Shake the dust off your feet

[Anastasia]

Give me Spellcraft and K:A then. More answers after that.

[Ebiris]

She'll pop an improvisation here.

[17:14] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+91 spellcraft, divine insight, improvisation
[17:14] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+91 spellcraft, divine insight, improvisation --> [ 1d20=14 ]{105}
[17:14] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+76 arcana, improvisation
[17:14] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+76 arcana, improvisation --> [ 1d20=17 ]{93}

[Anastasia]

It wasn't a spell. A ripple of the demiplane's nature. You were just the unlucky sap targeted. You don't think it was intentional from the magic. Like being in the wrong place to be splashed when a lake's waters surge. No one else was affected.

[Ebiris]

That's not the kind of luck she's supposed to be a goddess of!

Can she tell if there's a pattern to this magic? A schedule it runs on, parameters it uses for its targets?

[Anastasia]

Nothing, it's truly random. It happens every 12 hours or so, but you could see how you could speed it up - just provide it more energy.

[Ebiris]

Well, hopefully they won't be here long enough for it to go again and possibly get Jessica. Onwards!

[Anastasia]

Scarlain Keep is a pitted, damaged keep. Small but tight, fenced in by iron spikes and with dark windows. Its towers twist and reach out, but no other building quite comes close enough to touch them. There's only one entry gate, and here a pair of dretch stand guard, and behind them is a strange, oozy thing in the shape of a human in armor and with a mace. Green ooze that drips down and joins the bottom, where it slowly oozes upwards to higher in the body, only to drip down from its top.

[Ebiris]

There it is. We're looking for the succubus Mymtha inside, apparently she likes the Blue Room but she might be elsewhere. Could sneak in and look for her, or put on a show to get in openly demanding her presence, depending how we want to play it. Stealth is probably safer, but trickier too.

[Anastasia]

I could go in if you want to stay outside? Stealth is my strongest suit, but you'd be better suited at a distraction or the direct approach. I favor stealth, both for my talents and the possibility that Talona could personally meddle, unlikely as it is.

[Ebiris]

It's not just getting in, it's getting the information out of Mymtha without tipping our hand. But yes, lets both sneak in, we'll find the succubus and go through her mind without anyone being the wiser. First lets find a spot to hide nearby though.

Trudging along the misbegotten streets and past the keep, they proceed to lose themselves in the alleyways to find a good out of the way spot for a balor and nalfeshnee to hang out undisturbed.

[Anastasia]

Not too hard so long as you don't mind a few corpses, anyway. It's a dark, bleak alley with a few dead humans littered about like trash. They're rotted and full of disease even now, flies all around them.

[Ebiris]

And just in case anyone's watching, Marie creates an illusory door on one of the walls along with illusory copies of herself and Jessica's demonic disguises. They both turn invisible while their doubles walk through that door, which shimmers and vanishes afterwards. The perfect crime!

Then they'll double back and examine Scarlain Keep from the outside as unseen spectres rather than obvious demons. Look for possible entrances, magical defences, all that kind of thing.

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Marie HP: 722+20/722
Active spells: Many moments of prescience (CL 40), bibliotheca arcana (CL 38), extended nondetection (CL 41), greater heroism (CL 38), epic mage armour (CL 38), sensual blessing (CL 38), veil (CL 44), divine insight (CL 38), energy immunity (electricity) (CL 39), energy immunity (fire) (CL 39), energy immunity (acid) (CL 39), neutralise poison (CL 38), life's grace (CL 38), duelist's friend (CL 38), detect thoughts (CL 38)
Defences: AC 82, CMD 84, spell resistance 53, energy immunity (electricity, fire, acid, negative), status immunity (petrification, polymorph, form-altering, energy drain, ability drain, ability damage, mind-affecting, disease, poison, death effects), nondetection DC 56
Stat buffs/penalties: +4 morale attack/skills/saves, +15 insight knowledge, +25 competence perception, -1 natural armour, -1 divine armour, -1 all rolls, -1 fort, -1 domain SLA DCs
Perceptions: Greater arcane sight 120ft, tremorsense/blindsight/scent 60ft, duelist's friend, detect thoughts 60ft, perception +82
Sorcerer spell slots: 6/10/10/10/9/9/8/8/8/8/7/8/6/7/4/4
Many Moments of Prescience: 4/5

[Anastasia]

Perception.

[Ebiris]

[19:43] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+82
[19:43] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+82 --> [ 1d20=17 ]{99}

[Anastasia]

You begin to search. Dark windows that magic lets you know are sealed with force walls, as well as a layer of invisible lead. You can discern the invisibility at least. Only one door in and out that you see, the main entrance. You'd have to sneak into the yard proper and explore it to see the sides and back.