Mother

[Anastasia]

Give me a d100.

[Corwin]

18:50 <Corwin> roll 1d100
18:50 <Penuche> Corwin invokes Penuche's magic: < 18 > [d100=18]

[Anastasia]

None come forth to oppose you - until you hear a door open well behind you. The barest glance tells you a single efreet emerges, a rather muscular one with a double handed scimitar in hand, and wearing hastily thrown on chain mail. He charges as the three of you, trying to close the distance fast.

[Corwin]

Are you sure you want to do that? Seira asks, flaring up her divine aura. She almost never resorts to this, but it would be a good way to get noticed. Plus, if it works, that saves her from active defenses!

Free action. Divine Aura: Daze. Goes out to 600 ft, and targets this violent dude. At Will DC of 10+6+15 (31) it'll probably fail, alas.

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+10
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 14 > [d20=4]

The efreet stops mid step and stands there, seemingly overwhelmed and out of it, unable to move a step.

[Corwin]

"I suppose not!" Seira says cheerfully, rather pleasantly surprised.

"More sightseeing here?" she asks Amaryl. "Or are you ready to move on?"

[Anastasia]

"I think we've made our point," Amaryl says, "They can teleport, or at least enough can that word will reach them fast enough."

[Corwin]

"Onwards!" Seira cheers, nodding at Zaaman Rul to take them to the next stop on their pilgrimage.

[Anastasia]

Next you appear a ways outside of a humble stone shrine, one of pure sky blue stone untouched by the flames here. "Aldari," Zaaman Rul announces, "The Pure Flame. An ember the Crimson Firebrand created that would never go out, and even in the long siege of Daman, it never went out. It is housed here, where it burns even now."

[Corwin]

"Makes me wonder whether I should be setting up these elaborate landmarks and shrines," Seira muses, studying the eternal flame with all her senses and know-how. "All I do is build temples and portal networks, and even that is mostly an old pastime. Ah, but there was that university town! So maybe that could be a new trend? Grand cities of knowledge and progress?"

[Anastasia]

You can't sense anything in the shrine - it seems you'll have to go inside.

"Monuments last and speak to the soul," Zaaman Rul agrees, "But they are also a luxury. Then again, Mount Celestia could be said to be one giant monument mountain. Then there is Oceanus in the whole, or the palace of the Queen of Stars."

[Corwin]

"In that case, we're making a beautiful monument in Bytopia together," Seira muses, heading into the shrine since it seems safe.

[Anastasia]

While outside it is quiet, inside are kneeling efreet. Hundreds kneel here, the inside hollow and all in circular rows. They kneel towards the center, where a large flame of blue-white burns. Even from here you can feel an overwhelming heat, coming from it like those who would stand next to the sun itself.

"They will not trouble us," Zaaman Rul declares, "300 efreet are bound by oaths to stand in eternal awe of the Crimson Firebrand's Pure Flame at all times. Any who attack or interfere with it are marked as an eternal enemy of the Grand Sultan."

Amaryl very slowly approaches it, "The heat of it is remarkable. It reminds me of the intensity of Seira's own fire."

[Corwin]

"Heat is a key component in most fires, especially primal ones," Seira agrees quietly, approaching herself. She might not be an actual pilgrim, but it's a good chance to study the fire properly!

[Anastasia]

Spellcraftin'. +20 circumstance bonus since you have the Fire domain.