Something is stirring

[Diamond Master]

Big blocks of diamond are thrusting up through the adamas like an array of breaching icebergs. The grating sound is almost continuous, as block after block joins the others.

[Grey Aides]

What...disorder. I install pale guardians...to look for patterns in the rising slabs...to test for unusual attributes...

The largest two, leaning against each other...I will create a lair there.

[Diamond Master]

At first their seems to be no pattern at all within the slabs of diamond. Then you come to realize that, as more and more walls rise up, that the signs point to about a dozen or so distinct Facets poking through: a swampy region, a region filled with lava, etc.

The walls are very much an impedance to exploration, and more slide in violently every day.

There is a sharp crack, and the Diamond splits a bit. More sepia tendrils rise up.

@Yerkan of Elish and @Great Thrash fall into a deep chasm, with lava and some sort of boiling, bloodlike plasma at the bottom.

Feel free to describe what happens then.

[Yerkan of Elish]

"Well the lava certainly seems right up Thrash's alley, and the plasma is more like me." I turn into a pool of quicksilver and begin drifting down the plasma. I'll test it with the Loupe Estoc first to see if there's anything interesting/organic about it, first. Then, I'm hoping just to see where it leads.

"I'll give you a holler, Thrash, if I need you to earthquake me back up to the surface in a jiffy."

[Diamond Master]

The plasma becomes tainted with sepia curls.

As you flow deeper into the heart of the crevasse, you begin to feel a tingling, a burning that has nothing to do with the heat of the molten minerals.

Trace amounts of magic are disintegrated from your outer being by the sepia swirls.

More quaking shifts the side walls even further apart.

Above, you see the bole of the Hypercone Tree that runs along the entire Diamond give a single short quiver. A tiny crack appears in the adamas at its base.

[Steepest Durin]

Sepia is mentioned in th' description of th' Abrominae. I just checked.

If that's what's goin' on, we're in over our heads, even I.

Th' Abrominae is like a rogue Unblemished. It consumes magic, especially between th' Facets. It's th' reason I don't send streams of powerful Artifacts ta I's followers. It's some sort of snake or worm, I think, though it probably doesn't have much of a physical form.

[Yerkan of Elish]

"Worrying. I don't particularly want to go up against that, and I'm sure our more heavily magic-oriented allies most certainly will not. All of us are threatened by such a thing. Though perhaps Ravana is as well.

"Mostly I would rather just know if we're up against the Abrominae rather than wait in the darkness like a seed that could be either burnt in a fire or grow strong in the sun (depending on the type of seed). Of course, I'd rather it not get the scent of my ether..."

[Great Thrash]

We can't fight that!

We could perhaps avoid it. Plug the cracks? Seal the breaches with mundaneity?

[Yerkan of Elish]

"What does the Abrominae think of adamas? I am sure it can chew right through it somehow, but does it find adamas attractive or tasty? If adamas counts as mundane to it, that's a good thing to seal the cracks with.

"Though it'd help to have someone on our team who can break adamas into smaller chunks..."

[Diamond Master]

The Abrominae can travel between or through adamas.

It's also been shown capable of breaking it.

Adamas is relatively neutral to the Abrominae.