Yussa follows a similar pattern of examination, doing so more by sight than touch on the first pass and the second. He doesn't expect he'd feel anything, even if it's there. He feels the brief flare of energy as Caleb casts Dispel. He peers over his shoulder in time to see the ripple, but it doesn't seem to have enough power behind it to reveal anything. He makes a quiet, considering noise and turns his attention back to his own wall.
He steps back a bit more and, with a bit more aggression, he casts Dispel at a significantly higher level. While he knows he will have to play by Halas Lutagran's rules in other rooms and with other puzzles, he certainly is not going to be waylaid by mere illusion.
Less a ripple this time and more a vibration, the spell hiding the door gives way, revealing the gate. Yussa looks back at Caleb.
"This way first?"
And that is all the diminutive archmage says before he strides through the opaque energy separating them from the next room or passage. When Caleb follows through, he will find Yussa Errenis, Archmage of Tidepeak, standing still as stone. Before them stretches a long pathway. On every side of them is the Astral Sea. At the far end of the path - difficult to say how far - is another archway with another glowing, opaque opening.
Rigid and standing as tall as he can, Yussa takes it in. He is aware of movement beyond their path, dark shapes moving through the Sea. It's difficult to tell if they are small and nearby or massive and far away.
"Clearly our colleague Halas had a fondness for the Astral Plane," he says dryly. Yussa does not quite manage to mask the tightness in his voice. He suspects there is some barrier between them and the plane, but he is not entirely prepared to test that.
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He steps back a bit more and, with a bit more aggression, he casts Dispel at a significantly higher level. While he knows he will have to play by Halas Lutagran's rules in other rooms and with other puzzles, he certainly is not going to be waylaid by mere illusion.
Less a ripple this time and more a vibration, the spell hiding the door gives way, revealing the gate. Yussa looks back at Caleb.
"This way first?"
And that is all the diminutive archmage says before he strides through the opaque energy separating them from the next room or passage. When Caleb follows through, he will find Yussa Errenis, Archmage of Tidepeak, standing still as stone. Before them stretches a long pathway. On every side of them is the Astral Sea. At the far end of the path - difficult to say how far - is another archway with another glowing, opaque opening.
Rigid and standing as tall as he can, Yussa takes it in. He is aware of movement beyond their path, dark shapes moving through the Sea. It's difficult to tell if they are small and nearby or massive and far away.
"Clearly our colleague Halas had a fondness for the Astral Plane," he says dryly. Yussa does not quite manage to mask the tightness in his voice. He suspects there is some barrier between them and the plane, but he is not entirely prepared to test that.