Moving spheres

[Ebiris]

Alicia goes and has a peek down the chasm before worrying about the door.

[Anastasia]

The chasm goes down about 40ft into what looks to be a lair. There's massive caverns down here filled with massive scorpions. Before your eyes, scorpion larvae mature, grow and become full sized adults in moments, then shift, time sending them elsewhere.

[Ebiris]

She waves Chrona over. "How does this work, do you have something to make up for the lack of food they're getting to grow up like that?"

[Anastasia]

"Yes," Chrona 42 approaches, "Time is manipulated on different levels, so that the nutrients birth provides are endlessly repeated, while the body grows off of it, not repeated and allowed to mature. It's advanced work, the domain above mortal magic. It was not unheard of for an army of monsters to be replenished in hours near the end, when chronomancy was wide spread."

[Ebiris]

"It's convenient for a dungeon... I made one out to the East and I had to set up magical replenishing foodstock for the giant spiders," Alicia chuckles, shaking her head and straightening from the edge of the chasm. "Well I suppose there's surely enough scorpions in here to challenge us by now so they can stop being replaced quite so quickly..." A disjunction follows to dispel the time magic at the bottom of the chasm.

How many checks?

[Anastasia]

8.

[Ebiris]

[20:05] <@Ebiris> roll 8#1d20+31
[20:05] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 46, 45, 38, 46, 33, 51, 35, 45 >

[Anastasia]

With a tremendous crashing noise, magic collapses below. The time acceleration stops and sputters out, space twisting below as time reasserts its rightful flows. The skittering noises of scorpions reaches up, even from here.

[Ebiris]

Content with that, Alicia steps back and goes to open the sky door next.

[Anastasia]

The sky door opens. Ahead of you is pure sky - a sunset sky, radiant and beautiful.

Syala looks on, "Pretty," she murmurs, and then in a lighter voice, "Sunset was the marker for things to get really interesting in Rapture. Daytime is for sunning and other enjoyments, but once night falls...."

[Ebiris]

"Cats wailing in every alley?" Marie pipes up with a cheeky smile.

[Anastasia]

With an innocent smile, "Why Marielle, are you interested in wailing?" Syala teases right back.

[Ebiris]

"Not the way cats do it!" Marie responds, giggling.

"Can we not?" Alicia asks wearily, leaning out of the doorway to look up and down and see if there's any land in sight. Also magic.

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Avatarlicia: 582+20/582
Active spells: Extended nondetection (CL 32), many moments of prescience (CL 31), extended greater anticipate teleportation (CL 32), extended repelling shield (CL 32), recitation (CL 31), sensual blessing (CL 31)
Defences: AC 65 (touch 32), CMD 80, spell resistance 46, status immunity (polymorph, petrification, disease, energy drain, ability damage, ability drain, mind-affecting, and fear), nondetection (DC 47)
Stat buffs/penalties: +9 shield AC, +3 luck attack/saves, +4 morale attack/saves/skills, +25 competence perception
Perceptions: Darkvision 60, scent, low-light vision, arcane sight, blindsight 60, tremorsense 60, perception +73
Sorcerer spell slots: 6/13/12/11/9/8/10/7/7/7/7/6/7/4
Duskblade spell slots: 6/17/17/16/9/6

Marie: 589+20/589
Active spells: Extended superior resistance (CL 31), epic mage armour (CL 31), extended mind blank (CL 31), greater arcane sight (CL 31), bibliotheca arcana (CL 31), extended nondetection (CL 31), extended repelling shield (CL 31), recitation (CL 31), sensual blessing (CL 31)
Defences: AC 93 (touch 35), CMD 71, spell resistance 45, energy immunity (electricity, negative energy), energy resistance 10 (acid, cold), (petrification, polymorph, form-altering, energy drain, ability drain, ability damage, mind-affecting), protective aura, nondetection (DC 46), ray deflection
Stat buffs/penalties: +15 insight knowledge, +11 shield AC, +3 luck attack/saves, +4 morale attack/saves/skills, +25 competence perception
Perceptions: Darkvision 60, blessed sight 120, see invisibility, greater arcane sight, scent, low-light vision, blindsight 60, tremorsense 60, perception +75
Sorcerer spell slots: 6/8/10/8/9/9/8/8/8/8/8/5/5
Limited SLAs available: Meteor swarm, time stop

[Anastasia]

Syala laughs a bit, "You're right, I apologize. I'll wait for Antenora to be here next time, so we have maximum tense awkwardness."

Oh, there's magic. The entire vista ahead is magic - frozen utterly in time, divorced from the absolute present entirely. A sunset that will never end, because it is beyond time's touch.

[Ebiris]

Where is it? Since they're underground the door must be a portal of some sorts, right?