A taste of the southern wind (Jaela, 89 days left)

[Ebiris]

Taking 10 for 51 on planes, are we still on Lifasa?

[Anastasia]

Add an K:A check too.

[Ebiris]

Taking 10 for 51 on that too.

[Corwin]

Same question for me, taking ten for K:P 65

Second question, taking ten for K:A 62 and Spellcraft 54 to figure out what can allow us to leave (superb dispelling?)

[Anastasia]

You're still on Lifasa, you think. It appear you ran into a teleportation beacon, a means of attracting and diverting teleports. Brightwater uses them, for example, and some plains have the same effect (such as Celestia shunting visitors to the bottom regardless of target).

It doesn't stop teleportation, just redirects teleports aimed within a certain radius to a single spot. There's not a lot to bypass them short of a gate spell (if not sufficiently powerful) or potentially epic magic designed to do so.

[Corwin]

Jaela immediately opens a gate to Elysium next to Aurora!

[Anastasia]

The gate opens uneventfully.

[Corwin]

"Everyone, through the gate," Jaela orders, before asking Afina, "Can you wreck this room as we leave?"

[Ebiris]

"Yes," Afina says, waiting until everyone else is through before she casts another volcanic genesis spell and flees before the eruption of gas can get her!

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Afina 329+20/329
active spells: glaciante's spiteful ward (CL 29 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 27), many moments of prescience (CL 27), greater heroism (CL 25), afina's perfect vision (CL 27), shield (CL 27), sublime revelry (CL 31), death ward (CL 30), good hope (CL 30), celestial valor (CL 26), recitation (CL 30), holy aura (CL 27), interplanar telepathic bond (CL 26), haste (CL 27)
defences: AC 101 (touch 65), spell resistance 42, immunity to fire, water, earth, cold, disease, poison, fear, mind-affecting, 50% miss chance, freedom of movement
perceptions: blindsight 200, low-light vision, darkvision 60, all-around vision, see invisible/ethereal, spot +70, listen +70
spell slots: 6/9/10/9/7/9/8/8/8/7/7/3/2

[Anastasia]

Afina sees the gases erupting as the room begins to be consumed, then she's through the portal and into Elysium's sunny warmth.

"Bah, cowards," Ram smacks his fist into his palm, "Can't let us go and have a stand up ambush on them."

"Those beacons are expensive. I hope your spell destroys it, that is not a small setback," Ebony murmurs, pulling her hood up.

[Ebiris]

"Lava has a proven track record of destroying magical items, and mine burns hotter than most," Afina says with a small little smile. "Also they're not effective against gate spells, so we could return to the fray with our original target. Or pick a different one in case our arrival at that particular beacon forewarned them."

[Corwin]

"I'm pretty set on the Stone Forest," Jaela admits, "given it holds the trapped souls in our countrymen in endless torment. Give me a moment...."

She tries to open a gate to their desired location, this time, her concentration on the previous one waning.

[Anastasia]

Where precisely are you aiming at, Jaela? Saome spot as before? Different spot, same location?

[Corwin]

Same spot except with gate.

[Anastasia]

The forest is that of petrified trees and hanging undeath.

The chill of spirits runs across all of you, a mournful howl heard in the air.

It's so cold here. Cold as death, cold enough to freeze you to the quick.

Fog is ever-present, visibility terrible and the air like icy daggers in your chest.