Finding Calley

[Nephrite]

Moore nods. "I'll do what I can to help, I think I can find a way with my music to at least help to restore certain things. Although... hmm. It may not be a bad idea to try and devise new ways to help them." Moore taps his chin. "Heart's ease is a good spell, but we can't just go and cast it individually on everyone who needs it... perhaps a wider-area version of it would help."

He's basically advising mass heart's ease here, which I think wouldn't be too much Jetina to likely adopt somewhere along the line.

"Hm... actually, I'll talk to Xandra about that." Moore says. "She can probably help with my songs."

[Anastasia]

It could easily be made, sure. It's just a matter of taking the 10 minutes to write it out. Feel free to and post it in nagging. Yes, this is shameless delegation.

"She has a good sense of music," Jetina agrees, glancing back before she joins the former slaves, "Oh, Cresiel and Kaja were looking for you."

[Nephrite]

Moore nods. "I'll go talk to them, then. Shout if you need help."

Off to find them!

[Nephrite]

It also looks like Heart's ease is 1 target per level, so it's actually already surprisingly mass effective. For some reason I thought it was only one per casting. So nevermind!

[Anastasia]

Cool. Delegation avoided. How scary!

You find Cresiel standing atop your fortress, framed by the light of Chronias as he watches the ill and weak be healed. Kaja sits on the edge of the roof, tossing a pair of dice up and down, catching them absently as he watches as well.

[Nephrite]

"So what's up?" Moore asks as he approaches the two of them.

[Anastasia]

It's Kaja who speaks up, "I should have known there was more to you than I imagined. Much more." Grabbing the dice one last time and putting them away, "Everything I see about you tells me that you're as far from ordinary as you can be."

[Nephrite]

Moore blinks. Well, no kidding!

"Was it the fact that I'm a pixie who has a high rank in Celestia, or something else that tipped you off to that?" Moore asks -- it's sarcastic, but his voice is entirely cheerful and pleasant.

"Aren't we all pretty far from ordinary, once someone gets to the same strength as we are?" He smiles as he moves to stand next to him. "What's on your mind?"

[Anastasia]

Kaja snorts, a bit of flame erupting from his snout. "More than that, don't be dense. Even a pixie like that doesn't get personal attention from the Grand Sultan of the efreet. I wanted to see how far it goes, and I'm seeing that more and more now."

[Nephrite]

"It seems like a lot of it came from my time in Aurora. Also, are you admitting you're begrudgingly accepting me as your leader?" Moore says with a grin. "Honestly, I'm really glad you're here. You're an absolute excellent addition to our team and I really want you to know I appreciate how hard you fight."

A smile as he snaps his fingers once. "I'm working on getting us some tools to deal with their agents if we have to run into them again, on that note." He takes the silver beacon out. "This will block them from just teleporting out again, for example."

[Anastasia]

With a look of half mirth and half annoyance, "...yeah, fine, you are the leader," Kaja says, "I still don't know how far it goes, but I know it goes deep enough."

At that moment you feel it, your connection with Kaja growing bright and warm once more.

Node update. This one is pasted in here since it hits your armor: Moore's Shining Example's enhancement bonus rises by +1.

Go read and let me know you've seen it.

[Nephrite]

so noted.

He takes a breath in as he puts a hand on his chest, tapping once lightly. Huh, it really did get a bit stronger.

"You know, I met your boss!" Moore says. "He told me to keep an eye on you, so don't you go slacking off." A big grin afterwards. "Don't worry, we're going to have enough tools to give them a nice surprise. I'm asking the Mountain to have some of those rings they were wearing - it'll prevent their time stop nonsense from working on us."

[Anastasia]

"That was how they did it?" Cresiel asks, speaking up at last. "Coordinating time stops together?"

[Nephrite]

"They were all wearing a ring that had time stop stowed in it." Moore says. "So when one of them would use it, they would all be able to act. It's how they got away both times. I used it to my advantage to pretend to be shocked by it when I tested it out for myself." Moore says.

"I'm asking to have a series of the rings made for us all that have the same power. It'll actually be really handy, especially because we could use it to coordinate a position on enemies. None of us can actually cast time stop, but... eh, details." Moore waves a hand dismissively.

"I also had that awful wand of that pit fiend destroyed." He shakes his head. "I still need to go through all the stuff we stole from them, actually. It must be worth quite a lot."

[Anastasia]

"All good things," Kaja says, "So we going to hook up with Seira's forces and get this done soon?"

Cresiel nods to your words and adds nothing else for now.