Emancipation

[Anastasia]

You can basically choose which elemental plane, any bias here?

[Corwin]

Let's go with Fire, I can use my Fire domain to boost our chances of success, surely!

[Anastasia]

Flames.

Everything burns here, everything does. You appear in just the right moment, a split second of a shimmering field in front of you, a distortion as brief as a baby's sigh.

Chance to act here, Seira.

[Corwin]

As time slows to a crawl, Seira studies the shimmering field!

Greater Arcane Sight should tell me everything instantly, then I'll act.

[Anastasia]

Quick check for clarity since it affects how I adjudicate this: It makes it sound like you time stopped. Did you?

[Corwin]

No

[Anastasia]

It's a shimmering dimensional disturbance. It's part of a greater whole, something that leads somewhere beyond it. If gone into while those other parts are activated, it should work just fine.

[Corwin]

Seira reaches out towards the elementals serving her and strategically placed at the key points, commanding them to activate the ritual magic! And like several keys placed into their respective locks and turned in sync, this solution should allow Seira to take Elle and Kascha through the portal!

[Anastasia]

In that moment a portal opens, swirling to life for one perfect, crystalline second. Go!

[Corwin]

Now!

Seira moves through the portal!

[Anastasia]

It's bumpy - you're being jostled as the three of you pass through. It only lasts a moment until you stand within a gleaming lobby. Here all is made of gold, shining bright and polished. Even the floor itself, which gets Kascha to stop and murmur, "Goodness!"

[Corwin]

Using her highly-trained dragon senses, Seira tries to confirm that it's all real gold!

True Seeing, Greater Arcane Sight, Appraise 10 for 108!

[Anastasia]

It all looks like real gold to you. Elle kneels and runs a hand on the floor, "At least a layer of gold," she remarks, "What's the main prize of this vault supposed to be, Seira?"

"So much gold," Kascha murmurs, a hand to her mouth. "It's like a dragon's dream home, only with less cave."

[Corwin]

"I actually don't know!" Seira tells Elle cheerfully. "The current owners were a moderately-sized planar trading consortium with ties to fiends, but Io suggested this very place is a much older relic perhaps on par with the Cauldron at the time I first claimed it. Let's explore~"

Any magic, btw? My spellcraft 10 is also 108.

[Anastasia]

There's ambient cloaking magic, detectable from within. Very complex, very powerful. You went in the one hole in it.