<br/><br/>Karsus chuckled and continued, looking at Anya thoughtfully as he said, "But the surprises life brings-"<br/><br/>He broke off as a woman came around the side of the pyramid. Like Anya she wore relataively little, merely gauzy pants and a belly-baring halter, and a few cheap looking bangles, like some downmarket dancing girl. "You are alive!" she gasped and exhaled when she spotted the others, "You were the ones fighting in the sky!?"<br/><br/>Aria nodded, "Uhhuh. Glad you got out safely too - but pray tell,<em>how</em>?"<br/><br/>"Oh," the woman, copper-skinned but bronze-haired, giggled, "Magic."<br/><br/>Lightning ripped out of her very body, arcing through the dry desert hair until it splashed at Aria. The tiefling threw herself back into a momentary crab-like pose with her palms against the sand, gritting her teeth as the lightning arced right over her.<br/><br/>The white hot electric energy scattered in three more arcs at her allies; Anya and Karsus were caught full-on by the secondary arcs. Both flew off their feet, bodies spasming wildly, and went sprawling alongside each other upon the sand.<br/><br/>Aria popped up in time to feel another magic grip her - some sort of hostile teleportive magic - and she gasped, "Ka-" but summarily vanished.<br/><br/>~~~<br/><br/>Aria found herself in some labyrinthine, colorless place comprised almost entirely of force walls, stretching away in corridors and stairways in ever direction, even up and down. She could've sworn that, across an open expanse in front of her, the angle of certain platforms and stairways even suggested that gravity was oriented in different ways in different places.<br/><br/>She raced to the edge the floor of force she stood upon, staring over such an expanse. She realized she could've even see how far it descended, and thought to herself,<em>Hope there's an exit - better find one - might as well do so as fast as I can!</em>Across the void she saw a long tunnel which swirled at its end, vaguely resembling the coloration of the desert she'd just left.<br/><br/>Hazel eyes quickly scanned all the bridges and stairways around her.  She picked up what she was sure was a path - and went dashing and leaping along the planes of force, jumping down from one to another at one point - and within a few moments was through the portal.<br/><br/>~~~<br/><br/>The desert air where Aria had disappeared shimmered, and a few moments after she'd vanished, the tiefling seemed to drop into existence again. "She banished me to some labyrinth!" she informed with a scowl.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Chain Lightning, 47 elec damage at Aria and 23 at others, reflex DC 23 half<br/>Aria reflex 15r, evasion<br/>Anya reflex 17r (-1 mod), fails, dying<br/>Karsus reflex nat1, fails, dying<br/><br/>Maze at Aria, who vanishes<br/><br/>(There was no discernible somatic/verbal components from these; spell-like abilities, and one was quickened.)<br/><br/>Initiative<br/>Aria 32<br/>Kass 23<br/>woman 19<br/>Anya 0<br/>Karsus 13<br/><br/><br/>Woman is by the southwest corner of the pyramid, 75' from Kass, who is 60' north of her, and 30' west from the west edge of the pyramid. Aria was 5' south and west of Kass.<br/><br/>Aria:<br/>rolls 7+16r on Intelligence check, escapes from the Maze (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/maze.htm)<br/><br/>Reappears beside Kass.