Anvil (Afina)

[Ebiris]

"Thanks, Elena," she says, taking a moment to familiarise herself with the scrying setup. She did help build it but usually it gets used by Tepen or someone while she's out in the field. Still it should be easy enough to get it to show her what Ithea and Jaela are up to so as to assuage her concerns.

[Anastasia]

For reference, do me a favor and past the info on the War Room and what it can do from the Aurora topic?

[Ebiris]

Make a War/Conference room (Self explanatory.) 0 gold, just talk to Galariel since Medicant has some limited morphic abilities. ---> Illusionary battlefield capacity(Allows illusions to create battlefields and other things at will): 20,000 gold; 1 DC 25 spellcraft check; 3 days ---> Add scrying capacity (Shows battles as they progress, makes strategy and adjustments much faster): 80,000 gold; 2 DC 32 spellcraft checks; 1 DC 32 K:A check; 7 days*. ---> Add long range spell capacity (Allows casting spells through Medicant and through the illusionary battlefield) 400,000 gold; 5 DC 50 spellcraft checks; 4 DC 50 K:A check; 10 days.

[Anastasia]

Thank you, steam pixie.

Afina settles in, casting her scryings about. Soon you see the current battlefield. The party is traveling below a great slab of floating earth and stone, heading through the damaged Astral. A look suggests some minor losses, but nothing serious. They're proceeding on in good order on a glance.

[Ebiris]

Any losses are bad considering she bears partial responsibility for this situation but she trusts Jaela and Ithea are doing all they can.

Speaking of where is that cat?

[Anastasia]

Which cat? Ithea or another one?

[Ebiris]

Ithea is the only cat of consequence

[Anastasia]

Ithea's with Moore and Stille, currently having a conversation. Stille's going on about how distances in the Astral work and how it's strange it's working like this here.

[Ebiris]

Oh. It's like she just ignored Ebony. Maybe they're having a feud? She'll have future messages sent to Moore or Stille since they both seem to be close enough to Ithea that they can pass anything along easily.

Well since she's here she just settles in to watch the show, trusting Elena will let her know if anything exciting happens in Aurora's vicinity.

[Anastasia]

Soon enough the party stops - and Afina sees the psychic storm that lashes out at them, stopped and barricaded against. From her view, she can see that none of them were blown away.

As Afina watches this, Elena appears. "Quick report," she says, "We've received word from Mechanus through Celestia. They're pressing the daemons with concentrated and specialized formations, aiming at overwhelming the defenses in a single strike. They're requesting Celestia strike firmly as well, and through us Aurora. Mechanus won't leave until it's done or they're wiped out."

[Ebiris]

"Thank you Elena, that's good to hear," Afina says. About time that stubbornness got used for their benefit.

[Anastasia]

Elena vanishes, leaving Afina to scrying and relaxing. It's strangely removed from it all, letting Afina focus on things far away. She sees the armies advancing, coming to a massive knot of storms ahead. Stormclouds fill everything ahead, bursting with rain and lightning.

[Ebiris]

Shouldn't be any problem for Ithea and Baleruk to calm the storm with their anarch abilities. That's why Ithea's there instead of cooling her heels in Afina's place after all. It is a little bit dull here by herself, and Dana was complaining earlier... "Elena?" she speaks up. "Could you ask Dana to come here, please?"

[Anastasia]

"Done," Elena says, appearing a moment and then vanishing.

Dana comes through shortly. She strides on in, "You rang," she asks, glancing around.

[Ebiris]

"Since you were unsatisfied with your current job I thought you could come help me oversee the battle," Afina says. Not that they can really influence from here, but hey. "See what strategies they're using and critique them. It'll be useful for when you're Queen.

Not to mention you might get a second-hand thrill from seeing Ithea get beat up? I'm not sure how it works for you."