Afina vs the lich (Afina)

[Anastasia]

"Was okay," Moonlight shrugs her shoulders, "We ended up being sidelined while Calleigh and Hamogan had a heart to heart. Oh, and we ran into some wild dire animals, but we charmed and manipulated our way out of it. No real action, no WHAM BAM," She swings her heavy mace about.

Meanwhile, you notice Aurora's gates are opening. Someone's coming in?

[Ebiris]

"Shouldn't be any shortage of that on this trip, we're off to kill a lich on top of his well fortified mountain fastness," Afina says brightly, glancing over to see who's coming in.

[Anastasia]

"Yeah, I want to know about that and the plan here," Moonlight says, as you see who comes in. It's Emerelda, carrying a rather small black bag, stitched with silver thread. She looks about slowly, whistling before her eyes come on Afina. "Oh, Afina," she says, "Hello!"

[Ebiris]

"I'll get to that," Afina promises Moonlight before she waves over at Emerelda. "Hello Emerelda, good to see you again. Everyone this is Emerelda, she's from Lifasa but we only found recently. These are Moonlight, from Lathander's service, Meillarberyl, from the elven Triune, and lastly is Smrgol, a creation of mine."

The brightly painted and feather festooned crystalline dragon booms out a hearty, "GREETINGS!"

[Anastasia]

"Aaaah!" Emerelda leaps back, hand on her chest. "Aaah, a dragon...no, a golem. Hello?" she offers, then, "I'm not the strongest in combat, so I decided I can do something more useful than that. My gifts lie in finding and refining rare materials, so I'm going to open up a shop about it. I hear that Aurora already has several shops."

"Hiya," Moonlight smiles, "Moonlight, and yeah, my parents admired elves. What can you do?" she grins.

Mei just smiles warmly.

[Ebiris]

"That's actually a useful gift," Afina says approvingly. "Smrgol here's an ironwyrm golem, traditionally they're made of iron but he was lucky enough to have a shard of crystal provided by Lady Sunnis incorporated into his construction. Rare materials see lots of use in our arms and equipment so I'm sure you'll contribute a lot.

"We're just about to go on a mission so we can't stay, but if you ask for Elena she'll get you set up. You should drop in on the alchemist Grenalous as well - he sells things of interest to fey."

[Anastasia]

"Thank you. Right now I have some dragon marrow, boiled topaz, frystalline, serrenleaf and a scroll of a spell I made, druid heartweave. If you're interested, come by." Emerelda says.

[Ebiris]

"Hold some of that dragon marrow back for me? I'll stop by after this mission," Afina says with a smile, letting Emerelda go off before she turns back to the business at hand. "I was only given the bare bones of the situation by our contact with Oak's Pride." She doesn't even register the pun regarding liches and bones until it's too late, but maintains her poker face even after it strikes her. "He's based in a valley atop that world's highest mountains where ley lines are focused. Teleportation, scrying, even flight are impossible, so we'll have to do a lot of climbing to get up those mountains. Luckily even if climbing isn't your forte, Smrgol is more than capable of carrying all three of us if needed," she gives the draconic golem the smile of a proud parent.

"I'm going to gate us to Malathas at one of Oak's Pride's strongholds. We'll get more detailed information there before teleporting as close as we can to the mountains after formulating our plans. But between the four of us I think we're capable of overcoming or avoiding anything the lich Tulthas throws at us and taking him down when we catch him."

[Anastasia]

Make a post in loot that you want some, so we don't forget.

Moonlight immediately winces and goes, "Boo! You should feel terrible for that!" she scowls, hands on her hips. "A lich, hmmmmmm?" Moonlight considers before nodding quickly, "Yes, he'll have to meet the power of the sun. Get me in there and I can maim him and turn him into nothing more than a skeleton."

[Ebiris]

Posted, I'll just buy 'em outright and fiddle with them later

"How about you two? Feeling up to it?" Afina asks Mei and Smrgol.

"NO MAGIC CAN THREATEN ME!" Smrgol is of course fully confident.

[Anastasia]

Mei nods crisply, while Moonlight considers. "I'm up to it," she says.

[Ebiris]

"Alright, unless any of you have any preparations to attend to lets get to it?" Afina says, flying towards the gates and conjuring forth a Gate to Oak Pride's main stronghold on Malathas.

I made a decent nature check to know about them when they first came up so presumably I can target this decently?

[Anastasia]

Were you all using the archway?

Just as you're about to go, Moonlight stops. "Wait a moment," she says, "Are we going to a Prime?"

[Ebiris]

We may as well!

"Yes, the prime world Malathas," Afina confirms, before giving Moonlight a concerned look. "You haven't died there, have you?"

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Afina: 277/277, heroes feast (CL 20), mind blank (CL 17), fortunate fate (CL 15), planar tolerance (CL 7), greater mage armour (CL 23), moment of prescience (CL 23)
AC 72, spell resistance 38, blindsense 30, immunity to fire, water, earth, cold, disease, poison, fear
Spell charges: 6/10/10/8/9/9/9/8/7/8

[Anastasia]

"Oh no, I've never died there. I may not look it at all, but I'm as much as spirit as an angel." Moonlight spins on her tip-toes before going on. "I'm strong enough that going to the Prime usually leaves a wound. I don't really care about wounding some lich-forsaken valley we have to clean up anyway, but leaving a wound right by the base of our friends isn't a good idea."