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[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+6 Kascha (-20 ??)
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+6 Kascha (-20 ??) --> [ 1d20=9 ]{15}]

You all swim down deeper.

Huh?

You were...something. Talking? Strange. For a moment you swear you were talking to someone. The feeling soon passes, leaving a faint hint of confusion and dizziness that soon passes.

[Ebiris]

"Did anyone just feel dizzy?" Afina asks, noting that her moment of prescience spell has been expended. Something must have happened, and it wasn't enough? In any case she recasts it.

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Afina: 287+13/287, glaciante's spiteful ward (CL 24 attached to epic mage armour), heroes feast (CL 20), mind blank (CL 17), fortunate fate (CL 15), planar tolerance (CL 7), epic mage armour (CL 24), moment of prescience (CL 24)
AC 87, spell resistance 39, blindsense 30, immunity to fire, water, earth, cold, disease, poison, fear
Spell charges: 6/10/10/10/9/9/9/8/6/7/6/5

[Anastasia]

"Mm..." Kascha murmurs as if mostly asleep, shaking her head. "Now that you mention it, I do. What was that? It was something, I don't know what."

[Ebiris]

"It felt like there was another presence with us, I think," Afina says to better articulate her strange feeling.

[Anastasia]

"I can't remember any of it," Kascha frowns, "Something protected by anathemic knowledge could do that," she remarks, "Like with the Hidden Layers."

[Ebiris]

Afina hopes she didn't say anything compromising during the lost time. "Nothing we can do about it but continue on," she says, continuing her descent. They haven't been turned away at least.

[Corwin]

"It must be something ridiculous to get past the Mind Blank," Jaela surmises, following Afina's precautions for the exact same reasons and then building up on them.

Recasting expended Moment of Prescience, casting Conviction and Good Hope.

[Anastasia]

All of you continue to swim down. The waters do not press you nor does it become any darker. Schools of colorful fish are everywhere, often swimming right along with you. After about a half hour of this, you spot something below. The top of a volcano, still well below you but waiting for you below. An entire mountain floating beneath the sea.

[Ebiris]

That's what they came to find. Afina casts greater heroism on herself now that the goal is in sight but continues swimming at the same pace.

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Afina: 287+20/287, glaciante's spiteful ward (CL 24 attached to epic mage armour), heroes feast (CL 20), mind blank (CL 17), fortunate fate (CL 15), planar tolerance (CL 7), epic mage armour (CL 24), moment of prescience (CL 24), greater heroism (CL 24)
AC 87, spell resistance 39, blindsense 30, immunity to fire, water, earth, cold, disease, poison, fear
Spell charges: 6/10/10/10/9/9/8/8/6/7/6/5

[Corwin]

Jaela refreshes her expiring spell and grins a Kascha, before waving her over. Even though it should be safe, Kascha would be safest in the middle of their group with Jaela herself right on her heels.

Good Hope refreshed. Also, Sign.

[Anastasia]

Kascha blushes as you wave her over. "Um..." she murmurs, "Are all of you protecting me?"

[Corwin]

"I know I am, but it's not because you're particularly fragile," Jaela responds honestly. "It's mostly because I like you."

[Anastasia]

Blushing even more, "Ah...I...aaaah!" Kascha flies face first into a big red fish, stopping her cold. Recovering and shaking that off, "I'm fine."

[Corwin]

Jaela blinks, staring for a few moments. That just happened. Would she run into a bird while flying? There are huge birds like Arrel, so it could be possible....

"Glad to hear it," she finally forces out. "After you?"

[Anastasia]

Rubbing her nose, "Thanks," Kascha says abashedly, swimming further down.

You get closer to the volcano's top. You can see stairs are carved into the volcano's top, leading into the caldera. Past the very tip of it there's no more water but open space instead.