Infiltrators (Surraruthru, Tryll)

[Anastasia]

'Thank you. Could you fly up high enough and see where you are in more detail from a bird's eye view?' Tepen asks.

[Yuthirin]

The pair rises into the sky, mostly unobtrusive.

[Anastasia]

You're roughly in the center of the city - well, a little south of it, but close enough.

[Yuthirin]

'Just slightly south of center of the city, Tepen.'

[Anastasia]

'That may raise the possibility,' Tepen replies, to all of you. 'Thank you, Tryll.'

[Yuthirin]

Tryll and Calleigh head back to the group!

[Anastasia]

The return is uneventful, 'Well then,' Bubbles says, 'What do we do now?'

[Iron Dragoon]

'Ready the assault unless anyone else has an idea?'

[Yuthirin]

'Well, we either assault the walls directly and hope to bring them down or find some way to get at the spell anchor and take that out.' Tryll offers. 'Are we certain that the fortress is defended on all sides, including above and below, by these walls of force?'

[Iron Dragoon]

'From what I can see, but I can't travel through stone.'

[Yuthirin]

'Then we shall go look.'

Phasing into the walls to look around at the ground underneath the fortress and the ceiling above it.

[Ebiris]

Belated but Afina would recast moment of prescience while they were on their way over here.

'Walls of force are no impediment to my slaughterstone behemoths,' Afina points out in the telepathic debate. 'Although they look bigger they can fit through any tunnels my hounds can fit through. One or two of them would destroy this fortress in moments.'

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Afina: 239/287, glaciante's spiteful ward (CL 27 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 25), see invisibility (CL 25), greater heroism (CL 25), interplanar telepathic bond (CL 24), shield (CL 25), magic tattoo (CL 26), magic tattoo (CL 26), energy absorption (CL 26), stupendous dragonskin (CL 26), seira's agility (CL 26), seira's strength (CL 26), seira's mind (CL 26), mind blank (CL 27), stoneskin (CL 26), control weather (CL 27), scalding touch (CL 27, SR 45), shadow form (CL 25), moment of prescience (CL 25)
AC 97, spell resistance 40, blindsense 30, immunity to fire, water, earth, cold, disease, poison
Spell charges: 5/0/8/4/1/8/6/5/0/0/0/1
20 uses left on blistering/searing scalding touch

Fenrir: 322/370, heroes feast (CL 20), greater mage armour (CL 7), mind blank (CL 17), fortunate fate (CL 15), planar tolerance (CL 7), haste (CL 25)
AC 43, spell resistance 25, freedom of movement, immunity to electricity, exhaustion, mind affecting, fatigue, fear, poison
Garm: 92/370, heroes feast (CL 20), greater mage armour (CL 7), mind blank (CL 17), fortunate fate (CL 15), planar tolerance (CL 7), haste (CL 25)
AC 43, spell resistance 25, freedom of movement, immunity to electricity, exhaustion, mind affecting, fatigue, fear, poison
Attack: +39 (2d6+25) +10d6 skirmish, dimensional anchor

[Iron Dragoon]

'We can definitely do that, then, but I think we should be careful about destroying the thing outright. Who knows what kind of traps are on this. It could be that destroying or dispelling it is what triggers it. Use the behemoths to rip apart the walls, get in, and figure out what spell this is?'

[Ebiris]

'In my experience destroying things is a good way of dealing with their traps with the least risk,' Afina points out. 'The time spent getting them down here is saved by having them handle the fortress quickly and decisively. If we're just pruning away the outer walls then disintegrate spells are just as good and I can do enough for our needs. I will point out that if you think Taelfagn is involved, spending an inordinate amount of time trying to puzzle out the devils' oh so clever traps is what let him take Lief and Muirfinn before. Better to dispel or destroy and move on.'

[Iron Dragoon]

Surraruthru shrugs to himself and responds, 'You're the General here and have the most experience dealing with the devils. If you think that's the best way to do it, then give the orders. All I wanted to point out is that whatever this is, it may be set up to trigger without something specific happening.'