fate (CL 15), planar tolerance (CL 7), epic mage armour (CL 24), greater heroism (CL 24), interplanar telepathic bond (CL 23), planar bubble (CL 24), haste (CL 24), shield (CL 24), fires of purity (CL 24), moment of prescience (CL 24)
AC 103, spell resistance 39, blindsense 30, immunity to fire, water, earth, cold, disease, poison, fear, 50% miss chance, freedom of movement
Spell charges: 6/9/8/10/9/8/2/6/4/5/5/4