Amnesia (Jaela)

[Anastasia]

It's foggy and misty. That's the first thing you think when you pass through the portal. The Deep Ethereal is as forlorn and silent as you remember, yet ahead you see a river winding through the mists. A river of murky black water, the scent of fetid and befouled water strong in the air.

Ellese grimaces as she looks around. "This place is cursed," she murmurs. "This land is cursed."

Sylvie looks around as well, slipping into a defensive stance. "I'd eat my pants if Lixer doesn't have patrols around here, so eyes open."

Finnegan comes in right besides you, his spear at the ready and staying close to Jaela. "More targets then."

[Corwin]

"Anything of immediate concern?" Jaela asks Mirajane, checking her blindsight against regular vision for any discrepancies. "Also, did Aurora manage its own shift?"

As far as precast spells go, beyond those listed for me under Spells, all of us have Heroes's Feast (CL20) and the Mind Blank obelisk set: mind blank (CL17), fortunate fate (CL15), planar tolerance (CL7) and greater mage armor(CL5).

[Anastasia]

No differences between normal vision and blindsight.

"They're over," Mirajane says, also looking around. "As of now, the vanguard's just going out."

Spoiler block will come shortly.

[Corwin]

"Let's get going, then," Jaela states, flying off upriver. "I'll take the front, Ellese behind me, Mirajane and Flannagan on her flanks, Sylvie as our rearguard. No more than five feet distance separation. If you lose any of your partners, alert us immediately."

We'll fly at the maximum speed of our slowest flier.

[Anastasia]

The party falls into formation.

"Make noise if anything's wrong at all. Better to be heard and tip a watcher off than say nothing and be caught unawares," Finnegan adds.

"Our magic should hold long enough, and I can fire off 21 if I need to," Sylvie waves a hand, dispersing the mist around her face. "That should eliminate any Styx-mist or water where I fire."

[Corwin]

Given the reasons behind their presence, alerting a watcher might well be a preferred course of action. But Jaela would avoid that unless Aurora's main assault upon Lethe is found lacking.

[Anastasia]

Are you going upstream or downstream?

[Corwin]

Upstream. We intend to find the river's origin and destroy the portal it's flowing through or divert it.

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d100 Jaela
<Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d100 Jaela --> [ 1d100=19 ]{19}
> roll 1d100 Jaela
<Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d100 Jaela --> [ 1d100=70 ]{70}

Make a Wis check, Jaela.

[Corwin]

[22:44] <Corwin> roll 1d20+10
[22:44] <Rei-chan> Corwin rolled : 1d20+10 --> [ 1d20=10 ]{20}

[Anastasia]

As you begin to fly along, you notice something. Your thoughts become more sluggish. Harder to focus, more prone to losing track of what you were thinking of. It's subtle right now, though.

[Corwin]

How ridiculous, Jaela thinks. 'Let's play word games. Everyone knows the rules for word chain?'

[Anastasia]

"I don't," Ellese speaks up, "What are they?"

[Corwin]

'Right!' she thinks back. 'It's a game where the players come up with words that begin with the letter that the previous word ended with. You usually pick a category, so say the topic is food and I start with soup? A chain might continue as peas, sugar, rice. You only have a few seconds to respond, so no idling. More to the point, I'm already starting to drift and I bet I'm not the only one. This'll be a nice way to pass the time and have everyone keep watch on each other and how alert we remain.'

[Anastasia]

Another Wis check, would you?