Walking to Rosewater

[Ebiris]

Going small again, Alicia positions and warps space between two points on either side of the door then. 'Just walk towards the door and you'll pass, it's fine now,' she sends to the others.

[Anastasia]

This works well. Once through, 'Dice?' Antenora brings them to her hand with a bare flex of divine will.

'Onward,' Latha says silently.

[Ebiris]

'Leave them, the guards were amusing themselves,' Alicia tells Antenora. Setting foot on the ground now, her tremorsense stretches down the passage ahead and beyond, and after fixing the warped space around the door she compresses space down the passage to speed their transit down it while stopping clear of any guards she can perceive with it or blindsight.

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Alicia HP: 772+20/772
Active spells:  Many moments of prescience (CL 34), extended greater anticipate teleportation (CL 35), extended mind blank (CL 35), extended nondetection (CL 35), epic mage armour (CL 39), pass without trace (CL 34), greater heroism (CL 34), energy immunity (acid) (CL 34), energy immunity (sonic) (CL 34), telepathic bond (CL 34), sensual blessing (CL 34), recitation (CL 34), foresight (CL 34), greater visage of the deity (CL 34), power of the huntress (CL 34), repelling shield (CL 34), spell turning (CL 35), righteous wrath of the faithful (CL 34), invisibility (CL 34)
Defences: AC 103, CMD 103, spell resistance 49, energy immunity (fire and cold), status immunity (polymorph, petrification, disease, poison, stunning, sleep, paralysis, death effects, disintegration, energy drain, ability damage, ability drain, mind-affecting, and fear), nondetection (DC 49), freedom of movement
Stat buffs/penalties: +10 armour AC, +10 circumstance stealth, +4 morale attack/saves/skills, +3 luck AC/attack/saves, +2 insight AC/reflex, +1 natural armour, +4 str, +2 dex, +4 con, +2 int, +4 wis, +4 cha, +20 competence stealth, +8 enhancement natural armour AC, +9 shield AC, +3 morale damage
Perceptions: Arcane sight, low-light vision, blindsight/tremorsense 3 miles, perception +80
Sorcerer spell slots: 6/16/16/12/9/9/14/9/4/8/8/7/6/7/4
Duskblade spell slots: 6/23/23/22/11/7/9

[Anastasia]

Assuming no exceptional guards, what's your general plan for dispatching them? I'll note any cases where other means may be required or indicate your plan isn't effective on face value, should you come on such things.

[Ebiris]

Alicia will make herself sand-grain sized and move close enough to any guards that she can blast them all with a single shot of silver fire like was used on the incubi before.

Doors will be bypassed by the same sand-grain/space compression trick used before as well.

[Anastasia]

A few more are unremarkable - guards taken down. As you're getting close to the main halls, you feel it. Footsteps coming this way, from that main hall. A single set of them, but moving at a good clip.

[Ebiris]

'Someone's coming our way,' Alicia warns the others. 'Moving with purpose, might be some guards missed a check in.'

Be unfortunate timing since they're moving fast themselves, but they've gotten pretty far. Can she tell much about this figure with blindsight yet? How soon before they intercept one another?

[Anastasia]

About half a minute with how fast they're moving. A female, shapely and walking with a confident step. She's clad in a gauzy robe of some kind.

[Anastasia]

'Understood,' Antenora says, 'Doubtless another demon.'

'We're ready if you need us,' Syala sends. 'Perhaps it's Violet and we're lucky.'

[Ebiris]

Is it a straight line path between us and the woman, or are there any rooms/corners between us?

[Anastasia]

There's one corner not far from where you are.

[Ebiris]

'There's a corner ahead we can use to get past her without conflict. Let her puzzle over the missing guards while we press onwards.'

Idea is to get at the corner and wait in grain of sand size, with the other three further back from that corner. Once I catch sight of that demon I'll compress space between the spot by my friends and a spot way past approaching demon. We then all flit through that twisted space and cancel it behind us.

[Anastasia]

Sure. How far back do you want them?

[Ebiris]

Just ten feet or so, enough to be well out of field of view from around the corner.

[Anastasia]

Sure.

It's set up and there, you catch sight of her. A beautiful demon with raven black hair, sauntering like she owns the world. She looks a little like you actually in the face, but the body is uh, sinfully riper. You can tell she's a demon from the wings and horns - a succubus, unsurprisingly.