A blessed homefront

[Ebiris]

"Alyssa hasn't yet encountered the Guardian," she says aloud. "But she has a few leads on Acheron she's working on, so one of them must have caught its interest. We'll see what happens when they meet, but for now... back to the Shadow Twelve?"

[Anastasia]

"Yes, where were we?" Ebony asks as you all settle in.

[Ebiris]

"Asani may have been involved with Grumbar for whatever reason, and Ryn is a non-factor," Alicia repeats what they have for the two so far discussed. "Anything on any others, Marchalu?"

[Anastasia]

"The Empty Gale is the last. Whispers of her near Cryonax over on Ice," Marchalu says, "Nothing solid, but it's been from a few sources so there's probably something to it."

[Ebiris]

"Zylvelyn?" Marie says, seeming to have no trouble with the complicated name. "How near Cryonax? Dealing with him directly or just being on Ice in his area of influence?"

[Anastasia]

"In his area of influence," Marchalu answers after a check, "She's up to something or another."

[Ebiris]

"Well, lets hope she hasn't moved on," Alicia leans forward over the table. "What details do we have?"

[Anastasia]

"Killing, fighting, searching for something," Succinct, "Last seen at Blizzardwatch, a little fortress Cryonax tolerates. I heard Blizzardwatch has a much lower population now."

[Ebiris]

"So we can start with Blizzardwatch, see if we can get any clues as to what she was searching for, and use that to try and predict where she's going next," Marie speaks up. "I could go for it."

[Anastasia]

"You should have company," Antenora says immediately, "It's been a little time since we've worked together, love."

"Meanwhile there's other concerns," Latha says, "What of the rest, Alicia?"

[Ebiris]

"I hope you're good at disguising yourself then," Marie says to Antenora. "We'll need good ones!"

"It sounded like Marchalu didn't have enough information on any of the others," Alicia says in response to Latha. "So unless anyone's had any sudden further ideas on how to find or lure out those other deities, we're going forward with this approach. See if Marie and Antenora can bait one into helping Zylvelyn, and if not at least we can capture a proxy."

[Anastasia]

"That's the idea," Syala says, "Hopefully Jessica and Colke come together with something soon, too."

[Ebiris]

She'd hoped they might do better by putting their heads together, but it's not as if it's an easy problem. "In that case thank you everyone for your input. We'll leave Marie and Antenora to prepare for their excursion and see what our efforts turn up," Alicia says, rising.

[Anastasia]

Okay, any prep for Marie's trip out?

[Ebiris]

Just realised Marie doesn't have veil. Technically it's alter reality-able but she's better off actually casting it so I've swapped ray of light (which she's never used) out for it.

Anyway, Marie will use CL 43 veil to disguise herself and Antenora, disguise check of +120 with divine insight/greater heroism used. Because of undeniable illusion anyone trying to beat it with true seeing/blindsight/etc will have to either win a rank check or win a sense motive check vs Marie's bluff of +101 (with greater heroism up).

In particular Marie will disguise herself as a half white dragon male human, and Anty as a marid female.

Alicia will give both of them nondetection (DC 55 to overcome) and energy immunity (cold) at CL 40.