The hunt for goldenfire (Afina and Jaela, later Surraruthru too)

[Corwin]

"No, help Mirajane!" Jaela exclaims.

[Corwin]

But she doesn't wait on help from another source, not when her faith in the Triune is channeled into her magic to grant Mirajane a body of fire!

Miracle to grant Mirajane Elemental Body/Fire, 25 rounds

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Jaela 318+15/318, Divine Insight (CL 25), Lore of the Gods (CL 25), Magic Vestment/shield (CL 27), Magic Vestment/chainmail (CL 27), Celestial Brilliance (CL 25), Greater Magic Weapon/all five (CL 25), Righteous Halo (CL 25), Longstrider (CL 21), Moment of Prescience (CL 21), Heroes's Feast (CL 20), Resist Energy/Fire (CL 26, duration 260min), Fortunate Fate (CL 25, duration 250min), Good Hope (CL 25, duration 25min)
AC 63 (touch 45, incorporeal 47, flat footed 44), 20% miss chance, DR 20/evil+cold iron+epic, spell resistance 33/42 vs Evil spells, Immunity to Compulsion, Disease, Petrification, Sickened, Nauseated, Fire Resistance 30, Cold Resistance 10, Acid Resistance 20, Electricity Resistance 20, Sonic Resistance 10.
Spell charges total: 6//10/9/9/7/9/8/8/8/8//5
Spell charges remaining: 4//10/4/7/1/9/8/2/5/4//5

[Anastasia]

Duration of Elemental Body is 1 hour/level, Jaela.

With that cast, Kascha quickly changes her target, touching Mirajane instead.

Mirajane gets Elemental Immunity: Fire instead.

[spoiler]Kascha: 258/258 Spells used: 7th: Elemental Body 9th: Wish. 10th: Energy Immunity Buffs: Freedom of Movement (CL 22), Elemental Body (CL 24)
Mirajane 283/283 Spells used: 10th: Mass Freedom of Movement. Buffs: Freedom of Movement (CL 22), Energy Immunity (Fire) (CL 23)
Arrel: 350/350 Buffs: Freedom of Movement (CL 22)

Mirajane is using the following.

Gae Ardaigh MkII: Longspear+1, wounding and valorous. This is an intelligent weapon. Chaotic Good, int 18, wis 18, cha 10. Can communicate with speech. It has 10 ranks in sense motive (+14 total modifier). It can use light 3/day as an spell like ability. It can use clairvoyance and dimensional anchor 3/day as an SLA. Caster level 15th.

Currently under Greater Magic Weapon (CL 25) as Longspear+5, wounding and valorous.

[Ebiris]

"So these are the solar forges? I wonder what gets made here," Afina wonders, flying around to inspect the adamantine vats, careful not to touch any goldenfire herself. She's ahead on exposure after all. But where do they go from here? Does the room lead anywhere?

[Anastasia]

With everyone protected, the party is able to see ahead or advance if they please. Vat after vat goes on as far as you cans ee. There's space to walk in between the vats if you wish.

[Anastasia]

The room is massive, Afina can see. It stretches on and on - and ahead the vats become too thick to pass. However, there's a ladder up the sides of them and walkways over the sea of vats. Flares of goldenfire leap from vat to vat here, over and sometimes through the walkway.

[Ebiris]

"Watch out, the goldenfire isn't strictly confined to the vats," Afina warns, making sure to keep a sharp eye out so she can dodge any that comes her way. Flying up above the walkway she starts to fly in a random direction until she finds something more interesting.

[Corwin]

"Are you alright?" Jaela asks Mirajane worriedly. "Does anything hurt?"

[Anastasia]

"I'm fine," Mirajane says just as Jaela begins to speak. "Besides, grandmother would say it would toughen me up." She says that with a bit of a smile.

Afina flies around. Vats block all ways in all directions, so flight or using the walkways is essential. The goldenfire looks to be getting more active to the east and slower to the west. At the far end of the east, you can see the golden glow become nary a flicker, almost entirely drowned out by darkness. In the east, you can spot it growing brighter and brighter, blocking what's ahead from view.

[Iron Dragoon]

"So how do we actually catch the fire? Can we catch the stuff going from vat to vat?"

[Corwin]

Jaela rolls her eye, muttering, "She's crazier than me."

At the dragon's question she responds with, "I'm thinking it will be in a container we can use, since this whole place is artificial, and was left behind as a way to retrieve it. But that's also why I tried to form that gauntlet. Worst case, we practice making our own container. Between that and magic things'll work out."

Raising her voice, she calls out, "Hey Afina, this being a forge and all can you use it to make something?"

[Iron Dragoon]

"Could we get this stuff back to Aurora? Wouldn't it help the forge there?"

[Ebiris]

"We don't want to catch it or take it away or anything like that. We're here for the first embers, not any old goldenfire," Afina responds to the barrage of questions sent her way.

"As for making something, only if we find some tools so I have an idea of what's involved. Even if I use magic normally I've never crafted out of energy before - even Ever blaze was a rock.'

In any case she starts heading East. They're looking for the core so it seems a more likely prospect.

[Anastasia]

As Mirajane giggles at Jaela's words, Arrel takes to the air and follows Afina. Kascha follows, "Fly high enough so we're not at risk from the goldenfire. You really don't want to be hit by it."

[Ebiris]

"Thinking about it, the goldenfire is probably used to heat other materials in the forge rather than being used as material itself," Afina muses, letting others catch up before flying on and carefully avoiding any splashes. "That's probably enough for it to imprint special properties onto steel."

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Afina 185+17/185 (-2 con), greater mage armour (CL 23), moment of prescience (CL 23), fortunate fate (CL 25)
AC 60 (touch 46, flat footed 60), spell resistance 38, blindsense 30, immunity to fire, disease, water, poison, fear.
Spell charges remaining: 6/9/8/8/9/8/8/8/6/7
Goldenfire exposure: 3/7