Getting the band together

[Corwin]

Seira stops time... and proceeds to explore the chamber, glancing into all the open doors while Forecaging the efreet.

17:39 <CC> roll 1d4+1
17:39 <Penuche> CC invokes Penuche's magic: < 4 > [d4=3]

How many efreet are present? There are dozens and dozens of dudes, so I don't expect they need many supervisors.

[Anastasia]

A quick count shows that one efreet per pot, and there's two dozen pots all total. So 24 as it is, but you notice two strays on the ground as well.

[Corwin]

There are actually too many efreet to spend time on detaining, so Seira uses her stopped time to move at top speed towards the source of the dimensional block! If she finds it quickly enough, she'll be in a great position to seize control of it as she comes out of time stop.

[Anastasia]

Movement speed right now?

[Corwin]

260ft base speed which translates to a pretty crazy run speed, and I can phase through up to 10ft barriers if need be.

[Anastasia]

Thus you blur ahead, through another door and away from the pipes. Round one gets you into a hall with less pipes, but a four way intersection. Ahead it ends in a stairway rising up. To the left and right are both stairways going down. A few efreet are here, hurrying along as if in a dead run, as well as several slaves - as well as a shambling pair of barbazu, hurrying along as well.

[Corwin]

The pair of barbazu get their forcecages, but Seira doesn't stop as she continues towards her target.

[Anastasia]

Like a crimson blur, Seira hurries on, the second round of her timestop, which leads you to the stairs going up.

Here it comes out into a plainer room, a simple room with a door leading ahead. A few efreet are just heading to the stairs, while a third in plate armor is opening the door out, which is ajar and held firmly in his hand.

Round 2/5.

[Corwin]

Seira decides to put the efreet in plate armor into a forcecage of his own, closed much like the ones she used for the fiends, while she attempts to snag as many of the other efreet as possible in a barred variant of the 'cage. She doesn't pause to do more, however, continuing ahead!

[Anastasia]

One small problem - the efreet has the door in hand, firmly, and that makes it hard to open it. It is ajar a bit at least, though.

[Corwin]

Seira fails to see how this is a problem as she phases through it after a glance assures Seira there are no nasty magical traps that would make it a terrible idea. She recasts Shadow Form afterwards, continuing towards her destination!

[Anastasia]

Ahead is a grand chamber of polished green stone, dark colored and thick. It shines reflectively as you see them - dozens of statues of pur eadamantine, various figures of efreet glimpsed. At the far end of this chamber, glistening amid the green light, is a stairway going up.

A handful of doors on both sides are also here, decorated and inlaid in a glance with various carvings.

A few efreet are here, one going in one of the left side doors and another racing towards the door you just came from.

Round 3/5.

[Corwin]

It will be so much fun to explore this place afterwards! Seira drops a pair of walls of force as a double-layered block of the door she emerged through and spends her last moments of this frozen tranquility advancing towards her destination. Surely, it can't be far now!

[Anastasia]

As you go, a choice - it feels both above and to the left, pulling you in those directions about equally. Which way do you choose to go?

[Corwin]

Seira goes up! It looks more impressive, certainly.