>>5644009>>5644011>>5644017You waste no more time as you hurry towards the Paladin Order’s monastic fortress, an open-air structure surrounded by low wall on three sides and open to a half-sculpted natural cliff on the other—launching pad for the rare gryphons capable of full, powered flight, or for quick gliding descent by those more common-used chimeric mounts of the silver-clad ‘holy’ order. You shudder to consider them, especially while in this sadly wingless form.
…Perhaps you should adopt your <Dragonshape>?
>13You are winded by the time you arrive, even with all your athleticism. It was quite the distant to half-sprint and half-jog, even for one such as you. You were forced to slow by a stitch yin your side, a dreadful reminder of your own mortality in site of your reputation, your success, and your glorious destiny. And destiny… Destinies can CHANGE, can SHIFT. You’ve just witnessed this. If Chase has beaten you here, what might he have already done? He has allies within, he’d said when you spied upon him through your divination magics. Will he have rallied them to his defence? Had them hide him away? Or will he make to exit the compound immediately, whereupon you can set upon him outside?
How will you approach this?
>Announce yourself as Long Wang, here on orders of the Paladin King to help protect the Paladin gaol against a jailbreak attempt by a rogue Paladin named Chase>Remove your Amulet of Disguise in favour of that of the Dragon, assume <Dragonshape IV>, and fly over the wall to descend upon this weakling order and end whatever threat they harbour>Lay in wait, and use another casting of <Guidance> (upon Chase, no longer protected by Nenaias’s wards) to determine where he will exit so that you may intercept him>Summon forth the ice elemental from your <Ring of Elemental Command> and unleash it upon the unsuspecting paladins, to create chaos and cover your entry>Write-in