Where hope dies (Afina, Surarruthru, Calleigh)

[Anastasia]

The party flies up. The closest rooftop is 2 stories up, atop a long, rectangular building. On a glance it's clear, leading back out the way you came.

Spot, everyone. -20 unless you have low-light vision, darkvision or some extra sensory means to compensate.

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Sylvie

HP: 290+11/290
Effects: Heroes Feast (CL20), Overland Flight (CL22), Deeper Darkvision (CL22), Greater Mighty Wallop (CL22), Endure Elements (CL22), Attune Form (CL22)
Boosts: Immune to fear and poison, +1 morale bonus to attack rolls and Will saves, immunity to planar conditions (Note, her normal boosts aren't included since they're factored into her main stat block.)
Resources used: Arcane casting: 1st: Endure Elements 3rd: Deeper Darkvision, Greater Mighty Wallop 4th: Attune Form 5th: Overland Flightx3
Other: Current inspiration: 11/12

Master

HP: 295+15/295
Effects: Heroes Feast (CL20), Overland Flight (CL22), Attune Form(CL22)
Boosts: Immune to fear and poison, +1 morale bonus to attack rolls and Will saves, immunity to planar conditions
Resources used: -
Other: -

Tannin

HP: 218+11/218
Effects: Heroes Feast (CL20), Overland Flight (CL22), Attune Form(CL22)
Boosts: Immune to fear and poison, +1 morale bonus to attack rolls and Will saves, immunity to planar conditions
Resources used: -
Other: -

[Ebiris]

[22:12] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+35 spot, low-light and darkvision
[22:12] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+35 spot, low-light and darkvision --> [ 1d20=16 ]{51}

[22:31] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+24 Tryll
[22:31] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+24 Tryll --> [ 1d20=11 ]{35}
[22:32] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+33 Surraruthru
[22:32] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+33 Surraruthru --> [ 1d20=9 ]{42}

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+24 Spot Sylvie
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+24 Spot Sylvie --> [ 1d20=5 ]{29}
> roll 1d20+29 Tannin
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+29 Tannin --> [ 1d20=16 ]{45}
> roll 1d20+39 Master
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+39 Master --> [ 1d20=2 ]{41}

The party hurries across the roof and over it, back towards the street. But as you do, 'You need help.' A genderless, robotic voice intones in their minds. 'Your souls will not last long here. Hopelorn is not a place for you.'

[Yuthirin]

Surely there is no way this will not end in tears!
<Kobot> LobsterSquid rolled 1d20+15+2 Calleigh spot since nobody rolled it --> [ 1d20=3 ]{20}

Do I need to see a subject to reply telepathically?

[Anastasia]

You do not.

[Ebiris]

Telepathy is one of those things devils use to feel smug about themselves, so Afina's understanding of it is fairly dim. So she merely thinks loudly in her inner monologue 'And what help are you offering?' and hopes that gets through.

[Anastasia]

Sylvie scowls and looks around, her fake skull's jaw visibly grinding against her teeth. The Master's undead form is far more serene, simply going still.

'Hopelorn consumes the weak, those that do not know it and the living. You do not know the signs and the means to escape the twistings of the path. Hopelorn will guide you to places where your ruin awaits, it hungers for misery.

I offer a chance to negotiate. Tell me what you seek and I can help you find it in safety.'

[Ebiris]

'And what's in it for you?' Afina asks since this communication seems to be working. No one around here is going to be generous.

[Anastasia]

'I deal in knowledge. Knowledge of who you are and what you seek in Hopelorn is what I ask.' The voice breaks into hisses, as if a steaming teakettle. It resumes a few moments later, 'As the sages say, knowledge is power.'

[Ebiris]

'I'll give you one of those,' Afina decides to answer, since if this person's shadowing or scrying on them they'll know soon enough. 'Our destination is Finality.'

[Anastasia]

'It tastes...good.' The voice rasps in your minds, before an archway of shadow appears before you. 'Enter.'

[Ebiris]

Didn't she do something like this when she gave that yugoloth on Water an unimportant memory. Feeling that if there is a trap it's surely one they can deal with, she leads the way through that archway.

[Anastasia]

Sylvie interposes herself, hands on her hips. She just meets Afina's eyes and mouths, "Seriously?" without making a sound.

Tannin comes over, lays a hand on her shoulder and smiles. He gestures at the portal and wavers hand, before shrugging and taking a few steps towards it.

[Ebiris]

This silence really is annoying. She can't justify herself by pantomine, so Afina settles for tapping the pommel of one of her swords to get across that they can handle anything some 'loth tries to double-cross them with. Without a figure here in person she can't just murder it and be on her way as she most certainly would have done otherwise.

[Anastasia]

This gets Sylvie to huff and sigh, throwing her hands up and stepping aside.