Diplomatic aftermath

[Corwin]

'It's frogs,' Seira thinks to Donald, her thoughts meant to him alone. "Did you notice how Renbuu sounds like a corruption of rainbow? I wonder if that's intentional," she muses out loud as she proceeds onwards.

[Anastasia]

"Huh," Donald murmurs as the two of you fly along, through the shifting maze, eyes on the impossibly colored coral.

Ahead you see Renbuu - hair combed back and snowy white, long enough to reach his back. He is a tall, commanding slaad with eyes like rainbows, clad in finery of a tasteful and refined blue-green. His skin today is a pale gray, the color of washed out stone. You can feel his presence as he waves about a conductor's baton, the coral moving to his whim.

Sitting and watching is a humanoid of blue water, like an elemental a little more humanoid than usual. If not for the crown of pearls and coral adorning him or his sheer, unhidden aura, one may not realize this is the current form of Ben-Hadar.

Amid the swirling coral Renbuu throws his head back, "Splendid! The caged corals sing, but silence! I must finish this masterpiece! Don't you dare speak with your loud minds, either!"

[Corwin]

It is a bit unfair to demand silence while speaking out loud Seira points out via letters drawn all around her, surrounding her much like a rainbow might.

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d100
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 57 > [d100=57]

Because slaad. Par for the course dealing with them.

"ARGH!" Renbuu cries, a hand to his head as he stumbles back. The coral all around you withers, becoming gray before raining down all around you, the entire coral maze collapsing into ruin.

Ben-Hadar rubs his face with one watery hand, "Blast. I liked that one."

"No! It was a failure!" Renbuu declares, "But it needs more! More! More!" He paces back and forth, like climbing stairs, rising into the air as he does. His hands are behind his back as he adds, "It needs slime! Slime coral." A paintbrush is suddenly in hand, baton gone. He draws with it, a vibrant pink coral created in midair. Yet it oozes and slimes, slowly expanding, tendrils of slime solidifying into coral and growing.

"Does adding slime to anything ever work out?" Donald wonders aloud.

[Corwin]

"It can't hurt," Seira says quite reasonably.

[Anastasia]

All around pink, slimy coral spreads, forming rotating spirals, loops and circles. Endless patterns that all connect together, spreading out in all directions.

"It's too pink," Ben-Hadar speaks up as it spreads, "I thought you wanted to avoid that here, after the Carnation Road?" His voice is reflective, thoughtful.

Renbuu peers ahead at it intently and...

> roll 1d100
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 70 > [d100=70]

"Too pink! Too pink!" Drawing his paintbrush again as well as a palette, "Cinnamon and brown sugar hued purple!" he declares, a strangely and somehow brown-purple color drawn onto the coral, spreading across it faster than it expands.

[Corwin]

"How about emerald and some nice amber to accompany it?" Seira proposes. "I think those are lovely colors."

[Anastasia]

Gimme a Diplo check there, Seira. Such are the way of slaad artists.

[Corwin]

19:48 <CC> roll 1d20+67
19:48 <Penuche> CC invokes Penuche's magic: < 78 > [d20=11]

[Anastasia]

Renbuu paces back and forth again, before waving his brush. Little emeralds blossom like flowers on the coral, crystalline flower petals spreading open. Within is pollen like amber, glittering bright in the light. In moments an entire field and maze of slimey coral with crystalline flowers is before you, a riot of three colors.

> roll 1d100
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 39 > [d100=39]

"It will do," Renbuu declares, "I name you the Sezen Maze."

[Corwin]

"Nice! Very nice!"

Seira sends a mental image of the maze to Amaryl.

[Anastasia]

'Oh! It's beautiful,' Amaryl sends right back, 'Where and what is it? Is that coral? It looks a little too...wet for coral?'

Meanwhile Ben-Hadar slowly claps, "Magnificent," he agrees, "Allow me to offer lunch with my compliments." The Archomental waves his hand. Water rises up and forms a table of solid ice, chairs of the same with cushions forming, colored dark blue. They float in the air uncaringly, as with a ripple, water elementals come forth with many covered silver and pearl trays, placing them down. "You're welcome to join us," he then says, meeting your gaze.

[Corwin]

"Thank you, that would be lovely," Seira responds with a smile, claiming one of the seats for herself.

'It's some sort of coral drawn by Renbuu,' she relays to Amaryl in the meantime, before sending a vision of the original maze. 'That's his previous attempt. Donald and Ben-Hadar liked it more.'

[Anastasia]

The food is an array of fresh seafood, Renbuu tucking in right away. Amid it Ben-Hadar watches him eat - he eats with perfect grace, yet far faster than he should. It's almost enthralling to see, food nimbly and deftly devoured without a hint of waste or crumbs.

'If you came to watch Renbuu eat, then congratulations,' Ben-Hadar replies.

[Corwin]

'The main reason I've come is because it's been a while since we met in person,' Seira responds telepathically in kind. 'I trust my people fully with my intentions, but some things require face to face meetings, won't you agree?'