The laughter of oblivion

[Anastasia]

Spellcraft.

[Ebiris]

[19:43] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+73 spellcraft divine insight
[19:43] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 74 > [d20=1]

[Anastasia]

All the energy of Oberuth's power from the Fairest Star is being called on, as if to preform a feat of magic beyond reckoning.

[Ebiris]

"It's drawing on all the power the Fairest Star gave to the Commander," Alicia speaks up. "Lend him what we can as well, it's borderline."

Marie needs no further invitation, the illusion remaining but she focuses her nascant divinity towards the miracle being called upon. Trickery, magic, illusion? She's a lot like Garl was, right? Maybe that resonance with her own divinity will help, and besides that she'll add a dash of luck!

Alicia focuses her own divine will on that blazing point of power. The Fairest Star was always used in opposition to divinity, wasn't it? So long as Daa-vid wielded it, and it always came superior against even the strongest gods. But who even knows what it can do with divinity? Her portfolio is less directly aligned to this miracle, simply being her earnest wish to oppose entropy and restore a piece of Creation that was lost in an act for more grandiosely destructive than Shar herself could have dreamed.

[Anastasia]

Rank checks, all. Go ahead and roll for any of your NPCs who are here too.

[Ebiris]

[19:55] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+4 Alicia rank
[19:55] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 6 > [d20=2]
[19:55] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+3 Syala rank
[19:55] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 12 > [d20=9]
[19:55] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+1 Latha rank
[19:55] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 6 > [d20=5]
[19:55] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+1 Marie rank
[19:55] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 4 > [d20=3]

[Corwin]

21:56 <Seira> roll 1d20+6
21:56 <Penuche> Seira invokes Penuche's magic: < 26 > [d20=20]

21:56 <Seira> roll 1d20+1 Amaryl
21:56 <Penuche> Seira invokes Penuche's magic: < 20 > [d20=19]

21:56 <Seira> roll 1d20+1 Sanzha
21:56 <Penuche> Seira invokes Penuche's magic: < 13 > [d20=12]

21:56 <Seira> roll 1d20+1 Elle
21:56 <Penuche> Seira invokes Penuche's magic: < 3 > [d20=2]

21:56 <Seira> roll 1d20+1 Kascha
21:56 <Penuche> Seira invokes Penuche's magic: < 19 > [d20=18]

21:56 <Seira> roll 1d20+1 Donald
21:56 <Penuche> Seira invokes Penuche's magic: < 4 > [d20=3]
Donald is DvR0, my bad. Result of 3 for him, same as Ranbar.

21:56 <Seira> roll 1d20+0 Ranbar
21:56 <Penuche> Seira invokes Penuche's magic: < 3 > [d20=3]

[Anastasia]

More light. More and more and more and more and more yet.

Light radiant, light eternal.

Blood and bone. Oberuth's hand splits open, the light gushing out of it as his hand knits itself back into shape.

A thunderclap, so loud as to shake all of you.

[Ebiris]

Alicia remains resolutely focused on what she's doing, but Marie can't help but startle and look around after that thunderclap.

[Corwin]

Seira's committed! She's all in, as they say in games of chance, and unwilling to accept another failure today! This is where the final enemy will be driven back!

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+1
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 5 > [d20=4]

Un.

Not.

Everything but Oberuth and Marie is gone for that moment.

"...hearth and home. That is what mattered to my people until he came."

[Ebiris]

That was some thunderclap! Marie will trust that the others are still contributing in their own ways as she does her best in turn. "Everyone needs a home to come back to," she  says, her smile trembling. "So come back. We're warming up the hearth again."

[Anastasia]

"...you care." A whisper, barely heard by Marie. "I won't be as I was. Too much was lost by the Fairest Star and not enough is there." A small hand, barely visible to Marie, extends out to her. "Help me. You're the one who cares most of all."

[Ebiris]

Even if not as he was, he'll be more than he is now. Gnomes will have a future again, as a people and not just horrible stories built around the one who embodied their worst. "The heavens have a hole in them. We'll fill it together," she promises, her hand closing around that phantasmal appendage.

[Anastasia]

It's solid. Solid enough as the spark from Oberuth's hand shines in that phantasmal hand before - !

Before everyone Marie reaches out and a gnome grasps her hand. A gnome like she described, in tattered chain armor and breathing heavily. He slumps to a knee immediately. "...I forgot...how much pain hurts...and to watch that first step."