The Crux of the Matter

[Rystil Arden]

"I doubt I'll get the next one. She's seen the failures, so she'll get creative. Of course, while she gets creative and she takes time to think, that might buy us a few seconds at most. Unfortunately, she's a genius, and I am confident that she'll think of some way to counter my attempts to stop her...her genius is wasted on evil."

 

[Velmont]

"Can a... force weapon... attack a bead?" asks Hogarth.

"You mean using the hammer of Gundar?" asks Rinaldo.

Hogarths nods.

 

[Rystil Arden]

"For a Delayed Blast Fireball? Sure it can, but she will not make it that easy for us, I am afraid."

 

[Velmont]

"Wait a second... do you have a dimension door prepared?" asks Rinaldo. "The rippling is not instant. If we can use a dimension door to open the way from the outer edge of teh room to the very next of the Crux, someone could just slash through the portal before it got absorbed by time ward."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"I don't have another Dimension Door. I only have a Teleport left," Rayne laments, "Also, based on the rippling and proximity, I think there wouldn't be enough time anyway."

 

[Knight Otu]

"I suppose we could try collapsing the ceiling on the Crux." Ashna sighs at the seeming lack of options. "Any other ideas before I go in?" she asks as she draws her dagger.

 

[Velmont]

"Ashnar might be right, our last hope would be everyone go into it. The first to come out of it, in hope he appears next to the crux and have what it needed to destroy the Crux." tells Rinaldo. "The roof would probably dissapear in time liek all objects."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"The roof is also sealed with powerful arcane wards. Even if we could break them, which I might be able to do, I don't think we want to expose the Crux to the outside world unwarded, right?"

 

[Knight Otu]

"Exactly. If we were to do that at all, it would be the last resort." Ashna replies, a bit surprised that her comment had been given more thought than it warranted.

 

[Velmont]

"But for now, we need to find a good idea. How can you destroy something that you can't approach, that no object can approach and spells ar turned... Rayne, do you have a spell turning spell in memory. What would happen if a spell is stuck between the two effects?" asks Rinaldo

Hogarth, during that time walks back to Rinaldo and cast his Zone of truth that he convert into an healing spells, closing most of his wounds (13 hp healed)


OOC:
Note to myself:
Rinaldo: 33/51
Hogarth: 42/51
Ashnar: 38/42