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Game Master Tacticslion

so is Usawoti free to move about?

Sure - go anywhere you want to - none of my business

should I have said that he spit at an empty part of the floor? He wasn't aiming for anyone it would be quite insulting.

Usawoti glares at the demon he spat on, shifting Mope away as much as possible, ignoring the rest of the sycophants. "You did not know Inarus, before he became the dragon demon. When it happened he voiced concerns that he would loose his humanity. That the nature of the dragon and the demon would change him. And so it has, no maybe he hasn't changed since you've met him, but changed he has. By his own confession, Inarus is dead. And frankly I care not what still exists. He swore an oath to elves that sent us here to find their princess, or return with word. Obviously that did not matter to what he became. Now I want assurance that the other promise he made will be kept. I care not what happens to this thing. Inarus is dead. He probably died when we combated the demon-dragon and just didn't realize it."

"Uh, okay, but, aren't, like, I a demon? But, like, doesn't that mean that since, like, I'm not evil, he's not? Or does it not work that way?" she asks.

Usawoti moves Mope over to where he saw Iya-Iya drop the gemstone that the dragon had given her from the coven. Patting his old friend on the neck he dismisses Mope and begins searching for the dropped stone. After searching awhile, asking those around the area to excuse him as he searched, he finally locates it. Looking at it briefly and retuning it to his pouch.

Turning to the dragon, he smiles and remarks, "Why don't you take your army with you and train them in this 'timeless dimension.' I'm sure there are things you could call up for them to practice on. They will need to learn to survive here and in Golarion."

Finding a place near the mouth of a tunnel, Usawoti clears a spot, laying out his bedding, and other camping utensils he rest, waiting until the dragon is ready to head to the other level.

GM TL, I assume Usawoti can take 20 (42) on perception looking for the gemstone.

Would love to give them a travellers any tool each but I think that's beyond the fabricate spell

It is beyond the reach of that spell.

I'm not sure if I can fabricate gold pieces for them to get around...

You could, but they'd either be considered counterfeit (if noticed) or have a unique mint (either with imprint or not) to them - still just as valuable as currency, of course, but, you know, not normal.

Ugh, messed up my Usawoti emotes - please wait to read that post.

EDIT: Alright, I think I fixed it?

EDIT 2: Alright, pretty sure it's fixed, now! Should be more clear, I hope (I added a note to hopefully clarify how the emotions and dialogue work out).

GM TL, I assume Usawoti can take 20 (42) on perception looking for the gemstone.

He may, and he does.

ninja'd by GM TL

As Usawoti sits, he cannot avoid hearing the rings nagging. Tired of her harping, he sighs, "It is not your right nor hers to force me to do anything. That is not what those who love each other do. As for 'taking anything this machine has given' You bend my meaning to justify your actions. I mean I will not have the taint of this machine. Yeye was mine before I came here. And those who follow do so of their own free will, The machine did not 'give them.' They earn their freedom much more than I would give it to them. They do not belong to me, they are mine in the sense of friendship in as much as they want to be. I am willing to allow them to accompany me to a place they will be safe but I will not possess them."

Not normal is not good news. We want to blend in, you know. Gemstones work, right?

** spoiler omitted **

Not normal is not good news. We want to blend in, you know. Gemstones work, right?

Sure. Probably relatively cheap ones, but enough to be comfortable.

After a time, all preparations are made.

A general plan is displayed on the walls (near Usawoti), offering an immediate (safe) exit from these tunnels, or allowing him to attempt his own way to traverse them.

Choose one. I am moving this forward, so your choice is more or less RP-only, at this point: you want to get out, you will (now, given the new influences over the lairs) find a way.

And so the lot of everyone is brought to the edges of the "worlds" known to exist... and beyond.

Inarus, Mope, Quiet-Gazer, and Usawoti once again find themselves on a familiar-looking precipice in a jungle they have not seen for some time - longer than it should be, really.

As souls, spirits, and creatures of all sorts pour out around them and safely into the misty gap ahead, the four - and a brass dragon barely able to keep breathing at the sheer wonder of what she is witnessing - stand surrounded by these surroundings in the bowel of an ancient tower in a massive eldritch machine.

Inarus chooses to lead his flock through the immediate (safe) exit.

When Inarus indicates he and his are ready, Usawoti mounts Mope and follows the mob. As they return to the elevator chamber, He attempts to sense Shuvuu; looking out into the ‘shaft’ that runs up the middle of the comples

Usawoti looks to the dragon previously known as Inarus and asks ”Luu Chötgör, can you lead us to this dueterominal level?”

"We'll need to operate the machine." He answers.

Firstly, I think we already are in the deuterominal level. If we aren't, then we need to operate the Machine.

Inarus examines the machine to see what it is capable off and how to use it.

Loremaster, take 20 for knowledge checks. Minimum for all knowledges, 43, some like arcana may be higher (45)

If it doesn't work, he uses visions from the coven to see if it grants him insight on how to fiddle with the machine.

CL 20 against DC 20 so I'm not rolling

Inarus, using his newfound knowledge, discusses things with the air elementals (that are badly overwhelmed trying to help all the creatures in the central shaft) and, upon mentioning the deuteroterminal level, the air elementals are excited to help!

They "assist" you by struggling to lift everyone even higher, up to a high point, and ceiling.

As you approach, reality seems to slowly turn on its head, as the sensation of going "up" toward a "ceiling" becomes heading "down" toward a "floor" instead, until you either manage to turn upright DC 18 Acrobatics or Dexterity check or crash head-first take 1d6 ⇒ 1 damage!

Iya-iya and a few other former inhabitants crash with a brief "Whoof-" but otherwise they all seem fine.

Inarus reduces the check by 5, but treats the walls as corporeal.

Inarus examines the new floor carefully. Eventually, he uncovers a ritual pattern, and uses it, altering and shifting a few runes with some minor chants, until a hole opens in the floor with a ladder. Heading down, the gravitation reverses once again, leaving a second disorienting moment DC 18 Acrobatics or Dexterity check, DC 15 climb check v. falling out the hole and back onto the "ground" the hole extends from, take 1d6 on failure; flight negates, though this time, at least, Iya-iya and others seem to keep hold of their grip and manage to arrive out, successfully.

Inarus notices a faint trail of slime across everything - a slime that Usawoti (with Qui'Gaz'Er's aid) recognizes as remnants of the fiendish fungal plants - clearly they had passed this way, previously.

Though slick, the lot of them make the climb, successfully, and Inarus eventually opens a hatch at the end, quietly, sliding out onto a floor, until he finds a long corridor stretching forward, another stretching up in a spiral, and two others to either side, perpendicular to the first.

There are soft, echoing voices coming from... somewhere, talking about.... something. You hear a distant bird chirp of some kind - it's the chirp of a falcon.

Where do you go?

"Thanks a lot!" Inarus thanks the air elementals. "Sorry for the inconvenience caused, I know you don't usually see so many people. " He gestures at his huge flock. " We have discovered a way out of here. Would you want to leave this place to a new world called Golarion? Or are you happy here?"He asks the air elementals.

Freedom to all!

Acro: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12

"Ow! " Inarus exclaims as he doesn't quite manage to land headfirst on the floor."Feels as if gravity is reversed here." He picks himself up, "How undignified.Everyone all right? " He asks his flock.

Then he starts fiddling with the floor, opening a hole in it. 'Curiouser and curiouser. Are we going up or down now?' He thinks to himself.

When gravity reverses itself a second time - BTW my entire army has a fly speed 40ft thanks to overland flight. I'm a wizard, what can I say?

"Sorry! " He apologizes to his flock as gravity reverses yet again, however everyone (except Usawoti, possibly Mope) seems to be fine, since they can fly.

Inarus looks at the slime trail. " Someone has come here before us. Be on your guard."He does not betray his innermost thoughts.

"We'll need to find Shuuvu first."He declares, as he moves towards the chirping of the falcon. "Don't scry on him, Usawoti", he lays a spectral claw warningly on Usawoti's arm. "Let me." Then he steps some distance away from the group and casts Locate Creature to determine Shuuvus direction.

If I still get thunderbolted, the creature doing it is in for a surprise since I'm immune to anything that has SR

Earlier Retcon on leaving his domain

Inarus feels a pang of regret as he leaves his domain, knowing that beyond, he will no longer have the power to remake reality to his whims and fancies. 'The power, it's so seductive. You could have anything in the world... ' Then another thought occurs to him, 'Is that what Usawoti meant by power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely?'

'I am better then that. I took up the mantle for Usawoti, Iya-iya, Quiet Gazer and my people, not myself.'

'It's for a good cause, idiot. For everyone's future. Besides you still have your own personal power to draw upon.'He chides himself, then continues on.

dex: usawoti: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15
dex: mope: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 18

Holding on to Mope as the air elevator rushes them to the ceiling, as they are flipped around by gravity, Usawoti loses his grip on Mope landing on his head.

Watching as the dragon and his horde of worshipers fly down the tunnel, he turns to Mope and tells him ”You may as well return to the tattoo, I don’t know how to teach you to climb down a ladder.”

dex: Usawoti: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4 damage: 1d6 ⇒ 5

Once Mope has returned he begins to climb down the ladder. As the gravitation reverses once again, leaving a second disorienting moment, he falls on his head again. As he stands rubbing his head, he jerks his shoulder away from the spectral claw. ”I thought the scry may work since we are now on the same level, but if you have a better idea Luu Chötgör I will listen.”

Watching as the dragon and his horde of worshipers fly down the tunnel, he turns to Mope and tells him ”You may as well return to the tattoo, I don’t know how to teach you to climb down a ladder.”

Mope returns to the tattoo-form.

It takes Usawoti a few tries before he finally manages to get through the ladder section, though, eventually he does so.

If I still get thunderbolted, the creature doing it is in for a surprise since I'm immune to anything that has SR

Good thinking! Really clever! Also, adorable!

... you get hammered, thunderbolted, etc. You now realize it's an (Su) effect that functions "similarly to" (but not identically to) said effects. Saves apply, SR does not, alas.

Thank you! I am adorable! *Squees* Seriously you should see me in RL. I'm fun sized! And I've got this round face...and a generally an amused look in my eyes

What saves anyway?

OUCH! GM notes fail! I was thinking of the Reflex saves, but I previously definitely applied SR, even though it's an Su! >.< Oh well! Feel free to be immune! My bad!

The power slams into - and then through - Inarus, leaving him completely unharmed and untouched.

Also, your lore is high enough, that, after watching and feeling how it works, you're reasonably certain that this is not unique to you, but might not apply to Usawoti... now that he's in the same general area.

"Still blocked." Inarus answers. He furrows his spectral eyebrows. "From the feel of the magic I think Shuuvu might be blocked from me, but not you." He tells Usawoti.

Usawoti nods his head and reaches out to Shuvuu, attempting scrying to form a bond with his animal friend. "Come on Shuvuu, show me where you are so we can come get you."

Usawoti has a vision: his long-time friend, now long-missing, Shuvuu is perched on a vine held by a rhythmically singing plant, staring into the birds eyes. She is beautiful and voluptuous and the way she moves begins to hypnoti- no - with the aid of Qui'Gaz'Er shutting down her sister's power, Usawoti pushes past the effect and successfully finds his companion in the tower, using his connected palm with that the nearby spirit dragon to show where, exactly his friend is: above.

Power assaults Usawoti and Inarus, but it attempts to hit the latter first, finds nothing, and disperses, harmlessly.

The spiral ramp-case going up. You may wish to hurry - there is some discussion in the background of Usawoti's vision just 'using the knife on the dumb bird' - not by the hypnotically swaying/singing creature but by an unseen speaker.

"Let's get moving." Inarus states. "This is the second time they've caught us at it - I think they know we're coming."

Then he leads his entire flock up the spiral ramp case.

'He's perched on a vine held by a rhythmically singing plant ... she's staring into his eyes ... she is beautiful ... and the way she moves ... what the crap is that ... Oh gods ... what is she doing? Is that you Quiet Gazer? Did you stop her? Thank you!'

Usawoti looks at Inarus, hoping their mental connection was still in place. Pointing to the spiral staircase, "Did you see and hear that, we need to move, someone want's to kill him."

Realizing that he would be less effective than Inarus and his worshipers, Usawoti lets them scramble fly? up the stairwell, casting a defensive spell as he waits.

I'm assuming it will take a second for them to get up the spiral ramp case, so he will cast a spell, not sure which yet, but will figure it out. Is it ok if we retcon having cast spells before we jumped onto the elemental elevators?

I'm not sure how much I know about what Quiet Gazer did, so I did not comment about it btw. It is Usawoti's vision, not mine. I definitely know they tried to bolt us both again, so they definitely have a lookout going.

I'm not sure how much I know about what Quiet Gazer did, so I did not comment about it btw. It is Usawoti's vision, not mine. I definitely know they tried to bolt us both again, so they definitely have a lookout going.

Actually, I should probably clarify, based on your recent experiences, insights, and higher lore checks - your likely guess is that it's not any sort of active effect - it's something that's automatic.

Basically: direct-action divinations into or around this tower are hammered/fried, and also inhibited to some extent. Hence: it's really hard to divine anything here - it can work, but it's exceptionally unlikely to work (and so far, nothing has really gone well for you guys in this regard); even with a very powerful effect, it can fail.

This is likely the same reason the Maiden, Mother, and Crone had never successfully learned too much about the inner workings of the tower. If you're in a region without total blockage and a strong enough connection to the subject, it can work, though only some sort of warding from power prevents the destructive energies.

I'm assuming it will take a second for them to get up the spiral ramp case, so he will cast a spell, not sure which yet, but will figure it out. Is it ok if we retcon having cast spells before we jumped onto the elemental elevators?

Yes, that's fine. You may want to start following, though - it's a long way up, and even if you're going "after" them, it's better to be on-hand than a long, long way down.

Usawoti wrote:

I'm assuming it will take a second for them to get up the spiral ramp case, so he will cast a spell, not sure which yet, but will figure it out. Is it ok if we retcon having cast spells before we jumped onto the elemental elevators?

Yes, that's fine. You may want to start following, though - it's a long way up, and even if you're going "after" them, it's better to be on-hand than a long, long way down.

Yeah I'm only assume the first combat round to let everyone pass. There's a huge problem with speed difference between Usawoti and fliers though, can Mope run the stairs?

That is fair... but yes, he actually can. Can't climb up a shaft - so he needed to return to tattoo form, earlier, but the stairs are wide enough for him to hurry up them.

As Inarus and those who grasp at freedom surge upward.

Time and space move and surge, ebbing and flowing in strange ways, here, and only part of it is the result of anarchic madness that's been slowly infecting some parts of the tower.

Hm.

The spiral stair winds, open-sided, up the tower until it reaches what amounts to something akin to a thousand-foot-wide suspended plate of obsidian stone for a ceiling, attached to the wall in seven equa-distant points with one-foot by seven-foot tall sideways columns.

It is brimming with powerful energy forms - deadly clouds of acid, roiling frigid cold, crawling destructive electricity, flowing flanks of fire, nearly solid waves of sound, spinning shards of force, and the rippling destructive bottom face of the plate (turning into spikes, razors, and pounding hammers) all obscured within a morass of thick mist and thin waves and by shot through by potent winds.

Inarus et. al. decides to avoid, for now.

You've enough sensory augmentation that you suspect there's nothing there, really, to acquire, though there is the quivalent of a prismatic wall flush along the bottom as well. Outside of the wall, nothing is a "spell" specifically - it is ectoplasmic, meaning it would affect incorporeal creatures as much as physical.

The "plate" proves to be quite thick as the stairs rise upward beside it for another seventy-five feet, with seven "columns" moving upward spread at equa-distant points up the sides of the plate.

Moving quietly with your augmentations, you arrive high and into a large open chamber with a clear door leading into a central fifteen-foot diameter shaft reaching to impossible heights above while radiating destructive power akin to that of the bottom of the plate. The destructive energies of the shaft terminate when it flares into a wide (fifteen foot) plate-like-flute fifteen feet above the plate-floor you are rising to, now; that flute that looks almost like an overhang for the rest of the shaft - narrowing back to a fifteen foot diameter that fuses with the floor. There are seven alters (each a seven pointed star three foot high) each set fifteen feet away from the shaft - half under the overhang and half out from under it.

It is obvious at a glance that much effort has been made to destroy the lower wall - and, judging by the several badly treated corpses of humanoid fungi around, and lack of any noticeable scarring on the wall, every attempt has failed.

There is one obvious alraune, though Inarus can clearly see another cloaked by invisibility with scent negated and sounds muted around her. Hundreds of fungi infest the walls of this place, spore-pods grown from... who knows what, but glued to the walls with abyssal fungal mucus with a vile disgustingly sickly sweet and overwhelmingly foul rot smell. Many more fungi infest the preponderance of the plate-floor and much of the air around it in a vile floating swarm with flapping heads above even these leaving little actual room to either stand or fly.

The invisible one suddenly perks up and beings whispering.

"h-wut doo yoo mee-n h-th're ees soom-oon h-heer~!?" the visible alraune asks.

Yes.

I will retcon the actions that got us here in a few moments but for speed of game sake I will answer her now.

Usawoti roles his eyes at Quiet Gazers apology, "I keep telling you, I am not bothered by speaking to you, why do you insist on apologizing? Yes, we can move to the front if you think we will be of assistance. Would it be beneficial if I change into the alraune shape or wake the eternal seed to join us?"

Usawoti begins to move forward, then asks "Do you believe Mope will be safe or should we dismiss him?"

If the Quiet Gazer recommends we return Mope to Tattoo form we will do so.

'This place is strange' He eyes the thousand-foot-wide suspended plate of obsidian stone for a ceiling, attached to the wall in seven equa-distant points with one-foot by seven-foot tall sideways columns."Avoid the wall!" He warns his flock telepathically as they pass through the area. 'I suspect we will need to disable the wall at some point - probably what we seek is in there. Each layer would correspond to the seven different sins...'

When they reach the plate-like-flute fifteen feet above the plate-floor, he catches sight of the seven alters. 'Probably what we need to disable the wall - were they not connected to seven equa-distant points?' He thinks to himself. 'But we're not alone here - It's Quiet Gazer's sisters.

Visual Reference

The visible one; the one Usawoti saw previously

The invisibile one

The visible one stops swaying for a moment, and a dazzled hawk suddenly falls over - it was, and remains, on an altar, but hidden by the shifting sets of flying creatures.

"th-hin we' sh-ud k'heel t'em aal~!!" the visible alraune notes, sweetly, smiling, ripping a host of obsidian blades from a nearby fungal creature, causing it to keel over, clearly dead. The others begin whipping deadly sharp pieces out, themselves, though leaving them alive.

She spins toward the bird - Shuvuu! - raising the blades in thorny tendrils, and moving them toward the creature.

"ee-hit we'hill bee s-had t'hoo kee-heel th-hees lu'uv'hlee burd... boot oh-hur lay-dhee com-hands eet~!! eye-him veh-rhy soh-rhy swee-hit b-hird~!!" she says, tears in her smiling eyes, "eye loh-v'd yuu...~"

Usawoti appears, suddenly, covering Shuvuu (though neither standing nor laying nor sitting on the bird).

Inarus: it's a dimension door effect.

A beautiful flower flower-woman - Quiet Gazer - sprouts next to him, flowing from his hand, separating itself, and standing next to him. Usawoti suddenly feels... alone, for the first time in a while.

"sisters please" a quiet voice Usawoti has gotten used to (though in his head) "sisters please" she turns toward the invisible one, "ser'sly-tea" she appeals, "i ask for you to trust in me and allow me to help us all before we are devoured - before any are" she says, urgently, softly.

In his mind, Usawoti hears a familiar voice, i would request you trust me as well
It is Quigaz'eter. :)

An eerie scratching sound begins to gather at the backs of the throats of the flying heads - one that Inarus recognizes from their battle on the islands some time ago as a prelude to their evil shrieking.

"You will destroy the intruders and acquire our full power over this realm." a powerful voice - from no visible source - echoes from seemingly out of nowhere and everywhere at once. "We will feast on them this day." it continues.

Eerie hollow knocking sounds and violent thumping mark the celebrations of the fungus as the fungal sacks begin to pulse more heavily.

Your turns! Initiative, one way or the other...

"Ser'slys-tea and your sister, we don't want this to end in violence. All we want to do is leave this place. What use is power over the realm? You could have all the power here, but you are still prisoners here, unable to escape. I am willing to offer you a way out of here, to our homeworld Golarion, but you must promise not to harm any of its sentient inhabitants except in self defense of yourself or another." Inarus appeals to them.

"Deny the voice. Power does not bring happiness, joy nor freedom. I took the power up for the sake of others, and I am now bound here. You have still a choice. You can choose to be free. There is more to life then being stuck in this gilded cage."

diplomacy: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (4) + 22 = 26
init if absolutely necessary: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (12) + 16 = 28

init if absolutely necessary

It is. It will help me resolve things sequentially, and there is going to be a lot that will be needed to resolve sequentially.

Spells cast before going to the elevator shaft: Heroism, Delay Poison, Barkskin: (extend rod), magic circle against evil, False life, HP: 1d10 + 10 ⇒ (8) + 10 = 18

much earlier
’We still have a ways to go, I may as well buff up.’ As Inarus instructs his horde how to use the elemental elevators, Usawoti draws his extend rod and casts barkskin, he then casts the rest of his basic buffering spells: Heroism, delay poison, magic circle against evil and false life. He then walks off the ledge, telling the elemental that catches him, ”Follow the dragon and his friends.”

earlier, arriving here
’May as well let Mope run a little ”Come on Mope, let’s take the stairs’ Usawoti climbs onto Mopes back, and hangs onto his main as the grey stallion races up the steps.

Coming out of the spiral staircase onto the thousand-foot-wide suspended plate of obsidian stone for a ceiling Usawoti looks around ’If I had seen this before the tunnel I would be nonplussed, but after the things I’ve seen and experienced, it is not a big deal.’ shrugging his shoulders,

Usawoti rides Mope up the stairs beside the thick plate, arriving high and into a large open chamber. Usawoti ignores the seven alters, the hundreds of fungi infest the walls of this place and the vile floating swarm with flapping heads, his eyes settling on the one obvious alraune.

Now
’I do not want to put Mope back into this situations.’ Usawoti dismisses Mope as Quiet Gazer takes them where they need to be.

Usawoti appears, suddenly, covering Shuvuu (though neither standing nor laying nor sitting on the bird).

’I have and will continue trusting you, Looking around, ’though I don’t like being quite this close to these flying heads.’ Keeping his body poised between Shuvuu and the heads, He looks from the Quiet Gazer to her sisters. ”If you truly love Shuvuu, or your sister, listen to her. The Dragon is right, there are other choices. This war can end it has gone on too long. Listen to them.”

init if needed: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12
aid another: diplomacy: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (17) - 1 = 16

Those A-O's are actually exactly enough to beat the DCs...

Usawoti

In his mind, he hears, thank you

Aloud, you hear, "sisters please" she looks, "Ser'slys-tea"

A moment of silence.

Then, leaning forward, mischievously, "Yah, sure, why not?" A flower-woman appears, dropping the invisibility, and embraces her sister.

"Ser'slys-tea, you are making a mistake you cannot possibly fathom the depths of." says the voice.

"o-oh g-hohdz, w'hee 'er ah-ll g-hon-ha d-heye~!" says another with an irritated sigh, rolling her eyes, before then poutily hugging Qui'gaz'er.

"thank you so much" whispers Qui'gaz'er.

"Yes, you will all die right now." says the echoing power.

Powerful corrosive light plummets down on the plants.

There is a sudden light as Inarus feels his power, carefully husbanded previously, shift and move - briefly - in this environment, and suddenly the three flower women shift and flow together, and back into Usawoti.

Usawoti's jewelry just got a lot bigger.

A huge outpouring of energy slams into the place they all were, (adjacent to Usawoti), and several of the fungal creatures begin exploding. Usawoti feels - briefly - uncomfortably warm, but he and Shuvuu are quite okay, as more fungal creatures pop.

The flame stops.

"Your petty tricks will not save you - I gave such things to you and will break them, now." says the voice, in irritation. "You will all perish now! Devour when their power is gone!"

A not-quite-audible "pop" happens, and Usawoti feels a magical aura on him suddenly vanish. A powerful wave bursts out from him and floods into the surrounding fungi, a kind of radiated backlash into the hordes, grilling fungus of all sorts and spinning into a whirling funnel around him before it vanishes.

A lingering ring of fires and thick rings of blue-gray (though almost translucent) smoke continues for a few moments.

that worked better than i thought comes a the Lady's voice through telepathy. It's because you got us now, stupid! adds a second, briefly. ah-eye ahm nn-hot sh'hur how-oo yuu ta-halk't m-hee een-t'hoo thiis, b'hut th-hat wa-huz ehg-zhil-her-ay-'t'-hing~ adds a third.

we cannot do that again i am afraid says the first.

The horde surges forward, though lingering flames and smoke weakens the charge, and causes havoc among the flying heads.

As they prepare to slam into the freed creatures, Inarus watches the world slow.

Initiative: Inarus, allies, Usawoti, foes. Declare intentions, and I'll adjucate accordingly.