Victorious advance

[Anastasia]

Then good hunting and be well. I look forward to hearing your stories of this, Marie.  All of your tawdry, chaotic stories.

[Ebiris]

Marie prays that she hopes her journey will be worth some good stories!

[Anastasia]

Done and done. You head to Elandra's Rest and...

Refresh me on the standard procedure you pasted yesterday?

[Ebiris]

Step 1: Gather information about the best rich people taverns and hangouts. She uses the epic 'rouse suspicion' ability to be pretty obvious about this, giving her a +20 bonus to her check. She takes 10 for 81.
Step 1a: Gather information about Sharran activity concurrently with the previous action. She uses the epic 'avoid suspicion' ability to fly completely under the radar while doing this, taking a -20 penalty to her check. She takes 10 for 41.
Step 2: Spend several evenings performing at places highlighted to her in step 1. She sings and dances while intentionally limiting her abilities - she could hit DC 61 by taking 10 but she'll aim to hit DC 25 for a memorable performance.
Step 2a: Gather information about Sharran activity while performing at these places. Again she'll take a -20 penalty to her check to avoid rousing suspicion, but she'll also get Alicia to buff her with heroism for 5 hours ahead of each evening, letting her hit DC 45.
Step 3: Explore town during mornings after performances looking for any evidence of Sharran activity - symbols, omens, superstitions. She'll take 10 for 58 on perception and 10 for 58 on knowledge: religion as far as spotting physical signs, and 10 for 58 on sense motive for spotting suspicious people.
Step 4: Move to next town either by using Seira's teleport network (preferred if available), or joining up with a caravan. If none are available she'll gather information to find reliable adventurers/bodyguards and take 10 for 58 and hire said guards with a portion of her proceeds from performing to escort her to the next town.

[Anastasia]

Give me a Will save.

[Ebiris]

[19:24] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+51 Marie has nondetection (DC 48) and mind blank up as a matter of course
[19:24] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+51 Marie has nondetection (DC 48) and mind blank up as a matter of course --> [ 1d20=17 ]{68}

[Anastasia]

You begin to listen around. One evening you have a drink after a song, as...

"Sharrans?" You hear a voice whisper, your supernaturally potent hearing letting you pick it up.

[Ebiris]

Marie looks to see who's talking and listens in while enjoying a relaxing drink between sets!

[Anastasia]

Glancing back, you see an elf in the corner murmuring to someone, hidden by angles and the elf's body.

[Ebiris]

She moves a little bit along the bar, a murmured, "Excuse me," as she navigates around another couple of elves to grab a bar towel which she uses to wipe the bottom of her glass as if it had a spill or overflow. That also gives her a better vantage to see the elf in question's conversational partner while she eavesdrops on them.

[Anastasia]

The figure there is a human. A human man, fairly unremarkable - plain, boring, bland features. Brown hair, utterly unremarkable. He nods slightly to the elf and says, "Sharrans. It'll be time soon."

[Ebiris]

Marie keeps right on listening!

Actually she also reads their minds, may as well put a bit more effort in.

Detect thoughts SLA on elf, 3 rounds for it to go anywhere. DC 27 will.

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+4 elf
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 6 > [d20=2]
> roll 1d20+14 human
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 28 > [d20=14]

The elf has thoughts and is moderately intelligent. (Int 13.)

"Soon," The elf seconds, nodding slightly. "Tonight?"

"Tomorrow," the human says.

[Ebiris]

What's happening tomorrow? It should be running through his surface thoughts while they talk about it!

[Anastasia]

He thinks of a house: Seldyn Manor. Of storming it, of seeing it burn to the ground.