A world's support

[Nephrite]

"Are we inside something trying to dissolve us?" Moore asks aloud as he continues on. "This isn't normal, and I'm not familiar with what it could be..."

[Anastasia]

Sorry about the long turnover, Seiraposts are super long right now.

"I don't know, either," Cresiel says, "Not what I expected for the Grim Fiend."

"Who is the Grim Fiend?" Kaja speaks up at this, "It sounds meaningful."

[Nephrite]

"The only one I'm familiar with is one of Asmodeus' high-ranking officers. Considering the Hellish imagery we've seen so far, it's definitely related somehow." Moore says as he continues.

[Anastasia]

"Aesmadeva, the Grim Fiend," Cresiel says grimly, "All I know is that he is the Lord of the Ninth's bodyguard. I expected something more martial."

Up you go to the ground floor. Everything here is unremarkable, decorated plainly. A living space, nothing more. There's stairs to the next floor, and you can note that the ceiling is thickly covered in the same slime as the previous floor.

[Nephrite]

No sense in lingering, they may as well go up and find out what awaits them!

[Anastasia]

As you go Cresiel grimaces, "Teeth," he says shortly, not stopping as he is protected.

> roll 1d20+63 touch AC yes yes, I know
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 68 > [d20=5]

The next floor is slime. Slime coats everything, thick and clinging.

[Nephrite]

"None of this makes sense." Moore says as he looks around.

Does Hindsight show me what caused this? Also are there more stairs up?

[Anastasia]

They all continue upstairs.

"We're missing something," Xandra agrees, "Reality becomes less and less real as we go up. I don't understand it at all."

"Eeew," Jetina makes a face at the slime, "Disgusting."

"We're missing a big piece," Kaja agrees, "This doesn't feel like Hell's normal tactics at all. Let alone someone of that infernal importance."

[Nephrite]

Moore frowns all of a sudden. "No, this isn't like Hell at all." He says as he takes a moment to focus.

I know we're not on Limbo but he has a feeling there may be some chaotic forces at work here. Does his anarch power have any effect here? He's basically testing the waters to see if this is slaad or demons.

[Anastasia]

Make an anarch check, you know the drill here by now.

[Nephrite]

[blockquote]Rolled 1d20+21 : 20 + 21, total 41[/blockquote]

if he's successful he's basically trying to turn the slime into... I don't know, Stone.

[Anastasia]

A high pitched, whining noise is heard. More rapidly than you can follow, the slime everywhere gushes upward, passing through the ceiling like it isn't there. A moment later everything is -right- again. Real. Real in a way you realize it wasn't moments ago. It's like reality was a colorless illusions, only obvious now that you are free of it that slime.

Nothing but a trick of light and reality and ideas, perhaps. A reality that was no more than the passing fancy of something else.

[Nephrite]

"Slaad." Moore says, with some amount of contempt.

He wastes no time in going up from here!

I get 20s in the oddest circumstances.

[Anastasia]

"Slaad," Cresiel echos you, "This will be a purification, merely of a different type."

Xandra smiles now, "Let us show them that no amount of chaos obscures the holy light."

Third floor, more living rooms and a small library. No sign of the slime. More stairs going up.

[Nephrite]

"Now I wonder if all this fear has been fabricated on these poor people." Moore says as he continues up.