Temporal pixies

[Anastasia]

"No. A few have made it to this room, but none have returned," Is the answer, "Be it by divine rescue or by their likely demise."

[Nephrite]

Moore nods. "All right, well, let's see if we can be the first ones to return, then." He turns to the others. "Any other questions? I figure we can cast some preparatory spells before we venture anywhere, just to be safe."

[Anastasia]

"We have a safe ground to retreat to if things go wrong," Jetina points out, "That's worth more than anything else."

[Nephrite]

"I assume it's not easy to return to either way." Moore says.

Let's have Jetina throw up a Celestial Valor before we go anywhere. I think we're all immune to pretty much everything else as it stands.

Celestial Valor (CL 36)
+8 sacred vs fear and emotion effects that would sap the will to fight, +4 sacred to attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, armor class and saving throws, weapons count as holy

He turns and looks around. "I don't have any opinion on where to go, but let's try starting with up?"

[Anastasia]

Which set of stairs? There are two of them.

[Nephrite]

Let's go with the one that's free of water.

[Anastasia]

The here is cold, bitter, sharp. Each step clangs like steel when you step on it.

Quick Perception.

[Nephrite]

Take 10 for 93.

[Anastasia]

You notice it. It's subtle, but there's faint twists and whirls in the air as you walk up. Like the boundaries of this place are weak, your various lores tell you.

[Nephrite]

"Hm, I see now what that guardian meant." Moore says. "We might be able to stabilize it if we tried, but I imagine if that was possible longer term that those that charged the guardian would've tried it. We'll just have to see where we end up... there could be entire worlds inside this place, like a demiplane inside a demiplane."

It's not so different from Aurora, just... broken, he guesses.

[Anastasia]

"I see," Jetina agrees as she follows, "It reminds me of Aurora, but done wrong."

"Not everyone can succeed where Medi did," Cresiel notes as he follows.

[Nephrite]

Moore nods. "Yes, agreed. But perhaps we can set this place right before we're done and bring a little more hope to Creation and the people here." He says as they go along, prepared for whatever is going to happen.

[Anastasia]

You step up.

A frozen tundra is here. No water, just rolling, wavy plains of ice, as if ocean waves were frozen over. Ahead and beneath the ice you see a stairway going down, and farther ahead you can glimpse a stairway going up as well, covered in a thick wall of ice.

Perception, pixie, and note any unusual senses.

[Nephrite]

Take 10 for 97. I have True Seeing, as well as Blindsight currently.

[Anastasia]

You can see it. A patch of white and ice blue that blends in near perfectly. It moves through the ice and snow like it's not solid, going right through it. It's about 80ft away and closing in with an incredible rapidity. As far as you can tell it's roughly humanoid on a glimpse, but with a head that reminds you of a shark, teeth and all.

"There," Sanzha says, trident already out, tines pointed ahead towards it.

Cresiel steps forward as well, silent and shield between you and the creature.