Crossed swords

[Corwin]

18:51 <Corwin> roll 1d20+37+6
18:51 <Penuche2> Corwin invokes Penuche's magic: < 51 > [d20=8]

[Anastasia]

The spell fails. One of the nice things about divination is that when it fails, it lets you know. In this case, the spell was simply blocked.

[Corwin]

"Blocked right off the bat, huh?"

Okay, so the very first spot I tried got blocked. Since I tried to use divine will (Miracle + Alter Reality) to make the spell work with anathemic knowledge, do I take from this that my power was insufficient? Or that my approach can't work without specific spells, similarly to temporal spells?

[Anastasia]

Your arcane knowledge suggests that the spell was blocked, and you'd know it's not something feeble and almost certainly not a mortal.

In other words you're facing serious opposition here. It's plausible another deity's involved or a planar lord of some kind.

[Corwin]

Letting the others try their own ideas for now, Seira takes a breather to contact Waukeen.

I'm on the Positive, and my divination got blocked, she tells the older goddess. It felt quit beyond mortal strength, but I didn't experience the usual tug of war with another deity. Do you know who or what that might be?

[Anastasia]

I'm afraid not, Seira. There's precious little mercantile interests in the Positive Energy Plane.

[Corwin]

"Hey, Jetina, do you know who could be here to outright block my spells? I know I'm after the artifact to make them stronger, but they're pretty hard to beat already and I didn't sense an actual deity doing it."

[Nephrite]

Since it seems like normal methods aren't working, Moore decides to try something himself!

He closes his eyes and steels his will to send it directly to the plane itself!

I speak to the will of the Positive Energy Plane. My name is Moore, I request your aid.

He's trying to see if he can get some sort of reaction, like he did with Arcadia.

[12:53] <Nephrite> roll 1d20+18+18+16 Charisma
[12:53] <Penuche2> Nephrite invokes Penuche's magic: < 71 > [d20=19]

[Anastasia]

"Well, maybe the Watcher himself?" Jetina ventures, "If he's that powerful a healer, his magic may be greatly powerful."

"Maybe," Elle sounds dubious, "It still sounds like a reach."

Meanwhile, Moore sends a message and gets no immediate response from it.

[Nephrite]

That did happen last time too, until it worked. He sends his will out again.

We seek the Shining Watcher. You know our intent - this is your plane, after all - and we will do it no harm. Please, show us the way to it.

[13:12] <Nephrite> roll 1d20+18+18+16 Charisma
[13:12] <Penuche2> Nephrite invokes Penuche's magic: < 54 > [d20=2]

[Anastasia]

No reply again.

[Corwin]

"Let's fly around at random and see if anyone's heard about a tarrasque? Or bouts of mysterious healing?" Seira proposes. "Its existence might be anathemic, but any aftereffects might not be covered."

[Nephrite]

"All right. I'll keep trying my other method." He says as he continues to try to be heard! Or at least responded to.

Please, show us the way. You know us to be allies of what you represent.

[13:36] <Nephrite> roll 1d20+18+18+16 Charisma
[13:36] <Penuche2> Nephrite invokes Penuche's magic: < 68 > [d20=16]

[Anastasia]

Still nothing for Moore at all.

"It's at least something," Donald finally says, "Beats floating here. "

"Anything?" Jetina asks Moore in the meantime.

[Nephrite]

"Nothing immediate, but... let's try Seira's idea. I have... a hunch." Moore says.