Towards Malana

[Anastasia]

"Come with me and I'll show you," Amaryl smiles, a certain little smile of promise, alluring and promising.

Good to move along here?

[Corwin]

Sure

[Anastasia]

Okay, I'll get you and Moore together Monday, I'm just finishing up his Q&A.

[Corwin]

Agreement

[Anastasia]

Okay, meeting time.

Soon enough Moore arrives and...

Go ahead and set up how you want to do this and if you want anyone on your side there, Seira.

Moore, note who is coming with you - one is default and that's Kaja this time if you don't select anyone else - and any prep, so we can have this all done right off and get going.

[Corwin]

Seira receives her guests in a library, arranged in the classical style and closed to the public. Their notes are gathered in a prominent spot, as are refreshments, despite it being a terrible faux pas.

[Nephrite]

Kaja and Xandra should be sufficient. We'll have hit up the Blessing Stone just in case before we left. Other than that, nothing special.

"Lady Seira, thank you for what you recently provided. I don't know if Donald had a chance to fill you in on the details, but with what you found, we only have 7 pieces left." He says, taking out his work so far.

"I did some research of my own into where to find the last seven pieces and... well, it's a bit interesting. I can't say for certainty if these sources are the only ways to find the pieces, but it's what I have as of currently."

He takes out a list, numbered for each piece of information they're missing, 1 through 7, with a name next to it and any notes he's found so far on who or what those things are.

http://www.soulriders.net/forum/index.php/topic,104359.msg1162558.html#msg1162558 For your reference.

"Ah... it's also a bit unrelated to this, but I thought you may want to know -- we ran into some sort of... well, I think it was a magma elemental of some nature named Magamia when we went to Ysgard recently, and my divinations on the subject suggest that Nasir Farhad Madani of the Efreet was primarily responsible. I don't have any further information on that yet -- I thought you'd like to know regardless."

[Corwin]

"Let's tackle that last one first," Seira muses. "I'd recommend that you confirm it and lodge a formal complaint through Celestia. I imagine that he was doing the Sultan's bidding, but calling them out so soon might force him to punish Nasir and go to ground for a while. Also, if we go the bureaucratic route here it'll be a surprise when you inevitably take that guy out while crossing paths on neutral territory."

She gestures at the gathered pieces of the ritual afterwards, smiling. "Donald passed the word, yes, but I was thinking that we might see if we couldn't figure out the rest without seeking out other sources? We've hit all the decent ones I can think of but one, which leaves the more dubious ones. I'm not sure I want to share even a portion of what we know with them if we have an alternative."

[Anastasia]

"We've made it far, without any doubt we're on the last stretch," Xandra agrees, "I do not think Madani made this as an attack on us, unless his intelligence is far superior to ours and his timing accursed. But we can't rule it out, either."

[Nephrite]

Moore nods to Xandra's words before he turns back to Seira. "I think we defeated them, but I will still go that route and let you know of what happens. I agree that I don't think we were expected to be there... and if so, then they made a terribly blunder, sending something like that at us." Moore says with a smile.

He nods afterwards. "That's fine. If nothing else, we have avenues to explore if we exhaust all possibilities here."

[Corwin]

"In that case, let's take another look together...."

To Moore alone, Seira says, Sylvie is not with Cantasa Alexandria

Let's go for a knowledge roll to see if we can figure out what the missing pieces of the puzzle might say through the rest?

[Anastasia]

Sure. Okay, give me K:P, K:A, Spellcraft and an Intelligence check. One person takes the lead and the others can support as possible. Go ahead and work all that out and decide who rolls, then roll.

[Nephrite]

It makes more sense for Seira to do it and Moore can assist her.

Seira can get +8 untyped, +8 morale, and then a +8 bonus (competence) bonus to intelligence.

So that'd be +20 on the knowledge checks and Spellcraft and then the +4 bonus to Intelligence itself. Moore doesn't have inspire intelligence, unfortunately.

For his own sake, he'd take 10 for 110 on the Knowledges and 105 on Spellcraft to aid.

[Corwin]

Okay! I'll boost my int by +4 via the Surru spell (+2 to the skill rolls), use Greater Heroism for +4 morale on the skills, use Improvisation for +17 luck on skills (+14 to the roll due to preexistince bonus), use Guidance of the Avatar for +20 competence (+5 to the roll due to preexistince bonus) and have +20 to the skills from the marshal's Int skills-boosting aura.

EDIT: From Moore's bonuses, that's +8 untyped to skills, +8 competence to Int (+4 to the skill rolls naturally, +4 to the skill rolls from marshal aura). Aside from Moore, Xandra can also assist me (+4 to skills from 2 people assisting me)

K:A and K:P for me are 90 base, Spellcraft is 76 base.

K:A becomes 90+2+4+14+5+20+8+4+4+4 = 1d20+155
K:P becomes 90+2+4+14+5+20+8+4+4+4 = 1d20+155
Spellcraft becomes 76+2+4+14+5+20+8+4+4+4 = 1d20+141

[Corwin]

[19:17] <Seira> roll 1d20
[19:17] <Penuche> Seira invokes Penuche's magic: < 4 > [d20=4]
[19:17] <Seira> roll 1d20
[19:17] <Penuche> Seira invokes Penuche's magic: < 19 > [d20=19]
[19:17] <Seira> roll 1d20
[19:17] <Penuche> Seira invokes Penuche's magic: < 16 > [d20=16]

EDIT: My bad, Moore's +8 morale to skills adds +4 more to me (Greater Heroism was only +4 morale to skills)

K:A becomes 4+159=163
K:P becomes 19+159=178
Spellcraft becomes 16+145=161