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[Anastasia]

The spell begins to unravel and yet you try and rebuild it, supporting it. Kascha watches intently, "Ooooh, is that how it works?"

Time itself flickers between the two of you a moment, a rousing second of seeing it, feeling it, tasting time, a part of magic suddenly revealed to you for one glorious moment.

We'll call the actual resolution a caster level check for you and a dispel check for him - he's using something close enough to that for government work, as they say.

[Corwin]

19:33 <CC> roll 1d20+34
19:33 <Penuche> CC invokes Penuche's magic: < 36 > [d20=2]

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+30
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 32 > [d20=2]

Magic against power, power against magic. In the end your power is stronger, the old distortion gone but a new one in place instantly. Time just...started working right in that moment, until you reinforced it, like something on planes and angles you didn't even realize where there snapped back into place. It's...you realize you don't really have words to describe it, not meaningfully and concisely.  How do you describe time unknotting itself in ways and angles outside of linear time?

[Corwin]

"Nonlinear time is so exciting~" Seira croons, letting go of her power now to see if the effect is stable or requires her continued focus.

[Anastasia]

It is stable.

Chrona 42 smiles, "I feel the same way," he admits, "Isn't it marvelous? The way time moves and swirls beyond normal perception, glimpsed when it resets itself back to how it should be, to realign properly with the absolute Present?"

"This is such a tragedy. This should be part of everyone's magic," Kascha writes away all the while, "There's such wondrous things we could do with that power."

[Corwin]

"No, it really shouldn't," Seira says immediately. "I think the original decision erred too much on the side of caution and celerity magic should have existed, to give one example, but such blatant manipulation of time should not be allowed everywhere. Perhaps limited to a deity's divine realm and the demiplane of an enterprising mage? That would work." Turning towards Chrona 42, she says, "It is my understanding that the passage of time is somewhat fluid with conjured up deminplanes. Is that on purpose? And what of the Astral conditions?"

[Anastasia]

"Celerity magic?" Kascha asks, curiously.

At the same time Chrona 42 says, "The Astral was created that way and remains that way. It it and will be as it is. Could you explain what you mean about demiplanes?"

[Corwin]

"Magic that speeds you up similarly to Time Stop, yet doesn't put you outside of the rest of existence, similarly to Haste," Seira explains for Kascha's benefit.

To Chrona 42, she says, "Some two decades and change ago for me, subjective time, I focused on looking up a deminplane to claim as my own. My research of ancient lore on demiplanes suggested that a particularly gifted caster should have been capable of affecting the flow of time in them, setting it to flow faster or slower. Upon claiming the Cauldron in Astral I decided not to bother with making my own demiplane."

[Anastasia]

"Should have been," Chrona 42 says, agreeing. "Possible before the Compact."

[Corwin]

"Why was Astral alone kept the way it was created?" Seira inquires. "And what would happen if I were to recreate the local conditions in the Cauldron without merging with the plane?"

[Anastasia]

"I do not believe it can be changed," Chrona 42 admits, "Demiplanes are one thing, true planes are far another."

[Corwin]

"So there's no objection to making a layer of the Cauldron use Astral temporal conditions?" Seira confirms, dispelling the effect on the distance and starting to walk forward once more.

[Anastasia]

"Ahem, I did not say that," Chrona 42 demurs, "I was commenting on the Astral itself. Your divine realm responds to your will, does it not?"

[Corwin]

"Yes, although I got a chance to redesign it recently with Amaryl ascension to real power. While we could reshape it now and then, I decided to wait until Kascha or Sanzha follow in her footsteps, and making a layer closer to Astral would probably be easier on realm defense."

[Anastasia]

"I would confer with my superior," he finally says, "We have not had divinities on the Astral before. My apologies, may I send that message while we continue?"