Shake the dust off your feet

[Ebiris]

My own sense motive to see if she's doing the fake out before attacking when my guard is down!

[17:21] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+57 sense motive
[17:21] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+57 sense motive --> [ 1d20=16 ]{73}

[Anastasia]

You don't get that vibe from her at all.

[Ebiris]

Marie's balor image gives Jessica's nabassu disguise a gruff nod before trudging around towards the portal at a wide berth from Talona.

So the bit about the portal telling Talona who goes through, is that just that she knows every time it gets used, or is it a divination that tells her the name of who goes through? Would nondetection stop that part? Can they bluff/UMD it like they did to fake being followers to come through originally?

[Anastasia]

Nondetection would stop it but it would require a check against it to fail. You could try to UMD it, sure.

[Ebiris]

Step through together and bluff it like we did on the way in, she's keeping a close eye on it now.

Marie synchronises her position with the illusory balor and steps through at the same time as Jessica does.

[17:57] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+75 UMD, divine insight
[17:57] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+75 UMD, divine insight --> [ 1d20=9 ]{84}

Their nondetection is at DC 56 courtesy of Alicia.

[Anastasia]

Noted.

You step right on through. You come across the other side without any sign of trouble, back amid the tents around the portal area.

[Ebiris]

The unseen Marie promptly takes hold of Jessica's hand and plane shifts them to the astral plane!

[Anastasia]

You made it. You escape to the Astral Plane, both avatars free. Whew.

[Ebiris]

Another plane shift from here takes them back to Sylica before Marie ends the veil and becomes visible. Looks like they're up on the Opal Mountain somewhere.

"Well she might not know it but I think we won that competition. Now, what are we to do with all of these exotic diseases?" she muses aloud, magically cleansing her and Jessica of all their stains and smells accumulated on a trip to such an unpleasant locale. "Fancy a trip to Celestia?"

[Anastasia]

"That's an interesting place to take them," Jessica deadpans before she takes a deep breath, "Mertion?"

[Ebiris]

Marie shakes her head. "Hope's Landing. I haven't actually met Jetina but she's a goddess of healing isn't she? This could be a good opportunity for her to study and overcome the competition."

[Anastasia]

"That's a good thought," Jessica says, "Shall we go?"

[Ebiris]

"Lets tag in our real selves since we shouldn't travel openly with avatars," Marie says.

At that the real Marie appears, presumably with Jessica in tow, and avatar Marie hands over the bag containing all of those virulent diseases. "Lets go!"

Thus the real Marie and Jessica will plane shift over to Lunia while their avatars go back into hiding.

[Anastasia]

Hope's Landing is bright. Ever so bright as you approach the inner fortress. It has expanded, grown further under Moore's guidance. You are escorted in, to be met at the gates by a...lantern archon?

"Hello there!" Grias calls, "You're here to see Jetina?"

[Ebiris]

Marie was very recently a coure so of course she feels camaraderie with those on the bottom rung of the celestial ladder! "That's right, we have a present for her," she says, none of the formalities of a deity coming to call given the short notice here.