One step forward and many to go

[Ebiris]

"It's good for stomping on castles or throwing spine-ships around, though I'm quite unwieldy at that size," Alicia admits. "Still, I'll look forward to being the first to see you reveal your draconic majesty and live to tell about it."

"So!" Marie takes out a pair of little spectacles and sets them above her nose before producing a parchment and quill from her handbag. "Alicia and Seira to go attack Raven Fortress. Marie and Seira's avatar to visit Balmuria, look into Marianne and Sylvie's child," her tongue pokes out the side of her mouth a little as she scribbles things down. "Seira to investigate Io's return. Alicia to approach Eblis to learn about his strange divinity. Oberuth to become prismatic human. Am I missing anything?"

Alicia leans over. "Put a comma after Marianne otherwise you're making it sound like they had a child together," she points out, drawing a giggle from Marie as she makes that correction.

"It could still happen one day! Speaking of, how are Emily and Xerandalla, Seira?" the eladrin asks, looking up.

[Corwin]

"That's pretty doable with a soul-shaping spell," Seira muses. "Case in point, our kids! Similar principles to what Ilmater talked about-- and you don't want to hear about that. So anyways, I had this grand plan of nudging Emily into things. She's all grown up and hasn't really reached for a job and I had one all lined up for her and she went to some Inner Plane and got busy there instead." Seira shrugs helplessly. "What can you do? At least it sounds like she finally found her motivation to act rather than train! As for Xera, she's been in training in Celestia last we spoke, but maybe that'll change once she hears about our assault on Avernus. If not, I'll just ask her to visit and see about motivating her properly~"

[Ebiris]

"It's nice that Emily's found something to pursue on her own at least," Alicia says. "Shame I didn't run into Xera on Celestia, but I really only stopped briefly to talk to Romiel and then Xerona, so all the layers inbetween got skipped."

[Corwin]

Seira nods happily. "It's been really bothering us. We tried to provide everything since neither one of us had a happy childhood, but without that adversity finding a reason to act must've been pretty hard. Not to mention that until now, there was no safe way for them to elevate them."

[Ebiris]

"They're both strong and talented enough to be legends in their own right," Alicia says. "So long as you keep an eye to make sure they don't get targeted by any true horrors I'm sure they'll do fine wherever they are."

[Corwin]

"As long as they call the Cauldron home, Emily and Xera will remain under my protection," Seira affirms, and her grin shows plenty of teeth. "I'll manifest at the first sign of trouble. I taught them well enough to not find shame in calling for me during such times."

[Anastasia]

Okay, lemme know when you two are good to move along next.

That will be tonight or tomorrow, jut tossing this out real quick.

[Corwin]

Good to go.

[Ebiris]

All set on team Alicia.

[Corwin]

Speaking of teams, it'd be just Seira and Amaryl on our side. Also, is Sulia interested? We don't need to ask her IC about each fight~

[Ebiris]

Alicia and Antenora will fill in for our squad.

[Anastasia]

Sulia can't make this one, unfortunately. Okay, any prep to be done for this?

[Corwin]

I'm sure we could hit DC 100 for knowledge on the opponents we'll have there, just basic strengths/weaknesses/numbers. After that, we can just plane shift or gate over there and wreck shit. Combat buffs-wise, I can provide Glorious Rally and Celestial Valor (and Good Hope for the ability checks) to all of us, and that should be enough.

[Ebiris]

Yeah I'll go with Seira's knowledge checks and cast relevant combat buffs before we go in.

[Anastasia]

Seira, go ahead and refresh me on precisely what Chan told you about your enemies there?