Ships? Check. Demiplane? Check.
Adrian, Jaela, Moore, Calleigh and Tryll gather together to hash everything out. "First thing," Adrian begins, filling in Jaela on the diabolical offer. "Afina suggested this was in your wheelhouse and deferred to you."
"Better than I feared, worse than I hoped," Jaela muses as she goes over the missive, finally getting a chance to rest and relax. "I'll handle it. Is anyone particularly interested of putting in an appearance, aside from myself?"
"Afina and I had a suggestion about symbolism, Ebony would be a good choice. Beyond that..." Adrian trails off as he thinks, "Maybe Tryll in case they try a more exotic form of attack with a psionic?"
"I want us to bring four people," Jaela says, grinning. "Let them choke on that. Ebony? She'd be my first choice, yeah, unless I could bribe Antenora into coming instead." She'll let Tryll speak for himself as for his interests, merely nodding her agreement.
"Either way, we're waiting till we have a hard counter to the Duke of Destiny. The time they've given us allows us a few days of grace, so with a bit of luck we'll finally crack that."
"We can do it!" Calleigh says, "I dunno what exactly you need, but we're on the case!"
"I'd suggest Morniel as well, this is his field of battle. Moore's good at that too," Adrian remarks.
"I'm not married to the death number," Jaela says, nodding at Calleigh. "Morniel is obvious, given he set this up. We'll make the final decision once we know if we have a defense against the Duke's bullshit, and how it works."
"Oh! Oh oh oh! We're working on that, too!"
"That's the next thing," Adrian says, "Tryll and friends found a demiplane or some such. Care to explain?"
"As for Taelfagn, I think I could muster something on a small scale." Moore says. "I'm by no means an expert in the art yet, but I'm confident I could prevent something -- if you'd like, I can work with the numerologist who just joined us on something in the short term. As for the demiplane... it's a creation of one of Tryll's people, along with the owner. It currently contains an ocean and a rather robust lab, among other things, considering how long they've had to work on it."
'Certainly.' Tryll broadcasts to the room, 'Calleigh and I have recently been researching counters for the Duke of Destiny. The way he manipulates destiny has allowed him to become a paragon, a devil of singular importance. As such, he is exceedingly difficult to counter. This isn't really acceptable for the people of Lifasa.
We spoke with Lathander recently about becoming paragons ourselves in order to set ourselves up as a proper counter, and he recommended we also find ways to manipulate destiny. In turn, we obtained a divination from Balyss which pointed us toward numerology. We sought out Glitterosm in Brightwater, who had a relationship with Muirfinn in the past. He agreed to assist us, and we have begun seeking out the remaining members of my race in order to reforge our destiny.
While doing so, we found Gytha, who has been afflicted with severe loneliness. He appears to have been attempting to recreate the irrigo race from nothing, essentially creating life, alchemically. He has a demiplane on the Deep Ethereal, and he has agreed to join us. We're hoping to attach his demiplane to Aurora.'
"Works. Elena, do you think the integration will go smoothly?"
"We've done it with Baleruk's lair and others before," Elena pops into being in front of all you, still dressed up like Calleigh. "I'd want to see the demiplane in question first, since they're like snowflakes - every one's different."
"Can you actually leave Aurora?" Moore asks. "I guess I never thought about that question before."
"I haven't managed to make it happen yet, but Elena means going there with the Aurora to take a look," Jaela elaborates in place of their spirit. "Let's take care of that once everyone is back. Who are we currently missing?"
"Afina, Surraruthru, Sylvie, Ebony and Kascha. They're visiting the Cauldron," Adrian says, "It's a friendly visit, so how about just a sending?"
"It can wait till tomorrow," Jaela says, glancing over at Calleigh. "At least I assume so, with how long-lived Tryll's race is?"
Returning her attention to Adrian, she asks, "If there's nothing else, can I entrust you to keep up to date on the mass exodus from Fourfires?"
"Yes," Adrian says, "I can do that."
"Great. And if Afina and Kascha aren't back by tomorrow morning, please use a Sending to ask if they are free to return."
With that, Jaela heads for the baths for a nice, restful soak.
Okay, I'll pause you here, Jaela. Tryll'n'Moore, anything else to add here? If not I'll pause you as well, shouldn't be long since Afina's finishing up something that should be quick, as is Surraruthru.
Not really. Moore can help with the fourfires folks with his mask so people don't have to keep casting True Seeing. He'll also ask Laura to help out with them just to make sure they're all taken care of mentally.
'As mortal creatures, we lived an average of seventy standard years. Those of us who still exist have been alive for much, much longer than that. For a given value of alive. Shedding our mortal bodies left us essentially immortal, though it does come with its own downsides. Gytha isn't going anywhere, most likely.'
I'm set.
Okay, that's offscreen stuff so momentary pause. We'll pick up with new threads once the last bit of this is hashed out.