Shake the dust off your feet

[Anastasia]

Jessica listens to that, smiles. "Could you go for a name with a little more..." She makes noises like clacks instead of clicks, and with a bit more of the tearful cries mixed with lamentations of pain. "Something with a little more panache, because demons are rarely subtle about their names or achievements."

[Ebiris]

"It's your name," Marie says without rancor. "Anyway, lets get our avatars prepared and send them off? We can ask Alicia to cast nondetection on them, hers are the best."

Alicia using divine familiar bullshit to give both of us:

Nondetection (CL 41), DC 56
Many Moments of Prescience (CL 38)

She'll also throw in:

Energy Immunity (Acid) (CL 39)
Energy Immunity (Fire) (CL 39)
Energy Immunity (Electricity) (CL 39)

Marie will use CL 44 veil to disguise herself and Jessica, disguise check of +116 with divine insight/greater heroism used. Because of undeniable illusion anyone trying to beat it with true seeing/blindsight/etc will have to either win a rank check or win a sense motive check vs Marie's bluff of +101 (with greater heroism up).

She'll also offer:

Epic Mage Armour (CL 39), +22 armour to AC

We'll both alter reality ourselves a minimum of:

Neutralise Poison (CL 38), immunity to poison
Life's Grace (CL 38), immunity to disease, death effects, negative energy
Greater Heroism (CL 38), +4 morale attack/skills/saves, immunity to fear, +20 temp hp.

Recap on the avatar maluses:

-1 to all rolls
-1 to all stats, all odd except con so -38 hp, -1 fort save
-1 domain SLA DC
-1 natural armour
-1 divine armour
Lose immunity to fire and sonic energy, lose immunities to disease, poison, stunning, sleep, paralysis, death effects and disintegration

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Marie HP: 722+20/722
Active spells: Many moments of prescience (CL 38), bibliotheca arcana (CL 38), extended nondetection (CL 41), greater heroism (CL 38), epic mage armour (CL 38), sensual blessing (CL 38), veil (CL 44), divine insight (CL 38), energy immunity (electricity) (CL 39), energy immunity (fire) (CL 39), energy immunity (acid) (CL 39), neutralise poison (CL 38), life's grace (CL 38), duelist's friend (CL 38)
Defences: AC 82, CMD 84, spell resistance 53, energy immunity (electricity, fire, acid, negative), status immunity (petrification, polymorph, form-altering, energy drain, ability drain, ability damage, mind-affecting, disease, poison, death effects), nondetection DC 56
Stat buffs/penalties: +4 morale attack/skills/saves, +15 insight knowledge, +25 competence perception, -1 natural armour, -1 divine armour, -1 all rolls, -1 fort, -1 domain SLA DCs
Perceptions: Greater arcane sight 120ft, tremorsense/blindsight/scent 60ft, duelist's friend perception +82
Sorcerer spell slots: 6/10/10/10/9/9/8/8/8/8/7/8/6/7/4/4

[Anastasia]

Okay, how are you going to approach this/where are you going to begin?

[Ebiris]

Plane shift from Sylica to Astral, then Astral to Pazunia near the entrance to Dead Rat's Nest. We'll march right on in and then go to the city in the head and figure things out from there.

[Anastasia]

The Astral is peaceful as the two of you appear, illusions in place.

"Do you want to bother talking much outloud while we're there?" Jessica asks as you momentarily feel the cool nothingness of the Astral Plane.

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Nondetection (CL 41), DC 56
Many Moments of Prescience (CL 38)

She'll also throw in:

Energy Immunity (Acid) (CL 39)
Energy Immunity (Fire) (CL 39)
Energy Immunity (Electricity) (CL 39)

Marie will use CL 44 veil to disguise herself and Jessica, disguise check of +116 with divine insight/greater heroism used. Because of undeniable illusion anyone trying to beat it with true seeing/blindsight/etc will have to either win a rank check or win a sense motive check vs Marie's bluff of +101 (with greater heroism up).

She'll also offer:

Epic Mage Armour (CL 39), +22 armour to AC

Stats that lose modifier: str and all 3 mental stats. So -1 AC on top of it and some hits to SLAs and skills.

-1 to all rolls
-1 domain SLA DC
-1 natural armour
-1 divine armour
Lose immunity to fire and sonic energy, lose immunities to disease, poison, stunning, sleep, paralysis, death effects and disintegration

Jessica
HP: 799/799
Negative Conditions:
Aura: Telepathic Block 20ft (Stops telepathy/summons) Magic Circle Against Evil 10ft (Protection from Evil), Divine 10ft (various)
Bonuses: Attack+0, Damage+0 AC+0, Saves+0, Skills+0, Checks+0
Resources: Defensive Roll 1/1 Divine Rogue Damage Negation 2/2 (rnd) Plane Hop 1/1 Superior Invisibility 4/4 Ghost Form 4/4 Shadow Form 3/3 Retribution Domain 1/1
Spells Used:
SLAs Used:
Spells Active:
Notes: +4 bonus to people who flank with her instead of +2. Use d8s for sneak attack against evil instead of d6s.

[Ebiris]

"Just when we need to," Marie's voice is very deep and bone-rattling, appropriate for her current visage. "Unless you want to play up some kind of verbal tic?"

[Anastasia]

"No," Jessica says, "Let's go."

[Ebiris]

Another planeshift then, taking them to Pazunia in the vicinity of the entrance to Dead Rat's Nest.

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Marie HP: 722+20/722
Active spells: Many moments of prescience (CL 38), bibliotheca arcana (CL 38), extended nondetection (CL 41), greater heroism (CL 38), epic mage armour (CL 38), sensual blessing (CL 38), veil (CL 44), divine insight (CL 38), energy immunity (electricity) (CL 39), energy immunity (fire) (CL 39), energy immunity (acid) (CL 39), neutralise poison (CL 38), life's grace (CL 38), duelist's friend (CL 38)
Defences: AC 82, CMD 84, spell resistance 53, energy immunity (electricity, fire, acid, negative), status immunity (petrification, polymorph, form-altering, energy drain, ability drain, ability damage, mind-affecting, disease, poison, death effects), nondetection DC 56
Stat buffs/penalties: +4 morale attack/skills/saves, +15 insight knowledge, +25 competence perception, -1 natural armour, -1 divine armour, -1 all rolls, -1 fort, -1 domain SLA DCs
Perceptions: Greater arcane sight 120ft, tremorsense/blindsight/scent 60ft, duelist's friend perception +82
Sorcerer spell slots: 6/10/10/10/9/9/8/8/8/8/7/8/6/7/4/4

[Anastasia]

It's noisy here.

The blasted planes are rubble filled, and amid that rubble sits tents and ramshackle huts. Music plays and demons mingle with mortals. Warriors and strongmen, wizards and clerics of unspeakable things. Unholy champions. They mix with the refuse that is demon kind. From many tents various types of strange yet energetic music comes. Strings distorted, woodwinds too high and bass hollow as an empty egg.

In one hut great rows of food can be seen, mortal and demon alike gorging on food from the mundane to the rich to the horrid. All eat and all consume, no consideration for anything but that.

In another you glimpse women and men mating, or at times women and women, men and men or even stranger combinations - and stranger yet when the demons become involved.

In another you can't see, but pained screams come, from dozens of mouths and never seeming to stop due to that.

Banners of riotous color hang everywhere, symbols of blood and merriment splattered on them.

[Ebiris]

Can she see the entrance to the demiplane from here?

Take 10 for 82 on planes so she'd actually recognise said demiplane entrance.

Also she has duelist's friend up. This automatically gives her the name, race, and a DC 48 knowledge check on everyone she can see. Obviously I don't care about every random here but I'd appreciate a call out if any of them have a connection to Shar or Yarus or Plag, or else are sufficiently warded as to block the spell from telling her anything at all.

[Anastasia]

In that case, toss in Perception since it'll matter to the results.

[Ebiris]

Take 10 for 92.

[Anastasia]

It's far ahead but yes. A portal in a muddy sinkhole, tents all around it.

A few are notable here. A strutting half fiend in a nobleman's finery catches your eye. His name is Drowl, faintly fish-like features and the dead black eyes of a fish. Your knowledge tells you that he's said to be related to the Lord of the Fifth in some way, though no one's really clear how. A noted hedonist, it's said that many he enjoys himself with don't survive the experience. What makes him notable is that you recall dimly that there's speculation he does so through disease.

Another is warded against you - a 'fellow' balor, a massive thing that stomps about in armor and growls low as fire flickers around it.

A third is warded - a woman in shadows, barely glimpsed but impossible to miss with your eyes. The sort of beautiful that snares the eye, stunning and yet only glimpsed amid shadows, moving amid them with unnatural grace, only occasionally glimpsed.

[Ebiris]

No hot leads really, but she wouldn't expect to find much before they even get to the city in the rat's skull. The beautiful woman hiding in the shadows is of vague interest and so Marie will keep an eye on what she's doing as she flies above the camp with lazy flaps of her ragged balor wings. Does she look like a human or a succubus or what?

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Marie HP: 722+20/722
Active spells: Many moments of prescience (CL 38), bibliotheca arcana (CL 38), extended nondetection (CL 41), greater heroism (CL 38), epic mage armour (CL 38), sensual blessing (CL 38), veil (CL 44), divine insight (CL 38), energy immunity (electricity) (CL 39), energy immunity (fire) (CL 39), energy immunity (acid) (CL 39), neutralise poison (CL 38), life's grace (CL 38), duelist's friend (CL 38)
Defences: AC 82, CMD 84, spell resistance 53, energy immunity (electricity, fire, acid, negative), status immunity (petrification, polymorph, form-altering, energy drain, ability drain, ability damage, mind-affecting, disease, poison, death effects), nondetection DC 56
Stat buffs/penalties: +4 morale attack/skills/saves, +15 insight knowledge, +25 competence perception, -1 natural armour, -1 divine armour, -1 all rolls, -1 fort, -1 domain SLA DCs
Perceptions: Greater arcane sight 120ft, tremorsense/blindsight/scent 60ft, duelist's friend perception +82
Sorcerer spell slots: 6/10/10/10/9/9/8/8/8/8/7/8/6/7/4/4

[Anastasia]

Getting a glimpse, she looks like a woman clad in purple and red, which matches her hair of red and purple swirls.