The laughter of oblivion

[Anastasia]

Far ahead you hear stone quietly sliding and shifting, so smooth as to almost be unnotable. Almost.

[Ebiris]

Can she make out specifically what's there with blindsight/tremorsense?

Or map out the caves enough to know there's a route to the surface within 3 miles?

[Anastasia]

Sure. It's a straight shot up to an exit - which had smooth, coordinated, whisper quiet rocks move to 'cave in' the entrance.

[Ebiris]

Is it within 3500 feet that I can space compress a square here with one past the entrance before that cave-in finishes?

[Anastasia]

Sure.

[Ebiris]

"This way, quickly," Alicia says as the distance between them and the surface is shortened to an eyeblink and she steps through, bypassing the rest of the tunnel and that cave-in as well.

[Anastasia]

It's dark. Night blankets everything as you stand at a cave entrance, which is sealed a split second later. You stand in thick, untamed, old forest. The way ahead 5ft in any direction is virtually impenetrable, as well as above due to a thick, crowding wreath of vines and branches.

[Ebiris]

"It's so gloomy," Marie says. "Light it up for us, Latha?"

Meanwhile Alicia tries to feel what's out there past all that undergrowth...

Does blindsight/tremorsense detect the edge of the forest within 3 miles? Any significant movement?

[Anastasia]

No sign of the edge of the forest. There's the normal animal life you'd expect. Light illuminates out, letting you see. It's all untamed wilderness that you can feel growing thicker - vines plump up, branches grow, undergrowth gets thornier.

[Ebiris]

"We're deep in the forest," Alicia says, watching the undergrowth thicken before her eyes. "Can't see its edge from here."

"Can't see anything," Marie adds. "Let me try something..."

She casts Planar Perinarch, which gives her control over any highly morphic or divinely morphic plane in the same way she'd have control over Limbo with the perinarch spell. It's never been used but I'd assume the fact that she's an anarch and a deity will boost that further.

Casting her spell, Marie tries to force the canopy to recede and bend back, exposing the sky above.

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Alicia HP: 724/724
Active spells: Many moments of prescience (CL 35), extended mind blank (CL 36), extended nondetection (CL 36), greater heroism (CL 35), extended ray deflection (CL 36), epic mage armour (CL 35), sensual blessing (CL 35), foresight (CL 35), keen edge (CL 35 on sword)
Defences: AC 71, CMD 93, 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 51)
Stat buffs/penalties: +4 morale skills/attack/saves, +10 armour AC, +25 competence perception, +2 insight AC/ref
Perceptions: Arcane sight, 3 mile tremorsense/blindsight/scent perception +81
Sorcerer spell slots: 6/16/16/15/8/9/15/9/8/6/8/7/6/7/5
Duskblade spell slots: 6/23/23/21/11/7/14

Marie HP: 665/665
Active spells: Moment of prescience (CL 35), extended mind blank (CL 35), extended nondetection (CL 35), greater heroism (CL 35), extended ray deflection (CL 35), epic mage armour (CL 35), greater arcane sight (CL 35), sensual blessing (CL 35), bibliotheca arcana (CL 35), perinarch (CL 35)
Defences: AC 83, CMD 86, spell resistance 50, energy immunity (fire and sonic), 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)
Stat buffs/penalties: +4 morale skills/attack/saves, +25 perception, +15 insight knowledge
Perceptions: Arcane sight, 1 mile tremorsense/blindsight/scent perception +80
Sorcerer spell slots: 6/10/10/9/8/9/9/8/8/7/7/5/6/6/4

[Anastasia]

Charisma check. Special circumstances.

[Ebiris]

[17:04] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+16 Marie charisma
[17:04] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+16 Marie charisma --> [ 1d20=3 ]{19}
[17:04] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+16 Marie charisma luck domain reroll
[17:04] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+16 Marie charisma luck domain reroll --> [ 1d20=17 ]{33}

[Anastasia]

Just as a fair warning, I intend to houserule that under the no rerolls houserule. It just slipped through the wickets somehow, at least publicly.

Slowly, like prying fingers away from from something held dear, Marie is able to open a gap in the canopy. Above the sky is dark, yet far up you see storm clouds that rain upside down, down onto rugged lands far above you.

[Ebiris]

"Come on, lets get airborne. It'll have its own problems but at least we'll be able to see," Alicia says, taking flight with Marie following. Once Latha's above the trees she'll shed plenty of sunlight regardless of whether it's nighttime or not and they can try orienting themselves.

[Anastasia]

The three of you fly up quickly and escape the prison forest.

All around you is forest, far as the eye can see. Above you lightning begins to dance in the stormclouds, atop them and arcing down, closer and closer to the three of you.

Your keen eyes and divine senses let you note something. The forest is steadily expanding and rising out, land and distance generated spontaneously. As if a deity is controlling it - or perhaps Bytopia itself moves.