Moving spheres

[Anastasia]

Predictably, the lock shatters.

[Ebiris]

Marie proceeds to open the chest and rifle through its contents!

[Anastasia]

Inside the chest of holding is the following

A sack full of platinum coins, various mintages, including ones you recognize from Arcadia, the Cauldron, Brightwater, the Mercane and dozens of others that looks like kingdoms, all with varying sized coins of the previous metal.
2 ingots of silver
A scroll (magical)
A scroll (magical)
A blue dragon's scale, carved with the dwarven rune for 'lightning'.
A book titled, 'Focused Strikes.'
A glass decanter (magical)

[Ebiris]

She has a look over the scrolls and the book for any useful information.

She doesn't bother tabulating the valuables or anything, she's not going to rob the poor dead guy after all.

[Anastasia]

It's a scroll of knock and a scroll of fireball. The decanter is a decanter of endless orange juice. How novel.

The book is a book of strategy and tactics for delivering powerful blows. Useful for a warrior well below Alicia or Antenora's level. However, you find that several pages in the back are blank. Most of those are taken up by various written bits of arithmetic. The last page has the following names written: Muld, Amegus, Bre, Johane. You note that Amegus is crossed out.

[Ebiris]

She knows who Bre is at least!

Still nothing to do with Shar, and the other names don't match with ones she heard Bre and his friends mention either.

What about that arithmatic, any meaning behind it that she can puzzle out?

[Anastasia]

Got any ranks in anything relevant?

[Ebiris]

D&D skills don't have much interest in math!

Arcana or engineering maybe?

Take 10 for 59 on either if applicable.

[Anastasia]

It's not any sort of geometry that Marie recognizes or anything arcane. Near as she can tell, it's someone doing basic math.

[Ebiris]

Oh well. She places everything back where she found it then.

"What about you?" she wonders, looking at the unfortunate corpse of.... Sandos?

Going invisible, she teleports back to Honey Belle's inn, and assuming no one disturbs her she gets dressed and takes her ring of plane shift so she can return to Sylica. Asking Alicia to make her into her familiar again, she gains the ability to use limited wish from that and proceeds to scry on Bre to see where he's ended up now.

Limited wish emulation of scrying, DC 32 will.

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+6 Will
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 22 > [d20=16]

+5 bonus for off plane for a total of 27. Still fails.

You can see it. Bre is in a tavern drinking, the bald man next to him, though no sign of Tinnal. They're both drinking, people around them doing the same. It's unremarkable enough a tavern, glimpses of humans, demi humans and odder things around.

Amid the bustle of conversation, "Fuck," Bre mutters.

"Fuck," The bald man seconds, downing his drink and waving over another. "The fuck we do now?"

[Ebiris]

A quick wardrobe change and bit of polymorphing and Marie looks like an elf wizard sort, severe looking and robed, then she turns invisible and plane shifts aiming for that tavern!

Assuming it's not in Sylica anyway.

[19:40] <@Ebiris> roll 5d100 plane shift distance off target
[19:40] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 212 > [d100=45,67,29,48,23]

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d100
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 99 > [d100=99]

At least it won't be bad.

You appear in a forest - a secluded spring. Feminine giggles are heard, and in the waters ahead, you can see various nymphs frolicking in the waters. They're stunningly gorgeous, bathing and having fun. They don't seem to notice you.

[Ebiris]

Because she's invisible not because she's beneath their notice, she hopes!

Flying up above the forest she gets a look around, takes in the air, gets a feel for the place and tries to determine what plane she's on.

Taking 10 for 59 on planes.

[Anastasia]

It's a Prime Material. You're above a vast, primeval forest. It's late afternoon here on a glance, assuming it isn't one of those weird primes.