Game time

[Anastasia]

Once you're on Magma but before the teleport, "Oh, we'll meet a wiseman. That's always worthwhile," Kascha smiles, "I wonder what he knows?"

Amaryl's more thoughtful, "If this vault is so rich in treasure, why wouldn't a wise man want it, Seira? There must be more to this than is apparent."

[Corwin]

"Pistis Sophia wouldn't want it either, and he's a sage of Fire. Still, it can't hurt to talk to him. Kossuth wouldn't send us into a trap."

Even though she's always prepared to face one!

[Anastasia]

Amaryl readies her bow nonetheless, while Kascha is prepared and Oraga at your side.

One shift later and you appear  at the foot of a looming volcano, within a massive cavern with the roof thousands of feet above you. Great waterfalls of lava cascade down at points, forming great lakes of lava all around the volcano. Lakes that swim with fire and magma mephits, swimming about like fish within.

[Corwin]

Fire resistance would help, but it's not immunity....

"Are you two alright with heading down there?" Seira asks Kascha and Oraga.

[Anastasia]

"We're fine," Kascha pipes up, "I can cast energy immunity twice. Give us just a minute, Seira."

[Corwin]

"You've got it!"

[Anastasia]

The spells are thus cast, the party protected.

Amaryl meanwhile takes to the air, starting to fly up the volcano.

[Corwin]

Seira follows suit, once everyone is ready to take on the worst fires!

[Anastasia]

Quick Perception?

[Corwin]

103

[Anastasia]

Thus you crest atop it and over. Inside the volcano's crater lava waterfalls come from above, forming a great lake of pure, red-orange molten rock. Here great islands of solid steel float, and on them are bookshelves. Great bookshelves stacked on top and top and top and top of others, making spires of them. Each bookshelf is taller than Hanna, stuffed to the brim. In spite of the heat here not a book burns.

A series of elevated bridges and steel pillars rising from the lava sea provide passage from one island to another, forming a great maze of bookshelves, steel islands and bridges, often with gaps or tops in the shelves forming great ledges, where various equipment and strange things sit.

"Oh!" Kascha gasps, a hand to her mouth, "Seira, we've made a terrible mistake!"

[Corwin]

"This is where you should explain what the mistake is, and if it's time-critical lead with the information," Seira prods Kascha.

[Anastasia]

Smiling, "We didn't find Simmer and invite her. She'd think this is paradise," Kascha declares.

Amaryl's expression softens into a fond smile, "From what I've heard, she would think that."

"She would," Kascha agrees, "I even heard she settled in her own volcano, but I doubt she's made it as grandly as this."

[Corwin]

"I might be biased but I think our volcano is the best volcano," Seira says quietly, looking around for any sort of directional signs or guards.

[Anastasia]

"Of course it is," Amaryl agrees, "Though I do like this style. Oh, I want an area like this, Seira. I'll have to make it when we have some time."

Peering about, you see on one of the islands an elemental sits. A being of burning magma, the size of Hanna or so. It reads a book that does not burn in its burning grasp, head down as it reads.