Ahead lies...?

[Anastasia]

"I think we've shot our bolt on wandering," Kaja speaks up, "We could wander until the next planar war and not find this. Why not tell us the region, when we have entire nations worth of earth, fire and steam to sift through?"

"At the least," Xandra cuts in, "We need a means of moving faster, though teleportation being available helps." Glancing over at Kaja, "Do not lose hope, we will find this if it is the will of Celestia."

"So we will," Kaja retorts, "But Celestia moves at a pace suited for immortals."

[Nephrite]

"Well, suffice to say, it's probably very deep down under everything here. Lord Crystalle may know a way for us to traverse it more easily." Moore suggests. "But yes, I understand -- I do want to investigate the abandoned town that's a bit a ways from here. There is also a settlement of liquid stone elementals nearby here that we can visit next time if we need to."

Intent will be to teleport us over to the abandoned down and just check it out!

[Anastasia]

Emptiness.

Building of stone amid the ever darkness, your lights shedding illumination here. All is crumbling ruin, no sound save for your footsteps. You stand in a city square, skeletal and dead buildings all around you.

Cresiel steps forward, uttering a word of power. Light comes from him and spreads out, the city illuminated. It a city of low towers and broad buildings, of islands of land above vast chasms that end in tiny, far away ribbons of lava below - great rivers or oceans of lava, so deep that only the faintest light can be seen if you look down. The bridges are all broken, only remnants showing the various islands of the city were once connected.

Jetina and Kaja take to the air, while Xandra shakes her head, "This way," she announces, "Follow me, everyone. There is a reason we came here."

[Nephrite]

Moore blinks in Xandra's direction, but follows her without comment!

[Anastasia]

The party falls in line. You fly over a few ruined islands to another. This one was perhaps open space or a park once - and now the ground here is broken, a great and burnt crater. Within a great sea of charred, broken skeletons lie, as if the toys of a fire giant forgotten on adulthood's invitation. Surrounding the pit are dozens of iron pokes with old, weathered and rotting banners on it. These banners are of a red diamond against flames. You know the unholy symbol of Imix when you see it.

[Nephrite]

Moore frowns. He turns to Xandra, thrn back to the pit.

He takes in a breath, as if steeling himself for something. "They didn't deserve this, no matter who they were." He says quietly.

[Anastasia]

"We can at least give them a better rest," Cresiel steps forward. "Destroy the banners."

"They aren't undead, the skeletons are ancient," Jetina notes as she comes forward, Kaja's blades slicing the first banner apart. "Moore, can your magic gather dirt to properly bury the dead?"

[Nephrite]

"I don't see why not." He says. "I usually just focus it to go into a bag or other receptacle. But I can also just build a small gravesite here for them, that's easy enough."

[Anastasia]

"I'll see to a blessing for the unjustly slain," Jetina says, as the others destroy the banners. "There is so much hatred and misery across Creation. Raziel give me courage to face it." Jetina bows her head in prayer for that, "For even now we see fire used unjustly. Guide my blade and my steps this day, Firestar, so that I may be the righteous instrument of your will."

Soon enough the banners are gone, broken.

[Nephrite]

Moore takes out his Lyre of Building and strums on it quietly.

He'll use it to build what is effectively a mausoleum and monument to the fallen people here.

[Anastasia]

Sure, go ahead and describe.

[Nephrite]

From the ground and around the pit, a small building is formed. Made of worked stone, It rather resembles that of the same type of tombs that can be found in Mercuria, where those who await Raziel's call back to action slumber in restful repose.

The door to the building will be shut tightly and sealed, so the remains can sit safely inside it forevermore.

After he finishes, he casts a quick spell that creates a symbol of Celestia over the door so that anyone else who comes along knows who put this here.

That last one is Permanent Image, for the record.

[Anastasia]

Jetina comes forth and splashes holy water on the door of the tomb, uttering, "Until the last day, may any righteous here sleep in peaceful rest. Let none disturb them, lest they face all the judgment of the Holy Mountain."

Cresiel and Xandra bow their head, Kaja as well. Moments of silence and then, "Another atrocity to lay at the feet of Imix, though doubtlessly lost amid the great sea of atrocities already there." Jetina announces.

[Nephrite]

"He'll get his one day." Moore says. He looks to Xandra. "Do you feel anything else here that we need to do before we return home for now?"

[Anastasia]

"Not unless you wish to explore a dead city," Xandra says, "Though if Imix was here, anything of value was taken already. I'm surprised the entire city wasn't burnt to cinders."