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Started by Anastasia, January 23, 2019, 01:02:43 PM

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Anastasia

Up and up and up. You weave around a pair of efreet running downstairs, scimitars drawn. You emerge in the center of a finer room yet - for behind you is a massive fountain that spews not water, but boiling adamantine. It gushes and steams from the mouths of adamantine maidens and from the pitchers they carry, whilst the walls are shined just as well as below. Ahead lies chandeliers hanging and beautiful floorwork, as well as doors to both sides. At the end ahead is a set of four doors, each closed at the moment.

A few efreet are here as well, paused mid step by your timestop.

4/5.
<Afina> Imagine a tiny pixie boot stamping on a devil's face.
<Afina> Forever.

<Yuthirin> Afina, giant parasitic rainbow space whale.
<IronDragoon> I mean, why not?

Corwin

Seira decides to see what adding goldenfire to the boiling adamantine will do, and leaves a delayed fireball on the very of explosion in the fountain! Donald will find out what happens after all, though Seira doesn't wait for the results as she ghosts through the door leading towards her destination, recasting Shadow Form yet again upon materializing on the other side.
<Steph> I might have made a terrible mistake

Anastasia

Thus through a door to the left, a glimpse of an image of three efreet, rich and bountiful. Through a hall much the same if on a far smaller scale and through to another room through an archway. Here stands a trio of soldiers, efreet, as well as a handful of slaves standing dutifully before them, arms spread as if to shield them. An archway leads further along - and your enhanced eyes can see a wall of force blocking passage through that archway.

Last round, make it count.
<Afina> Imagine a tiny pixie boot stamping on a devil's face.
<Afina> Forever.

<Yuthirin> Afina, giant parasitic rainbow space whale.
<IronDragoon> I mean, why not?

Corwin

Seira's body turns into holy flames as she zooms ahead. Her will is sufficient to pierce the wall of force with disintegration, and then she dashes past! So long as she arrives at her destination before anyone is able to react to her, the device is as good as hers!

Dashing ahead + fiery leap for the extra 60ft of distance!
<Steph> I might have made a terrible mistake

Anastasia

Woosh! You blur by the arch as the wall falls, letting you pass. Beyond this is a large room, dominated by a vast sphere of solid green stone. You can also see a sphere of force cloaking the wall, merely an inch beyond it. No guard is here, yet the room is choking in enchantments - wards to strike you with the fury of force and the elements if any of the walls are disturbed, powerful enchantments to make you lose interest and turn away, spells to sicken and lay diseases on you if you dare enter.

What's worse is that the wall of force is segmented, for it's really many special walls creating a sphere, interlinked but not the same.

For within this, somewhere within and beyond those spheres, lies your target.

In that moment time resumes and...

Go.
<Afina> Imagine a tiny pixie boot stamping on a devil's face.
<Afina> Forever.

<Yuthirin> Afina, giant parasitic rainbow space whale.
<IronDragoon> I mean, why not?

Corwin

The distractions she left along the way might help, as could her invisibility-aided superior sneaking skills! That means Seira has a moment to examine the lattice of spells to find her options for unraveling them, unless she simply wants to take the brute force approach with antimagic.

Stealth 10 for 91, K:A 10 for 102, Spellcraft 10 for 102 (divine insight used), Perception 10 for 102.
<Steph> I might have made a terrible mistake

Anastasia

The sphere of force is many walls, as you saw earlier. That means destroying one will only get rid of that one. They're also permanent, so getting rid of one just suppresses it. The sphere of stone itself isn't magical, just solid stone layered over. However, it has an enchantment on it to deflect rays away harmlessly, such as a disintegrate spell.
<Afina> Imagine a tiny pixie boot stamping on a devil's face.
<Afina> Forever.

<Yuthirin> Afina, giant parasitic rainbow space whale.
<IronDragoon> I mean, why not?

Corwin

Since there doesn't seem to be a penalty for crossing a wall of force, only for disturbing it, Seira phases through it with all her skill!

Once more, Shadow Form!
<Steph> I might have made a terrible mistake

Anastasia

You can also see a sphere of force cloaking the wall, merely an inch beyond it.

You could do that, but as noted above, there's barely any space past it so you also have to have a solution for the sphere of stone or you get an inch in - barely past it and all - and are stopped cold.
<Afina> Imagine a tiny pixie boot stamping on a devil's face.
<Afina> Forever.

<Yuthirin> Afina, giant parasitic rainbow space whale.
<IronDragoon> I mean, why not?

Corwin

Without going into epic escape artist uses, this is a good time to point to my contingency:
Contingency: Shadow Form if trapped within a barrier composed of magical force (or similar magical obstacles).

In other words, my casting of it gets me (mostly) past the wall of force, but since I'm 'stuck' and can't pass through the wall beyond it as the spell discharges, my contingency casts Shadow Form on me thus allowing me to pass through the wall ahead! I never actually considered this contingency to be of use, but live and learn?
<Steph> I might have made a terrible mistake

Anastasia

I guess this raises a question I never thought I'd need to ask - how big is Seira width-wise. Like from the tip of her chest to her back?
<Afina> Imagine a tiny pixie boot stamping on a devil's face.
<Afina> Forever.

<Yuthirin> Afina, giant parasitic rainbow space whale.
<IronDragoon> I mean, why not?

Corwin

It will remain a secret but the real answer is 'as big as she wants to be'. I can emulate a variant of reduce person, after all!
<Steph> I might have made a terrible mistake

Anastasia

We'll go with that, sure.

Pressing in tight, Seira crams herself in - and then the spell triggers again, her contingency tripped.

Go.
<Afina> Imagine a tiny pixie boot stamping on a devil's face.
<Afina> Forever.

<Yuthirin> Afina, giant parasitic rainbow space whale.
<IronDragoon> I mean, why not?

Corwin

Seira pushes herself through the stone, eyes open for what she'll find inside the room!
<Steph> I might have made a terrible mistake

Anastasia

You get an inch in, cramming yourself through - and past it is a sphere of solid iron, blocking the way yet again.

You may be detecting a theme here.
<Afina> Imagine a tiny pixie boot stamping on a devil's face.
<Afina> Forever.

<Yuthirin> Afina, giant parasitic rainbow space whale.
<IronDragoon> I mean, why not?