Shadow rondo

[Anastasia]

"Ready," Antenora agrees, "Nonetheless, if it works, it works."

[Ebiris]

Thus the pair of them plane shift to the astral plane, turn invisible, and then she opens a gate to outside the castle that holds the entrance to layer 666. This time she aims a few miles away rather than right outside - though she wonders if that battle is still ongoing. Either way, she can at least vary it up a little bit.

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Alicia HP: 854+20/854
Active spells: Many moments of prescience (CL 39), extended mind blank (CL 40), extended nondetection (CL 40), greater heroism (CL 37), extended ray deflection (CL 40), epic mage armour (CL 37), sensual blessing (CL 37), greater foresight (CL 39), keen edge (CL 37 on sword), dance of the unicorn (CL 37), extended greater anticipate teleportation (CL 39), repelling shield (CL 39), freedom of movement (CL 37), greater visage of the deity (CL 37), recitation (CL 37), good hope (CL 37)
Defences: AC 108, CMD 118, spell resistance 52, 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 55), freedom of movement
Stat buffs/penalties: +4 morale attack/skills/saves, +10 armour AC, +25 competence perception, +7 insight AC/ref, +4 str, +2 dex, +4 con, +2 int, +4 wis, +4 cha, +1 natural armour AC, +9 shield AC, +3 luck AC/attack/saves, +2 morale ability checks
Perceptions: Arcane sight, 5 mile tremorsense/blindsight/scent perception +87
Sorcerer spell slots: 6/16/16/12/9/9/14/9/9/3/8/5/6/7/7/3
Duskblade spell slots: 6/23/23/21/11/7/16/3
Moments of prescience left: 4

[Anastasia]

Right now, there is no battle. There is only an unearthly silence, as broken bodies and gear are so thickly laid out as to hide the ground.

[Ebiris]

Had to end eventually. But did one of the participants win, did they simply stop by mutual consent, or did someone else come in and smash them all?

It should've been big enough for divine senses to tell me, since I could perceive it the first time.

[Anastasia]

It ended all at once - a massive sword larger than a nation cleaved through them all, and simply put the battle to an end.

[Ebiris]

Is that Tempus? Has he come here to lay down the law?

Can she tell?

[Anastasia]

It is not Tempus. You check your senses further - it is the celestial from 666. A vast thing, there for just a moment, a swipe ending the war once and for all.

[Ebiris]

When did that happen? Around the same time as she stabbed the fake Colke in Hades?

[Anastasia]

Checking - yes, precisely the same time.

[Ebiris]

"We're doubtlessly expected," Alicia murmurs, sticking close to Antenora as they invisibly fly towards and over the ruined battlefield and enter the castle, retracing their steps to enter the 666th layer of the Abyss.

[Anastasia]

"I was afraid of that," Antenora says, "We've gotten his attention."

Yet as you fly...Perception.

[Ebiris]

[20:07] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+88 perception
[20:07] <Rei-chan> Ebiris rolled : 1d20+88 perception --> [ 1d20=13 ]{101}

Also note:
The wearer sees through all illusions short of deific illusions, and gains a +10 competence bonus to any saving throw against them, and is entitled to one whenever he first sees such an illusion, as if he actively disbelieved the illusion.

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Alicia HP: 854+20/854
Active spells: Many moments of prescience (CL 39), extended mind blank (CL 40), extended nondetection (CL 40), greater heroism (CL 37), extended ray deflection (CL 40), epic mage armour (CL 37), sensual blessing (CL 37), greater foresight (CL 39), keen edge (CL 37 on sword), dance of the unicorn (CL 37), extended greater anticipate teleportation (CL 39), repelling shield (CL 39), freedom of movement (CL 37), greater visage of the deity (CL 37), recitation (CL 37), good hope (CL 37)
Defences: AC 108, CMD 118, spell resistance 52, 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 55), freedom of movement
Stat buffs/penalties: +4 morale attack/skills/saves, +10 armour AC, +25 competence perception, +7 insight AC/ref, +4 str, +2 dex, +4 con, +2 int, +4 wis, +4 cha, +1 natural armour AC, +9 shield AC, +3 luck AC/attack/saves, +2 morale ability checks
Perceptions: Arcane sight, 5 mile tremorsense/blindsight/scent perception +88
Sorcerer spell slots: 6/16/16/12/9/9/14/9/9/3/8/5/6/7/7/3
Duskblade spell slots: 6/23/23/21/11/7/16/3
Moments of prescience left: 4

[Anastasia]

A feeling. The greater gem of truth grows warm against your chest. The air above the castle stirs as you approach.

Antenora immediately stops her flight, Black Horn Spear brandished. "Beware!" she cries. It is an eye, bigger than you and Antenora put together. An green eye, watching you with steady intent. Before your eyes legs form below it to support atop the castle. Each leg is a being, a twisted nalfeshnee warped into the shape of a leg. Distorted, packed together, stretched out like taffy. So thin it's semi transparent, the legs showing the blood and viscera within the demons.

Arms, much the same as legs, stretch out from the eye's sides. Six in total.

Finally, a head emerges. A  mass of lumpy purple flesh, slowly molded by unseen forces into the rough shape of a head. A halo of acid sizzles in the air above it.

'ForbiddenFORBIDDENFORBIDDEN!'

Words thunder in your mind, pounding against your skull like Latha hammering a sword into shape.

[Ebiris]

Looks like the fun will start before they even reach 666.

"I'm afraid we must insist," she says, shedding her invisibility as no longer worth anything, sword now held before her.

[Anastasia]

The eye grows, larger and larger by the second. More legs come from it, strands of thick, fibrous tissue interconnecting the legs, drilling into them with a bone grinding noise.

Antenora raises her spear up as it erupts with opal blue light, then levels it at the demon before you.

A tremendous shudder.

A cry that seems to Creation itself weeping and gnashing its teeth.

Fractures. The world around you begins to fracture like glass, sharp lines running through all save the two of you.

There is no formal challenge from the newly birthed horror. There is only a cascade of sharp lines that erupt towards you and Antenora.

Init. You have supreme init so go first.