The path ahead is...

[Anastasia]

WHAM!

Your blast of raw force sends the hand tumbling down and away, out of sight. It doesn't emerge back - is it gone?

[Iron Dragoon]

'Keep an eye out. They're probably monitoring us in some way, or it wouldn't have been on us so quickly.'

[Anastasia]

'Hurry, we feel at their command instead of the other way around,' Ianvasah agrees.

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa nods.

'Lead on.'

[Anastasia]

Give me a d100.

[Iron Dragoon]

[blockquote]Rolled 1d100 : 36, total 36[/blockquote]

[Anastasia]

'They may be short on bodies if they're relying on traps and spells,' Ianvasah muses to you, 'Few want to stay on Ash.'

[Iron Dragoon]

'Or... it's all observation. We're fairly unknown in this fight. This could all be set up to discover what we're capable of,  since us mere mortals have managed to stymie her so far.'

[Anastasia]

'Maybe so,' Ianvasah agrees after some thought.

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa continues following Ianvash, 'Where in the path do you think we went wrong?'

[Anastasia]

'Let's return to the first choice we did not take and try it,' She says. 'It may be one of those.'

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa nods and follows along.

[Anastasia]

You thus return to the stairs you detoured from and continue your trip down them. They branch off and to a hall, long and narrow. Looks innocent enough on first glance.

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa inspects the wall and then attempts to use her TK to shear off a piece to use as a shield in front of them.

'That looks like a perfect hallway to turn into a death trap.'

[Anastasia]

Ianvasah smiles tightly and waves her hand ahead, 'See what they think of it,' she says, as you pull of a hunk of the wall off.