War

[Nephrite]

"Forward!" Moore shouts, moving towards one of the portals that happens to be closest to him.

Let's see if we can get to a portal to try and shut it down.

[Anastasia]

The beach level is warfare, brigades against brigades - a long archon line ahead where efreet clash, then various advances and strong points holding as the attackers push against them. Fires explode here, magic bursting on both sides, flaming rocks, arrows and spells all raining down on the land defenders.

In the air things are more chaotic - ever moving battles, aerial combat en masse. Here three dimensions result in ever moving battle lines, angels and genies doing war above. Here it is less the blade and strong point than spells and maneuvering, foes fighting largely from afar and spreading out as needed. It's all mixed together as well, no lines unlike the land battle.

How do you wish to proceed?

[Nephrite]

Would it stand to reason that the teleport blocker we have would cause the portals to stop working or at least affect them in some manner of speaking?

[Anastasia]

Possibly. This level of power may well be the Grand Sultan or a similar being, so it's hard to say for certain.

[Nephrite]

"I'm going to try something." Moore says. "If it doesn't work, then it's easy enough to disable it."

He looks up to the top of Mount Celestia. 'I am going to try a teleport blocker. I will disable it if it doesn't help us.' He prays ... to someone? To everyone?

He has to have faith.



With that, he withdraws the teleport blocker from his bags and speaks the command word!

[Anastasia]

Paste me the stats of it?

[Nephrite]

Teleportation Blocker

With a command word (Iosidas), this blocker blocks teleportation in a one mile radius. It can't be moved while it is active or it automatically de-activates. The same command word de-activates it as well.

[Anastasia]

You see a few of the outermost portals shudder shut at this, but no others close.

[Nephrite]

"...That's the opposite of what I thought would happen." Moore admits.

He says the command word again and grabs the blocker.

How close is the closest portal?

[Anastasia]

About a mile away. You have territory to cover.

"We need to move, we're sitting targets here," Kaja growls.

[Nephrite]

Oh, I misunderstood what you meant. I thought you mean 'no others nearby close,' not 'there aren't any nearby.'

"On it." Moore says, and then he gestures!

Dimension Door, this will take them 1640 feet, which is approximately 1/3 of a mile.

Once we're there, we'll use the blocker again.

[Anastasia]

Give me a quick d100.

[Nephrite]

[13:05] <Nephrite> roll 1d100
[13:05] <Rei-chan> Nephrite rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=17 ]{17}

[Anastasia]

You appear before it - a swirl of flame, a gush of heat. Your protections shield you - to your left two hound archons hold off an efreet with two scimitars, while ahead a line of efreet advance. The air is growing hotter by the moment, more portals starting to open. All is a blur of battle, everything confused, chaotic.

[Nephrite]

Moore again activates the teleport blocker!