Walking to Rosewater

[Anastasia]

"Not yet," Another voice, seductive and beautiful. "You'll do well, it's a simple adjustment. Many of your kind develop this ability innately. There may even be...leftovers."

"Which will be...?" The first voice asks.

"The subject has some ability with precision fighting and the arts of the natural warrior." Is the answer back. "To which depends on you."

[Ebiris]

'This way,' Alicia instructs, leading them towards that voice now she has a fix on it. Violet's day will soon get considerably worse.

[Anastasia]

'I hear it too,' Syala sends, 'Isn't that just our luck?'

Meanwhile the other voice laughs and then the other says, "Should this go well, I will speak well of you to Master Demogorgon."

Meanwhile, you can see that it's leading you towards a path on the far end of the hall, no one even glancing at you as you pass.

[Ebiris]

Interesting that Malcanthet is being free enough to share this sort of thing around. Unless Violet's doing it off the books and looking to jump ship?

[Anastasia]

"Good. Tell him the offer stands," Violet replies, voice all silky desire and allure. "I think it's something both of him can agree on."

The other laughs softly as you go along, still no reactions. The path ahead is barred by a steel door, thick and strong.

[Ebiris]

Is the steel door all that's between them and Violet or is there further to go?

Alicia also has a brief grain-of-sand-sized dip against the floor for tremorsense to tell her who else is around Violet and whoever she's talking to.

[Anastasia]

There's the door, a long hall, a few intersecting passages, a trio of rooms, a set of stairs down and then you'll reach Violet.

No one else is around, but something big paces around those stairs going down.

"This won't take long," Violet says, though almost absently, "It may hurt."

"It may....AAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" A scream of pure agony as Violet chuckles softly.

[Ebiris]

Hopefully there's a recovery period so whoever just got boosted won't be a threat in battle.

Can Alicia and company bypass this door by the same means they used for other doors? Going into the crack between door and floor/frame as a grain of sand-sized being and warping space on either side for the others to go 'around'?

[Anastasia]

Unfortunately not - the door is flush with the wall and floor. There's simply no gaps.

[Ebiris]

Any magic on the door, or surrounding wall?

[Anastasia]

Yes. The walls are enchanted to prevent ethereal entry and other such means, as is the door. The door is studded with alarm spells, as well as spells that will drown any who open it in fire, cold and unholy power unless they are Malcanthet or Violet.

It's also locked for what that's worth.

[Ebiris]

Luckily such defences mean nothing to silver fire and space compression. Still tiny, Alicia positions by the wall a foot above the door, and with divine will ensuring silence and a check to make sure no demons are looking her way, she sends a needle-thin beam of silver fire poking through the wall just far enough to breach the other side. She can then settle into that gap and manipulate space to provide a way through for her friends.

She might not have ever really trained as an assassin or infiltrator but a god can fake a great many roles!

[Anastasia]

The door's section gives way, cored out by silver fire and a tiny little tunnel made.

[Ebiris]

Wall, not door. Since the door's alarms might trigger on Alicia travelling through it or it taking any damage.

'Position directly in front of the door and step forward on three,' Alicia sends as she settles herself into that gap. 'One, two, three,' she compresses space between points on either side of the door on three, relaxing it back to normal a second later.

[Anastasia]

Good catch, thank you.

Easily enough done, the party through.

'Have you been taking lessons from Jessica?' Antenora asks in your mind, 'You've gotten good at this.'