Aerois - Episode 113: Praxis Valla

Katie Morrison as Aila

 Kim Richards as Nova V'ger

Rhiannon Frost as Sentry

 Tom Hazell as Qillek Ad Khollar

**Praxis Valla** is the 113th episode of the Aerois Campaign. It was broadcast live on both the Yogscast Twitch channel and highrollersdnd Twitch channel on 23rd May 2021 from 5PM to 8PM BST.

*The party is split, the alarm has been raised...will the Stormchasers escape the Tassadar alive?*

## **Summary**

### **Announcements**

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### **Recap**

*"The party have transported themselves into enemy territory using a unique set of teleportation runes to travel aboard the* Tassadar*, Kalus' flagship, to seek their young friend Valla and rescue her, along with potentially the Eterna that powers the flagship it shares a name with. Dispatching a few initial guards, and with the tragic news that their celestial allies had abandoned the mission, the party decided to press on and make use of this one-time opportunity.*
*Splitting themselves into two groups, a disguised team made up of Lucius, Aila, Moonstar and Nova, and an ethereal team made up of Quill, Sentry and the deva Rana'iel. As they make their way through the corridors of the great astral warship, making their way into the crew decks, the ship is put onto alert as it seems the infiltration team has somehow been discovered. The ethereal team locate Valla who is being held on the bridge under heavy guard, whilst the disguised team make their way towards the Shipheart where the Eterna Tassadar is kept. The disguised team bluffs their way past the initial guards, but an ice devil officer questions them and calls for his superior to check.*
*As both groups nervously wait for the next move, another announcement reveals that Xarkira's ship,* The Serpent's Coil*, has arrived and will be docking with the* Tassadar*..."*

### **Part 1**

*The party is split in the Tassadar! Team Ethereal try to recover Valla while Team Real are attempting to speak with the Tassadar itself!*

There is a noise and movement of the Tassadar as it docks with another great ship; the ethereal team sees the bridge officers desperately preparing for Xarkira's arrival while they check to see that Valla is present and well. The disguise team, Aila, Lucius, Nova and Moonstar, are in an ante-chamber outside the Shipheart, which is sealed by large doors. In the room with them is a number of engineers and guards, and also an ice devil, looking like a large white praying mantis with white, ice-cold scales and blue chitinous armour.

Lucius is standing with arms folded, looking as stern as possible, while sending a message to the others through the messenger rings to say in a panic that he does not know what to do, that they are all going to die, and that he is worried. Aila thinks that this was a mistake and that they should leave - Nova, on the other hand, wants to get into the Shipheart to find the Eterna, Tassadar, hoping to convince them to join their cause. Aila reminds Nova that Valla is their objective, not Tassadar, but Lucius agrees with Nova, believing that Quill and Sentry have the Valla situation under control. As they are conversing, one of the large metal doors hisses open as it swings inwards: emerging from it is High Engineer Silfar, a female figure wearing an engineer's uniform covered in pieces of armour (a metal breastplate, metal gauntlets and greaves), and she is covered in scorch-marks and stains. She appears to be elven, similar to an Eladrin, with pure luminous yellow eyes, but rather than hair, she has cybernetic tentacles coming from her head; they writhe around as if alive, with some of them holding small tools. As she emerges, she lifts the goggles from her eyes and onto her head, looks at the group, and asks the ice devil if these were the ones he had called her about. He concurs, and she takes a long look at them, smiles, then touches her ear and reports, "I have four of them here. They've come straight to us". She continues to the party, "Well this was certainly a bold plan, but did you not think that we would at least recognise some of you?"

It is clear that as a senior officer of the Valkyrian Empire that she knows who they are, and she prepares to fight. Nova looks into the Shipheart and sees three large clear resin orbs - they are connected to each other via metal cables and wires and then into the black walls of the ship; they throw blue light into the rest of the room, and in that light, Nova can see the silhouette of another figure moving around the room.

As she is sending her message, Quill and Sentry notice the dragon in its humanoid form reach up, touch his ear, nod and then turn to the assembled officers to announce that some of the infiltrators have been found in engineering and that guards including Falagor should be sent immediately. Valla is looking around, noticing that the attention has been somewhat diverted from her with this announcement; the celestial and the Erinyes tighten their grip on their weapons and start scanning the bridge. Rana looks to Quill and Sentry for instructions, fearing that the disguised party will be outnumbered if they do not get help.

As soon as it is clear that the Silfar and the ice devil are preparing to fight, the rest of the engineers begin to flee; the ice devil pulls out a large spear, and Silfar's hair tentacles begin to raise into the air menacingly around her head. Aila rages and attacks the ice devil, hitting twice and doing significant damage and knocking the ice devil prone; it shouts to the engineer to call for reinforcements. The ice devil attacks Aila, doing a mixture of piercing, slashing, bludgeoning and cold damage to her, telling the engineer that he will deal with Aila, but reinforcing that she should call for reinforcements. Nova tries to see if she can spy Tassadar the Eterna in the Shipheart, but she cannot from where she currently stands; she casts Blight on the ice demon, but Engineer Silfar casts Counter Spell - Nova instead casts Hexblade Curse on the Engineer who wags her finger at Nova and indicates that she should not do anything of the kind. When Nova makes a break for the door, trying to move around Silfar, one of Silfar's hair tentacles snakes out 15 feet and tries to smack Nova and scratch her with a needle-like device at its terminus; Nova uses her Armor of Hexes to avoid the damage, and Nova mirrors Silfar's waggled finger motion.

Silfar begins to cast a spell that will surround her in a shimmering barrier, similar to what they saw with the Xarkira clone in Gusthaven (a Globe of Invulnerability): Lucius counterspells it, and the effect is prevented from occurring - she smiles. Lucius casts Dominate Monster on her, but it has no effect, whether due to some magical effect or some dogmatic loyalty, he cannot get into her mind. Lucius asks Nova through the messenger ring to try to lock down the area using the console, but they are in a large corridor with no doors to close except those behind them leading to the Shipheart.

Sentry does not know what to do, but she is concerned that they may need to go and help the other team; Quill attempts to cast Divine Intervention to take him, Sentry, Rana and Valla to the engineering room, but because he is currently praying to Siaska, who is incapacitated, Divine Intervention will not work, so nothing happens.

Moonstar tosses a brightlight explosive behind the ice devil; it explodes and the bright light allows Moonstar to step away despite the fact that it manages to cover its eyes and prevent temporary blindness. The ice devil manages to hit her with its tail, slamming her into the nearest console - she realises that she can delay an alarm being sounded and types something into a keyboard to scramble some of the readouts. Aila hits the ice devil twice again and knocks him down, doing physical and lightning damage - he is starting to look badly damaged: his frozen chitin armour is breaking off, and his thick, ichorous demon's blood is oozing onto the ground from his wounds. The ice devil, fearing more damage from Aila, casts a dome of ice around her, telling her to stay in there as he moves towards Lucius and Moonstar. Nova casts Eldritch Blast on the ice devil, hitting him three times for moderate damage (the devil tells the engineer to deal with Nova); Nova then casts Far Step on herself and teleports 30 feet to the open door of the Shipheart, but as she starts to move into the Shipheart itself, Silfar's hair tentacle whips out again and hits Nova. Nova manages to resist the toxin on the tentacle that was trying to paralyse her (she passes her concentration check to keep Far Step going); when she steps into the chamber, she notices a long, black staff with blue gems and lines of power along it in the central orb. The staff has several sections that break away from itself, move around it, then return as if magnetised; stood over a console with a furrowed brow is a shimmering blue humanoid figure looking like a tall, bald, older-looking elf wearing black and blue robes - this is the Eterna Tassadar's humanoid form. They turn around with a withered and worn but plain face which is completely hairless with long pointed ears, piercing eyes and a narrow thin nose: "Would you mind? The disruptions outside are proving to be quite distracting".

Sensing that she may not have as much to worry about as previously thought, and noticing that Aila is temporarily caged, she looks to Lucius and indicates an interest in studying him and his magic later - she clicks her fingers and casts a spell at him, which he attempts to *Counterspell* at 7th level which fails: Lucius is stunned. She places her hand on her ear and reports, "We are encountering resistance. Is Falagor on his way? Excellent, have the security team briefed. I want them caught alive - I do wish to study several of them. One of them has an Eterna - it will prove very useful".

As Sentry and Quill try to decide what to do, they see the red dragon touches the console and a flickering image projects out of it: they see a dark-haired woman with bladed wings in a dark red robe. The dragon advises Xarkira that her request to dock has been approved and asks if her team is coming on board. The projection advises that she is already on board and asks where is Emperor Valkyrian's daughter, saying that she is there to escort her personally aboard her ship for extra protection. The dragon, stating that this is highly irregular, says that he has Valla on the bridge and that the Emperor advised that she would be staying aboard the Tassadar. Xarkira counters that with the infiltrators aboard, it is not safe to keep Valla on the Tassadar, and asks if the dragon is questioning the Lord Emperor's orders, which he strenuously denies. He eventually submits, saying that he will prepare for Xarkira's arrival - the image of Xarkira flickers out.

Sentry and Quill decide that now is the time to move, and they move into the bridge with Rana: as they do so, the Erinyes and the Planetar look directly at them and call out to the captain that there are intruders on the bridge. The ethereal party ready their weapons and Quill drops etherealness: there is immediately chaos - the guards and the dragon captain are surprised, but the Erinyes and the Planetar announce that they are here to kidnap Valla. Valla has been waiting for this very moment, and before they can make a grab for her, she sprints out towards Quill, Sentry and Rana. Because they saw the party coming, only the Erinyes and the celestial are able to act swiftly - everyone else is surprised; Rana tells Quill and Sentry to 'get the girl' and immediately places herself between Valla to attack the Erinyes and celestial. The celestial is disgusted that Rana has turned traitor to the Emperor, and engages Rana in combat, doing significant damage; every time the two celestials clash, there is a blinding light that flares off them. Sentry attempts to cast Turn the Faithless, but the fiend (Erinyes) is not affected due to her magic resistance; Sentry then moves closer to Valla and casts Staggering Smite. Valla tells the party that they just need to buy her a few seconds as she starts to manipulate some red-purple energy in her hands while concentrating. The Erinyes engages Sentry causing slashing and poison damage; she tells the dragon to bring in reinforcements. Quill casts Arcane Abjuration but it fails to have an effect.

Moonstar uses her grapple launcher to swing away from the ice devil and attempts to silence Silfar with her slime balls, but fails. Aila smashes through the ice wall, uses her hammer's power to leap towards the ice devil, and zaps him with minor lightning damage. The ice devil attacks Lucius, the weaker target, who is still stunned and takes significant damage. Nova casts Eldritch Blast at the ice devil and hits twice, almost killing him; she then starts speaking to Tassadar who asks who Nova is and what she is doing on the ship. Nova says that she has brought Tiangong, and that she has come to free Tassadar and reunite the Triumvirate: Tassadar denies that he is a prisoner. Nova tells Tassadar that Kalus' plan will fail and that they will be on the losing side: Tassadar says that the calculations are clear and that there is no winning side, that Hadar cannot be defeated, only delayed in order to allow life to live as long as possible - Nova advises that Starbane's plan will only speed up the end of life. The High Engineer moves towards Aila and deploys three of her hair tentacles to hit Aila - on the third attack, Aila is scratched and her body begins to freeze up as she is paralysed (the ice devil lets out a sigh of relief). Afterwards, Silfar casts Magic Missile on Moonstar doing minor damage; Lucius breaks out of his stun.

### **Part 2**

*Fighting in two separate battles the Stormchasers are desperately trying to reunite so they can get away from the Tassadar!*

On the bridge, Quill, Sentry and Rana are trying to fend off two elite bodyguards - Rana is still engaging the Planetar to keep her busy and away from the others for as long as she can; each time they clash, they continue to create bright bursts of light throughout the bridge. Rana shouts at the Planetar, "You don't know what you're fighting for! Do you really think that Valkyrian is doing what's best for the world?" The Planetar continues raining heavy blows on Rana, who is looking heavily injured with deep gouges in her flesh bleeding profusely. Maximillion Taldros, a 6-and-a-half-foot tall man, grey-skinned, with red flame-like hair spilling down his back, strides towards the party and asks Quill what he hopes to do given that Valla is safest on the ship: he believes that the incursion is madness and that Quill should surrender as a man of honour. Quill raises his staff to Maximillion who says that his oath as a Knight of Gideon will not allow Quill to take Valla away from him: he has sworn to protect her, and protect her he shall. Sentry, still fighting the Erinyes, insists that they will not touch Valla, and attacks again using Driven to Purpose, but misses. The Erinyes attacks Quill and Sentry - Sentry protects Quill so the first attack misses, the second attack does slashing and poison damage (which is mitigated by the wyvern armour!). The dragon presses some buttons on a nearby console and announces, "This is the captain. We currently have infiltrators aboard the bridge and engineering. Commander Xarkira, if you can hear me, immediately come to our assistance!" The captain turns and points at Sentry, whose armour immediately begins to glow bright orange and get extremely hot, doing fire damage to Sentry. The dragon then orders Max to kill the three intruders: he grunts, but seems to regret the order. Quill finally tells Max that "Xarkira has joined Hadar and Starbane's plan is doomed. If you really want to protect Valla, join us and come with us!" Max shakes his head, "That makes no sense, Qillek, how could you possibly know this?" Quill tells him that he has a gift from the god, H'esper - he needs to persuade Max, and uses a portent to ensure success. Max stands with his blade raised, looking at Quill - there is a long pause as he considers what Quill has told him, and Quill sees the conflict in his face as the blade begins to lower: Max wants to believe what Quill is saying, even though he is saying things that have gone against his training and beliefs.

Valla has been concentrating and formed a shifting purple stretch of Astral Space, looking similar to Siaska's hair; she digs her hands into it and begins to use all of her strength to stretch it to widen the gap; inside they can see the engine room, the ice devil, Aila frozen in place, Lucius just regaining the ability to move, and Moonstar heavily wounded - Valla is desperately trying to open the gap to be big enough, but needs more time.

Moonstar shoots starbolts towards the engineer, trying to break her concentration, hitting once, but failing to break it. Aila is so enraged that the lightning in her system burns away the toxin, allowing her to move again. Sensing its demise, the ice devil decides to attack Aila before she can attack him, hitting only with his tail: he wants to know where the reinforcements are, and Aila can sense something coming from the corridor - it is fiery, and angry and big. Nova moves around the corner to Eldritch Blast the ice devil and kills it with one hit. Tassadar tells Nova that what they are attempting is futile, and that the odds of their success are infinitesimally small. Nova tells Tassadar that they have another divine that can fight Hadar, but if they follow through with Starbane's plan, it will only serve to make Hadar exponentially stronger - Tassadar wants to know how they know this: he has calculated this as a possibility, but says that there is also a possibility that the power from the World Engine will overwhelm him. Nova tells Tassadar that Xarkira has abandoned Valkyrian and made a pact with Hadar, but Tassadar says that he needs irrefutable proof of this, not just the words of a stranger: he asks Tiangong if this is true - Tiangong confirms that Xarkira is now working against Kalus and that the vision of Hadar showing him consuming the universe is true.

The engineer hears heavy footsteps and armoured boots coming down the corridor, and decides to deal with Nova - she moves to the open door of the Shipheart and asks Nova to step away from the console. She casts a spell, and a shimmering ball of force encloses around Nova who now cannot hear or see or hear anything outside. Lucius asks the heavily-injured Edea if she is alright, and she warns Lucius to be careful of the engineer who is powerful with both magic and magitek: Lucius is angry, regains a spell slot, and casts chromatic orb at the engineer, who counter spells.

Back on the bridge, Rana, who is covered in cuts and dripping with blood, turns to Quill, smiles with a half-grin, and says, "I know it wasn't for very long, but thanks for setting me free and getting my wings back" - she clashes once more with the Planetar and misses; the Planetar hits Rana and downs her by stabbing her through the chest; the Planetar then moves towards Quill and Sentry. Max tries to convince Valla to stay saying, "Your Highness, please! You promised your father that you would stay, that you would learn to master these powers. You know that what he is trying to do is for the good of the people. Why would you go with them? Stay!" He raises a hand and surrounds the Erinyes, the Planetar, himself, Quill and Sentry with a wall of fire, addressing Valla again, he says, "I know that you trust them, but you must understand, you've seen the good that your father does! You know that he is doing what he thinks is best for the worlds!" Valla is still wrestling with enlarging her portal, but says to Max, "I know he is, but it's not the right way. Maximillion, come with me!" Sentry finally manages to hit the Erinyes, doing significant holy damage, and leaving her staggered by the blow. Sentry is able to block the Erinyes who tries to push past to grab Valla.

The dragon captain walks straight through the wall of fire: even though he is still in his humanoid form, he is becoming more and more draconic (his muscles start to bulge, scales begin to appear, and his horns start to grow larger), and his uniform is starting to shed; "Taldros, what do you think you're doing? This is insubordination!" and he slaps Max across the face - Sentry tries to protect him, but fails, and Max is sent staggering. The dragon promises to deal with Max's treachery later, but moves to grab Valla - Quill's Storm Eye flashes as he moves to intercept, and there is a sensation of someone holding the staff with him, and using the leverage of the staff, they trip the dragon so he stumbles to the side: Quill sees a couple of small angel feathers drop to the floor. Valla is almost finished with her spell: Quill makes one last attempt to persuade Max saying, "Maximillion, Valla has chosen her side. Please! You've fought with us before. Listen to your charge". Max grits his teeth, looks to the Captain who has just struck him a blow, then looks to Sentry who had tried to protect him - he turns to place his back towards the party, then brings his sword up towards the Captain. Quill casts Mass Cure Wounds on himself, Sentry, Max and Rana - Rana's eyes flutter open as Valla completes her spell: her hair is flowing up into the air just like Siaska's did, her eyes flash the same purple that they have seen in Kalus. The purple power ripples down her arms which she throws wide, and beneath Quill, Sentry, Max, Valla and Rana, the reality of space and time seems to open up - they all fall into the spell and it closes behind them.

Those in the engineering section hear a tearing sound, and looking up they see a purple glow rip open in the ceiling as Quill, Sentry, Max, Valla and Rana all fall down into the chamber. As they land, the party sees the first hint down the corridor of an armed squad and a very large-looking individual making their way towards them. There is a 15-foot tall flaming and winged humanoid with a whip in one hand and flaming sword in the other, wearing black Valkyrian armour; in front of him are four elite-looking guards carrying Valkyrian rifles and they are charging towards the party.

Moonstar, who is heavily injured, grabs her side and moves to hide behind Lucius; Rana heals herself and then points down the corridor indicating the general and that they need to leave as soon as possible. Aila tells Nova through the messenger ring that they need to leave, then moves to High Engineer Silfar and attacks her doing significant damage, which drops her concentration on the spell she had cast on Nova, freeing her. Tassadar is pacing up and down, tapping on his chin and thinking out loud that their chances of defeating the Valkyrian Empire are infinitesimally small, but that with Xarkira changing sides... he tells Tiangong that this presents him with a problem. He says that the original terms of the agreement with Valkyrian still stand, and that to abandon them now would be shameful to the eterna, but knowing that the plan presents anomalies also presents an issue... Tassadar calls Nova over and tells her to escort him from the Tassadar to a plane of existence where he can be on his own to think. Tassadar deactivates the energy field surrounding his physical form (the staff) and tells Nova that this will not be a partnership like she has with Tiangong, Nova is escorting him to a place where he can decide what action to take: Nova agrees.

Nova grabs the staff, teleports into the main room and casts Maddening Darkness down the corridor to block the approach of the elite troops and the pit fiend. They hear the pit fiend telling someone that they are all in engineering with Valla, and to contact the other officers. Nova tells them that she is now in possession of Tassadar, and that they should leave. Valla being with the party is a problem for the Valkyrians - they do not wish to hurt her - Silfar casts Mass Suggestion and recommends that they all stand still and surrender immediately: Lucius, Moonstar, Nova, Max and Aila immediately drop their weapons and give up (Lucius falls to the floor and lies down, and Moonstar drops to her knees and raises her hands). Sentry moves to the Engineer and casts Sunbeam at point blank range - Silfar is surprised, and is hit for damage and blinded. Quill casts Mass Cure Wounds and uses his Spellbreaker ability to dispel the effects of the Suggestion - they all feel healing energy wash over them, feeling like wings wrapping around them, but there is also a memory of a voice - that of an older man - and it takes the idea of surrendering out of their minds. Quill tells them to form a circle around him, that they are going to get out of there right now: Rana grabs Nova and flies over to Quill, Aila disengages and runs to Quill and prepares to hit any enemies that come into melee range of them. Nova, concentrating on her Maddening Darkness, casts blight on Engineer Silfar - she is blinded, so cannot counterspell it - she takes significant damage. She puts a hand to her ear and says, "I can't hold them here any longer, Falagor! Hurry up! Send more reinforcements!" She then teleports away from danger.

Lucius prepares to cast Prismatic Spray at any enemy who tries to interrupt their teleport; Sentry holds her Sunbeam and moves to the group - she is prepared to shoot it again if anything comes out of the darkness. Before Quill can cast his teleport, there is a crackle as three figures teleport into the engineering chamber: three almost identical-looking women (one of which is taller than the other two), they have dark hair, are wearing red robes and have armoured wings. As they crackle into view, they look at the party in fury - only Lucius' held action goes off (as they did not come from the darkness, and are not in melee range) - he casts his Prismatic Spray at the three Xarkiras. Two are clones, but the taller one is the real Xarkira - her eyes reveal her immense power, and her bladed wings stretch and flex as though they are organic, rather than the artificial wings on the simulacra. Because she is smart and magically talented, she has enough time to react to the Prismatic Spray - one of the simulacra attempts to counter spell, but has to roll (as it does not have a 7th level spell slot to use), and it succeeds, dispersing the Prismatic Spray before it is released fully.

Quill uses the Wayfinders Guide to cast Plane Shift to go to Horizon: the real Xarkira casts Counter Spell at 9th level - Lucius attempts to counter the counter spell, but fails - Xarkira smiles, saying "This will be an excellent prize for my new friend" pointing at Quill: as Xarkira attempts to reach out and grab the magic, these purple bits of energy grip onto the outer edges of the Plane Shift, almost like covering them all in a bird cage, and Xarkira frowns, looking down to see little Valla in the middle of the group, holding her spell at bay. "Not this time, you snake bitch!" says Valla, as she succeeds with her own counter spell and breaks Xarkira's magic and they all vanish and appear back on Horizon with a great crack of magic.

## **YouTube Timestamps**

0:00 - Episode Start
1:26 - Announcements
7:51 - DUN DUNs
8:49 - Recap starts
10:12 - Part 1
1:24:02 - Break time/Donations
1:34:12 - Part 2
2:43:40 - Outro/Donations

## **Featured Characters**

#### **The Stormchasers (Player Characters)**

* Aila
* Nova V'ger
* Lucius Virion-Elluin Elenasto
* Qillek Ad Khollar
* Sentry

#### **New NPCs**

* High Engineer Silfar
* Tassadar (Eterna)

#### **Returning NPCs**

* Ice devil in engineering (unnamed)
* Maximillion Taldros
* Valla
* Rana'iel
* Xarkira (and her two clones)
* Falagor (pit fiend)

## **Featured Locations**

* The Tassadar
	+ Engineering
	+ The bridge
* Horizon

## **Trivia**

* Tom suggests that the plural of "praying mantises" is 'mantipodes' then says that this is not true. He was correct: the plural is either "praying mantises" or "praying mantes".
* While the group is complaining about multiple combats and the difficulty of their mission, Mark asks a question: "How good will you guys feel if/when you pull this off, and you rescue Valla? How good will you feel? You'll feel pretty great, won't you? You'll feel pretty fucking awesome!" This was a portent.
* Dono question from TheCreeperBoy: "How come no other NPC is shocked that Quill has a stormy vortex for an eyeball?" Tom's response was that it's a universe where people have fire for hair. Mark added that it's only stormy when Quill uses the eye - it normally looks cloudy until he uses it, then it looks like there is a massive storm raging in the eye.
* Mark admitted that he made a mistake giving the messenger rings to the party, and that he had learned his lesson as they are far too good an item.
* This is the first time that a downed NPC has been able to make an injury check when being reduced to 0 hit points ("because Rana's pretty cool and Quill quite likes her" says Mark).
* Kim asks if anything happened to the ship when Tassadar was taken from the engine room: Mark's response was 'surprisingly, no. It doesn't look like the ship is entirely powered by Tassadar. He was in control of a lot of things, but didn't seem to be the sole source of everything going on. Unlike Nightfrost, whom they were clearly leaching power from, he was managing the Tassadar rather than actually being the entire power for it. It seemed to be a more equal relationship with Tassadar on this warship'.
* Mark admitted that the other Xarkira simulacrum does not have Counter Spell prepared because the simulacra are built for specific things, but while they did not have Counter Spell, they had other nasty spells prepared if they had another turn before they party plane shifted.
* This is the first episode since 26 that Valla has been on Aerois, and it is anticipated by the team that she will meet up with Arval.
* While Maximillion is now with them, Mark said in the outro that even though it was mentioned that Xarkira is going to betray Kalus, and that Tiangong can prove that the world engine will not work the way that Kalus thinks it is, there is no indication of whether Max will help them.