Shake the dust off your feet

[Ebiris]

Well, curious but not exactly a big lead so Marie will leave her to it. Their goal is inside the demiplane after all, so after casting a baleful flame-eyed glare over the proceedings she'll fly over to the portal with Jessica and inside.

[Anastasia]

Give me a quick d100.

[Ebiris]

[18:04] <@Ebiris> roll 1d100
[18:04] <Rei-chan> Ebiris rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=55 ]{55}

[Anastasia]

You reach the portal without incident. No one's directly around it, though the tents around it look busy on a glance.

[Ebiris]

Well surely no one in those tents wants to tangle with a balor and a mature nabassu, so unintelligible guttural noises accompanied by a high pitched whine that makes the teeth rattle and frantic clacking sounds and the faint echo of tearful cries mixed with pained lamentations are sure to pass through unmolested!

Take 10 for 71 on intimidate for being generally fearsome.

[Anastasia]

You approach. As you do, a whisper voice in your minds. 'Any who enter must make an offering into the muds around the portal, by decree of Talona herself. So it will be until an offering that completely pleases Talona is made.'

[Ebiris]

Why is Talona always making life difficult for them? Why is she such an awful busy-body?

Marie lands near the portal, turns her big skull-faced balor head, and then horks.

She horks loud. She horks long.

The resulting mess is a huge puddle of lime green vomit that bubbles and churns, soundlessly screaming faces struggling to break the surface before being dragged back under,  tiny infant-like arms stretching from the edges and flailing at anyone or anything nearby before slipping back under. It smells awful too, worse than death, worse than a hezrou's stink or a cloudkill spell. The sort of smell that gets down the back of the throat with its foulness and strangles your lungs. Gods help anyone who tastes it.

Persistent image which will last 44 minutes. Because of undeniable illusion it appears real to all senses unless one beats Marie in a rank check or sense motive vs Marie's bluff of...

[19:17] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+100
[19:17] <Rei-chan> Ebiris rolled : 1d20+100 --> [ 1d20=10 ]{110}

"There's my offering. Eat it, you maggots!" she growls at everyone around and outside the tents surrounding the portal.

[19:22] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+75 intimidate, divine insight
[19:22] <Rei-chan> Ebiris rolled : 1d20+75 intimidate, divine insight --> [ 1d20=4 ]{79}

[Anastasia]

There's no response to it - no chastisement from that unseen voice, no smite from above (below?) and no immediate reprisal. The portal awaits you, perhaps whatever guards it cowed by such a powerful display?

[Ebiris]

But is anyone eating it?!

[Anastasia]

No, no one is eating it.

[Ebiris]

Cowards!

Or wait no, they're standing up to her. So that's brave.

Still cowardly to not eat the vomit though.

"I said eat it!" she bellows, marching over to the nearest... whatever, and grabbing at them with intent of tossing them into the vomit!

[17:26] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+52 cmb
[17:26] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+52 cmb --> [ 1d20=1 ]{53}

The peril of using an avatar.

Unfortunately she misses. Perhaps they're too slimy for her to get a grip on? Or has she met her match in the form of this random abyssal denizen?

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Marie HP: 722+20/722
Active spells: Many moments of prescience (CL 38), bibliotheca arcana (CL 38), extended nondetection (CL 41), greater heroism (CL 38), epic mage armour (CL 38), sensual blessing (CL 38), veil (CL 44), divine insight (CL 38), energy immunity (electricity) (CL 39), energy immunity (fire) (CL 39), energy immunity (acid) (CL 39), neutralise poison (CL 38), life's grace (CL 38), duelist's friend (CL 38)
Defences: AC 82, CMD 84, spell resistance 53, energy immunity (electricity, fire, acid, negative), status immunity (petrification, polymorph, form-altering, energy drain, ability drain, ability damage, mind-affecting, disease, poison, death effects), nondetection DC 56
Stat buffs/penalties: +4 morale attack/skills/saves, +15 insight knowledge, +25 competence perception, -1 natural armour, -1 divine armour, -1 all rolls, -1 fort, -1 domain SLA DCs
Perceptions: Greater arcane sight 120ft, tremorsense/blindsight/scent 60ft, duelist's friend perception +82
Sorcerer spell slots: 6/10/10/10/9/9/8/8/8/8/7/8/6/7/4/4

[Anastasia]

You do remember no one was directly around the portal, right? Which is why I was confused by your last post.

To quote: You reach the portal without incident. No one's directly around it, though the tents around it look busy on a glance.

Are you trying to get someone from a tent then?

[Ebiris]

I assumed there were people spilling out or around the tents.

Which makes the whole posturing display rather pointless, oh well!

Marie flaps over towards the portal now.

Any magic on the portal beyond just being a portal?

[Anastasia]

Not that you detect, it seems to just be a portal.

[Ebiris]

As she approaches, Marie uses further magic to discern what they're going into.

Miracle SLA for analyze portal spell to get the details.

Round 1: Any special properties (like if it strips you)
Round 2: View of what's on the other side.

She lands in front of the portal on round 2