Crossed swords

[Corwin]

"It's pretty much meant to be a spell for deities, given it relies on a deity for casting it," Seira voices. "I think we can actually try the basic concept by altering a preexisting spell. Moore, how about you try Lay of the Land and I'll work from Find the Path? Elle, got a spell of your own to try altering on the fly with divine power?"

[Nephrite]

"Sure." Moore says as ge invokes some divine power!

Using Wish for a powered up Lay of the Land that should function with some place like the Positive Energy Plane, as well as extending the range. Default level is Bard 4/Druid 4, so I imagine the range can be decently amplified.

[Corwin]

With a grin, Seira tries to alter a Find the Path spell she's casting via her divine power, the target being the area where divinations would stop being reliable.

Swift action to cast the original spell, swift action for Miracle, standard for divine will to see if it'll work.

[Anastasia]

I need CL checks for all of those.

[Nephrite]

[15:23] <Nephrite> roll 1d20+37
[15:23] <Penuche2> Nephrite invokes Penuche's magic: < 46 > [d20=9]

[Corwin]

22:23 <Corwin> roll 1d20+37+6
22:23 <Penuche2> Corwin invokes Penuche's magic: < 58 > [d20=15]

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d100 since it is a random hunk of the Positive
<Penuche2> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 30 > [d100=30]

Moore finds that he gets...not much, as it's simply a random hunk of the Positive Energy Plane. There's simply very little to learn here, unless endless life energy and light are your interests. In that case, boy did you come to the right place. You cover quite a distance, but the Positive Energy Plane isn't known for lots of landmarks or anything of note beyond its main features.

Seira's spell doesn't return any useful results.

Okay, normally I'd be more opaque here, but I feel this is a situation where some DM clarification would be helpful. Something that blocks or stops divinations does exactly that. I don't feel it's a good RAW or RAI ruling to let wordplay get around this. If it's blocked, it doesn't suddenly fail when you approach it from a different angle with the same tools. The target is still something that blocks divinations, and as such, it still fails.

Points for being intelligent though, that was a clever usage.

It's also entirely possible something interfered or simply resisted your spell altogether, or that it may work differently with a more specific location rather than a general one. You're basically back of the envelope sketching out ideas here with magic modifications.

[Nephrite]

"I don't see anything in this particular area that jumps out at me as being hidden, or anything that raises any real eyebrows, for whatever that's worth." Moore says.

[Anastasia]

"We are in the middle of nowhere," Jetina concurs.

"Yeaaah," Donald looks around, "The equivalent of the pimply ass of the countryside. The sort where two cows is worth a wedding and three's a fortune. There's nothing here."

"I attended a wedding like that one. The dowry grazed while they had the ceremony," Elle smiles, "That was a long time ago, before magic fully returned to Balmuria."

"Really? What was it like?" Ranbar asks at that, only a bare glance at the light around all of you. "What faith was it?"

"If anything, it was closest to something from the House of Nature, but the beliefs were thin out there. Mostly a blend from various traveling minor priests and a rare cleric. Back then clerics were scarce on the ground." Elle's smile grows a little bit, "Where a simple cantrip could awe an entire village. These days there, most every village has a hedge mage and clerics of all kinds spread blessings and the faith. Ah, Alicia and I get going on about that sometimes, when third circle magic was a great achievement and our works were thought of as mighty."

[Nephrite]

"It... does feel like a lifetime ago that all that happened." Moore says, but then he blinks and looks off to the side.

"Hm, do we have a way to narrow it down any?" Moore asks. "I wonder if..." He looks off to the side. "It worked on Arcadia, maybe that would work here too... Um, if we can't find anything through traditional means, or even non-traditional by bending the rules, I may have an idea. For right now, let's try magic and see what we come up with."

[Corwin]

"If your idea is pulling a Shar and merging with the Positive, let's not!" Seira says brightly, creating a visual representation of the plane and then trying the same approach, except with the most basic divination spell she can think of.

I'm creating a nonmagical map/globe/whatever works for the Positive Energy Plane. First, I'll establish a small section that corresponds with our location and use Divination (the spell) on it to see if it goes through. I'll repeat it a few times to account for the random 10% failure chance, unless I can brush that aside as a deity. If if works, I'll block divinations in it and then try again, to confirm that my Divination (the spell) is blocked.

If that works, I'll get the entire map and divide it into halves. We could work our way down them to halve the suspected area more and more to narrow down the destination.

[Anastasia]

Okay, so divination provides a simple bit of advice on a particular goal when you ask it. How are you using it relative to that for the globe? Are you asking something in particular?

[Corwin]

'Can I find Shining Watcher here if I teleport over now and search around?' whereas 'here' refers to the relevant map section.

[Nephrite]

"It's nothing so dramatic as that, no." Moore says with a smile as he watches to see if anything comes of this.

[Anastasia]

CL on divination, at least for the first one, Seira.