The bound impostor tightened her mouth and then relucantly spat out, "The pirate city Tsurlagol. East of Cormyr and Sembia and like both upon the north shores of the Sea of Fallen Stars. At the Ultros Opera House ask a doorman or usher for the Impersario. That codeword will get you taken to those with your statue, yet in one piece as far as I know, phallus and all, to seek the shield. I doubt you can say much to dissuade them, but then 'tis obvious you two shy not from fights and sticking their noses where they are no more welcome than a hound's cold stinking snout against one's nethers."<br/><br/>Aria replied thoughtfully in Sylvan, "She'd be heavy for me to carry, she'd suffocate inside a bag of holding, and would doubtless try to escape. If you've magic to control her mind and bring her along enchanted, perhaps she could be 'encouraged' by which i meant 'threatened' not to try to resist it when you cast it. We could ask if anyone else at the temple is willing to try to go after the statue, depending on their means: it sounds like either several days' ship voyage or a teleport, and a fight once they reach where it's held."<br/><br/><br/>lol<br/><br/>A ring of sustenance has no effect on spell preparation time/frequency. Preparing spells actually has nothing to do with sleep; it's simply 'deliberate but incidental' that preparing spells requires 8 hours of rest prior (and when a sorcerer or bard spends 15 minutes preparing their spells after that, they can't refresh any slots they used during the previous 8 hours, such as if they had an interruption in the rest period an used a spell) and sleep for humans is 8 hours. Elves for example only sleep (or rather, 'take reverie') for 4 hours but cannot prepare spells faster.<br/><br/>http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicOverview/arcaneSpells.htm (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicOverview/arcaneSpells.htm)<br/><br/>However you might have time; it's currently about 2:30 PM and the time the impostor mentioned was 'the dead hours before the morrow's dawn.' AFAICT from the above doc, I don't think the time of day chosen has to be the same every day for arcane casters, you just can't refresh any slots used in the last 8 hours (which is usually redundant with the 8 hour rest requirement anyway).<br/><br/>Also I wasn't sure what Kass meant by ' and do you think they'll be able to spare some other hands for such a mission alternatively from here at the temple?"' I gather she's asking Aria if she thinks they should ask the Sharessans to do something, but I didn't know what. Get the statue?<br/>