Destiny now lies in the hands of...

[Ebiris]

"It's less looking for a lair than looking for the roving guardian, but I'm fine with swimming," Alicia says. "Are you two confident you can fight underwater if necessary? Remember you can give yourself freedom of movement."

She does that herself! Then makes herself big since there's room here.

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Alicia HP: 1074+240/1074
Active spells: Many moments of prescience (CL 35), extended mind blank (CL 35), extended nondetection (CL 35), greater heroism (CL 35), repelling shield (CL 35), extended ray deflection (CL 35), epic mage armour (CL 35), dance of the unicorn (CL 36), recitation (CL 35), opal protection (CL 35), sensual blessing (CL 35), arcane sight (CL 35), freedom of movement (CL 35)
Defences: AC 98, CMD 122, spell resistance 50, energy immunity (fire and cold), status immunity (polymorph, petrification, disease, poison, stunning, sleep, paralysis, death effects, disintegration, energy drain, ability damage, ability drain, mind-affecting, and fear), nondetection (DC 50), freedom of movement
Stat buffs/penalties: +4 morale skills/attack/saves, +9 shield AC, +10 armour AC, +25 competence perception, +40 str, -2 dex, +20 con, +2 int, +4 wis, +4 cha, +15 natural armour AC, -8 size, +8 saves vs poison, +3 luck attack/saves, +3 morale AC
Perceptions: Arcane sight, 3 mile tremorsense/blindsight/scent perception +82
Sorcerer spell slots: 6/16/16/16/9/9/9/8/4/5/6/3/3/1/2
Duskblade spell slots: 6/23/23/15/10/7/3
Moments of prescience: 2

[Anastasia]

Antenora and Syala do so, while Antenora dims her own radiance down and follows. The burrow tunnel is dark but free of ice, if freezing cold. It plunges downward on a slight slope.

How big?

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Antenora
HP: 840/840
Negative Conditions:
Aura: Protective 20ft (+4 deflection/+4 resistance vs evil) Courage 10ft (+4 morale vs fear)
Bonuses: Attack+3 (+3 luck), Damage+0, AC+3 (+3 luck), Saves+3 (+3 luck), Skills+0, Checks+0
Resources: Holy Fury 39/39 (enc) Divine Retribution 1/1 Smite Evil 13/13 Channel Energy 16/17 Lay On Hands 490/490 Remove Disease 10/10 (week), Spiritual Connection 3/3 Blinding Speed 24/25 Divine Blast 15/17
Spells Used: Healx2, Opal Protection, Opal Fury
SLAs Used:
Spells Active: Mind Blank (CL36), Recitation (CL36), Freedom of Movement (CL35)
Notes: Can always inflict nonlethal with attacks, spells, SLAs and abilities.
Smite Notes: +2 damage/paladin level on a charging smite. Each point of favored PA on charge is worth 9 points of damage, post charge multiplier (15 on crit).
Typical Charging Numbers: 35 for base smite damage, 70 for charging smite +2 per per level. So 105 bonus damage baseline. Raw attack plus smite is 1d8+138+2d6+2d6 (+4/+4d6 if fiendbane hits). Doesn't include other factors.
Remember everything triples and x5 on a crit when adding things.

Syala
HP: 700/700
Negative Conditions:
Aura: Protective 20ft (+4 deflection/+4 resistance vs evil) Divine 10ft (various)
Bonuses: Attack+3 (+3 luck), Damage+0 AC+24 (+3 morale, +3 luck, +18 armor), Saves+3 (+3 luck), Skills+0, Checks+0
Resources: Rage 7/7 Divine Blast 14/14 Family Domain 2/2 Wrath Domain 2/2 Add Twin 7/7 (non epic only)
Spells Used: 1 8th level spell, 1 9th level spell, 1 10th level spell, 1 11th level spell, 1 12th level spell, 1 14th level spell.
SLAs Used:
Spells Active: Mind Blank (CL36), Energy Immunity(Fire)(CL35), Epic Mage Armor (CL35), Recitation (CL36), Freedom of Movement (CL35)
Notes: Automatically converts vile damage to normal damage.

[Ebiris]

Colossal again.

[Anastasia]

Dear, are you going to stay like that? Stealth and discretion don't mix with you going giant sized.

[Ebiris]

Alicia obligingly shrinks down, although she's far smoother in the water than either of them regardless of her size.

Do you really think it makes that much difference to the senses of a child of Jormungandr down here?

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Alicia HP: 794+240/794
Active spells: Many moments of prescience (CL 35), extended mind blank (CL 35), extended nondetection (CL 35), greater heroism (CL 35), repelling shield (CL 35), extended ray deflection (CL 35), epic mage armour (CL 35), dance of the unicorn (CL 36), recitation (CL 35), opal protection (CL 35), sensual blessing (CL 35), arcane sight (CL 35), freedom of movement (CL 35)
Defences: AC 98, CMD 122, spell resistance 50, energy immunity (fire and cold), status immunity (polymorph, petrification, disease, poison, stunning, sleep, paralysis, death effects, disintegration, energy drain, ability damage, ability drain, mind-affecting, and fear), nondetection (DC 50), freedom of movement
Stat buffs/penalties: +4 morale skills/attack/saves, +9 shield AC, +10 armour AC, +25 competence perception, +4 str, +2 dex, +4 con, +2 int, +4 wis, +4 cha, +1 natural armour AC,+8 saves vs poison, +3 luck attack/saves, +3 morale AC
Perceptions: Arcane sight, 3 mile tremorsense/blindsight/scent perception +82Perceptions: Arcane sight, 3 mile tremorsense/blindsight/scent perception +82
Sorcerer spell slots: 6/16/16/16/9/9/9/8/4/5/6/3/3/1/2
Duskblade spell slots: 6/23/23/15/10/7/3
Moments of prescience: 2

[Anastasia]

It might. Discretion won't kill us - within reason - because we have to save for the Guardian.

[Ebiris]

Alicia doesn't reply, but really even if Antenora and Syala are good at concealment it's just not a skill Alicia has so she feels like the effort is wasted regardless of her size.

[Anastasia]

Stealth checks, yes.

[Ebiris]

[21:05] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+17 stealth
[21:05] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 27 > [d20=10]

[Anastasia]

Swim check too, that's a legit oversight to call for. I'll roll both of them together after this.

[Ebiris]

[21:10] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+56 swim
[21:10] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 63 > [d20=7]

[Anastasia]

At Syala's quiet urging, she'll have Antenora and herself use forestfold through alter reality for +10 to stealth. She'll offer it to you as well. It's attuned to underground.

Syala will also cast mass swim on all of you, which is in the SC and primarily provides a swim speed of 30ft.

> roll 1d20+61 Antenora Stealth
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 63 > [d20=2]
> roll 1d20+14 Antenora Swim
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 20 > [d20=6]
> roll 1d20+60 Syala Stealth
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 73 > [d20=13]
> roll 1d20+16 Syala Swim
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 22 > [d20=6]

Thus you begin to swim in the cold, darkened waters. As you swim, you notice occasional lattice-works of crystal, small little clusters compared to the colony you previously passed. As you pass through them and more, you soon enough come to another burrow heading deeper down. A glance down it shows and open space - and as you do, you see the shadow of movement, a mere glimpse of something big moving below.

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Antenora
HP: 840/840
Negative Conditions:
Aura: Protective 20ft (+4 deflection/+4 resistance vs evil) Courage 10ft (+4 morale vs fear)
Bonuses: Attack+3 (+3 luck), Damage+0, AC+3 (+3 luck), Saves+3 (+3 luck), Skills+0, Checks+0
Resources: Holy Fury 39/39 (enc) Divine Retribution 1/1 Smite Evil 13/13 Channel Energy 16/17 Lay On Hands 490/490 Remove Disease 10/10 (week), Spiritual Connection 3/3 Blinding Speed 24/25 Divine Blast 15/17
Spells Used: Healx2, Opal Protection, Opal Fury
SLAs Used:
Spells Active: Mind Blank (CL36), Recitation (CL36), Freedom of Movement (CL35), Forestfold (CL35), Mass Swim (CL35)
Notes: Can always inflict nonlethal with attacks, spells, SLAs and abilities.
Smite Notes: +2 damage/paladin level on a charging smite. Each point of favored PA on charge is worth 9 points of damage, post charge multiplier (15 on crit).
Typical Charging Numbers: 35 for base smite damage, 70 for charging smite +2 per per level. So 105 bonus damage baseline. Raw attack plus smite is 1d8+138+2d6+2d6 (+4/+4d6 if fiendbane hits). Doesn't include other factors.
Remember everything triples and x5 on a crit when adding things.

Syala
HP: 700/700
Negative Conditions:
Aura: Protective 20ft (+4 deflection/+4 resistance vs evil) Divine 10ft (various)
Bonuses: Attack+3 (+3 luck), Damage+0 AC+24 (+3 morale, +3 luck, +18 armor), Saves+3 (+3 luck), Skills+0, Checks+0
Resources: Rage 7/7 Divine Blast 14/14 Family Domain 2/2 Wrath Domain 2/2 Add Twin 7/7 (non epic only)
Spells Used: 1 8th level spell, 1 9th level spell, 1 10th level spell, 1 11th level spell, 1 12th level spell, 1 14th level spell.
SLAs Used:
Spells Active: Mind Blank (CL36), Energy Immunity(Fire)(CL35), Epic Mage Armor (CL35), Recitation (CL36), Freedom of Movement (CL35), Forestfold (CL35), Mass Swim (CL35)
Notes: Automatically converts vile damage to normal damage.

[Ebiris]

Can I get a better idea of what it is from blindsight/tremorsense?

And yeah take the stealth bonus sure.

[Anastasia]

You can tell it's another of the Children of Jormugandr.

[Ebiris]

She lets Syala and Antenora know, but they don't stop.

There's another child further down.