Off to the see the (dragon) wizard! (Jaela)

[Corwin]

[21:51] <@Annerose> roll 1d3
[21:51] <Rei-chan> Annerose rolled : 1d3 --> [ 1d3=3 ]{3}

[Anastasia]

It was center-left-right, just for the record.

You choose the right side door and open it. It leads to a worn hallway with a door 15ft ahead on the right side, before going on a little further into a stairway going down. Hanging down from it on one surviving chain is a sun emblem, weathered and old. It's made of gold and easily as big as a heavy steel shield.

Mirima whistles quietly, "Interesting. Also unexpected to see something so Lathanderite here."

[Corwin]

Jaela approaches the emblem, and after checking it for magic picks it up. At its size it is easily stored with her other shield.

Spellcraft 52 to check for magical traps.

[Anastasia]

There's magic around it, alright. It's enchanted to shed light on command as well as send searing beams of light at anyone who comes at it from the other side.

[Corwin]

Jaela stores it away, capable of searing beams of light all on her own!

[Anastasia]

Obvious question, but going on down the stairs?

[Corwin]

Yes

[Anastasia]

The stairs are well worn, ancient things crumbling at the edges. As you begin to go down, you notice it's hotter down here. Each step makes it even hotter, though your protections are still more than sufficient to shield you. The air wavers with heat, yet the two of you do not. Mirima seems too bright for the dark heat below, super-real and imposed over it.

Down in this basement is ruin. Old supplies and the like are everywhere, only the barest remnants of them. Yet you can see them crawling amid this mess - more of the worms, moving as one to a point 50ft ahead of you, atop a mess of crumbled stone and ruined supplies. Just behind that a bright reddish glow comes, giving the room a strange light.

"Ah, of course. To find worms you go to the ground. How obvious," Mirima remarks, looking over the rubble strewn ground. Walking through that won't be easy, as the air around the two of you begins to throb.

Init here.

[Corwin]

[19:57] <@Annerose> roll 1d20+13
[19:57] <Serith> Annerose roll for Serith < 28 > [d20=15]

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+11 Mirima
<Serith> Kotono roll for Serith < 25 > [d20=14]
> roll 1d20+18 Worms
<Serith> Kotono roll for Serith < 22 > [d20=4]

Init is Jaela (28) > Mirima (25) > Worms (22)

Open.

[Corwin]

A gentle tap is all Jaela needs to imbue Mirima with flight. But rather than charge in immediately, Jaela focuses on the reddish glow first....

I want to make sure I don't think it's charging up or about to blow us up or whichever. Taking ten for K:A 60, K:N 41, K:R 65, K:P 65, Spellcraft 52

Will act after!

[Anastasia]

Your natural knowledge tells you what it is - the glow of lava or something of similar heat and coloring.

[Corwin]

Don't break the wall. She can do that! But for now, Jaela uses her superior flight skills to seek out melee!

[20:44] <@Annerose> roll 1d20+56
[20:44] <Serith> Annerose roll for Serith < 66 > [d20=10]
[20:44] <@Annerose> roll 1d8+54+4d6 bypasses DR
[20:44] <Serith> Annerose roll for Serith < 75 > [d8=2][d6=5,6,3,5]

Gambit!

[Anastasia]

You charge in, spearing four worms on your spear and skewering them. They go limp on it, blood pouring down the haft as you're able to see past the hill of rubble from here. A pool of lava is here, about 20ft wide. In the center is a big, brain-like thing, worms crawling out of holes from it. It pulses every few seconds, lava pulsing along with it.

Mirima meanwhile zooms ahead, darting in to savage the worms. A blur of red, her blade flashing through them.

> roll 1d20+59 Mirima
<Serith> Kotono roll for Serith < 67 > [d20=8]
> roll 1d20+54 Mirima
<Serith> Kotono roll for Serith < 56 > [d20=2]
> roll 1d20+49 Mirima
<Serith> Kotono roll for Serith < 66 > [d20=17]
> roll 1d10+45+4d6+4d6
> roll 1d10+45+4d6+4d6
<Serith> Kotono roll for Serith < 72 > [d10=8][d6=2,3,1,1,1,5,4,2]
<Serith> Kotono roll for Serith < 78 > [d10=6][d6=3,4,4,5,1,3,2,5]

Worms are cut in half as she flies through them and then back, calling out as she goes, "What in the Triune's name IS that?"

Any answer is cut off, as the brain pulses and eldritch blue flames surround it. Suddenly you feel like you're being crushed from all directions.

A custom spell that uses crushing force to obliterate many targets at once through sheer damage. Going to counter?

[Corwin]

"The hive queen?" Jaela calls back. "This is where we go all out, so do your crazy flurry thing!"

[21:17] <@Annerose> roll 1d20+35
[21:17] <Serith> Annerose roll for Serith < 39 > [d20=4]

I'll try!