The path ahead is...

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa looks a bit bored, pulling out Life-Drinker and leaning against the haft of the greataxe.

"Look, you're not getting away, obviously. You can make this easier and faster on yourself by answering a few questions that will lead us to the Champion here, or we can strip you, leave you completely immobile and hidden, and you can slowly starve until your meet your goddess having utterly failed to do anything at all to stop us or delay us.

Help us on the fast track to the fight your goddess wants us in, or die having been utterly and completely useless to her. Consider which she'll look more favorably on and how forgiving she is and make a decision. Your third option is to be belligerent and I'll let my axe here eat parts of your life."

Alyssa pats the axe, "Introduce yourself to your possible meal."

[Anastasia]

Go ahead and give me a second Intimidate check. Ianvasah already did the hard work, so this is mostly followup.

[Iron Dragoon]

Intimidate:

[blockquote]Rolled 1d20+33 : 8 + 33, total 41[/blockquote]

+3 for terrain mastery underground.

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+19
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 39 > [d20=20]

Luckily this isn't a check that auto succeeds.

"...keep going below," The man says at last. "You'll find it."

[Iron Dragoon]

"And what is it? Please avoid generic terms. Specifics."

[Anastasia]

"A temple," Is the answer, "Just keep going down, you'll see it."

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa whacks him in the head.

"I mean her champion."

[Anastasia]

"In the temple!" The trapped man winces, "In the temple!"

[Iron Dragoon]

"What is it, though? A shadow again? A devil? A fighter? Another assassin? A construct?"

[Anastasia]

"Black....blackball," Is the answer after a long pause.

[Iron Dragoon]

Is that something I recognize?

[Anastasia]

K:A check.

[Iron Dragoon]

K:A:

Take 10 for 58. +3 if terrain mastery applies.

[Anastasia]

A blackball is an umbral blot. These strange spheres move about and destroy anything they touch. They are known as absolute agents of destruction. What's worse? You also know that some blackballs are known as the Eyes of Shar, and serve her as unholy altars that lesser Sharrans worship.

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa passes this on to Ianvasah.

Okay, so, what are my options for weakening it? If it's an agent of Shar would daylight type stuff work?