After the words

[Anastasia]

You could try them if you wanted, sure.

[Iron Dragoon]

Yup, let's try. Defenses and stuff in place and Emily on standby to help if there's another curse or the like.

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+28
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 45 > [d20=17]
> roll 1d20+23
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 28 > [d20=5]

No dice on it, they resisted.

No good - the will of the targets is too strong, at least today. Tomorrow may be better.

[Iron Dragoon]

"Hm... Let's try a few more times, but let's also send Bastian and our new dwarf friend to Ash to do some searching."

[Anastasia]

Going to try on a few days straight then?

[Iron Dragoon]

yeah.

[Anastasia]

Give me a number of days you'll try until stopping so I can batch roll the saves.

[Iron Dragoon]

Let's try 5.

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+28 day 1
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 41 > [d20=13]
> roll 1d20+23 day 1
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 33 > [d20=10]
> roll 1d20+28 day 2
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 35 > [d20=7]
> roll 1d20+25 day 2 (+2 ???)
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 42 > [d20=17]
> roll 1d20+28 day 3
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 44 > [d20=16]
> roll 1d20+23 day 3
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 31 > [d20=8]
> roll 1d20+28 day 4
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 32 > [d20=4]
> roll 1d20+23 day 4
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 42 > [d20=19]
> roll 1d20+28 day 5
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 47 > [d20=19]
> roll 1d20+23 day 5
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 40 > [d20=17]

No luck. You either need more powerful magic, something to form a connection or they're simply dreadfully willful.

[Iron Dragoon]

"Well, I think Shar is protecting them. I suppose we're stuck with whatever Bastian comes up with."

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+43 Bastian (+2 being aided)
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 45 > [d20=2]

Bastian returns in the fullness of time. "Good news or bad news?" he asks, going to take a seat in your office.

[Iron Dragoon]

"Bad. Strong protection against from divination."

[Anastasia]

"I mean what I got," Bastian says, "But hardly surprising. No one wants to be scried and wake up with a sword on their throat."

[Iron Dragoon]

"Bad. Let's get it over with."

[Anastasia]

"The Sharrans are either thinner there than we thought, or are being extra careful," Bastian says, "The good news is that I found a few leads anyway."