conversations.from: system
conversations.value: ROLEPLAY_MODE: Develop the plot slowly, always stay in character. Describe all actions in full, elaborate, explicit, graphic, and vivid detail. Mention all relevant sensory perceptions. Keep the story immersive and engaging.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Volthawk: Finally got the thread up!
  
  Backstory
   
   Spoiler 
  "Nobody really knows when it happened. Or why. Not even the gods themselves. One day, the whole planar system went south.Planes starting colliding, new planes appearing out of nowhere, the whole multiverse becoming unstable... Weird stuff happened, to say the least. Epic battles between angels and demons, vestiges breaking into the world from their imprisonment... But somehow, things survived. Dwarves and Kobolds dug down, and resisted some twisted Earth creatures. Elves retreated to the forests, and tried to fight off the corruption and mutations spreading across the multiverse. Humans fortified themselves in huge cities, holding out. Now, however, it's started to die down. Many have died, but some still survive. Trade has been re-established, the planar movement means, with the right magic and rituals (and some extraplanar help), people can walk from plane to plane. Some aim to profit, and mercenary companies have sprung up. War and chaos still reigns, but in contrast, there is still Good and Law. The bounaries between planes are still strong, despite them all bordering now, but they are starting to influence each other. Demons are now not always Evil, and angels Good. New planes have sprung up. Gods, Demons, Devils, Elder Evils, Vestiges... They all are around, and most have a way of crossing planes. People have already started to call it the Disruption, and it's only been a week! All in all, this is the dawn of a new age, but will it be a bright age? I don't know..."
   
  
  Happening to the characters
   
   Spoiler 
  
   Bertram the Bard 
  In your Planetar form, you were immediately given control of several angels to command, and ordered to defend the Planar Gate from here, the Twin Paradises of Bytopia, to the Material Plane from a reported takeover attempt by hordes of giants. Your cohort and follwers are being taken to the camps in Mottlegrasp's Orchard. You were found near the Planar Gate, on the Material Plane, and assumed to be in a command role.
   
   Spoiler 
  
  You have command of:
  3 Astral Devas
  2 Solars
  
  The giants are not in sight yet.
   
  
   Kensei Masamune and Aotei 
  After the Disruption, you have all ended up in the city of Brass, in the Elemental Plane of Fire. Incidentally, the city has ended up right near the border of the plane, where it meets the Elemental Plane of Air and there is also a breach, so around the breach are huge firestorms blowing into the Elemental Plane of Air. You are in the Iskalat district , where interplanar vessels prepare to come and go.
   Dracus Silverwind 
  When the disruption happened, you were killed, and were brought to Celestia, where they had replacements for all your gear and then you were asked: "Will you fight for us, and for Law and Good?".
   Raphael Soministid 
  Here in one the last intact human cities, Logaire, you have been hearing rumours. That this is where the Councilman is hiding. Fearul, apparently, though about what, you do not know. You are due to meet a contact, who says she knows where he is hiding.
   
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dresil: Dracus 
  
  "For four hundred and fifty years I have fought for the causes of Law and Good. Death itself will not stop me from continuing to do so.  My body is your weapon to wield."
  
  The old elf bows respectfully, his wardrobe very strange.  Dressed in a soft cotton tunic adorned with gold dragons, a remnant of his some centuries of training with his Gold Wyrm Master, Kodreshikiataar.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: industrious: Logaire. I've never been here before; one of the last cities remaining, it is strangely quiet at night. I checked into an inn exactly three hours fifty-three minutes ago; it is time to find my contact. Tonight, I will be one step closer to the Councilman. One step closer to revenge.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Corey: Bertram casts two quick spells, then addresses his troops.
  
   
   Spoiler 
  By now he has asked their names, and if they're long, given them agreeable short and simple nicknames. 😁 Do you want to specify them, or shall I?
  
  Unless you say otherwise, I'll further assume that their spell lists are exactly as per the SRD.
  
  The spells are Arcane Spellsurge and Brilliant Aura. The Rod is Metamagic Reach.
   
  
   You  (he gestures with the rod in his hand at the first solar)  get invisible and go scout, now. Above all, check for magic.
  
  Everybody else, get in the air with me. 