All That Glitters

[Anastasia]

"Leave," The elemental rumbles, "My task is given to me by Ogremoch. Leave this place or suffer oblivion."

Cresiel silently prepares his weapon and shield, while Xandra looks on coolly, unperturbed.

[Nephrite]

Moore raises a hand in waiting to Cresiel. "Take this as a warning. Lord Crystalle's army approaches this place. If you do not wish to be reduced back to primal bits and pieces, I would suggest you not be here when he arrives."

With that, Moore turns and begins to head back the way they came.

[Anastasia]

Thus the three of you retreat back. Once you're out of earshot Cresiel turns, and asks simply, "Now what do we do?"

[Nephrite]

"We let Lord Crystalle know, as we promised we would. This will take a few minutes to cast, I'd rather be certain the message gets through to him in case our elemental friend is dawdling anywhere." Moore says.

Intent is to cast Sending, but let's move back to the entrance first so we're more likely to be able to get out of there in case anything happens.

The message, assuming I get to complete it is 'We are in Eberly Rock. Rumbling Earth is here on orders of Ogremoch. We await you to go further.'

[Anastasia]

'Return.' A curt, one word answer by Crystalle, saying it all.

[Nephrite]

"We're being summoned." Moore says.

"I really need to buy something that helps teleport us..." He muses as he Greater Plane Shifts them to Elysium (why not) and then back to Crystalle's Palace. Maybe it'll even get them closer this time!

[Anastasia]

Two shifts later and you end up back at Crystalle's palace (well, that and some walking). Elementals are rising out of the ground en masse, thousands forming together. Crystalle himself sits on a throne of white crystals, overseeing it all.

"Approach," Crystalle speaks a single word and the elementals part, "Rumbling Earth. You are certain it was Rumbling Earth?"

[Nephrite]

I can be relatively certain of that from my knowledge checks, right?

[Anastasia]

The name he gave was Rumbling Slide, not Rumbling Earth, and the check was predicated on the former, not the latter. It did seem to fit Rumbling Slide from what little you saw.

[Nephrite]

Okay, that was user error. He really did mean to say the same name as he was given, (So, slide, not earth) so does that change anything about this scenario?

[Anastasia]

I figured it was, just go ahead and fess up to the mistake, since yes, it matters here. Not gonna be penalized for it, this is just a very soft DM correction.

Rumbling Earth is a whole different elemental with a whole different reputation. Crystalle will probably elaborate on this.

[Nephrite]

If that happens again, I'd appreciate it being corrected earlier, especially if you can tell it was OOC error, since I did go back to verify what his name was and just goofed on it since I'm multitasking.

"He said it was Rumbling Slide, I'm afraid I made an error when I reported that. He was a primal elemental nonetheless." Moore explains. "Please forgive that mistake."

[Anastasia]

Fair enough, I only caught on the fly myself and didn't wanna retcon several posts. Making the best of a bad situation here.

Crystalle...exhales. A sound like chimes, the elementals beginning to disperse. "Rumbling Earth is the personal guard of Grumbar," Crystalle says, "To see him here would be disastrous. Rumbling Slide is a known servant of Ogremoch and much more manageable."

[Anastasia]

Important typo fix. Dang Rumbling names.

[Nephrite]

It's just one of those days for everyone.

"My apologies again. Regardless, I tried to parley with him and he seemed intent on guarding Shar's retinue." Moore explains.