A blessed homefront

[Ebiris]

"Maybe not," Marie says as she saunters on in, "But I knew I was going to go far somehow! Hello Ebony."

[Anastasia]

"Marie." Ebony gets up and comes over to her, "You look well. I would have thought you'd look drained from all the etiquette lectures Antenora would give you about proper, lawful deific manners."

[Ebiris]

"She's barely more experienced than I am at this," Marie says, looking well put together and fancy in an elaborate pink ballgown.

Alicia can see the more sleek stained-glass looking outfit of her artifact that's truly worn of course.

"I've actually been learning a lot from Garl Glittergold. As well as what I've seen from Alicia and Syala and Mystra," the trickster goddess goes on.

[Anastasia]

Ebony merely smiles. "I'm happy for both you and Antenora. Especially once Antenora ascended, I feared the power imbalance and the differences in your state my make your relationship difficult."

[Ebiris]

"It's something we've had to deal with for a long time with me being a humble familiar and her a mythic icon of redemption," Marie waves it off cheerily as she goes to take a seat opposite Alicia. "We know how to make it work."

[Anastasia]

"We do," Antenora simply appears from nowhere, at Marie's side and with an arm around her. "Besides, our lives would be far less interesting without the occasional bit of scolding."

[Ebiris]

"Hopefully I won't have to scold anyone for being late anyway, everyone else should be here soon and we can begin," Alicia says on that note.

[Anastasia]

It doesn't take much longer, everyone filing in and...

This is your show so go for it.

[Ebiris]

"Good, we're all here," Alicia says once the group is assembled. "Soon we will be attacking Shar on Shadow under Mystra's direction. We know that Shar has recently elevated three servitor deities - a daemon, a gloom, and a leshay. Rather than waiting for them to appear in some capacity to disrupt our attack, I want to find them and deal with them first. Unfortunately, other than a potential strike at the Queen of Air and Darkness done under disguise to implicate me, they haven't yet revealed themselves. We need to pierce their veil of secrecy, or else lure them out somehow first."

[Anastasia]

That's all taken in as Marchalu speaks up, "What do we know about these three, Alicia?"

[Ebiris]

"The first is a leshay, who we know most about. Chylas, a wizard once of the unseelie court who hasn't been seen for millenia. A seer with insight into destiny comparable to the late Duke of Destiny, who is resistant to holy power and wields cold magic that can pierce through immunity to the element, and wields a scythe forged of dead stars," Alicia starts off. "The other two we know very little, save that one is a daemon and one is a gloom. Seira suspects the daemon to be Yarus, but that is all."

"There's not much we can do if they're just hiding in Shar's divine realm and waiting to be unveiled though, is there?" Marie asks.

"No," Alicia admits. "But I'm reasonably certain that Chylas has left - or at least his avatar has. Disguised as me, he slew one of the Queen of Air and Darkness's favoured servants under a truce. So I don't think they're idly waiting, and perhaps we can uncover the trail of their actions."

[Anastasia]

"At least that's a trick that only works once," Syala reflects on it, "It was a nasty little trick, too."

"Three of them and four total," Antenora drums her fingers on the table, "I dislike the numerology of it. Power and death."

"Her own little pantheon," Latha muses aloud, "A complement to our effectiveness, but a grave danger. Of them all, I suspect Chylas is not the most deadly. Shar is a deity of shadows, he is the distraction. I would be far more concerned about the gloom and the yugoloth."

"It's as likely that the others have different targets," Ebony disagrees, head bowed and hood pushed back. "No, I would think those two go after others. Perhaps the others of the Godsrush or perhaps against more established enemies. Chylas himself has likely moved onto another task now that the task against you and the Queen of Air and Darkness has failed."

"We have the advantage of numbers," Jessica counters, "As well as allies we can yet call on. Queen and Empress Sulia will aid us.  There are perhaps others as well. They have to stay to the shadows - and of course all three distract us from Shar's personal actions. We absolutely must destroy them, but we also must know that these three are but more tools for her rather than the truest evil we face."

[Ebiris]

"We know much of Chylas's power, and it's fearsome, but there's greater danger in the unknowns the other two present," Alicia says after that. "But it's for the very reason that they are distractions that I want to get rid of them, or at the very least expose their capabilities and measure their strength, before things escalate elsewhere. I'd rather they not be able to surprise us at a pivotal moment."

[Anastasia]

"Then we have to find them. How?" Antenora asks, right to the point.

"I'll be glad to seek," Jessica says, "But it may take time to get anything, unless they make an obvious move."

[Ebiris]

"We need ideas, that's why I brought you all here," Alicia says.

"It's hard to provoke them if they don't have faiths or followers though," Marie says. "What about this Yarus? Do we know anything about them?"

Obligatory planes checks, Alicia takes 10 for 106 with divine insight/guidance of the avatar. Marie rolls with the same spells buffing her.

[15:48] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+92
[15:48] <Rei-chan> Ebiris rolled : 1d20+92 --> [ 1d20=17 ]{109}