Victorious advance

[Anastasia]

Any particular dungeon motif you favor here?

[Ebiris]

This is far more Syala's wheelhouse than Alicia's so letting her take the lead. In tribute to Marie, lets go with something that incorporates lots of force effects.

[Anastasia]

Syala hovers in the air, lost in thought. Shapes form and fade all around her - cubes of force, mazes of force. Force walls, tunnels of force, passages linked by specially established teleportation fields. "We won't stop Shar by direct force, we probably won't even hurt her," Syala concedes, "But done right we can slow her down. Doubly so that even if she gets here undetected, destroying the maze or damaging it will get my attention and tip her hand. That's my real goal here - either she takes the time to play it fairly and it gives us time to react, or she tips her hands and gives us an alarm."

[Ebiris]

Alicia nods as she helps Syala, taking her intentions and adding her own power and spin to things as they're created. Meanwhile her avatar enlists various patient outsiders with the mindset for this sort of long haul guard duty and the skills/strength to have a meaningful chance of detecting and defeating most intruders. A wall of bewildering fog is created to surround the area at the edge of where it's dimensionally warded as well, so any casual wanderers will get turned around from it.

"It's all about buying time for the hammer to drop," Alicia agrees as they work.

[Anastasia]

"I like the fog," Syala says, "I hadn't gotten to doing something like that yet."

[Ebiris]

"Just something to filter out troublemakers that aren't even worth the effort or happen on it by chance, it won't keep out anyone determined," Alicia says. "The area controlled by the Magus of Time in Pallanth had something similar around the edges. Do you notice how much easier this is now since we used the Icon of Sensation, though?"

[Anastasia]

"I did," Syala says, "Are you surprised?" She gives you a crooked little half smile.

[Ebiris]

"Not surprised, just pleased," she shakes her head. "We should get Antenora and Jessica to use it. Marie and Latha as well."

[Anastasia]

Smiling even more at that, "Things are more fun when we share them, aren't they?" Syala says, drifting over to you.

[Ebiris]

"It's an anatomically correct statue we stole from a succubus," Alicia says dryly. "So not too fun."

[Anastasia]

"Spoilsport," Syala puts an arm around your shoulder, "Still though, a triumph is a triumph. Today we won. Let's savor it."

[Ebiris]

"Lets," Alicia agrees, leaning against Syala as their dungeon takes shape.

[Anastasia]

Okay, set up for Thursday: Next moves?

[Ebiris]

Lets use the icon of sensation to make Marie, Antenora, and Jessica into anarchs.

Assuming that passes without incident and barring any war interrupts, we'll send our army off to Daun and then Alicia will visit Sulia and ask her to upgrade Marie's plainswalker robes as a favour.

[Anastasia]

"Me?" Antenora says when you bring it up to all of them. "A master of Limbo?" The look Antenora gives you says it all, one eyebrow raised and arms crossed.