A Faraway Victory

[Ebiris]

"It's rather innocent by Abyssal standards," Alicia opines, another whip of silver fire lashing out to carve through the door and anything unfortunate enough to be directly behind.

[18:31] <@Ebiris> roll 40d10 DC 41 ref half
[18:31] <Rei-chan> Ebiris rolled : 40d10 DC 41 ref half --> [ 40d10=220 ]{220}

[Anastasia]

The wall is obliterated.

Beyond it as the silver fire clears, you see an open space. A vast barracks, each bed large and luxurious. A barricade of them has been made, stacked on each other, giving cover. Behind them are the cultists, the demons, the elementals, the slaad. Arrow demons stand side by side with cultists as you feel it. Your senses grow sharper yet, more intense.

Bonus to Perception rises to +15.

"Do you like it?" A sweet, alluring voice like liquid honey tickles your ears. "Imagine how it will be if you give into your desires. There's enough here to take all of you on a journey that will change your world forever."

[Ebiris]

Between god-senses and the extra boost can I tell where that voice is coming from? I have tremorsense out to one mile and +99 perception so even if she's behind a bunch of walls and floors I think that gives good odds of Alicia being able to specifically identify a figure talking or casting at the same time as we hear the voice if she's using a ventriloquism-a-like.

[Anastasia]

Far ahead, within the inner keep or so, you think .It's being magically projected, coming from the air where nothing is.

[Ebiris]

Alicia will keep that location in mind for after they clear out the current defenders. "You're not the most trustworthy of tour guides, Jade," Alicia says dryly, hefting her enormous sword. "Surrender or perish!" she calls to the poor fools arrayed before her.

[Anastasia]

Intimidate check, +5 bonus. Include size bonuses as if the target was Medium.

[Ebiris]

[19:02] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+71 intimidate
[19:02] <Rei-chan> Ebiris rolled : 1d20+71 intimidate --> [ 1d20=16 ]{87}

[Anastasia]

Antenora points ahead. "There's still hope. Turn away from this path before it leads you to to eternal oblivion."

Syala just hefts her greathammer, smiling serenely. "Hope for a better life, hope not to be a stain on  hammer. All kinds of hope."

Something in them - the rabble shudders. A shift. One goes to go back, an arrow demon whirling and shooting arrows into his unprotected back - and then a gith tackles him, another taking the chance to flee.

"Stop! Stop and stand!" Jade's voice declares, "Stop your petty quarreling! I command it!"

> roll 1d20+69
<Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+69 --> [ 1d20=8 ]{77}

But those words fall on deaf ears. The foes begin to flee, quarrel, fight, retreat. Chaos erupts as chaos tends to do on Limbo, your foes in on means to directly oppose you.

"No discipline, but perhaps for the best," Antenora says, "For once." Marie gets a sidelong look there.

[Ebiris]

Marie looks a bit pouty at the implications being cast towards her chosen ethical viewpoint on reality. "Hey, if you want to surrender then lie down and don't move!" Marie shouts loudly, before ordering her golem. "Anyone aside from us four that isn't lying down on the ground, go kill them. There, lets just go find Jade now?" she starts walking through the chaos before Alicia strides after her and takes the lead, aiming them directly at where she believes Jade to be and silver firing through any barriers in their path.

[Anastasia]

Amid chaos and violence the four of you go, another wall and another. An inner courtyard, empty right now and forgotten, half constructed in places.

Onward. As you walk? "Are we ready for the battle?" Antenora asks.

[Ebiris]

"I realise your ascension to divinity may have shifted your standards slightly Antenora, but that's what we've been doing," Alicia says, her godly tremorsense keeping her locked onto where she thinks Jade is.

"Actually can you cast Many Moments of Prescience on me?" Marie asks, trotting along by Alicia's giant feet. "Be bad if I get charmed or dominated, right?"

A nod from Alicia and the spell is cast, giving her familiar the safety of knowing what to watch out for.

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Alicia: 1140+20/1140
Active spells: Extended nondetection (CL 32), many moments of prescience (CL 32), extended greater anticipate teleportation (CL 32), sensual blessing (CL 31), epic mage armour (CL 31), righteous wrath of the faithful (CL 31), recitation (CL 31), death ward (CL 32), dance of the unicorn (CL 32), spell turning (CL 32), greater visage of the deity (CL 31), foresight (CL 31), vision of the omniscient eye (CL 31), extended repelling shield (CL 32), extended ray deflection (CL 32), divine protection (CL 31), energy immunity (electricity) (CL 31), haste (CL 31)
Defences: AC 94 (touch 29), CMD 110, spell resistance 46, energy immunity (fire, cold, electricity), status immunity (polymorph, petrification, disease, poison, stunning, sleep, paralysis, death effects, disintegration, energy drain, ability damage, ability drain, mind-affecting), freedom of movement, nondetection (DC 47)
Stat buffs/penalties: +25 competence perception, +12 armour, +3 morale damage, +3 luck attack/saves, +34 Str, -2 Dex, +20 Con, +2 Int, +4 Wis, +4 Cha, +1 natural armour, -7 size, +2 insight AC/reflex, +10 insight perception, +9 shield AC, +4 morale attack/saves/skills, +1 morale AC, +1 attack/AC/reflex
Perceptions: Darkvision, scent, low-light vision, blindsight, tremorsense 1 mile, true seeing, perception +84
Sorcerer spell slots: 6/7/9/9/8/9/7/8/7/7/7/5/5/4
Duskblade spell slots: 6/12/12/10/10/6

Marie: 912+20/912
Active spells: Extended superior resistance (CL 31), extended mind blank (CL 31), greater arcane sight (CL 31), righteous wrath of the faithful (CL 31), recitation (CL 31), death ward (CL 31), extended repelling shield (CL 31), bibliotheca arcana (CL 31), sensual blessing (CL 31), extended ray deflection (CL 31), extended nondetection (CL 31), divine protection (CL 31), power of the huntress (CL 31), haste (CL 31), many moments of prescience (CL 31)
Defences: AC 100 (touch 23), CMD 72, spell resistance 43, energy immunity (electricity, negative energy), energy resistance 10 (acid, cold), status immunity (protection, death effects, energy drain) protective aura, ray deflection, nondetection (DC 46), improved evasion
Stat buffs/penalties: +4 deflection AC vs evil, +3 morale damage, +11 shield AC, +15 insight knowledge, +25 competence perception, +3 luck attack/saves, +4 morale attack/saves/skills, +16 natural armour, +1 morale AC, +10 enhancement strength/constitution, +4 enhancement dexterity, +3 enhancement natural armour, +20 competence stealth, +6 initiative, +1 attack/AC/reflex
Perceptions: Darkvision 60, blessed sight 120, see invisibility, greater arcane sight, scent, low-light vision, blindsight 60, tremorsense 60, perception +70
Sorcerer spell slots: 6/5/8/8/6/8/6/6/6/7/6/2/3
Limited SLAs available: Limited wish, radiant assault, heal, meteor swarm, time stop

[Anastasia]

Antenora bows her head and takes the rebuke for what it is, as you cast on Marie.

Anything else or ready to go?

[Ebiris]

We're all set.

[Anastasia]

Walls collapse and crumble.

Before you is the inner sanctum, your silver fire carving through walls with ease and precision. In here is a vast place, a pleasure room full of piles of cushions, dimly lit areas and with smoke lingering in there air. Sweet smoke, a smell that nearly enslaves you on the spot. Everything is more here. You can see every pore on Syala's body, Marie can hear every slight movement Antenora makes.

It's like the world is hyper real, so much MORE than before.

Perception bonus rises to +30.

About 60ft away they stand. Two dragons loom, each filling up the far too large space, black as night and glaring at you with glowing green eyes. You can hear each beat of their hearts, like a roaring waterfall every few seconds. You can see the individual grains and whorls of their scales, like a hundred thousand mysteries that invite you to stop and contemplate them all. Their eyes are lakes of green radiance, unlike anything you have ever sensed before.

In between them is a woman with jade green hair, luxurious and clad in silks, transparent and doing nothing to hide her body. She is the most beautiful woman you've ever seen, body so hyper real - and yet a glance at Syala or Antenora refreshes you, just as lovely as the succubus is. She smiles, little horns the same color as her hair, blending into it. She wears jewelry shining like suns, the dim light catching it and making countless patterns to watch. "Hello," she calls, her voice a silken luxury, caressing your ears.

That is not all. 50ft ahead and 30ft to the right stands an elf - a statue. A statue of stone fine and colorful, painted to be perfectly lifelike. Yet with this sensory elevation, you can see the tiny hints of stone rather than flesh, spy the lack of breathing. It watches you, a teasing, amused smile on its face.

"Must we battle?" Jade asks, "Must we do war over this trifling thing? Is not peace the way of the Heavens, fair Alicia and radiant Syala, stalwart Antenora and that lovely tulani companion of yours. My dear Queen has informed me you have so much to celebrate over Antenora's recent ascension. Mmm, and you like ...celebrating...with chaos, don't you, Antenora? All sorts of ...celebrations, hm?"

Antenora's gaze becomes narrow and narrower, "I love my wife and have little interest in what you imply, succubus," Antenora's voice is leaden with disdain, "Surrender, change yourself. There is yet time to put aside your sins and folly. The road you walk is the road of death, and there is only oblivion at the end of its journey."

[Ebiris]

"Sorry, she's got more than enough going on without you horning in," Marie backs up Antenora, trying to locate the artifact responsible for their addictively heightened senses if it's nearby.

Greater arcane sight and all that jazz.

"If you want to avoid battle you can surrender," Alicia offers, trying to keep her eyes from wandering around. This truly is a potent magic if it threatens to even ensnare a god! "But there will be no accord between us, far less celebrations."