Probably. Do that now, before they've had a chance to just commit the books to memory.

Nod.

We're planning to move fast. Had to tell you about the emergency and see if he left behind anything the palantiri would spot, now we're not waiting on anything else.

She never did bother landing, what with interrupting people being so easy, so is more than ready to head back.

Good skill.

We'll need it.

And back. Has everyone else started setting up for the bombardment already?

Yep. Elves can move fast when the need is obvious.

She lands; this might take as much effect on gravity as they can spare and she doesn't really need to be airborne right now.

The gravity elementals are in the process of being sent to their places, forming a stream between the enchanted rods and the Enemy. They don't start feeding the ammunition in right away. First an ordinary pebble. Space isn't warped, just down, so it's easy to trace when it arcs up faster than ordinary freefall and angles back down faster than that. It plinks harmlessly off the fortress, verifying that the direction of the artificial gravity is straight toward Angband's fortified front door.

The Enemy's gate is down.

No one appreciates her science fiction references. They line up the enchanted rods.

Enchantment aside, it's just a heavy lump of metal. Fingers crossed that terminal-velocity metal telephone poles do as much damage as they would to any other target.

They do less damage than that. Some, in fact, bounce off - they chant while they do it, to distract him, in case that helps -

It has to help. Has to.

Are they at least making progress toward destroying the place, someone has to be able to see that—

Not all of them are visibly bouncing off, but it doesn't look like any of them are doing any damage, either - someone bounces her the fortress in Elven vision, a few scratches on the roof the only sign that missiles are hurtling into it -

This doesn't make sense– tough is one thing but why would he make it more invincible than he made himself–

Might be easier somehow - stationary target - or now that he saw the trick he could prepare for it, but that'd be fast -

If it turns out the reason he didn't bother killing everyone was that he literally couldn't lose–

...there a way we can track the projectiles? someone says to her.

Should be, but we can see where they're going. Easiest way to record it would be attach a rock with an elemental in it, tell it to come back and copy the trajectory on a small scale once the rock gets pulverized. Might be a more effective way but that's something we could do right now if it'd help.

Yes.

It's not exactly hard. A bit complex, and Amber hasn't asked if her interlocutor is an elementalist so she starts setting it up herself.

What do you have in mind?

There's something not adding up about the ones that bounce off - they bounce off whole, and don't damage the ground either - I think he's doing something other than deflecting them, might be useful to know what -

Redirecting somehow? Though that'd damage the ground...

Launch. Bounce. The unnecessary rock isn't there after the bounce, and implausibly good eyesight may be able to tell that it didn't pulverize either. Just gone.

Teleporting them, maybe, and some kind of illusion -

- or, if they can do some kind of illusion, maybe we're hitting him after all -

The spirit that's playing messenger returns. It replays the trajectory, and noticeably doesn't reverse direction at all. Straight shot until shortly past the point representing the walls, and then the rock broke.

Illusion. It's an illusion! I knew something had to be wrong.

Next question is if it's a practitioner illusion or a Vala illusion. If it's the first kind it'll be made more convincing by people believing in it, we need to get the word out.

He tells everyone that the city is illusioned to be holding, but that their rocks are actually hitting. 

This does not seem to do anything discernible to the illusion.

That answers that, then. Can we spare people for divination, try and find out if it's scratched or in ruins?