A second tryp to the Styx (Jaela)

[Corwin]

[21:29] <@Annerose> roll 1d20+50+4+21 moment of prescience
[21:29] <Kobot> Annerose rolled 1d20+50+4+21 moment of prescience --> [ 1d20=9 ]{84}

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+55 (+14 factotum, +4 celestial valor) Sylvie
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+55 (+14 factotum, +4 celestial valor) Sylvie --> [ 1d20=18 ]{73}
> roll 1d20+27 Ellese mettle (+4 celestial valor)
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+27 Ellese mettle (+4 celestial valor) --> [ 1d20=1 ]{28}
> roll 1d20+39 Finnegan (+4 celestial valor)
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+39 Finnegan (+4 celestial valor) --> [ 1d20=18 ]{57}

The river is swirling. Twisting. Twisting in more than three dimensions. Your head screams at you as a full migraine explodes within. You can barely see, vision becoming terrifically distorted. Every heartbeat is agony as your head throbs. Reality is taking a vacation ahead of you. Twisting in ways, twisting endlessly. You  manage to tear your gaze away as warm blood runs out from your eyes, ears and nose. Sylvie and Finnegan are in similar states, managing to look away. Ellese stares ahead, screaming tonelessly as she stands there, rigid.

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Celestial valor placeholder for everyone pending CL resolution: +8 saves vs fear/emotion, +4 sacred to attack rolls, damage rolls, armor class, saving throws, weapons count as holy (doesn't stack). Ditto with haste.

Ellese
HP: 445/445
Spells Active: Mind Blank (CL15), Fortunate Fate (CL13), Planar Tolerance (CL7), Greater Mage Armor (CL5)
Bonuses: -
Negative Conditions: -
Resources Used: -

Sylvie
HP: 305/305
Spells Active: Mind Blank (CL15), Fortunate Fate (CL13), Planar Tolerance (CL7), Greater Mage Armor (CL5), Deeper Darkvision (CL23), Overland Flight (CL23), Endure Elements (CL23), Greater Mighty Wallop (CL23), Lore of the Gods (CL23)
Bonuses: -
Negative Conditions: -
Resources Used: 1 stunning fist

Mirima
HP: 299/299
Spells Active: Mind Blank (CL15), Fortunate Fate (CL13), Planar Tolerance (CL7), Greater Mage Armor (CL9), Mirror Image (8 images)
Bonuses: -
Negative Conditions: -
Resources Used: 1 quickened mirror image

Ellese casts as a 21st level sorcerer. The save DCs are 18 + spell level. Her metamagic options are Empower Spell (+2), Energy Substitution(Acid) (+0), Energy Admixture (+1) and Maximize Spell (+3). Once per day she may automatically maximize any spell. Twice per day she may declare a spell a smiting spell, dealing an extra 13 points of damage.

[6/day]0: Acid Splash, Detect Magic, Detect Poison, Ghost Sound, Mage Hand, Mending, Message, Prestidigitation, Resistance.
[8/day]1: AberrateBoVD, Protection from Good, Seething EyebaneBoVD, C, Shocking Grasp, StuporBoVD.
[7/day]2: Darkness, Devil's TongueBoVD, C, Mirror Image, Scorching Ray, Summon Swarm.
[7/day]3: Devil's EyeBoVD, Lightning Bolt, Love's PainBoVD, C, Rage.
[7/day]4: Absorb StrengthBoVD, C, Black Tentacles, Damning DarknessBoVD, Wall of Ice.
[5/day]5: Call Lemure HordeBoVD, Cone of Cold, Feeblemind, Morality UndoneFC1, Wall of OozeBoVD.
[4/day]6: Acid Fog, Chain Lightning, Freezing Sphere, Harm.
[5/day]7: Delayed Blast Fireball, Fiendish ClarityFC1, Rapture of RuptureBoVD, Whirlwind of TeethBoVD
[4/day]8: Create Greater Undead, Fire Storm, Horrid Wilting, Polar Ray.
[4/day]9: Apocalypse from the SkyBoVD, Eternity of TortureBoVD, MindrapeBoVD, UtterdarkLoM.
[2/day]10: Body SofteningHome, Gathgorian's FireballHome, Simmer's Contagious FireburstHome, True Meteor SwarmHome

BoVD - Book of Vile Darkness.
C - Corrupted spell. No corruption cost is noted as Ellese is immune to corruption costs.
FC1 - Fiendish Codex 1.
LoM - Lords of Madness.

Ellese casts as a 1st level death delver. The save DCs are 15 + spell level. Her metamagic options are Empower Spell (+2), Energy Substitution(Acid) (+0), Maximize Spell (+3) and Energy Admixture (+3). Once per day she may automatically maximize any spell. Twice per day she may declare a spell a smiting spell, dealing an extra 13 points of damage.

[1/day]1: Lesser Restorationx2

Always active: Deeper Darkvision, Greater Mighty Wallop, Endure Elements, Overland Flight.

Sylvie casts as a 13th level chameleon (Caster level 23rd.) Her save DCs are 24 + spell level (arcane) or 15 + spell level (divine). Her spell selection themes are personal power and planar survival.

Arcane casting

[4/day]0: Detect Magicx2, Prestidigitationx2
[8/day]1: Improvisationx3SC, Magic Missilex3, Shieldx2
[8/day]2: Body of the SunSC, Detect Thoughts, Electric LoopSCx2, Resist Energyx2, See Invisibilityx2
[7/day]3: Amorphous FormSC, Displacement, Greater Mighty Wallopx2RD, Heroism, Vampiric Touch
[7/day]4: Assay Spell ResistanceSC, Attune Formx2SC, Dimensional Anchor, Dimension Door, Enervationx2
[7/day]5: IndomitabilitySC, Overland Flight, Teleportx2, Wall of Force.
[7/day]6: Bite of the Weretigerx2, Disintegratex2, Greater Heroism.
[3/day]7: Greater Teleport, Limited Wish, Waves of Exhaustion.

RD - Races of the Dragon.
SC - Spell Compendium.

Divine casting

[4/day]0: Create Waterx3, Cure Minor Wounds.
[5/day]1: ConvictionSC, Divine Favorx2, Endure Elements, Foundation of StoneSC, Goodberry
[5/day]2: Aid, Lore of the Godsx2, Spiritual Weapon
[5/day]3: BlindsightSC, Cure Serious Woundsx2, Ghost Touch WeaponSC
[5/day]4: Death Wardx2, Divination, Divine Power, Freedom of Movement.
[4/day]5: Plane Shift, Righteous Might, Spell Resistance, Zone of RevelationSC
[4/day]6: Healx4.
[1/day]7: Aura of VitalitySC

CC - Complete Champion.
SC - Spell Compendium.

Arcane Dilettante casting. 9 spells with a maximum of level 8. Save DCs are 22 + spell level.

Bite of the Werebear, Cone of Cold, Enervation, Greater Mirror Image, Greater Invisibility, Greater Mighty Wallop, Greater Heroism, Polar Ray.

Spell like abilities

1/day-scorching ray. Caster level 20th. The save DCs are 19 + spell level.

Mirima casts as a 9th level sorcerer. The save DCs are 19 + spell level.

[6/day]0: Acid Splash, Detect Magic, Detect Poison, Mage Hand, Mending, Message, Prestidigitation, Read Magic, Resistance.
[7/day]1: Endure Elements, Fist of StoneSC, Magic Missile, Shield, Weapon ShiftSC.
[5/day]2: False Life, Ray of WeaknessSC, Resist Energy, Whirling BladeSC.
[5/day]3: False GravitySC, Fly, Greater Mage ArmorSC.
[5/day]4: Greater Invisibility, Orb of Force
[3/day]5: Wall of Force

SC - Spell Compendium.
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[Corwin]

Taking 10 for K:A 53

[Anastasia]

You're trying to see something well beyond your normal comprehension - infinity or something like that. Your minds simply aren't equipped to deal with that.

[Corwin]

Did I succeed? Is it temporary? Can I plane shift from this?

[Anastasia]

You honestly aren't sure, you aren't sure and maybe you think.

There's just too many unknown factors. 21 and the works of Asmodeus are beyond even your extensive knowledge of magical lore.

[Corwin]

"Sylvie, shoot it again!" Jaela calls out. "I'm getting us all out!"

Waiting on Sylvie's init to either fire or fail to do so, and then I'm plane shifting us away into Astral.

[Corwin]

A thought, however, directs a wall of stone in the path of the river. One of the rivers, at least, that Jaela remembers seeing earlier, angled so that it would break up the flow and direct it away from the four of them.

Wall of Stone as swift.

[Anastasia]

Sylvie fires again and reality starts to twist and roil endlessly on itself and then - Finnegan grabs Sylvie and Ellese, pulling them back and to you and relief. The Astral is calm, timeless. Your headache still throbs, but some perverse infinity isn't there to aggravate it any further.

But as you went, you saw one thing. Your wall of stone appeared, damming the twisted river. You saw the waters hitting it, perhaps blocked? You don't see long enough to know, other than you managed to put it in the right place and at least momentarily stop the waters.

[Corwin]

Jaela immediately uses a Heal on Ellese, along with Resurgence. "So what do you think?" she asks Sylvie with a bloody grin. "Not a good place to visit in the near future, or we broke it badly enough for a second assault?"

[Anastasia]

"Heh," Sylvie grins as Ellese recovers, "Hell if I know right now." She holds her head and groans after, holding a holy symbol. "What do you get when you have a perfect loop and introduce something outside of it? I'm not sure, but it'll be a mess. Ask me when the headache's gone and I have a chance to check the books."

She's using her own heal spell on herself. No need for another save since heal clears it up for Ellese.

[Corwin]

"If that's not enough for a fucking distraction to drain Lixer's troops away, I don't know what is. We're heading back home."

Planeshifting us towards the Aurora, with orders for everyone to get checked out. Also, I'll release Stone Body once we arrive.

[Anastasia]

Soon enough, you're in your underwear and Hanna's giving you a check over. "It's nothing some magic and time won't fix," she finally declares, the two of you in a curtained off corner of the infirmary. The others are in their own check ups right now. "I never thought I'd see the Styx be worse than it is normally, but Hell is full of surprises."

[Corwin]

Jaela laughs. "Ain't that the truth. But enough about me, how are the others? Mirima, Ellese, Sylvie, Finnegan and Mirajane? The troops?"

[Anastasia]

"Mirima's on bed rest until tomorrow, just in case. The others should be fine if you're any sign," Hanna concludes crisply, "Mirajane's welll. The troops are doing well enough. Morale's shaken a bit but nothing serious, Gisfal's working on that."