Crossed swords

[Corwin]

"So it looks like sound might work," Seira muses, before calling an Orb of Sound to her hand. Rather than release it, she reshapes the spell to become a scalpel which she then slices across the surface!

[Anastasia]

Roll the damage for the orb of sound then?

[Corwin]

20:51 <Corwin> roll 15d4
20:51 <Penuche> Corwin invokes Penuche's magic: < 35 > [d4=3,2,2,3,4,1,3,2,2,1,3,1,3,2,3]

[Anastasia]

A few little chips fall away, but nothing else, this not sufficient to break it.

[Corwin]

The next scalpel Seira forms after dismissing this one is quite a bit more powerful. Meanwhile, another of her avatars appears, readying a stronger one still.

Maximized Orb of Sound, so 60 damage.

My avatars have a few blank slots in the high levels, so it'd be a Maximized Empower Orb of Sound next for 90 damage, and a Maximized Twinned Orb of Sound after that for 120 damage. A gradual increase to see if it works.

[Anastasia]

A few more chips before the third orb does the trick. It splits cleanly, able to be removed as you like.

[Corwin]

Seira carefully does so. They'll be able to use it! But after setting the outer shell aside and securing it, she takes in what it was hiding!

[Anastasia]

It's a little crystal, colored an off white, and surrounded by a silver chain. It's broken, as if meant to be a pendant once on a time. It lies there, completely unmarred and undamaged.

[Corwin]

Seira stares at it!

Greater Arcane Sight? Legend Lore? Anything to perceive?

[Nephrite]

"So what exactly is that, anyway?" Moore asks. "Was it what let him absorb those spells?"

[Anastasia]

You detect no magic from it at all.

Hardly impossible for an artifact when a mortal studies it, but more impressive and far more rare when a deity does so.

[Corwin]

Seira's avatar picks it up while Seira herself shrugs at Moore's question. "We're about to find out!"

[Anastasia]

Seira's avatar holds it. It doesn't feel any different, at least in her hands.

"I'm curious too," Donald says, "Hey Seira, are you back to answering my questions?"

[Corwin]

Read the mood, she tells Donald.

Her avatar decides to try and cast a spell, the first being a summoning and the other a dispel to take it down. If there is any drop in potency or increase in dispelling power, she should be able to tell!

[Anastasia]

Refresh me on your domains real quick?