Tryll's Paragon Quest (Tryll)

[Anastasia]

Commune and Contact Other Plane come to mind. There may be a few more potent ones as well, feel free to check a few splatbooks for high level divinations.

[Yuthirin]

We'll cast: Commune, Contact Other Plane, Commune With Greater Spirit, Divination, Legend Lore, Path of the Exalted, and Spiritual Advisor. Barring that, we're gonna go find Lathander again.

[Anastasia]

We'll start with Commune. Who is casting it?

[Yuthirin]

Vul'lath!

[Anastasia]

Okay, formulate the questions you want him to ask. You get as many as his caster level, which is 25th for divinations.

Also note the XP cost, which is converted to a GP cost.

[Yuthirin]

1. In utilizing the ritual, would Tryll be forced into another body?
2. If so, would he lose access to the benefits that his current body provides?

I'd like to add additional questions as the responses arrive, if possible.

[Anastasia]

Unfortunately, the spell text prohibits that. So gimme a list of questions instead, it's built so you can't really sit back and discuss the answers.

[Yuthirin]

We'll stick with those two, then., I can't think of any others right now. Can always recast.

[Anastasia]

Post the expense in loot for subbing the XP component. That's 1000 gold if you haven't already. If you have, ignore this.

Also Vul'lath mimics Commune with wish. Being an archmage is nice.

Vul'lath kneels and bows his head, silent magic flowing from him. The air hums with spellwork, as hundreds of voices are heard at once, then they solidify as one. For one terrifying moment you are in the presence of Other, of something beyond you. Something beyond you as you are beyond mortals.

"It is done," Vul'lath announces. "The answers are no and irrelevant. The second because the first negated it, I believe."

[Yuthirin]

'Well that's a relief.' Tryll replies, 'The irrigo had a natural inclination toward psionics and pursuits of the mind, and I would hate to lose that.'

[Anastasia]

"Quite," Vul'lath murmurs, "Which spell is next?"

[Yuthirin]

'It occurs to me that the question posed was very narrow. Instead, what if I am given a choice? Convert to something else and become that paragon, or perhaps worse, regain my original body, or else the ritual simply fails?' Tryll muses, 'Let's see if we can't get an answer there with a spell of Contact Other Plane? Can you cast that?'

[Anastasia]

"I can, but what plane and manner of entity do you wish to contact, if you choose an outer plane?" Sage Vul'lath says, "The risk grows as you accost more powerful deities, and I have no desire to be reduced to a simpleton for weeks on end."

[Yuthirin]

'Drat, you being reduced to a drooling idiot doesn't help anyone. I hadn't thought of that. I'm not used to this, contacting other gods and potentially being punished for it. What would you suggest?'

[Anastasia]

"Content yourself with contacting a lesser deity and understand there is a risk of the information being unknown or mistruth being told, depending," Sage Vul'lath says. "Treat it as useful information to be collated and confirmed, rather than unquestioned gospel."