A neverending field

[Anastasia]

'You will have a 30 minute window to do this. The pay is 15,000 gold coins.'

[Corwin]

Incidentally, what is everyone's unboosted Stealth mod?

'I will need to examine the floor plan you have, including any information about defenses,' Seira muses, unwilling to commit from the start. While she should have some background information about the locations, it's nowhere near enough to attempt a breach so she'd be going in blindly.

[Anastasia]

Amaryl is +100, Xera is +42 and Zariel is +63.

'You'll have it,' the cornugon rumbles in your mind. 'As much as is known. Not all of it is.'

[Corwin]

Seira nods slowly. 'Then we have an agreement, provisionally. Provide the information and we'll do it.'

[Anastasia]

A brush of hand on claw. A small token, cold and metal, is pressed into your hand.

'Active it somewhere private.' Is the answer.

[Corwin]

Seira stands up and leads her companions out of the bar towards a more private location. With her godly perception, finding one should be simple enough.

[Anastasia]

A quiet little alley suffices. There's the normal detection spells, but no signs of active watchers at all. There is one, but the spinagon hidden is also asleep, eyes closed.

[Corwin]

Seira peruses the information!

[Anastasia]

Avinknell Court is a court that sentences those devils who run afoul of Black Respite's laws. You know this from the papers that pop out from the metal token, which includes a floor plan and a discussion of some basic defenses. Divinations are strengthened there and abjurations (except those on prisoners) are weakened.

[Corwin]

Seira checks on the evidence the cornugon wishes her to plant next, with a focus on who is it against, and what it details.

[Anastasia]

It looks to be an anarchic ritual dagger, a copy of the Words of Pain (the unholy book of Talona) and several vials of what looks to be chaos-infused poisons.

[Corwin]

I'm having trouble understanding the mission, can you please explain it in a different way? There's a court building that needs to be infiltrated, and then this obvious chaotic frameup goes on Gastrofinnus. Who is he? Where is his office there? Do I just have the one path in/out and it's a matter of skill checks, or is it a complicated battleground where I need to prepare a good plan for this to work?

[Anastasia]

Reading further, you see. Gastrofinnus should be in his office, which is in the mid-back of it, directions included. There's a few ways you could do it - above, below, normally through or getting more exotic yet. But based on everything, you suspect you'll need to at least make a passing effort.

You'd suspect you'd need a solid plan.

[Corwin]

'My first thought is going in through the back and forcing it with Shadow Form,' Seira muses in the minds of her companions. 'The walls don't seem to be thicker than five feet, and it'd work on any force barriers, too. If I boost our sneakier aspects enough, we should be quite difficult to spot.' She pauses to glance at Xera before continuing. 'And since the rest of us are unlikely to be caught by those serving here even with luck, given proper preparation, it's fortunate that you could operate at a distance from us if need be. Should the defenses around the office itself prove more formiddable, the rest of us could infiltrate it while you hid just outside it and kept watch. Thoughts?'

[Anastasia]

'It's sound,' Amaryl agrees, 'Pending any unforeseen surprises.'

'It should work unless we are unpleasantly surprised,' Zariel agrees.