Glorious Home

[Nephrite]

He'll politely leave and go back home before he opens the scroll. He'll also do magic-ing on it before he opens it. (Take 10 for Spellcraft for 73)

[Anastasia]

Back in your room you find a few things. Another meal is laid out - a tossed salad with a honey glaize dressing and lots of various chopped foods mixed in. Wood is curled up on and over your bed, taking up most of it and snoozing away.

As you settle in with that and make your spellcraft...

CL check on whatever you're using to detect magic.

[Nephrite]

[blockquote]Rolled 1d20+30 : 15 + 30, total 45[/blockquote]

[Anastasia]

It's subtle and powerful, but there's a simple spell woven in. It makes it vastly easier to scry on the scroll or a person who has it in their possession.

[Nephrite]

Does he let this go? I mean, he could be a positive influence...

Is that possible? A 'good' lich? I mean, stranger things have happened...

For now, he's willing to let it go. He'll open the scroll and read it.

EDIT: He does still have mind blank up, for whatever that is worth.

[Anastasia]

It provides a detailed map, showing paths and means to find the gate, as well as various instructions on how to overcome various magical difficulties en route.

[Nephrite]

Moore nods to himself. Good, at least the guy isn't a liar.

He glances up at no one in particular. "If you'd like to work together towards a common goal, you know where to find me. I'll forgive the small amount of deception as an act of good faith towards that." He says as he puts the scroll away in his bags.

He'll save that adventure for the next day.

[Anastasia]

Okay, anything else to do today IC?

[Nephrite]

Nah, he can visit the Authority of Golden Dragons another day.

[Anastasia]

The next morning you awaken refreshed, revitalized. Grias is in the room, breakfast on the table. "Oh, good morning," Grias calls, "Come, come, your breakfast is ready. Oh, and there's a message for you by it, it's from above," he says, "I think it's about your recent mission."

[Nephrite]

"Thank you. Hey, do lantern archons sleep?" Moore asks as he gets himself properly dressed to eat as well as read the message.

[Anastasia]

"Oh no, no need to," Grias says, "Besides, there's always something for me to do, like seeing to your home"

[Nephrite]

"Well, just make sure you take breaks when you need to." Moore says with a nod.

[Anastasia]

Grias hovers in place, "Oh, don't worry about me," Grias says, as you check the message. It reads as follows.

Moore, congratulations on your victory over Duran Emptyeye. You have made Creation a little brighter with your victory, but do not rest on your laurels. For now, you have leave to pursue general goals as you see fit. These goals are as follows.

1. Continue to research and find opportunities to oppose Shar and do so.

2. Establish useful and productive contacts with those who are not evil throughout the planes.

3. Gather useful things (magic items and curiosities primarily, but with an understanding to use your own judgment) and bring them back to your home.

4. Find other worthy warriors who are willing to take up the good fight.

5. Oppose other evils as you come across them, but do not lose sight of your main enemies. There are many wicked forces across Creation and they are all worthy to fight, but have the wisdom and clarity to remember who your primary enemy is.

6. See to your own development, be it magical, physical or spiritual; see to your the development of your companions as well.

7. Prepare yourself through deed, action and thought.

[Nephrite]

Moore shakes the paper like he's expecting a hidden message to come out of it.

Didn't they mention something about getting a reward when he was given this missive in the first place?

He shakes his head -- it isn't important right now, it'll come eventually.


For now...

He takes the scroll out and opens it, casting a quick spell to copy all the information onto a mundane piece of parchment. He then rolls up the scroll and puts it on his shelf.

Idea is to copy all the info from the spying scroll and leave it here while taking the information with him.

"Let's see here..." Moore looks at his instructions again and then nods. "All right. Grias, I'll be leaving for a small bit of time. Do me a favor, Xandra, Cresiel and I need some sort of means of communication... on Aurora, we had someone who could cast an interplanar telepathy spell, but none of us know how to do that. Can you see if you can find out if we can procure one from someone here in Celestia?"

The idea after that will just be to do the following:

Surge of Hope
Mind Blank Cube
Greater Improvisation
Righteous Halo

And then Greater Plane Shift to wherever the map shows me to go!