Warming back up (Afina)

[Anastasia]

"Yes, I'm f-" Kascha takes a step forward, only to slip and fall right on her rear. "Aaaaaah!"

"Thank you," Crystal nods as she and Hope are protected. She looks around, "Viciously - are you alright, Kascha?"

[Ebiris]

"Oh, Kascha..." Afina winces at that tumble, fluttering over to take the blonde's hand and help pull her to her feet. Despite being so much smaller she's pretty strong, enough to bear a ghaele's weight without too much difficulty. Somewhere someone must be feeling awfully disillusioned at this display of eladrin clumsiness though.

Spoiler: ShowHide

Afina 208+17/208, greater mage armour (CL 23) and moment of prescience (CL 23), heroes feast (CL 20).
AC 60 (touch 46, flat footed 60), blindsense 30, spell resistance 38, immunity to fire, disease, water, poison.
Spell charges remaining: 6/7/9/8/9/8/8/8/6/7

[Anastasia]

"Owwww!" Kascha winces as she gets up, "Thanks, I'm fine." She promptly takes to the air, "Let's go." With that she flies on up, blush hidden as she goes.

[Ebiris]

Making nothing more of it, Afina takes flight herself, ascending in a lazy spiral straight up.

Spoiler: ShowHide

Afina 208+17/208, greater mage armour (CL 23) and moment of prescience (CL 23), heroes feast (CL 20).
AC 60 (touch 46, flat footed 60), blindsense 30, spell resistance 38, immunity to fire, disease, water, poison.
Spell charges remaining: 6/7/9/8/9/8/8/8/6/7

[Anastasia]

The trio flies up and through the clouds. As you ascend up...hm? You're about 2000ft below the clouds now, they're rather low lying and it's not a far flight. In them you can see what looks like little currents of electricity running through them, starting to gather.

[Ebiris]

"Lightning... we can probably evade it, but why take chances?" Afina says, casting resist energy first on Crystal, then on Hope, and then on herself.

Spoiler: ShowHide

Afina 208+17/208, greater mage armour (CL 23) and moment of prescience (CL 23), heroes feast (CL 20), resist energy (electricity) CL 23.
AC 60 (touch 46, flat footed 60), blindsense 30, spell resistance 38, electricity resistance 30, immunity to fire, disease, water, poison.
Spell charges remaining: 6/7/6/8/9/8/8/8/6/7

[Anastasia]

Protection from lighting is spread to the party. It turns out to be wise, for as you ascend to the clouds, lightning begins to crash down - including in the path of the party. It colors the snow electric purple as it flashes, disrupting the snow showers where it strikes.

Ref save, Afina.

[spoiler]

Crystal: 223/223, Resist Energy 30 (Electricity)
Kascha: 258/258
Hope: 484/484, Resist Energy 30 (Electricity)

[Ebiris]

[14:58] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+34 evasion
[14:58] <Serith> Ebiris roll for Serith < 43 > [d20=9]

"So Kascha," Afina begins, briefly fluttering to the side to avoid a lightning bolt crashing down towards her. "What can you tell us about these giants?" she asks as if she weren't interrupted. "What defences or abilities are we likely to see? What have they been doing to the people living below?"

Spoiler: ShowHide

Afina 208+17/208, greater mage armour (CL 23) and moment of prescience (CL 23), heroes feast (CL 20), resist energy (electricity) CL 23.
AC 60 (touch 46, flat footed 60), blindsense 30, spell resistance 38, electricity resistance 30, immunity to fire, disease, water, poison.
Spell charges remaining: 6/7/6/8/9/8/8/8/6/7

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+36 Crystal evasion
<Serith> Ko-NitorisShotgunWedding roll for Serith < 41 > [d20=5]
> roll 1d20+36 Hope improved evasion (share saves, forgot this last time. Rust.)
<Serith> Ko-NitorisShotgunWedding roll for Serith < 53 > [d20=17]
> OOC: Strike that since I stupidlyjust rolled the save instead of recalculating from the base save, dur. Shouldn't do mathy things right out of bed. Regarldess, a base of 17 + whateve rmods Hope has will almost certainly pass.

Kascha doesn't even dodge. She's hit dead on, unruffled by the lightning as Hope and Crystal swoop aside.

"They're giants. Lots of physical strength, thrown boulders and so on. They wear armor and usually have some natural magic. Don't bother with electricity, they shrug it off. The leader is Omibagh Mightythrow. He'll throw anything at you, so long as its big. Good shot, so be careful of him."

[Ebiris]

So lots of galuh rocks will be thrown at them, alright. There's nothing else to say so she just focuses on ascending higher and higher into the sky.

Spoiler: ShowHide

Afina 208+17/208, greater mage armour (CL 23) and moment of prescience (CL 23), heroes feast (CL 20), resist energy (electricity) CL 23.
AC 60 (touch 46, flat footed 60), blindsense 30, spell resistance 38, electricity resistance 30, immunity to fire, disease, water, poison.
Spell charges remaining: 6/7/6/8/9/8/8/8/6/7

[Anastasia]

Like this the group flies up. Lightning crashes and thunder pounds, but the party is relentless and far too fast. Clouds are passed through and soon you break past them. Above is a watery, wintry sort of sunny day, freed from the shadow of the snowclouds. It's viciously cold up here, a crispness that's almost sharp against your skin.

Farther up sits a massive, puffy white cloud. Atop it rises a huge castle of stone and archways of rainbows.

[Ebiris]

"Now's a good time to start casting spells before we get into a fight," Afina says, leading by example as she casts shield and greater heroism on herself before they reach the fluffy white castle-cloud. She also casts greater heroism on her three companions, since it's a good spell that everyone can benefit from.

Shield and greater heroism cast! Latter on Kascha, Crystal, and Hope as well. +4 attack/saves/skills, +20 temp hp, and immunity to fear

Spoiler: ShowHide

Afina 208+20/208, greater mage armour (CL 23) and moment of prescience (CL 23), heroes feast (CL 20), resist energy (electricity) CL 23, shield (CL 23), greater heroism (CL 23).
AC 64 (touch 50, flat footed 64), blindsense 30, spell resistance 38, electricity resistance 30, immunity to fire, disease, water, poison, fear.
Spell charges remaining: 6/6/6/8/9/8/4/8/6/7

[Anastasia]

The spells are so cast. Once done, Kascha says, "Go ahead and lead on, Afina."

[spoiler]
Crystal: 223/223, Resist Energy 30 (Electricity)
Kascha: 258/258
Hope: 484/484, Resist Energy 30 (Electricity)

Greater heroism on all. +4 attack/saves/skills, +20 temp hp, and immunity to fear.

[Ebiris]

Kascha really needs to up her buffing game.

Flying straight up to the castle above, Afina brazenly approaches the front door. Or portcullis or gate or whatever.

[Anastasia]

Her main group boost is surge of hope, which is also a morale bonus. Conflicts with greater heroism.

Thus the three fly right on up. The castle sits serenely on the clouds, quiet and undisturbed. Boulders dot the area in front of it, sitting about here and there. The front door is a grand double door, dozens of feet tall. It's solid wood and engraved with designs of clouds.