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[Anastasia]

Everyone's fine, temp HP. Feel free to redo.

[Nephrite]

Then she'll just move over to Kaja!

[Anastasia]

Jetina hurries over as the walls of flame give up the ghost, fading. Is it over?

A moment later, the ground begins to glow red hot, feet starting to sink into the suddenly burning stone.

Moore, go.

[Nephrite]

"Everyone, move!" Moore calls.

Goal is to go down the hallway (I think it was a hallway) and away from where this is probably going to blow up or whatever it is.

[Anastasia]

Ignoring the side doors, the party rushes ahead. Double doors are here, dented and battered, but in place. As you fly along, the floor starts to boil, "Hurry," Kaja growls, right behind you.

A moment later...

> roll 1d20 Cresiel 1 check here
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 17 > [d20=17]

Cresiel meets the doors hammer first, flinging them open as you all escape. Ahead is a larger, grander room, a room full of dented decorations and blast marks. Art and treasures are hung and in glass displays, the floor clean, smooth and polished marble. There's a door to the left, right and ahead - the one ahead and ot the right are both badly dented, the one on the right sagging back, as if about to fall off the hinges entirely.

As you rush into here, the floor behind you ceases bubbling, starting to cool - as the floor of this room repeats the trick, growing cherry hot as you stride in.

"Oh, that little bastard is going to bleed for this," Kaja snaps, "Putting himself in a position that we walk right away and he can do this to us with impunity!"

[Nephrite]

[14:39] <Nephrite> To clarify, the left door looks untouched?
[14:40] <Kotono> Correct.

"He clearly didn't do enough to actually delay us." Moore says. "But it seems like if we keep moving, he can't do anything. Do you think he's still outside?" Moore considers for a moment. "Let me try something!"

He then gestures towards the floor.

[14:42] <Nephrite> roll 1d100 spell failure
[14:42] <Penuche> Nephrite invokes Penuche's magic: < 74 > [d100=74]

Greater Stone Shape -- he's trying to basically just drop most of the floor in the center down, kind of like ripping off a bandaid. He's curious if this is actually lava or something coming up or just something heating the floor, for whatever it's worth.

[Anastasia]

So moving the floor downward, you mean, like sagging it down or wanting it to collapse?

[Nephrite]

Yes, basically sinking the middle of the floor as much as it'll go -- so either it collapses in the middle or we see whatever's causing the floor to get hot. Or it just collapses and there's nothing underneath it at all and it's just magic making the floor hot.

[Anastasia]

Cresiel picks up Kaja as the rest of the party stays off the floor. It sinks down but does not give - solid stone beneath it, the floor starting to bubble and boil.

[Nephrite]

Moore blinks and just flies up himself and over to Kaja.

[15:05] <Nephrite> roll 1d100 spell failure
[15:05] <Penuche> Nephrite invokes Penuche's magic: < 27 > [d100=27]

Air Walk for him so he doesn't have to get carried.

"Well, if the goal is to inconvenience us some more, I suppose it's doing its job. Should we just keep exploring and stay off the floor? It doesn't seem to actually be... doing anything." He says.

[Anastasia]

Kaja takes to the air and eyes it, "No, I suppose it-"

Oh, you see now. A giant hand is forming, rising up right at Kaja. That could be a problem. A giant hand of lava, burning and grasping.

Chance to react, all.

[Nephrite]

"Let's just deal with it, then." Moore says!

If Xandra can she would definitely try a spell, but I imagine that sets us into init.

Moore is switching to the dex aura.

[Anastasia]

Go ahead and try for Xandra.

[Nephrite]

Xandra extends a hand and summons an enormous cone of cold fury!

Greater Cone of Cold, using a Smite for higher SR and save DC.

[15:24] <Nephrite> roll 1d20+39 SR
[15:24] <Penuche> Nephrite invokes Penuche's magic: < 45 > [d20=6]
[15:24] <Nephrite> roll 30d6+18
[15:24] <Penuche> Nephrite invokes Penuche's magic: < 118 > [d6=5,3,1,4,2,1,4,4,4,6,1,4,5,2,2,1,2,1,1,2,6,6,6,3,1,6,5,4,3,5]

DC 44 Ref save halves.

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+13
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 32 > [d20=19]

Almost made a 20. Alas.

The hand becomes sluggish and slow, the blast of cold turning semi solid, slow enough to easily evade as Kaja jets up. It feebly reaches for him before hunks of flash-frozen stone fall out of the hand, causing the entire thing to fall apart.