The hunt for companionship (Calleigh)

[Yuthirin]

'Eh,' Calleigh shrugs, hoisting herself onto Moonlight's shoulder, 'demons being weird. Standard evil chaos stuff. Just general grossness. The mercs are probably holed up in the cave the demons are surrounding. Loosely surrounding. Encamped around. Doesn't look like they can get inside. There's a nice big sphere of holy magic protecting the place. It wouldn't even let us through, and we didn't want to force our way through and potentially destroy it. It's not something outside the ninth circle of magic, but they probably have some sort of object enhancing it. Custom stuff, looks like it does the job though. You have a way to contact them? Cause fighting our way in is gonna be messy. Like suuuuuper messy. There's thousands of guys out there just waiting to make my tiny skull into pancake batter!'

[Anastasia]

'Did before,' Moonlight retorts, 'He's countingon us to give his forces a way out. Ideas?'

[Yuthirin]

'If we can get in, we can probably just teleport them out.'

[Anastasia]

Moonlight frowns and stamps her foot, 'Hey, weren't you paying attention earlier? I told you teleportation wasn't an option due to the area!'

Hana coughs into her hand, unheard due to the howling winds, and then thinks to all of you, 'Is there a way we can overcome that?'

[Yuthirin]

'Maybe? I dunno. Uhhhh...' Calleigh trails off.

'It's possible,' Tryll sends, 'though it may take some significant amount of time. I'd need to determine what is causing the effect of the dimensional barrier.'

[Anastasia]

'It's the cave they're in. Something in it scrambles teleportation, probably something in the stone,' Moonlight replies.

Simmer crosses her arms, 'So why aren't we setting them all on fire again? You know that'll take care of it.'

[Yuthirin]

'Cause there's too many. Thousands and thousands. We can't set them on fire fast enough before they get to us. Then they get us.' Calleigh sends to Simmer.

'If they're able to let us through the barrier, we could bore a tunnel to extract them.' Tryll replies.

[Anastasia]

'That's a great plan,' Moonlight agrees, 'Can any of us manage a sending?'

[Yuthirin]

Calleigh raises her hand with a look of triumph on her face, pauses a moment, then scowls, 'We're stupid.'

[Anastasia]

Hanna slowly exhales, 'So can you or can't you, or did you overlook something else?'

[Yuthirin]

'Well, telepathy. We probably coulda felt around for brains past the barrier. Didn't think of it.'

[Anastasia]

'Do it,' Moonlight says, 'It's our best shot to do this.'

[Yuthirin]

'Right!' And off they go again.

[Anastasia]

Your return to the barrier is mercifully uneventful. The winds are muffled by the ground, but somehow not stopped entirely. You can still hear them, screaming mindlessly.

[Yuthirin]

Tryll reaches past the barrier with his oversized brain, seeking minds inside!