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[Anastasia]

> roll 1d100 check if Ranbar happens to be an anarch
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 67 > [d100=67]

"I will, Seira," Ranbar focuses...but nothing comes of her efforts.

[Corwin]

"We'll work on that," Seira assures Ranbar, leading the way ahead!

[Anastasia]

On the party goes. Up and up and up the mountain, rising up the stairs. As you go, "Moore, did you grasp something there?" Xandra asks, following along.

[Corwin]

"Sylvie, any advice on someone who fights in a similar way to you?" Seira asks curiously, glancing back at Ranbar again.

[Anastasia]

...you are similar, aren't you?

"We fight alike?" Ranbar asks, "How so, Seira?"

[Nephrite]

"Yes." Moore says. "I think finally see what 'whole' is. Or, rather, what being whole in Creation is versus in the Beyond."

[Anastasia]

"Well, what is the difference?" Kascha asks, "I'm still putting the pieces together on a lot of this."

[Nephrite]

"Think of it like the different colors. The dragon before was white, and now it's blue. Right?" Moore says. "So blue in Creation means whole -- which means wholly of Creation, without any more influence in Beyond. But what is 'whole' as it comes to someone from Beyond?"

He thinks for a moment as he tries to figure out how to articulate it. "Anything to something from Beyond is 'whole,' as they are wholly from Beyond. There, the laws of Creation mean as little as the laws of the Beyond mean here. So when we have things here in Creation that can affect Beyond, we basically have a 'whole' that is both blue and white at the same time. Does... that make a little bit of sense? It's like translation, I suppose... from one to the other."

[Corwin]

"There's the core of your skills," Seira tells Ranbar in the meanwhile. "And you supplement it with unusual feats when inspiration strikes you. You've focused on the magical aspects, but if there is a useful approach here that Sylvie could share with you, it may be one more goal for you to strive for."

[Anastasia]

Xandra considers while Kascha says, "I get some of what you're getting at, but it is complicated. Hmmm. Like mixing two substances until one is completely removed by the other?"

I'll show you how I fight in person, Ranbar. Keep coming this way.

[Corwin]

Seira leads the way again, albeit slowly enough that Moore, Xandra and Kascha don't feel rushed.

[Nephrite]

"Yes, that's a good way to think of it." Moore says. "There are certain substances that can neutralize dangerous elements of each other, so... I think that's similar to how this process works. I mean, not... literally, but I think it's the best way for our Creation-oriented minds to understand it."

[Anastasia]

Up. Up and up and up - and to the top. Here is an open space, where a single figure stands. A phantasm of light, a phantasm of white light. This phantasm resembles Sylvie, featureless and yet in the right shape. It regards you, awaiting.

[Nephrite]

"Is it you, or is this another trial?" Moore asks.

He supposes it'll be obvious based on wherever her voice ends up coming from.

Or is this Sylvie but not Sylvie?

[Corwin]

"Well, that was shorter than I imagined."