The Archive (Jaela)

[Corwin]

Jaela closes the book she's reading with a snap, and while balancing it on the palm of her left hand summons Gae Bolg. "Reconsider the life choices that brought you to this point," she tells the screaming figure, matching that step forward. "Or it will all be over before the guardians get a chance to chastise you."

[Anastasia]

Before your eyes, the figure's eyes split open. From those twin gaps roaches and other crawling vermin race out, all over his armor. 'You do not have a choice. You are summoned. Come or the crawling ones will find you.'

"Disgusting," Moonlight readies her own mace, face screwed up into a grimace.

"Aaah, how droll." Canderella says. "Like a little bit of a storm wouldn't blow them away."

[Corwin]

Jaela's expression turns stony, and her body soon follows.

It's time for Stone Body, oh yes.

[Anastasia]

"Go along now," Canderella waves her hand, lightning dancing over her body as if she were a live wire. "We're done playing."

Moonlight steps up, light like the noonday sun coming from her. "Lathander's light reaches everywhere, even here. Care to experience it first hand?"

Intimidate checks, all.

[Corwin]

20:41 <Tohsaka> roll 1d20+40+15
20:41 <Rei-chan> Tohsaka rolled : 1d20+40+15 --> [ 1d20=20 ]{75}

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+48 Canderella Intimidate
<Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+48 Canderella Intimidate --> [ 1d20=8 ]{56}
> roll 1d20+9 Moonlight intimidate
<Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+9 Moonlight intimidate --> [ 1d20=6 ]{15}
> roll 1d20+4 Vul'lath
<Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+4 Vul'lath --> [ 1d20=16 ]{20}

Total of 81, he can't beat that so no point in rolling.

The bugs clatter and hiss at you as one, unearthly noises that send a chill up your spine. The creature breaks apart, armor and all, into thousands of vermin that crawl up the shelves and out of sight.

[Corwin]

"For fuck's sake," Jaela grumbles, walking ahead. Finishing the anti-devil book will have to wait until she's an entire floor away from this.

[Anastasia]

"Eyes open," Moonlight warns, "He might try something, even if he didn't have the guts to go through with it."

[Corwin]

"Don't worry about that," Jaela says, her anger serving to focus her wonderfully.

[Anastasia]

Indeed, as you do, you can see them with your blindsight. Bugs crawling all amid the shelves and behind the books, watching you and moving along as you move.

[Corwin]

Jaela proceeds ahead, observing her conditions. A Wall of Stone might do the trick and protect her, but if the material of the passageway doesn't lend itself to being used in such a way, she'll need to step closer to the wall to avoid the books and put on a Crown of Flames for that nice and toasty aura.

[Anastasia]

It's a wide hallway of bookshelves. It's coming up to a right hand turn, with a little nook opposite it. You aren't sure what's in there, you'd have to go closer. Might be a dead end, might be a passage.

[Corwin]

Jaela heads on to resolve this mystery!

[Anastasia]

Within the nook lies a iron basin. Words are enscribed onto the side, "The price of knowledge is blood."

[Corwin]

Jaela dismisses the stone from her being, removes her right gauntlet and wraps it across the tip of her spear while holding it above the basin.