The Battle of Father and Son

[Corwin]

Distance to me? Estimated speed? Are they real, according to my senses? Any knowledge (of taking 10 for 103) that's relevant?

[Anastasia]

They're real - you believe them to be primal elementals, racing on with savage fury. They're a little under two miles away and closing massively fast, propelled forward far faster than they normally move. Based on this speed, they're incoming in two rounds and - !

More meteors above! They're coming there again, too!

A split second later the ground begins to tremble, movements below you.

[Corwin]

How are they rushing? Together in a group, in parallel but hundreds of feet apart, from different points converging on me?

What about the rumbling below, can I estimate numbers? How soon they will break surface?

[Anastasia]

The elementals are approximately 50ft apart each, in a loose, general formation. They're coming from straight ahead, one and all.

The rumbling below is several things and likely big things, too. It's hardly just a small venture like before. You suspect you have a few rounds there as well.

[Corwin]

It's best to deal with this in detail rather than allow things to turn into a slog. The meteors are not an issue, but Seira's own spells would likely be as useful against the charging primal fire elementals. That means she needs to devote them her personal attention, and she decides to delay the enemies from below.

At a gesture, gallons upon gallons of water cover the ground for over a thousand feet in every direction while Seira herself rises into the air with a beat of her wings. Her divine will ensures that the local conditions wouldn't evaporate the water too quickly, and then she's off on a course directly reciprocal to the charging elementals.

Move action to fly 230ft directly away from the advancing primals. Two Miracles to summon as much water as I can over a 1,000ft radius area (or even beyond). The Create Water cantrip provides me 66 gallons per casting, and I'm hoping that Miracle manages to emulate a more convenient volume of water (and gives me Long rather than Close range for it). Logistics-wise, one Miracle could summon the water and the other could be used to shape/hold it into a carpet of water over the ground, if that makes more sense. Then, divine will to quell Fire's conditions so that the water doesn't immediately evaporate similar to attune form and its like.

It is my understanding that fire elementals would be unable to pass through any body of water. If those below include fire elementals, they would have trouble rising to the surface in the next few rounds. I'm curious, can the charging primals could step on it?

[Anastasia]

If it were fire elementals below, they'd be unable to come through the water.

I'd rule they could step on it - it's an impassible barrier and that implies it's solid. They'd hate doing it, though, possibly even suffering damage if they did.

Any more questions before this gets resolved?

[Corwin]

No, let's go. I believe I should have another round before the elementals in front of me arrive, so let's see what happens!

[Anastasia]

Seira flies back as hated water spreads, generated and maintained by her divine will. Great hisses of steam rise from the suddenly cooled and wet ground, all while the primal fire elementals zoom in like shot arrows towards you.

The attacks begin. To victory and the purification of Fire, all the brave souls here!

[Corwin]

Donald, Elle, Ranbar, Seira calls out to her companions. Change of plans. Head towards me, they're not going for an army assault after all. See if it's possible for you to teleport on a straight line towards me, short of my current position by five hundred feet.

Seira moves a bit back once more, casting three spells that don't immediately materialize.

Moving 230ft more back in hopes that 460ft of movement over these two rounds gives me another round to react vs the rushing primals. The three spells are Delay Spell'd Walls of Fire that appear to be rings with a height of 20ft and and a radius of 90ft, 80ft and 70ft and a delay of 1 round.

[Anastasia]

Where precisely are you placing the walls relative to you? Doesn't say.

[Corwin]

Wall of Fire

Effect:   Opaque sheet of flame up to 20 ft. long/level or a ring of fire with a radius of up to 5 ft. per two levels; either form 20 ft. high

[Anastasia]

No I mean where are you placing them, not the size of them.  Are the walls of fire around you?

[Corwin]

Yes

[Anastasia]

Amid the ground sizzling with water and the area glistening with it? The elementals continue their mad rush, great gouts of flame erupting forward. Less than a mile and closing as you cast - while the meteors begin to fall, yet you are better than them. You dodge perfectly, your nature beyond failing to such things. You have space, just barely, as your friends surely race here to support you.

You have one more round, just barely. Use it wisely.

[Corwin]

Even as she dodges the meteorites, Seira doesn't cast! She awaits the approaching elementals, doing nothing even as three circular walls of fire appear in a wide radius around her....

My intention is to 'hold' until the primals cross the first radius. Since they're charging in parallel with gaps in between while the walls are circles, I believe there will be time when one or two of them in the center are past the first ring but the rest are outside it. At that point I intend to act, by swiftly turning the rings into walls of water via a variant on Syllan's Switch.