Salvation (Everyone)

[Anastasia]

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Queen Ilsenine greets Moore with a moment's smile, "Today is the day," she murmurs to him, as eyes are on both of you.

"Good," Sylvie says, and after a moment, "I'm working on plans and counter plans."

"Alright," Kascha says in the meantime, taking that on face value.

Meanwhile...

> roll 1d100 Lady Luck first
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d100 Lady Luck first --> [ 1d100=66 ]{66}
> roll 1d20+32 Adrian
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+32 Adrian --> [ 1d20=11 ]{43}
> roll 1d20+41 Makaril
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+41 Makaril --> [ 1d20=4 ]{45}
> roll 1d20+40 pit fiend
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+40 pit fiend --> [ 1d20=16 ]{56}
> roll 1d20+36 narzugon commander
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+36 narzugon commander --> [ 1d20=17 ]{53}
> roll 1d20+39 Westwind
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+39 Westwind --> [ 1d20=15 ]{54}

Out there battle is joined. Aurora continues to fight - while the pit fiend holds his ground as best he can, still giving way, it slows. Attention is split - until Drena and Westwind slam into the narzugon line. It doesn't buckle, but the charge is arrested, chaos following. War is everywhere outside, raging back and forth. You see the retreating devils stop, suddenly holding ground as unholy blights blanket Aurora's forces. Protections shine against them, shielding many, but it's still enough to check the advance a moment, an unstable equilibrium.

Jaela can see it - the devils lining up together, holding their resistance. 'Jaela!' Adrian sends, 'Some support to soften up that mass. I have a shot at the commander if someone can supply some magic to soften them up. End this by claiming the bastard's head.'

[Corwin]

"Magic, is it?" Jaela murmurs, before handing out her orders. "Canderella is to take another force to support Adrian," she tells Vul'lath.

Then, lingering over a spot on the map, Jaela uses Aurora's ability to speak directly with Mirima. "I'm sending out Canderella. I need you to go with her and take out the enemy leader Adrian's struggling with."

Another 10% to reinforce Adrian, Mirima detached to them because she's just that badass.

[Anastasia]

'Understood. To victory,' Mirima sends back, and you can just imagine the eager look on her face.

Outside Mirima raises her voice, "The Graceful Blow, with me! FOR LIFASA!" The gates again open as suddenly - !!!

Aurora shakes. A vast mass of burning black and green flame slams into the rear of the dome, as if the fist of Bel given material form. The dome endures, cracking briefly before repairing, shaking the entire demiplane and sending a shockwave out into the waveland, cracking the ground and snapping what trees and foliage remains.

Far away, just on the edge of even Afina's superb vision, miles up and above, a shimmering shape can be seen. You aren't sure what it is precisely, but it brings to mind one memory in particular: The Burning Aeropolis, wreathed in black and green flame. It's not possible to tell from here if that is it, let alone surrounded in flame, but the shape is roughly right.

[Nephrite]

At the sudden shaking, Moore turns with a frown before he turns back to Ilsenine with a nod and a reassuring smile.

"I'm ready for whatever comes today." He says.

[Anastasia]

"Good, because it's not waiting on us," Ilsenine says, at the ready. "I am ready as well. Order," she bellows in her cutesy voice, stilling the fey gawking and yammering over it.

Crystal merely waits at attention, peering ahead at it.

[Yuthirin]

'Plans? Feel free to share.' Tryll replies to Sylvie as he watches the sky above Aurora.

[Nephrite]

Moore merely nods himself and waits to see what else happens. Is yet another battle occurring beyond what they can see, on a completely different plane? He can't help but glance up, as if looking towards the Holy Mountain for guidance.

[Anastasia]

"Hold on for a second," Sylvie looks up, "We have trouble. You may get to use those reserves sooner than anticipated."

Moore looks up and silently prays, holding on and waiting. Hel repeats the same tricks, in endless permutations. It stands how to destroy what is good.

[Ebiris]

"The devils have a floating fortress of their own. Elena, pass on to Jaela that I'm dispatching forces to attack it," Afina says as she organises a strike force on the captured flying ships Jaela procured, predominantly fliers who can keep going even if the ships get shot out from under them. "Crystal, you're in command, Baleruk, ensure their safety and get that disgrace out of our sky!" she commands.

[Anastasia]

"On it!" Elena appears, "Crystal, Baleruk and accompanying forces? Anyone else?"

[Ebiris]

"They're it," Afina confirms.

[Anastasia]

Elena blinks and vanishes, passing on Afina's message to Jaela.

Go ahead, Jaela.

[Corwin]

Jaela ensures that their forces set off swiftly, clearing away any obstacles along their path. Even then, however, Aurora is already moving. She can't take their fortress too far away from the battle and risk stranding their forces, but she can avoid having it become a sitting duck, and even if the bombardment continues, she can certainly ensure different segments of the shield and the outer walls will be hit by subsequent strikes, lessening the strain upon any one section.

She briefly considers holding this ability back, but then dismisses the thought and activates the prismatic barrier atop the force shield over Aurora, currently set in its purely defensive configuration.

Prismatic Wall+Wall of Force shield on, wall adapted to not blind anyone. Aurora is moving in 3d without an easily-discernible pattern.

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d100 Lady Luck vs the ongoing battle
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d100 Lady Luck vs the ongoing battle --> [ 1d100=40 ]{40}
> roll 1d20+32 Adrian
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+32 Adrian --> [ 1d20=3 ]{35}
> roll 1d20+41 Makaril
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+41 Makaril --> [ 1d20=1 ]{42}
> roll 1d20+40 pit fiend
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+40 pit fiend --> [ 1d20=14 ]{54}
> roll 1d20+36 narzugon commander
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+36 narzugon commander --> [ 1d20=10 ]{46}
> roll 1d20+39 Westwind
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+39 Westwind --> [ 1d20=14 ]{53}
> roll 1d20+45 Crystal
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+45 Crystal --> [ 1d20=17 ]{62}
> roll 1d20+40 Mirima
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+40 Mirima --> [ 1d20=3 ]{43}

Crystal surges up amid the chaos, leading her forces with Baleruk flying along. He bellows as he does, "YOU DARE ATTACK THE RISING KING OF PRISMATIC MAJESTIES?!"

Meanwhile you see the added pressure works - the devils fall back again, the entrance of another force too much. This time Adrian surges forward and...

> roll 1d100
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d100 --> [ 1d100=62 ]{62}

The enemies are disintegrating. Jaela and the onlookers can see it, the devil defenders pushed too hard. A lightning bolt joins a sword strike from Adrian, succubus and hagspawn overwhelming the general together. Breaking and battered, the devils vanish away - followed by the checked but intact narzugons doing the same, teleporting about a thousand feet up, visibly regrouping.

'One down,' Canderella calls in all of your minds.

'Makaril's coming our way now,' Adrian sends briefly after, 'He wants to talk to Aurora's strike force while he can.'

[Corwin]

'Excellent,' Jaela responds to Adrian. 'Take your troops back to rest. Canderella's forces will secure the area.'

Of Vul'lath, Jaela requests, "Please see if is at all possible for Sylvie to vet Makaril's forces as they come inside Aurora to recuperate."