Temporal pixies

[Anastasia]

Moments later the ice and walls melt away. The creature is gone - no sign of it at all, save for splatters of blood on the icy ground and Sanzha's trident.

Free act, it seems.

[Nephrite]

"Perhaps we made our point." Moore says. "But if that's the caliber of creatures, we should be on our guard. I say we just go up until we can't anymore, then we can explore from there." He adds.

Assuming no further interrupts, let's head up. Moore will be actively checking for magic as they go, with Spellcraft of 114 and K:A with 119 and Arcane Sight.

[Anastasia]

"Troublesome thing, far more than a match for most," Cresiel concurs. "Be cautious."

Sylvie merely leads the way, as Sanzha glances at the stairs. The ice around them melts away a moment later, your way up revealed.

Perception real quick.

[Nephrite]

Take 10 for 97.

[Anastasia]

There are faint rippled in the air, but more this time.

Your lore tells you this passage is not stable or safe.

[Nephrite]

Moore holds a hand up to stop everyone. "This part seems more unstable than the rest. We may want to save it for last, unless we want to try and see if we can stabilize it... but doing so may cause more problems."

[Anastasia]

"Let's try another route," Sylvie agrees, "If this is unstable, there's no sense risking it."

"Why not stabilize it?" Jetina asks, "Could you?"

[Nephrite]

"I think we could." Moore says. "But there's no way to know if it will stay stabilized, or what that will do. We'll come back."

Since they have only the other staircase to explore, they'll go that way and go down!

[Anastasia]

You begin to walk down after the ice is removed. You notice no signs of ripples here, at least.

[Nephrite]

Moore proceeds onwards!

Perception for 97 and so on as we go in case of scariness.

[Anastasia]

Ice walls. Caverns. You walk down into frozen caverns, a meandering passage ahead that turns a corner. From that bend comes bright light, glowing warmly.

[Nephrite]

Moore's ready for anything at this point, but continues along!

If someone wants to go ahead of him, of course, they can, but he will proceed nonetheless.

[Anastasia]

Cresiel stays ahead of you and takes point here. He pauses before the bend and carefully goes ahead, shield ready.

"It's safe," he calls after a moment, as Sylvie and Jetina follow. Sanzha is slower, letting them go first.

Ahead are great walls and passages of transparent ice. They wind ahead, a great maze glimpsed in the light. For far ahead and above, entombed in the ice, appears to be the sun. Or something as bright as it at the least, sunshine shining brightly over the frozen depths here.

[Nephrite]

"Well, it's visually impressive if nothing else." Moore says. "Lady Sanzha, do you think your mastery over water will allow us to get directly to that... whatever it is?"

[Anastasia]

Lady Sanzha steps forward. As she does walls split apart and stairs of ice appear, forming a long if straight shot towards that sun.

"You had to ask?" Lady Sanzha requests, openly amused.

"There is some appeal to having an elemental influence," Jetina notes as you go, "It manifests so viscerally here."

"Versus something more conceptual like learning or potential," Sylvie agrees.