Victorious advance

[Anastasia]

Seldyn Manor is a pleasant elven manor. Beautifully built amid the pine trees, it stands beautiful and remote. The woodwork is remarkable, polished a deep, nutty brown and rich even in the cloak of night. No lights are on here -  just quiet silence, as nights tend to be.

[Ebiris]

Marie has a fly around the exterior, invisible but attentive.

Take 10 for 58 on perception, she has see invis, blessed sight, and greater arcane sight up (take 10 for 58 on any relevant spellcraft checks).

[Anastasia]

The outsdie's pretty normal - albeit any doors and windows in are warded with alarm spells. You also notice the windows are set just so - there's no gaps in the vision overall, no places near the building that you can't be seen until you reach the trees.

[Ebiris]

Good thing Marie's invisible! After her perimeter check she flies away and teleports herself to Honey Belle's inn room, where she can strip off all her clothes and leave them safe. Now able to go incorporeal without dropping anything, she does just that, casting sensual blessing for good measure to boost her sleuthing abilities before she teleports back in her invisible tiny incorporeal globe form. Like this she floats right through one of the windows without triggering its alarm and starts casing the interior of the manor.

[Anastasia]

The interior of the manor is quiet on a glance. First floor? Nothing interesting. Pretty and rich, but nothing that screams evil. Upper floors? About the same. There's sleeping people here - servants and those who live here both on a glance, in case you care to investigate that more.

If not for the secret passage you find in a quiet corner of the first floor, you'd think it was entirely unremarkable. A false wall or some such, n magic protecting you from going through and finding a passage to what looks to be a basement.

[Ebiris]

She has a casual look over those sleeping to see if they show up as evil to her blessed sight. Also are they humans then, or elves?

After that she checks out the secret passage, going slow to check for wards or traps that might detect even a tiny invisible incorporeal intruder.

[Anastasia]

Elves. Three of the elves radiate evil - one faint, two strong.

[Ebiris]

Good to know. Marie carries on with her infiltration!

[Anastasia]

The basement stairs lead to an unfinished basement - bare earth, a chamber pitch dark. You can see it, feel it - desecrated grounds.

Here is nothing but a cavern and darkness, as well as stairs leading deeper down into the ground.

[Ebiris]

Is there a way around the descrated area to get to those further stairs without passing through it?

[Anastasia]

Not really, it looks like. It covers the entire room and the stairs aren't near the walls.

[Ebiris]

The perils of being flush with divine power.

Though if not for that divine power she couldn't even be on the prime at all, so easy come easy go!

Since she doesn't need to sleep or be anywhere else, she'll go watch the trancing elves and just keep an eye on the place until something happens.

[Anastasia]

Give me a d100.

[Ebiris]

[18:38] <@Ebiris> roll 1d100
[18:38] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 32 > [d100=32]

[Anastasia]

Trancing doesn't take too much longer - one of the evil elves is the one to rise. No lights are made, no candles lit. He wears a loin cloth and heads downstairs, yawning as he does.