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An adventuring party recruited from Osirion teleports into Azir on the 8th of Desnus. Rahadoum's recruiting contact in Osirion wrote ahead to note they were expected. Couple of guys he's known a long time - a wizard, a ranger - and a new guy, sorcerer, probably to replace the cleric they usually travel with. They spend two days in Azir getting oriented and head out to the front. The ranger wears an unusually high quality amulet of Nondetection; the sorcerer wears a headband for intelligence, which is a bit unusual as sorcerers usually don't need it to cast, but some variants do; they are otherwise unremarkable. Chaotic Good, Lawful Neutral, no reading, which could mean neutral or 'hiding it'. They work quickly and effectively, manage resources reasonably well, get recommended to higher-ups for a closer look on that account.
"Are you sure you do not wish to talk." The Shadow-Lover is smiling, though, somewhere in that hooded face.
And Vanyel blinks at the pharaoh. "- That's number two, right? Or have I lost count?"
"You have not lost count. I can do one more from a scroll and then I will need to track down Nefreti and see where she's gotten to."
"All right. I, er, won't do a fourth run without checking that that's sorted, then. Can I get a teleport back there?"
He nods to another wizard on his staff who, like the last one, can get him there in two hops.
Vanyel thanks the wizard, and then he's back again, reuniting with Yfandes. What's been happening in the intervening time?
Demons are in fact still charging out of the Worldwound even though this mostly hasn't worked for them so far. Other demons are trying to attack the wardstones from the outside.
He informs Savil, relaying via Yfandes, that he thinks she should take some of the mages in close and tackle the demons on the outside for a while. He sighs and checks with Farsight whether it's back to the same density of demons as before or whether he should perhaps wait a little and let them get really packed in there so he can get all of them at once.
Starwind can Gate in the other Tayledras Adepts along with a number of Gifted Heralds, though he himself stays back with Moondance where it's a little less dangerous.
Demons are not that densely packed inside the warded area yet.
Then Vanyel will take a breather and give Savil and the others nearby helpful Farsight-coverage advice about what the demons are up to, and wait until the numbers inside the barrier are nice and densely packed and/or look like they're dangerously close to destroying the ward-stones before he Gates himself back into midair.
It takes much longer than it did last time. Maybe demons are unsure what the fuck happened last time and hesitating to go through. However, eventually many of them do.
That's a good sign, Vanyel thinks, hopefully they'll be EVEN MORE hesitant after the NEXT go, maybe he won't even have to do another round.
He raises a Gate -
Last scroll.
He tells someone to send for Nefreti so he can ask whether she'll be helping.
Nefreti is in Thuvia. Thousands and thousands of years ago, a pharaoh built a house half in Thuvia and half in Abaddon, in exchange for the aid of a powerful div lord in securing power. It is a beautiful piece of magic and she doesn't want to destroy it but she could move it.
She goes looking for a universe that is extremely magic and can handle having a portal to Abaddon.
She casts Miracle and asks Nethys to make her powerful enough to pull this off (this is the only kind of Miracle Nethys ever consents to grant).
The air swirls into a haze of magic around her.
Are you going to help with Resurrections today, someone Sendings her, and the response is supposed to be spoken words but she can reach back through the response-thread for the spell and slap whoever it is in the face, for being annoying, and -
The air swirls back into a haze of magic around her and when it settles the House of Oblivion is gone from the deserts of Thuvia, leaving only a gaping hole. Also she's standing in a crater, which, huh, there must have been backsplash.
She Teleports on over to Sothis to help the stupid little boyking out with True Resurrections.
And Vanyel is back! He's in a good mood, this is pretty satisfying work. He smiles and waves. "Heya, Nefreti!"
"Hello, Vanyel!" And she takes his arm and Teleports them right back to near where demons are ripping through the defenders of one of the wardstones. Shrugs her shoulders and blasts all the demons away with a dozen simultaneous bolts of force.
"Thank you!" She seems to have this one handled so he checks the area with Farsight, to see if any of the other ward-stones could use some additional firepower.
Yfandes checks in with the other Companions, both the nearby force attempting to defend the barrier from the outside and the outer ring, to see what the overall situation is looking like.
One of the groups defending the wardstones is fighting a Balor and having a bad time; the other ones are holding on fine. The outer ring is holding fine, there aren't that many demons left and they have more defenders than they did this morning, what with the Guard.