Io's Labyrinth

[Corwin]

Seira snorts. "Show me a delicate human here."

At Moore's words, she brightens up. "I know it sounds that way, but if you give it a try and just let go, sort of like meditating, it starts to really lull you into a restful sleep!"

[Anastasia]

"I have not," Antenora says slowly, then pauses. "I did swim in molten platinum once. It gets everywhere."

Amaryl starts to speak, stops and closes her mouth, the finger she raised slowly drooping down.

Oberuth looks up from his blades, "Why would we? It sounds worse than sleeping on the ground, and that's uncomfortable most of the time. All those coins would be hard and unyielding, you'd wake up sore all over."

Clearing her throat and gesturing at the hoard, "Can you will gold into being?" she asks, "I've always gotten the impression that gold and treasure is more...decoration? Decoration for the divine."

[Corwin]

"No, really, it's almost magical-- wait, that's not a draw for you," Seira tells Oberuth, wincing. Giving that up as a lost cause, she looks expectantly at Moore.

[Ebiris]

"Yes, although on a large scale I'd have to be in Sylica to do so. Different deities are able to create more or less depending on their natures and raw power, but even a demigod can make something," she explains to Jetina.

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Alicia: 618/696
Active spells: Extended nondetection (CL 33, 65hrs), many moments of prescience (CL 32, 31 hrs), extended repelling shield (CL 33, 56m), keen edge (CL 32, 310m), sensual blessing (CL 32, 22m), vision of the omniscient eye (CL 32, 22m), greater heroism (CL 32, 22m), death ward (CL 32, 22m), extended ray deflection (CL 33, 56m), divine insight (CL 32, 32hrs), foresight (CL 32, 319m), dance of the unicorn (CL 32, 31m), recitation (CL 32, 2m), greater visage of the deity (CL 32, 2m), ghost touch weapon (CL 32, 31m)
Defences: AC 91 (touch 52), CMD 133, spell resistance 47, status immunity (dazzled, blinding, polymorph, petrification, disease, poison, stunning, sleep, paralysis, death effects, disintegration, energy drain, ability damage, ability drain, mind-affecting, and fear), energy immunity (fire, cold, negative energy), energy resist 10 (acid), nondetection (DC 48), ray deflection
Stat buffs/penalties: +9 shield AC, 17-20 crit range, +25 competence perception, +10 insight perception, +4 morale skills, +18 morale attack, +8 competence attack, +4 untyped attack, +18 morale damage, +4 untyped damage, +12 dodge AC, +12 morale saves, +15 crit confirmations, +2 insight AC/reflex, +3 luck attack/saves, +1 natural armour, +4 str, +2 dex, +4 con, +2 int, +4 wis, +4 cha
Perceptions: Darkvision 2 miles, scent, low-light vision, tremorsense/blindsight 2 miles, arcane sight, perception +88
Sorcerer spell slots: 6/16/16/13/6/9/14/7/6/7/8/4/6/3
Duskblade spell slots: 6/22/21/20/7/7

[Nephrite]

"I'll try it when we get back and let you know." Moore promises with a grin. "There'd be some irony to using what is commonly used as wealth as nothing more than comfort to be less worldly and materialistic."

[Anastasia]

"Really." Jetina marvels, a hand to hermouth.

"It shouldn't be surprising," Amaryl points out, a hand on her hip, then stops, blinking.

[Ebiris]

"Anyway, lets move on? Kecasandarenala did say he'd return so his hoard isn't up for grabs," Alicia says, leading them out of this chamber and back across beyond where Oberuth duelled the Aurix to try the path that went North West of there.

[Nephrite]

"Yeah, I'd hate to steal someone's bed while they were gone." Moore says as he follows along!

[Anastasia]

To this is purple, a deep rich purple. It ends shortly with an intersection, short alcoves to the east and north, with a long, deepening, darkening purple path to the west. In the eastern alcove a floating sphere awaits, deep and rich colors within it.

The path to the west ends in a dead end.

https://i.imgur.com/06mRpuW.png

[Corwin]

Seira heads over to check the sphere!

[Anastasia]

It's a sphere like the others. Rather pleasantly colorful, really.

Feel free to touch it if your intent is to activate it or to try and do so.

[Corwin]

Seira touches it.

[Anastasia]

The sphere is touched.

Io's voice is heard. 'I pursued many paths in creating dragon kind. The most insidious were the dead ends, the promising things that had no future. Purple dragons were one idea, instead of black dragons. Yet purple is her color. A path not taken, a dead end avoided. Yet, what is the path we do not take?"

The western dead end now has a door to the west, appearing between the blinks of an eye.

"Those who are brave can proceed and find out."

[Corwin]

Seira takes it as an invitation to head west!

[Ebiris]

"I prefer this meaning attributed to colour over numerology, I must say," Alicia says, for all that it's surely a red rag to Antenora. Nonetheless she follows Seira to face a dragon of entropy and loss, most likely.