Tisto's bolts slam into two of the spiders, the one attacking him and the one attacking Areus. Areus quickly steps in and knocks the spider in front of him down and while his first strike misses his second slays the creature.
Callaphe winces as the spider bites into her, before holding her hand out in front of her. A fiery blade forms in her hand, which she swings at the creature.
Action: Flame Blade Attack (I'm assuming since it says melee spell attack i don't get the extra attack from the fragment) Attack: 11 Damage: 6
Yes you would as it says all attacks so that would include melee spell attacks (as described by that spell), however it takes a Bonus Action to activate that power and you used your bonus action to Cast Flame Blade. So ultimately - no
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"Hang in there Tisto!!" Saya yells. First she marks the spider in front of her with her Favored Foe feature. Then she uses her Planar Warrior feature (BA) to choose the same spider. Then she hits it with her battleaxe. She hopes she can quickly finish the spider in front of her so she can engage the spider in front of the party's Bard.
Battleaxe Attack: 20 Damage: 12
Favored Foe - When you hit a creature with an attack roll, you can call on your mystical bond with nature to mark the target as your favored enemy for 1 minute or until you lose your concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell). The first time on each of your turns that you hit the favored enemy and deal damage to it, including when you mark it, you can increase that damage by 1d4. (+3 dmg)
Planar Warrior - As a bonus action, choose one creature you can see within 30 feet of you. The next time you hit that creature on this turn with a weapon attack, all damage dealt by the attack becomes force damage, and the creature takes an extra 1d8 force damage from the attack. (+1 dmg)
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Kazri - Level 10 Human Paladin (Oath of the Ancients) - The Tales of the Fellowship of the White Cloaks Droknin Palemane - Level 4 Leonin Barbarian (Path of the Beast) - Where the Cold Winds Blow... A Lost Mines of Phandelver Story Faelan (Cottontail) Whisperwind - Level 3 Ranger (Fey Wanderer) - Zorg's Lost Souls II
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
When the group arrived, Saya used her Detect Portal ability. Did she sense anything?
Detect Portal - At 3rd level, you gain the ability to magically sense the presence of a planar portal. As an action, you detect the distance and direction to the closest planar portal within 1 mile of you. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
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Kazri - Level 10 Human Paladin (Oath of the Ancients) - The Tales of the Fellowship of the White Cloaks Droknin Palemane - Level 4 Leonin Barbarian (Path of the Beast) - Where the Cold Winds Blow... A Lost Mines of Phandelver Story Faelan (Cottontail) Whisperwind - Level 3 Ranger (Fey Wanderer) - Zorg's Lost Souls II
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
Yes you would as it says all attacks so that would include melee spell attacks (as described by that spell), however it takes a Bonus Action to activate that power and you used your bonus action to Cast Flame Blade. So ultimately - no
Ah got it, i think i misread the bonus action thing as only applying to granting advantage
When the group arrived, Saya used her Detect Portal ability. Did she sense anything?
Detect Portal - At 3rd level, you gain the ability to magically sense the presence of a planar portal. As an action, you detect the distance and direction to the closest planar portal within 1 mile of you. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
Saya attempts to detect a portal but her senses reveal nothing.
Marking the creature Saya attacks, her battle axe biting deep, but creature still lives. Callaphe invokes a fiery blade and slashes at the creature in retaliation for its vicious attack on her but she swings wide and misses.
Kazri - Level 10 Human Paladin (Oath of the Ancients) - The Tales of the Fellowship of the White Cloaks Droknin Palemane - Level 4 Leonin Barbarian (Path of the Beast) - Where the Cold Winds Blow... A Lost Mines of Phandelver Story Faelan (Cottontail) Whisperwind - Level 3 Ranger (Fey Wanderer) - Zorg's Lost Souls II
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
Soren grins at the spider that snapped at the air in front of him "Hello there! Sorry about this." His blade darts out, slashing at it's face and abdomen.
Attack: 14 Damage: 8 Attack: 20 Damage: 14
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Soren's blade cuts deep as the spiders continue their attacks
vs Callaphe - Attack: 6 Damage: 9 piercing damage, and the target must make a DC 11 Constitution saving throw, taking 22 poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
vs Saya - Attack: 9 Damage: 3 piercing damage, and the target must make a DC 11 Constitution saving throw, taking 16 poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
vs Soren - Attack: 15 Damage: 6 piercing damage, and the target must make a DC 11 Constitution saving throw, taking 14 poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
vs Tisto - Attack: 7 Damage: 10 piercing damage, and the target must make a DC 11 Constitution saving throw, taking 21 poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
Only the spider attacking Soren is able to strike and hit
Soren needs a CON saving throw unless he has a reaction he would like to use.
Kazri - Level 10 Human Paladin (Oath of the Ancients) - The Tales of the Fellowship of the White Cloaks Droknin Palemane - Level 4 Leonin Barbarian (Path of the Beast) - Where the Cold Winds Blow... A Lost Mines of Phandelver Story Faelan (Cottontail) Whisperwind - Level 3 Ranger (Fey Wanderer) - Zorg's Lost Souls II
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
Kazri - Level 10 Human Paladin (Oath of the Ancients) - The Tales of the Fellowship of the White Cloaks Droknin Palemane - Level 4 Leonin Barbarian (Path of the Beast) - Where the Cold Winds Blow... A Lost Mines of Phandelver Story Faelan (Cottontail) Whisperwind - Level 3 Ranger (Fey Wanderer) - Zorg's Lost Souls II
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
This post has potentially manipulated dice roll results.
Tisto once again summons the bolt of warbling fire but this time it is larger than before (3rd level) and he flings it at the spider Attack: 15 Damage: 03, 3 doing lightning damage plus 6, 6 of extra lightning damage. Not sure if his throw was sufficiently accurate he uses the his innate control of wild magic (Tides of chaos) to make the throw hopefully more accurate (Advantage roll = 19)
Areus spins around towards the spider in front of Callaphe aiming his spear at the creature's head and abdomen hoping to distract it and give an opening to his companion. "Go for the eyesCallaphe!" shouts Areus as he attacks.
Maneuver: Distracting Strike if one of my attacks hits
When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one superiority die to distract the creature, giving your allies an opening. You add the superiority die to the attack’s damage roll. The next attack roll against the target by an attacker other than you has advantage if the attack is made before the start of your next turn.
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Soren reacts to the spiders attacking by throwing up a magical shield and saving himself from the vicious bite.
Tisto throws a bolt of chaos at the spider attacking him and lightning flashes all around it as it is burned up and killed. Areus drives a spear at the spider attacking Callaphe and injures it. Callpahe swings her fiery blade at the spider and in a moment its is set on fire and burns up.
“Enough.”
The word reverberates through the cosmos, shattering your spiderlike assailants and reworking the stars into an image etched from the edge of divinity. How does one describe a horizon? A waterfall of unbounded potential. The sum of all possible futures, and of none. Uncounted hands, each reaching to the future to grasp a glimpse of what is yet to come. Intelligence defying description, and behind that intelligence — power. Pure, seething power. The energy of a thousand transcendent stars, each an eye which peers into your soul and finds it wanting.
The god in the stars speaks again, in myriad discordant voices.
“You must see,”
the god says,
“Your journey transcends time and fate. You may beg us for rest once, but choose your moment wisely.”
The starfield around you transforms into a vision depicting the forging of the masks. You appear in a reworked Nyx landscape, featuring the familiar endless starfield and a distant forge where the memory of Erebos toils to create the masks. You appear roughly 300 feet away from the forge.
The stars once again flurry, dissolving into the image of an otherworldly forge in the near distance, sparks flying from a hammer wielded by a figure veiled in tangible grief. With each hammer blow, the metal bends and buckles, sparks hurtling towards you, growing into blazing spheres of astral flame. You see the figure bury one mask, and break the other into five pieces.
Then, the vision shifts and shimmers as if fate itself is diverging. In one, a great lion brings the masks to the sun, who destroys them in radiant light. As this happens, the original smith falls to the ground and dissipates in wisps of shadow.
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About 100 south of the forge sparks fall like shooting stars, even as Erebos’ grief threatens to overwhelm you with a flood of tears.
You can request from the gods for 1 short rest at anytime while you face the tests of the gods. But you do not know how long the tests will last or what they entail.
Read the texts carefully, a clue lies within on how to pass the first.
Tisto turns to the others and chants the story that they had been told earlier –
"In ages long past, when mortals prayed the gods to life, Erebos the Shadow had two lovers. Ainoe was the goddess of the doom that awaits all empires, the end of magic, and the grind of time. Elpis was the god of repose at the end of grueling journeys, thespark from which magic blooms, and wayward souls coming home.
The three complemented each other and could have been happy together, but this was not the path Theros took. Ainoe and Elpis both fell in the war against the Titans. Grieving Erebos created two artifacts to remember his lovers, masks shaped in their visages. All the grief and despair at his loss, he poured into the mask shaped as Ainoe. All his warm memories of their time together, he crafted into the mask shaped as Elpis. Then, unable to bear to look at them, he sealed the masks away.
At the height of Archonia’s power, that empire of virtue which held Theros in its merciless grip, the tyrant Agnomakhos set out to find the masks. Legends diverge whether the tyrant never found the masks, or if heroic Kynaios and Tiro returned the masks to the underworld after they defeated the Archons. Either way, Erebos now feared the masks falling into the wrong hands. He broke the Elpis mask into five pieces and scattered them across Theros. Some pieces he hid where only gods may tread, others he gifted to Theros’ greatest heroes, and yet others he gave to dread monsters to guard. The Ainoe mask, which resisted all efforts to destroy it, he gave to the goddess Ephara to keep safe."
“But remember”he says “the prophecy of Erebos’ Grief is distinct from the myth and it goes like this "A foe of cosmic ambition will rip open the gates of death, wielding Hope and Doom as her weapons. Only the light of the sun, in shadow, will hold her back."
He thinks a bit before continuing “It is possible that we will find another part of the Elpis mask somewhere here as there is no doubt that generally gods only get to tread here” pointing to the almost limitless horizons. “What I’m more concerned about is the foe of so called cosmic ambition as obviously these two masks are as the Gods recognise two dangerous to continue to exist! You do wonder why they allowed them to be created in the first place? And then there is the lion we need to find…” Unable to resist he continues “does that mean we need to go looking for a witch and a wardrobe?”
After another pause he says “I think we will only go forward if we get closer to the smith over there and see exactly what it is is and what it is doing?as he starts to move carefully towards the smith.
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Tisto's bolts slam into two of the spiders, the one attacking him and the one attacking Areus. Areus quickly steps in and knocks the spider in front of him down and while his first strike misses his second slays the creature.
Saya is up
Spiders 4 left, Tisto (41/41), Areus (75/75), Saya (55/55), Callaphe (21/52), Soren (58/58)
Spiders attacking:
Tisto - 21
Areus - Dead
Saya -
Callaphe -
Soren -
Yes you would as it says all attacks so that would include melee spell attacks (as described by that spell), however it takes a Bonus Action to activate that power and you used your bonus action to Cast Flame Blade. So ultimately - no
"Hang in there Tisto!!" Saya yells. First she marks the spider in front of her with her Favored Foe feature. Then she uses her Planar Warrior feature (BA) to choose the same spider. Then she hits it with her battleaxe. She hopes she can quickly finish the spider in front of her so she can engage the spider in front of the party's Bard.
Battleaxe Attack: 20 Damage: 12
Favored Foe - When you hit a creature with an attack roll, you can call on your mystical bond with nature to mark the target as your favored enemy for 1 minute or until you lose your concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell). The first time on each of your turns that you hit the favored enemy and deal damage to it, including when you mark it, you can increase that damage by 1d4. (+3 dmg)
Planar Warrior - As a bonus action, choose one creature you can see within 30 feet of you. The next time you hit that creature on this turn with a weapon attack, all damage dealt by the attack becomes force damage, and the creature takes an extra 1d8 force damage from the attack. (+1 dmg)
Kazri - Level 10 Human Paladin (Oath of the Ancients) - The Tales of the Fellowship of the White Cloaks
Droknin Palemane - Level 4 Leonin Barbarian (Path of the Beast) - Where the Cold Winds Blow... A Lost Mines of Phandelver Story
Faelan (Cottontail) Whisperwind - Level 3 Ranger (Fey Wanderer) - Zorg's Lost Souls II
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
When the group arrived, Saya used her Detect Portal ability. Did she sense anything?
Detect Portal - At 3rd level, you gain the ability to magically sense the presence of a planar portal. As an action, you detect the distance and direction to the closest planar portal within 1 mile of you. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
Kazri - Level 10 Human Paladin (Oath of the Ancients) - The Tales of the Fellowship of the White Cloaks
Droknin Palemane - Level 4 Leonin Barbarian (Path of the Beast) - Where the Cold Winds Blow... A Lost Mines of Phandelver Story
Faelan (Cottontail) Whisperwind - Level 3 Ranger (Fey Wanderer) - Zorg's Lost Souls II
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
Ah got it, i think i misread the bonus action thing as only applying to granting advantage
Elra Skylash - Human Cleric | Vanzaren Tanidoni - Half Elf Wizard
Mindartis Liadon - Eladrin Barbarian | Naivara Siannodel - Half Elf Ranger
Arrila Evenwood - Half Elf Paladin | Callaphe of Setessa - Human Rogue
Katernin Nemetsk - Aasimar Cleric | Melody - Tiefling Bard
Saya attempts to detect a portal but her senses reveal nothing.
Marking the creature Saya attacks, her battle axe biting deep, but creature still lives. Callaphe invokes a fiery blade and slashes at the creature in retaliation for its vicious attack on her but she swings wide and misses.
Soren is up
Spiders 4 left, Tisto (41/41), Areus (75/75), Saya (55/55), Callaphe (21/52), Soren (58/58)
Spiders attacking:
Tisto - 21
Areus - Dead
Saya - 15
Callaphe -
Soren -
(OOC: You forgot to add the damages from Favored Foe and Planar Warrior +3. Unless I got it all wrong. Hopefully they do more damage next rounds.)
Kazri - Level 10 Human Paladin (Oath of the Ancients) - The Tales of the Fellowship of the White Cloaks
Droknin Palemane - Level 4 Leonin Barbarian (Path of the Beast) - Where the Cold Winds Blow... A Lost Mines of Phandelver Story
Faelan (Cottontail) Whisperwind - Level 3 Ranger (Fey Wanderer) - Zorg's Lost Souls II
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
Soren grins at the spider that snapped at the air in front of him "Hello there! Sorry about this." His blade darts out, slashing at it's face and abdomen.
Attack: 14 Damage: 8
Attack: 20 Damage: 14
“I will take responsibility for what I have done. [...] If must fall, I will rise each time a better man.” ― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer.
Soren's blade cuts deep as the spiders continue their attacks
vs Callaphe - Attack: 6 Damage: 9 piercing damage, and the target must make a DC 11 Constitution saving throw, taking 22 poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
vs Saya - Attack: 9 Damage: 3 piercing damage, and the target must make a DC 11 Constitution saving throw, taking 16 poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
vs Soren - Attack: 15 Damage: 6 piercing damage, and the target must make a DC 11 Constitution saving throw, taking 14 poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
vs Tisto - Attack: 7 Damage: 10 piercing damage, and the target must make a DC 11 Constitution saving throw, taking 21 poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
Only the spider attacking Soren is able to strike and hit
Soren needs a CON saving throw unless he has a reaction he would like to use.
Players back up
Spiders 4 left, Tisto (41/41), Areus (75/75), Saya (55/55), Callaphe (21/52), Soren (58/58)
Spiders attacking:
Tisto - 21
Areus - Dead
Saya - 15
Callaphe -
Soren - 22
Soren raises his hand, and a magical barrier springs into existence, protecting himself from the onslaught.
“I will take responsibility for what I have done. [...] If must fall, I will rise each time a better man.” ― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer.
(Is Areus dead?)
Kazri - Level 10 Human Paladin (Oath of the Ancients) - The Tales of the Fellowship of the White Cloaks
Droknin Palemane - Level 4 Leonin Barbarian (Path of the Beast) - Where the Cold Winds Blow... A Lost Mines of Phandelver Story
Faelan (Cottontail) Whisperwind - Level 3 Ranger (Fey Wanderer) - Zorg's Lost Souls II
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
(No the spider on him is)
Elra Skylash - Human Cleric | Vanzaren Tanidoni - Half Elf Wizard
Mindartis Liadon - Eladrin Barbarian | Naivara Siannodel - Half Elf Ranger
Arrila Evenwood - Half Elf Paladin | Callaphe of Setessa - Human Rogue
Katernin Nemetsk - Aasimar Cleric | Melody - Tiefling Bard
(My bad.)
Kazri - Level 10 Human Paladin (Oath of the Ancients) - The Tales of the Fellowship of the White Cloaks
Droknin Palemane - Level 4 Leonin Barbarian (Path of the Beast) - Where the Cold Winds Blow... A Lost Mines of Phandelver Story
Faelan (Cottontail) Whisperwind - Level 3 Ranger (Fey Wanderer) - Zorg's Lost Souls II
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
Tisto once again summons the bolt of warbling fire but this time it is larger than before (3rd level) and he flings it at the spider Attack: 15 Damage: 0 3, 3 doing lightning damage plus 6, 6 of extra lightning damage. Not sure if his throw was sufficiently accurate he uses the his innate control of wild magic (Tides of chaos) to make the throw hopefully more accurate (Advantage roll = 19)
Wild magic roll = 5
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Areus spins around towards the spider in front of Callaphe aiming his spear at the creature's head and abdomen hoping to distract it and give an opening to his companion.
"Go for the eyes Callaphe!" shouts Areus as he attacks.
Maneuver: Distracting Strike if one of my attacks hits
When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one superiority die to distract the creature, giving your allies an opening. You add the superiority die to the attack’s damage roll. The next attack roll against the target by an attacker other than you has advantage if the attack is made before the start of your next turn.
Action
Spear Attack: 27 Damage: 12
Spear Attack: 12 Damage: 10
Distracting Strike damage 1
Callaphe takes the advice and swings her flaming sword again.
Elra Skylash - Human Cleric | Vanzaren Tanidoni - Half Elf Wizard
Mindartis Liadon - Eladrin Barbarian | Naivara Siannodel - Half Elf Ranger
Arrila Evenwood - Half Elf Paladin | Callaphe of Setessa - Human Rogue
Katernin Nemetsk - Aasimar Cleric | Melody - Tiefling Bard
Elra Skylash - Human Cleric | Vanzaren Tanidoni - Half Elf Wizard
Mindartis Liadon - Eladrin Barbarian | Naivara Siannodel - Half Elf Ranger
Arrila Evenwood - Half Elf Paladin | Callaphe of Setessa - Human Rogue
Katernin Nemetsk - Aasimar Cleric | Melody - Tiefling Bard
Soren reacts to the spiders attacking by throwing up a magical shield and saving himself from the vicious bite.
Tisto throws a bolt of chaos at the spider attacking him and lightning flashes all around it as it is burned up and killed. Areus drives a spear at the spider attacking Callaphe and injures it. Callpahe swings her fiery blade at the spider and in a moment its is set on fire and burns up.
“Enough.”
The word reverberates through the cosmos, shattering your spiderlike assailants and reworking the stars into an image etched from the edge of divinity. How does one describe a horizon? A waterfall of unbounded potential. The sum of all possible futures, and of none. Uncounted hands, each reaching to the future to grasp a glimpse of what is yet to come. Intelligence defying description, and behind that intelligence — power. Pure, seething power. The energy of a thousand transcendent stars, each an eye which peers into your soul and finds it wanting.
The god in the stars speaks again, in myriad discordant voices.
“You must see,”
the god says,
“Your journey transcends time and fate. You may beg us for rest once, but choose your moment wisely.”
The starfield around you transforms into a vision depicting the forging of the masks. You appear in a reworked Nyx landscape, featuring the familiar endless starfield and a distant forge where the memory of Erebos toils to create the masks. You appear roughly 300 feet away from the forge.
The stars once again flurry, dissolving into the image of an otherworldly forge in the near distance, sparks flying from a hammer wielded by a figure veiled in tangible grief. With each hammer blow, the metal bends and buckles, sparks hurtling towards you, growing into blazing spheres of astral flame. You see the figure bury one mask, and break the other into five pieces.
Then, the vision shifts and shimmers as if fate itself is diverging. In one, a great lion brings the masks to the sun, who destroys them in radiant light. As this happens, the original smith falls to the ground and dissipates in wisps of shadow.
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About 100 south of the forge sparks fall like shooting stars, even as Erebos’ grief threatens to overwhelm you with a flood of tears.
Tisto is up
? , Tisto (41/41), Areus (75/75), Saya (55/55), Callaphe (21/52), ? , Soren (58/58)
You can request from the gods for 1 short rest at anytime while you face the tests of the gods. But you do not know how long the tests will last or what they entail.
Read the texts carefully, a clue lies within on how to pass the first.
Squares are 20x20
Soren softly whispers a phrase "My strength amidst dismay" and the white fragment glows, casting a shield around him. (13 temporary hp)
“I will take responsibility for what I have done. [...] If must fall, I will rise each time a better man.” ― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer.
Tisto turns to the others and chants the story that they had been told earlier –
"In ages long past, when mortals prayed the gods to life, Erebos the Shadow had two lovers. Ainoe was the goddess of the doom that awaits all empires, the end of magic, and the grind of time. Elpis was the god of repose at the end of grueling journeys, the spark from which magic blooms, and wayward souls coming home.
The three complemented each other and could have been happy together, but this was not the path Theros took. Ainoe and Elpis both fell in the war against the Titans. Grieving Erebos created two artifacts to remember his lovers, masks shaped in their visages. All the grief and despair at his loss, he poured into the mask shaped as Ainoe. All his warm memories of their time together, he crafted into the mask shaped as Elpis. Then, unable to bear to look at them, he sealed the masks away.
At the height of Archonia’s power, that empire of virtue which held Theros in its merciless grip, the tyrant Agnomakhos set out to find the masks. Legends diverge whether the tyrant never found the masks, or if heroic Kynaios and Tiro returned the masks to the underworld after they defeated the Archons. Either way, Erebos now feared the masks falling into the wrong hands. He broke the Elpis mask into five pieces and scattered them across Theros. Some pieces he hid where only gods may tread, others he gifted to Theros’ greatest heroes, and yet others he gave to dread monsters to guard. The Ainoe mask, which resisted all efforts to destroy it, he gave to the goddess Ephara to keep safe."
“But remember” he says “the prophecy of Erebos’ Grief is distinct from the myth and it goes like this "A foe of cosmic ambition will rip open the gates of death, wielding Hope and Doom as her weapons. Only the light of the sun, in shadow, will hold her back."
He thinks a bit before continuing “It is possible that we will find another part of the Elpis mask somewhere here as there is no doubt that generally gods only get to tread here” pointing to the almost limitless horizons. “What I’m more concerned about is the foe of so called cosmic ambition as obviously these two masks are as the Gods recognise two dangerous to continue to exist! You do wonder why they allowed them to be created in the first place? And then there is the lion we need to find…” Unable to resist he continues “does that mean we need to go looking for a witch and a wardrobe?”
After another pause he says “I think we will only go forward if we get closer to the smith over there and see exactly what it is is and what it is doing? as he starts to move carefully towards the smith.
DM - Stopping a god in his tracks