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There's another echo. Echoes start in a myriad ways but this one is reminiscent of her first one: the non-sound of her footsteps changing. It's still rock, but it's different rock, and the light slowly turns red. Red crystals start dotting her landscape, some of them mere glints on the ground, some jutting out taller than she is, sharp points threatening the now-present ceiling.
Yvette and Azem in Tyria
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it_will_be_just_me
The skritt leads them east over a lava river then a ways south to a shack made of scrap metal. There's another skritt pirate there guarding the entrance.
"You! What do you want with the Rock Face? Speak! Speak!"
"Let me pass. I need to speak with the... 'Rock Face'."
"No! Nobody sees Rock Face without skritt say-so! Friends of skritt only!"
persistence-of-memory
"Is there some way we could prove to be your friends?" Preferably quickly, before the islands go 'pop'?
it_will_be_just_me
"Hm... Help the skritt! Yes! Save skritt from fire! Arm skritt against the Destroyers! Become a friend of the skritt."
"We'll see what we can do."
persistence-of-memory
Vetareh nods, then looks to James.
"Saving skritt from destroyers and fire first, then arming them? Otherwise we have no skritt to arm, which would probably make us bad friends."
persistence-of-memory
She nods. Any nearby destroyer magic in use? She can't find skritt, but she can probably find destroyers that have found skritt.
persistence-of-memory
"Active destroyer magic, thataway," she reports, pointing. "Might be skritt nearby, let's go check."
Are there skritt nearby the destroyer magic?
persistence-of-memory
Excellent! Then she and James can go be heroic and save the pirate rats from the lava bug things.
... Man, her life is weird. Whatever, she's having fun.
it_will_be_just_me
They can!
There are also some skritt passed out or injured on islands in the middle of a lava river.
persistence-of-memory
Well, that looks uncomfortable. And rather hard to get to without burning to a crisp, even with the magical protections enchanted into her clothes and carefully woven around her.
She looks at James. "Think you can fetch them with the glider?"
it_will_be_just_me
"Probably!" he says cheerfully, and goes on to prove that he can, in fact, do exactly that.
persistence-of-memory
Aw, good. And once they are safely off the islands in lava, she can give them water and bandages and other medical attention. She's not a medic, but she has ever been on a battlefield before. It is useful to know extremely basic first aid when one has been on a battlefield before. She can maybe patch them up well enough that they can be brought back for more careful attention at their camp.
persistence-of-memory
"I still need to ask you about how you can summon minions without corpses," she says, as she helps settle an injured skritt onto a support minion.
persistence-of-memory
"... When we're not doing anything important, I can blow the dust off of my poor ignored necromancer secondary profession and demonstrate minion summoning from corpses? So you can compare and explain? I'm not very good at it, but I wanted to learn at least one minion summoning spell."
persistence-of-memory
"Do. Do you not have those, anymore. Are those gone too, along with resurrection and the attention of the gods." Sigh. "The future is a twisting adventure of ups and downs."
it_will_be_just_me
"Sorry," he says, with a slight twist of the corner of his mouth. "We do not have those anymore, people have not been able to bind the different schools of magic like that."
persistence-of-memory
"It's okay. Well. I suppose I am now unique? ... Even more so than I already was?"
persistence-of-memory
"Flatterer," she accuses, fondly. "Okay, quick glider pass to see if there are any more skritt that need a rescue, then we all head back to the camp?"