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Message: <blockquote data-quote="darkbard" data-source="post: 9360175" data-attributes="member: 1282">The strain of navigating the Chronotope in quick succession like this strains the Psion more than he cares to admit. As the heroes emerge in the present, changed timeline, he coughs and slouches against Pa'avu, whose great form steadies him."Gosb'tar, are you alright?" the Goliath asks with concern."Nothing," he wheezes, "nothing I can't handle." And he swoons a minute longer from the combined effect of the chloric breath of the dragon and the psionic exertion.* * *"What a fool, I've been, Pa'avu, Rietka, Yazdan! Don't you see! We are all slaves of one sort or another!"CHANVATI runs his hand across the broken stones of the shrine, then across his shaved pate."I have never been what one might term the pious sort. Indeed, my own formidable mind and the mighty sword arm of Pa'avu have sufficed enough. Sufficed enough for me to willingly believe in my own control. But don't you see? These transmigrations of the Chronotope, this altering of the past and future belie any control whatsoever! When we act to undo some event unfavorable to our desires, we introduce some change. But we never control the adjacent fallout! Nerull, that black god thought long dead, pays us back tenfold for our hubris!""But perhaps here," he gestures again to the shattered altar, "here we find salvation ... of a kind. Perhaps the divine echo of this ancient goddess has power to foil the intercession of The Reaper and aid us in our journey to bring the fight to the agents of Vezzuvu."The Merchant-Prince brings all his learning to bear on the ancient runes of the broken altar, piecing together what he can from the languages he knows ... and those he has only passing familiarity with in his study, hoping beyond hope to activate the latent teleportation magic his potent mind senses within. It works! The runes begin to glow in a pattern resembling a woman's face with windswept hair! <<Quickly now,>> the Psion thinks to himself, <<before the glyphs fade!>>"Ancient deity," he speaks aloud in his clear tenor, almost a song offered in prayer, "though you had been lost to time, your memory lives on in this new instantiation. Aid us, desperate warriors seeking to free our city from the threat of destruction, in our hour of need. Send us to the doorstep of our great enemy, the Duchess of Cinders, Djinn Maleficent, and we will honor you in continuing to combat your ancient foe, Nerull, Time Reaper, Stasis in Shackles!" His voice rises to crescendo and the runes flash with blinding brilliance, accompanied by that familiar feeling in the pit of his stomach of space folding in on itself and his form reapparating elsewhere.[HR][/HR]Chanvati needs 3 additional Saving Throws before he passes vs the OG 5 Poison damage (r6, 2, 11). He is reduced to 47/69 HP and spends a Surge during the Short Rest (now 6/7) to restore himself to 64/69.Both PCs are now at 35,050 XP/39,000 necessary for L13, and each PC has 1 Action Point.Chanvati makes a Primary Skill History check to decipher enough of the ancient language to enact the teleportation runes, r19+19=38 vs 29 Hard DC. Success.Chanvati makes a Primary Skill Religion check to appeal to Avandra's direct intervention in facilitating his use of the teleportation ritual, r10+15=25 vs 21 Moderate DC. Success.Also, I may be misreading my notes (it's been awhile, sadly!), but I believe the only Primary Skills used prior to this post are Streetwise and Athletics. History and Arcana were both used as Secondary Skills to discern the nature of the threats upstream vs downstream above. Correct me if I'm wrong, please!</blockquote>

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