<div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/KD4ZQ26.jpg)</div><strong>Taris Vannel</strong>(https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=293833.msg14533999#msg14533999)<br/><strong>HP:</strong>60 / 60<strong>AC:</strong>18<strong>CMD:</strong>21<strong>Arcane Pool:</strong>7 / 9<strong>Arrows:</strong>58<strong>Posts:</strong>55<br/><strong>Location:</strong>The Wilds<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Victoria von Raven<hr/>Taris rode along the wide open trail, her face uncovered and her hood back now that they were fall from the prying eyes of civilization.  In her quiver, mingled in with the darkly stained arrows with their raven feathered fletching that she'd brought from Hawken bounced a mix of new arrows whose fletching was blue with black stripes, new ammunition she'd picked up in Senval.  Normally, she wouldn't have bothered, she still had nearly two quivers of ammunition stored away in her magical arsenal, more than enough for a skirmish.<br/><br/>A gold was a small price to pay for being prepared if things went sideways though.<br/><br/>"Hmph." Taris smirked a bit while Victoria bemoaned Jeska's unreliability, "Yeah, she can be an infuriating one.  I only barely slipped away with my skin, and only because she wasn't taking things seriously, but damned if I don't kind of want to take another poke at her.  'Bored'." she said, indulging in a bit of small talk to help pass the time on the long ride.<br/><br/>"I've got a ... tug ..." Taris said, turning her head a bit, feeling the steady but faint pull, as if trying to suss something out, "It's like ... I'm dowsing with my horns.  It's not strong, but if I don't fight it, it's kind of guiding me a direction." she pointed in the direction of the distant hills, picking out the tents nestled within the curve of the land.  "Well ... it might be useful later." she added with a bit of a chuckle.<br/><br/>"Hmn ... it's hard to plan without better scouting of their layout ..." Taris said, standing up in her stirrups and shielding her eyes from the sun.<br/><br/>"The terrain is fairly open ... but the Baroness means that I can't use that to my full advantage.  Even assuming Aerwyn was walking about in the open, there's no way an Abjuration specialist didn't prepare Protection from Missiles if they thought there was even a<em>chance</em>that someone like me would be dogging their heels." she said, glancing over at Victoria, "She said something about Aerwyn being 'the only one that can provide her with what she needs'...I suspect your Chains of Desire will have something to say about that, but so long as she believes it we can't expect her to pull any punches."<br/><br/>Taris cupped her chin and settled back in her saddle, stroking her horse's mane and making soft, cooing sounds near his ear as she considered.<br/><br/>"What I'd<em>like</em>to do is remove the Baroness from the equation entirely.  If you had some kind of sleep toxin like Sweetdream, I'd cast Invisibility on you and let you discretely knock her out.  That'd keep her safely away from the fighting at least." Taris murmured, "Lady Aerwyn ... well, yes, the Drow's natural spell resistance is annoying, bit it won't protect her from these." Taris said, patting her quiver for emphasis, "Though I won't be able to drop Darkness to cover your escape with the target, it'd have to be Obscuring Mist."<br/><br/>Leaning back in her saddle a bit, Taris shrugged a bit.<br/><br/>"I<em>doubt</em>that Lady Aerwyn has the arcane knowledge to siphon off my would-be mistress's power with only one Souless at her disposal.  Without the Marquis's knowledge, she's likely leaning hard on Baroness ... though I don't know how you'd get someone sufficiently under thumb to<em>trust</em>them with something like this." Taris bit her lip, "Depending on what manner of ritual they're using, the best option might just be blowing up their reagents, kidnapping their chief occultist, and picking her off as she tries to return home to lick her wounds."<hr/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/WLVeGed.png)</div><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Memorized Spells</div><div class="spoiler_body">Cantrips:  Detect Magic, Light, Mend, Mage Hand<br/>1st Level:  Expeditious Retreat, Magic Missile, Magic Missile, Obscuring Mist, Shield<br/>2nd Level:  Invisibility, Mirror Image, Scorching Ray, Scorching Ray, Web<br/>3rd Level:  Clay Skin, Haste, Fireball</div></div>