Where hope dies (Afina, Surarruthru, Calleigh)

[Ebiris]

'It's a statement of intent,' Afina explains away the presence of the walls. Unfortunately she can't discern any unseen protections without a spell, and that requires speaking. But that doesn't hinder several others in the party. 'Someone check for spells guarding the area?' she asks.

[Anastasia]

A silent detect magic or the like sounds like Surraruthru's gig since he has silent spell. Unless you have another suggestion?

[Ebiris]

Tryll can manifest detect psionics and I think Calleigh gets DM as an SLA. There's lots of choices!

[Iron Dragoon]

'I'll do it! I know the perfect spell!'

Surraruthru focuses and casts Greater Arcane Sight on himself!

Silent Spell, uses 8th circle slot: Greater Arcane Sight: CL 26, DC 28, Duration 26 Minutes. Automatically know which spells or magical effects are active upon any individual or object you see.

[Yuthirin]

Iddy's sounds better than mine. Let's go with that.

[Anastasia]

Woah.

Surraruthru can tell there's some serious defenses ahead. First of all, the wall's enchanted and has a wall of force in the middle, effectively making the stone decoration and camouflage. Secondly, coming any closer than the wall gets your targeted by a spell that scans you and identifies your type and alignment to whomever controls the spell. Third, the entire grounds are unhallowed with a freedom of movement effect.

The first you can't do much about, though the wall of force could be brought down (temporarily) with a disintegrate. The second could be fooled by someone with the right way of finessing these things (Use Magic Device check), mind blank will also protect a creature. Can't do much about the third other than being aware of it.

There's also magic around you. The entire city you can see is enchanted to stop teleportation of any type. It's dimensional lock, but the spell has a special modification. There's a strange thing here - a demiplane that connects to Hopelorn. It's a simulation of the Shadow Plane and allows you to use shadow walk to travel outside (but not into buildings). However, doing so either requires some sort of token or a successful Spellcraft check of great difficulty.

Oh, and all the ambient magic makes undead stronger. It's less a real spell and more of a side effect of the area's energy. Positive energy will slide right off the undead here.

[Iron Dragoon]

Surraruthru relates all of this to the others.

'Wand should be able to take care of the Disintegrate part. If I can get a few minutes to cast, I can use Screen to camouflage the hole we leave.. I can't really help with the scanning spell, except for using Mind Blank. I can cast that on everyone, but it'll cut my most powerful spells down by a lot. Anyone else have ideas?'

[Yuthirin]

'I can fool magic!' Calleigh says. 'We're real good at it!'

[Ebiris]

'We'll need those mind blanks to maintain surprise, Surraruthru,' Afina asks since he's offering. A pity pure stealth isn't enough against that kind of magic. 'Once the silence spell expires and there's a gap in the flesh golem patrols, I'll speed myself up enough to disintegrate the wall and replace it with an illusion before anyone can see the change, then we'll pass through and see what's on the other side. Might do the same with the building wall itself although someone else will need to put up the illusion after that. Then we'll be inside and can play things from there.'

[Iron Dragoon]

'I can make an Illusion that'll cover the wall and a path to the tower. It'll compensate for sound, too, which should let us drop the silence and cast spells we need to ready.'

Note: The spell I'm referencing is Screen, the description of which states that it covers sounds as expected and gives an example of covering the sounds of a crowd of people with birds chirping. I'm making the assumption that this will cover the sounds of our casting chants to whatever is expected once the globe of silence is dropped, which would be silence or just random natural sounds for the city. If that's not the case, then we won't be able to drop it; if it is the case, then I can cast Mind Blank on everyone without spending 9th level slots for it, which I have precious few of.

[Anastasia]

Once screen is up, yes. Do note the casting time is 10 minutes, so you'll be at it for a little bit.

[Yuthirin]

I can Mind Blank myself and Calleigh.

[Anastasia]

Tannin has an item of mind blank, though Sylvie and the Master could use it.

[Iron Dragoon]

Okay, that'll save me some slots. Question now is if we want to go with Screen for the scry blocking and spend the 10 minutes or go with something else. Also, I just noticed I have Zone of Silence, so we can now save Yuth's wand charges.

[Anastasia]

We seem to have a fairly coherent plan now, so someone lay it out and get it moving.