Lethe (Jaela, Surraruthru, Moore)

[Anastasia]

Okay. Surraruthru, how are you going to look for failing spells, precisely?

[Iron Dragoon]

Well, since I don't have detect magic, I'll just watch for portions of the battle lines having trouble, and just focus on that, or ask Moore to check out the spells there.

[Anastasia]

Okay. Moore, how long does that bardic music as a move action thing last?

[Nephrite]

1/m level, or 24 minutes.

[Anastasia]

The army advances on. A little farther, something glimpsed in the fog ahead. Some sort of dark building, shadows and covered by the ever-present fog. Then great blasts of force and water are seen ahead, along with more devil battle cries. "Hold the line, we're hitting the outer rim of the defenses," Gisfal's voice booms over everything. Meanwhile, you can notice the black droplets are growing more common in the air, thicker.

[Iron Dragoon]

Surraruthru clicks his tongue at the droplets.

"Alright, this is going to be a common thing. We really need to find a counter to those droplets. It's just going to erode our ability to fight."

[Anastasia]

All around you lillend fan out and sing, covering the grounds in addition to Moore's song. As they do, a runner comes up from Aurora, a lantern archon that bobs in the air, "Sirs," he says to you, barely stopping, "Aurora's been flanked. Be wary of devil maneuvering, there seem to be more than one combat group capable of extremely rapid movement." He then turns and runs off towards the front.

[Nephrite]

The effect is probably more pronounced, and they're just standing out here in it... ugh.

Moore will call a runner over at that. "Please inform Sir Gisfal the concentration of water is worse here. We should start rotating if we can. That's probably their plan, to just wait us out in this awful nonsense." He then turns to his dragon friend, "Surraruthru, do you have magic that can control the weather, or water? I mean, this nonsense -is- made of water..."

[Iron Dragoon]

"Hm. High mobility. We'll have to task some more lookouts and scouts. They'll try and smash our formation apart after the droplets have worn away our magics. They only have to hold a defensive line until then. A good strategy, and requires a minimal amount of effort and risk on their part. Unless we can draw them into over extending, then we'll have to hit really hard really fast, and very soon."

[Iron Dragoon]

Surraruthru considers...

Could water elementals do something about the droplets? Spellcraft or K:P for that?

[Anastasia]

K:P.

[Iron Dragoon]

> roll 1d20+34 K:P
<Serith> Iddy roll for Serith < 35 > [d20=1]

[Anastasia]

As you consider, you see a few martial artists being led back. Staggered and blank-eyed, seemingly incoherent at best. A few at first then a steady trickle, armored knights and griffons racing out to replace them. "Rotate, rotate! Mentally injured, amnesic!" You hear those cries as they race back, runners hurrying back and forth frantically.

Surraruthru considers. They could help some, but not a lot. You'd need a really strong elemental to do it on a wide scale, like a primal water elemental.

[Iron Dragoon]

"An elemental could help, but it'd have to be an exceedingly powerful one. I don't have the ability to summon anything near that strength... We should check on those coming back."

With that, Surraruthru heads over to gather information about what kind of forces the army is encountering and what kind of damage and attacks they've sustained.

[Anastasia]

Where precisely are you heading over to?