Diplomatic aftermath

[Corwin]

19:33 <CC> roll 1d20+45
19:33 <Penuche> CC invokes Penuche's magic: < 60 > [d20=15]

[Anastasia]

You feel it begin to work - and you see. The way the energy is resonating proves it is a demiplane. What's more, is that you can see it's a trap now. If anything undoes the lock, the entire demiplane is going to violently collapse, as it's been made the lynchpin of it. Such an event is extraordinarily dangerous to anyone in the demiplane.

Between your greater arcane sight and spellcraft, you see this early enough to stop your spell, if you wish to.

Meanwhile Amaryl and the others are there, "Seira?" she asks.

[Corwin]

I would like some odds here, and a bunch of clarifications.

-Would antimagic trigger the trap within the dimensional lock spell? Since it'd only be suppressed, it could be a viable alternative to a dispel.
-Do I have any other way into the demiplane from the information I have? Like does my remote viewing allow me to see what's past the golden portal for the apparent point of entry into the demiplane?
-Since it's a demiplane but it seems strongly implied from your responses and the dimensional lock that one can use dimensional travel here, do I have any ideas about this? Does it remind me of anything? How confident am I, actually, that beating the dimensional lock will allow me to plane shift the xorn out?
-Is it possible to stabilize the trap? Like, say, I use my remaining action to delay it going off, and have Amaryl yank the xorn out with Wish on the same round much safer than the alternative.
-Is there an alternate option that my character sees but I do not? As things stand I don't see how I could reach the xorn's demiplane prison in any other way, given its entrance is unknown and it is protected by a divine will (I should know that I ran into divine power there, as with Asmodeus and Lixer before, right?).
-OOC, how would the threat be represented? Similar to an outrun the collapse thing, where there's a dex check/ref save or something along those lines? Continuing damage during a countdown to destruction? Is it immediately lethal, merely dangerous, or something in-between like how Tepen lost part of his soul and was supernaturally debilitated?

Knowledge/Arcana, Religion and the Planes 10 for 85, Spellcraft 10 for 70, I have a bunch of other skills should they be relevant.

[Anastasia]

Give me an K:A check here first, this may well matter.

[Corwin]

Knowledge/Arcana, Religion and the Planes 10 for 85, Spellcraft 10 for 70

[Anastasia]

In order.

- It would not, if you could wrap the entire demiplane in antimagic.
- You do not. The portal doesn't show anything past it.
- Reasonably sure, though you can't rule out that it's mind games, some sort of trickery or other sort of fuckery. A group powerful enough to build or use a custom demiplane's versatile enough that you can't entirely discount it.
- How would you propose to stabilize it? Throwing divine power at it, or do you have a particular spell well suited to it?
- Whatever it is, it is named Kulcak. Make an K:P check here.
- It would be an immediate collapse, so you'd need to react quickly. You'd know that IC. It's hard to run when the entire plane you're on is exploding at once. It's the sort of thing an epic character could survive, depending, but even then you'd suspect they'd be tossed who knows where.

[Corwin]

Amaryl and I are bringing you over, so keep us in your prayers and don't resist!

I will be going ahead with this. My standard action will be a divine power (alter reality) intended to find that one in a million chance where the catastrophic collapse is delayed just an extra second, quite in line with what I represent.

Amaryl's action will be to use Wish to approximate a plane shift for the Great Xorn from his captivity and to the Cauldron. He has been told to allow it to go.

K:P of 85 to learn what is Kulcak for future reference.

[Anastasia]

Kulcak is barely a person, as much a wind as anything else. What little you know is a memory of a conversation with Chan - mentioning Kulchak, a minor archomental who represents fresh breezes and winds. Relatively powerful for such an entity, it rarely communicates and has a body that is essentially a gust of wind that travels freely across Air.

A chance to reply to that in case that changes the calculus of your actions at all.

[Corwin]

It doesn't, let's do this.

[Anastasia]

So much of this depends on speed. To help adjudicate this, I'd like both of you to give me Dexterity checks, as the timing is so incredibly precise.

[Corwin]

19:34 <CC> roll 1d20+12+2+2 Seira
19:34 <Penuche> CC invokes Penuche's magic: < 19 > [d20=3]
19:34 <CC> roll 1d20+16+2+1 Amaryl
19:34 <Penuche> CC invokes Penuche's magic: < 34 > [d20=15]

[Anastasia]

You're slow - a split second mistimed. Yet Amaryl is as fast as her domain over celerity suggests. You feel it - Creation around her resonates with her will, speed beyond speed. There is a tremendous tearing before you're momentarily forced back a step.

Before you is a great, big Xorn. It makes a noise like stones being hurled against a wall before saying, "Uuuugh. Well, any mishap you can walk away from is a good one."

[Corwin]

"Sometimes, brute force is better than any complicated plan," Seira muses, "especially if it lands you in safety. You are among friends now, as I am Seira Aryn and this is my wife, Amaryl."

[Anastasia]

You feel it resonate from the Great Xorn - hope. Hope, fresh and vital, suffuses him.

"It's a pleasure to meet you," Amaryl offers. "Are you well?"

One of the Great Xorn's many clawed hands comes up, slowly massaging the back of its head area, mouth opened up much larger than a human's ever could. "I think so, nothing vital's broken. The other claws check over its body, long and slowly. "Nothing important is missing this time."

[Corwin]

"This time?" Seira inquires, bestowing a Heal and a Regeneration on the Great Xorn before looking him over for hostile magic.