Victorious advance

[Anastasia]

"So many oppose you out of foolishness," Dragodan goes on, then shakes his head and goes silent. He watches the snowflakes for a time before, "Shadow," a new voice calls, "It's ready."

Dragodan turns and heads downstairs, not a word said.

[Ebiris]

Is that the elf who's been catering to Dragodan or someone else?

Either way, Marie follows so long as she doesn't end up in a desecrated area.

[Anastasia]

Someone else - a female elf, clad in a servant's clothes. Dragodan heads right back into the desecrated area and back downstairs without further comment. The elf goes with him.

[Ebiris]

Marie reads the elf girl's thoughts from up until she collects Dragodan to when she goes down the stairs.

DC 27 will on detect thoughts.

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+1
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 12 > [d20=11]

She's thinking that the ritual is ready and that she hopes Father's prepared.

[Ebiris]

Marie monitors her thoughts all the way until she passes beyond range in case she thinks of any particulars about this ritual and what father has to be prepared for.

Then it's just a case of eavesdropping from a distance!

[17:00] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+48 perception
[17:00] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 57 > [d20=9]

[Anastasia]

Soon enough...

"Are you ready?" Dragodan asks.

"I am ready to die," The elf replies.

"Then you shall rise as a true servant of Shar," Dragodan intones, "You shall reave all Creation towards the final moment and eternal oblivion."

[Ebiris]

Well, it's pretty much self inflicted and you could easily say they deserve what they get, but what kind of eladrin would she be to stand by and let someone be ritually sacrificed and turned into an undead monster no matter how much they happen to be into it?

Popping out of her tiny incorporeal ball form into her substantial elfin one, albeit still invisible, her voice may then be heard by those downstairs with ears sharp enough to match her own as she calls on Mystra to strip the blessings of the weave from all around her.

Antimagic zone cast, 330 foot radius centred on Marie herself. As she has DvR 0 she's unaffected.

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Marie: 627/627
Active spells: Extended superior resistance (CL 33), extended mind blank (CL 33), extended nondetection (CL 33), epic mage armour (CL 33), greater invisibility (CL  33), extended antimagic zone (CL 33)
Defences: AC 83 (touch 36, vs incorporeal 56), CMD 79, spell resistance 46, energy immunity (electricity), energy resistance 10 (acid, cold), status immunity (petrification, polymorph, form-altering, energy drain, ability drain, ability damage, mind-affecting) protective aura, nondetection (DC 48), invisible
Stat buffs/penalties:
Perceptions: Darkvision 60, blessed sight 120, see invisibility, perception +48
Sorcerer spell slots: 6/10/10/10/8/9/8/9/7/8/8/7/7/4
Limited SLAs available: heal, meteor swarm, time stop

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+68
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 72 > [d20=4]

"Treachery," Dragodan's voice is heard even as you enspell the Weave, to block it out and bring mundane reality back.

[Ebiris]

Not having to fear the desecrated area telling Shar of her presence now, Marie flies down the stairs to see their evil ritual chamber for herself and start laying down the law!

Antenora would be so proud of her.

Also she blocks the stairs behind her with a wall of force.

SLA used.

[Anastasia]

Thus you block the stairs and race down.  Below is a chamber with several elves, including the elf you have watched for several hours. He kneels before an altar to Shar. All the room is mundane - save for Dragodan, an onyx decorated sword sword in his hand. He is before the kneeling elf and turns, a haze of purple around him. His entire body is tinted black, color gone from it.

"Who challenges me?" Dragodan says, "For I am of the shadows." He pushes his hood back. His face is pockmarked, perhaps handsome beneath it all. His blade shifts before your eyes, becoming a serrated longsword.

[Ebiris]

Can I tell if he has divine rank or is doing something worse like using some sort of evil shadowy substitute for the weave?

[Anastasia]

K:P.

[Ebiris]

[18:26] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+48 planes
[18:26] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 49 > [d20=1]

[Anastasia]

It is his own power. You believe Dragodan is a proxy of Shar, just as you are a proxy of Alicia.