Endless rise above

[Nephrite]

We will Greater Plane Shift (after using the Blessing Stone) to The Dead Maw.

[Anastasia]

Done and done.

You stand amid ruins. Here the bones and rubble of great towers surround you. Ancient street lie broken, cracks in the stone that show iron beneath. It is dark here, the only light what all of you bring. It is also hot, a wet and humid heat that sticks to the body like a second skin. Towers of metal and stone lie in ruin here, often covered in various bloody red mosses and lichen.

Occasionally rivers of what looks to be molten iron criss-cross, deep gouges hundreds of feet deep with bridges across them. The sky is blank and empty, no sign of anything beyond this cursed place.

You can see it with your divine sight. Amid the paths that lead in and out of this place, lies a flat plane before a mountainous rise of iron. Embedded into this mountain is a maw of some great beast, a dragon or similar creature, larger than hundreds of Hannas. It gapes wide open, as if stuck in a final death roar.

[Nephrite]

"This way." Moore says as he gestures forward, towards the Maw that he knows they'll need to pass through.

Take 10 for 97 on Perception as they go.

[Anastasia]

Sylvie flies at your side with Cresiel, while Kaja takes the rear. Jetina and Xandra stay in the middle as you advance onward.
Hope?
"What happened here?" Jetina asks aloud as you fly over broken roads and sundered bridges. She glances down at a ribbon of burning red iron below, "Did the endless wars of Acheron shatter this city?"
Hope?
Sylvie takes ten.
Begone! You have no place here!
"They were all cast into the rivers below," Sylvie answers. "A sacrifice to restore the beast ahead. It failed." She looks on ahead and points at the massive maw, "Be thankful that it did."
You will be thrown into the rivers.
"Be cautious," Xandra cuts in, "The dead do not rest lightly here. Listen just a little and you can hear them."
You will be a sacrifice. You will BURN.
"I hear it," Kaja growls low, "Stupidity is what it is, the stupidity of those who should succumb entirely to oblivion."

[Nephrite]

"If we need to bring peace to the spirits here, we can do so. Jetina, just to be safe, let's make sure none of us BURN." Moore says as they proceed.

Jetina can cast a Mass Energy Immunity (Fire) CL 36 for everyone.

[Anastasia]

There is a rumble from below. The rivers of molten metal below begin to bubble and rise. The ground shakes as a wordless, overwhelming sense of wrath bombards your senses.

How dare you have hope? There is no hope! The only hope is another battle and another destruction!

Silent voices rage against you, as if your very presence offends them.

WIthout missing a beat, Kaja glares down at the river. "Come and die," he offers, and in a terrible voice of fire and vengeance?

Come and face us, impure spirits. Come and face what you fear!

> roll 1d20+72 (+10 circumstance, +15 divine inspiration)
<Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+72 (+10 circumstance, +15 divine inspiration) --> [ 1d20=17 ]{89}

Intimidate check.

A deep howling comes from the depths, of fury and fear mixed together.

Cresiel merely stands at your side but glows brighter, like a star of holy justice that illuminates the night all around him.

> roll 1d20+65 (+10 circumstance)
<Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+65 (+10 circumstance) --> [ 1d20=13 ]{78}

Intimidate check.

The lava begins to sink down, the ground going still. The wordless voices are silent now, no further screams against you.

[Nephrite]

Those of you that are tired of this endless suffering, those that yearn for peace, for a better tomorrow, I will listen to you. Should that you wish to be saved and wish to have hope again, rise and I will show you hope.

Take 10 for 138 on Diplomacy, for whatever it matters.

Moore will nod to the others. "Good job, both of you." He says. "I think that got the point across."

He will continue on, thought he will pause if there are any that take him up on his offer.

[Anastasia]

There is only the silence of the dead now.

As you go on, "I'm not sure they even could," Sylvie says, "If they are attached to Acheron at all."

[Nephrite]

"I will always try." Moore says as he flies along. "But you know that. We're just a band of stubbornness."

[Anastasia]

Thus on you go. There is no resistance as you head towards that maw - a vast, deep and dark passage inward. There are no guardians to it that you see.

[Nephrite]

Moore will continue on, an eye out for magic and anything unusual!

Arcane Sight, Spellcraft for 113, K:A for 118 if necessary. Perception for 97 just in case, and he has True Seeing.

[Anastasia]

Toss on an K:P check too?

[Nephrite]

K:P for 118 as well.

[Anastasia]

You can see nothing but space ahead - the maw is indeed vast and beckons you on. There's no magic to it at least ahead, though there's odd energies from the dead beast. AT the least it'll stop and scramble teleportation, as well as cold magic.

[Nephrite]

"We can't teleport in here, so be mindful." Moore says as he proceeds.