Dragon quickstep

[Corwin]

Their group is still under Veil, and she wears a trinket that those who enter here possess. That should hopefully give whoever is heading down a pause, and she'll decide what to do then!

[Anastasia]

It's one person - a half dragon. Red scales sizzle in the head and he wears a loose brown robe with the same emblem as your trinket. A metal staff is in hand, used as a walking stick. His features are serious as he eyes you, "And you are?" he asks, voice controlled. "I don't know your face."

[Corwin]

Excellent! If all goes well, Seira will have a fresh face to adopt that is accepted in this section! Before the dragon can so much as blink, she lunges forward and strikes him down!

Intending to automatically win init due to Supreme Initiative and then full attack nonlethally. One swift will be used to Fire Leap into melee range, the other held in reserve in case some sort of magical contingency goes off that needs countering or he tries to raise an alarm that needs to be silenced.

[Anastasia]

You're right - two blows send him down, but energy begins to manifest in his staff. An emergency alarm, a call for aid and help.

Go ahead, well chosen.

[Corwin]

Seira's magic attempts to silence it! Her control of the arcane is unparalleled by whomever could've possibly made that staff, given it doesn't seem to be a divine artifact, and so is her control over magical treasures. She can certainly fool it into shutting the emergency alarms down and returning to normal.

[Anastasia]

CL check, just to make it nice and pretty. I don't think you can fail, but it's strong enough that if I'm undershooting your CL mentally, it might get lucky.

[Corwin]

22:52 <Corwin> roll 1d20+38
22:52 <Rei-chan> Corwin rolled : 1d20+38 --> [ 1d20=8 ]{46}

I forget, do we add DvR to it? If so, it'd be 52.

[Anastasia]

Done. A bit of will and the staff's alarm is smothered then and there.

[Corwin]

Seira grabs the downed half-dragon and speedily makes her way up! But flying, so there is no sound of footsteps!

[Anastasia]

As they follow up?

Find anyone interesting in those gems, Seira?

[Corwin]

An ex padisha counts? Plus there's that aspect of Olhydra.

[Anastasia]

What? Who?

[Corwin]

Benadis. Quite before your time, wasn't she?

[Anastasia]

He.

Benadis. That's a name I haven't heard in a long time. So that's what happened to him. Imix, you burning bastard.

[Corwin]

My bad. I can't help but wonder whether there's any of Imix's hostages of even higher value further up ahead.