To challenge destiny (Afina)

[Anastasia]

"I can't really stay long," Guluba says, "If father finds out I'm not on Water, I'll get locked in my room for a century."

[Ebiris]

"He sounds very overbearing," Afina says sympathetically. "I think you'd get on well with a friend of mine, she's a runaway princess."

[Anastasia]

"Oh, father's a total pebble in the water," Guluba says, offering you her hand. "You may want to close your eyes."

[Ebiris]

"I have plane-shifted before," she says, taking Guluba's hand without closing her eyes.

In the sense of healthy paranoia, I will be spellcrafting what she's doing. Taking 10 for 57. If it's something other than a plane shift or greater plane shift I'll resist.

[Anastasia]

It's plane shift. You blink and...

> roll 5d100
<Serith> Kotono roll for Serith < 161 > [d100=35,15,43,2,66]

You're in hills. It's bright, Benfal glorious all around. Guluba grimaces and shields her eyes, "So bright!"

[Ebiris]

"That's deliberate, to counter diabolic sorcery," Afina says. "You might want to get back to Water now, this whole world is a war zone. I'll be in touch via Sending magic after wrapping things up here."

[Anastasia]

It takes nothing else to get her to flee, leaving you alone.

Go ahead.

[Ebiris]

'Tepen, I'm back on Benfal now, though in the middle of nowhere,' she sends as telepathy becomes available once more. 'I can probably teleport back to Elons Rapid but I'm obviously leery after what just happened. What's the situation?'

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Afina: 239/287, glaciante's spiteful ward (CL 27 attached to epic mage armour), heroes feast (CL 20), mind blank (CL 17), fortunate fate (CL 15), planar tolerance (CL 7), epic mage armour (CL 25), see invisibility (CL 25), greater heroism (CL 25), interplanar telepathic bond (CL 24), shield (CL 25), magic tattoo (CL 26), magic tattoo (CL 26), energy absorption (CL 26), stupendous dragonskin (CL 26), seira's agility (CL 26), seira's strength (CL 26), seira's mind (CL 26), mind blank (CL 27), stoneskin (CL 26), control weather (CL 27), scalding touch (CL 27, SR 45), shadow form (CL 25), moment of prescience (CL 25), spell turning (CL 26)
AC 98, spell resistance 40, blindsense 30, immunity to fire, water, earth, cold, disease, poison, 50% miss chance, freedom of movement, 50% spell failure
Spell charges: 5/0/7/3/0/7/4/2/0/0/0/0
20 uses left on blistering/searing scalding touch

Fenrir: 322/370, heroes feast (CL 20), greater mage armour (CL 7), mind blank (CL 17), fortunate fate (CL 15), planar tolerance (CL 7), haste (CL 25)
AC 43, spell resistance 25, freedom of movement, immunity to electricity, exhaustion, mind affecting, fatigue, fear, poison
Garm: 92/370, heroes feast (CL 20), greater mage armour (CL 7), mind blank (CL 17), fortunate fate (CL 15), planar tolerance (CL 7), haste (CL 25)
AC 43, spell resistance 25, freedom of movement, immunity to electricity, exhaustion, mind affecting, fatigue, fear, poison
Attack: +39 (2d6+25) +10d6 skirmish, dimensional anchor

[Anastasia]

'We're beginning operations in Liber,' Tepen sends, 'Do you need retrieval?'

[Ebiris]

'I'll see if I can find a settlement or landmark nearby, someone can teleport over to pick me up once I do?' she suggests, starting to fly high into the air so she can look around. She might kill some third line devils in whatever place she spots, but she's not really good for much more than that right now.

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d100
<Serith> Kotono roll for Serith < 19 > [d100=19]

There's a village nearby - quiet and rather ruined, though. Half of it looks burned and the other half is abandoned.

[Ebiris]

'I see a village, I'm going to fly down and I can give you a better description of where I am from there,' she sends to Tepen, arrowing down towards the village in question.

[Anastasia]

Spot.

[Ebiris]

[18:41] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+45 spot
[18:41] <Serith> Ebiris roll for Serith < 65 > [d20=20]

[Anastasia]

As you fly down and look, you can spot a young child peeking out from behind some rubble.