DOING THAT WITHOUT CHECKING THE CALCULATIONS IS A TERRIBLE IDEA

Look, it's like this. Start here. Void -> Fire -> Void -> Air -> Void -> Earth -> Void -> Air -> Void -> Earth -> Void -> Air -> Void -> Earth -> Void -> Air ->

(- there's a bit where something really, really weird happened, Brightstar thinks maybe it was the Cataclysm rippling out through all the planes and the fact that the magic affected the planes of Earth versus Air quite differently, but the distance-relationship between adjacent points in the different planes got...warped...and there's a bit where you can almost make an accordion out of successive Earth/Air adjacencies with the Void, the ""direction"" isn't exactly right but it let him simplify the problem enough to hold it -) 

-> Void -> Water -> Void -> Fire and he thinks that place in Fire is, in the grand scheme of things, fairly close to where that one elemental summons came from, according to their best estimates. He'll want to do a Gate to it and drop an artifact, because "in the grand scheme of things" is probably not very close and he'll need to. Be able to hold the search-spell they designed to look for dense collections of Golarion-style-magic for really quite a long time before he can expect it to resolve. 

He can definitely cast it, though. 

....Literally nobody followed that. Can he slow way down and walk them through where, exactly, in the stupid visual projection, he's putting his route-through-elemental-plane points, so they can - there's absolutely no way he got an optimal routing on visual intuition... 

Brightstar did not say it was an optimal routing he just said he can cast it and he's going to spend one more minute memorizing his plan and then go cast it, in the other Work Room that's set up for dangerous Gates to the Elemental Plane of Fire rather than for fiddly illusion magic. 

It's...a few candlemarks to dawn. 

:Shavri? Blai has a channel left, right? ...Brightstar thinks he has a routing that gets close enough to Golarion and he's storming off to go drop his search-spell anchor in the Elemental Plane of Fire.: 

Shavri should probably be feeling some kind of emotion about it but she just feels numb. 

Well, apparently Blai has a spell that stacks with Guidance? She's not sure how she - oh it might be his domain spell that he can't convert to healing, that could be why it never at any point came up. 

Anyway Brightstar should come over here and get spells cast on him and then Jisa can Gate him to the Work Room. It's worth a Gate because she doesn't have the slightest idea how long "Prayer" lasts and it would be stupid to waste it on the walk over. 

Here's Brightstar. She shakes Blai awake, again, and tells him that this time she would like him to cast Guidance on this man and also Prayer, if he in fact has it right now and can do it. Since they stack. 

(She doesn't try to tell Blai in advance that they'll need his last channel shortly, that would require him to remember something for more than five seconds.) 

"Yes sir," Blai croaks. His fingers are bleeding where he's clutching the sun on his necklace. "Guidance. Prayer."

Prayer hits everybody in the room, actually.

Hopefully that's good???? Shavri really did just ask her delirious dying patient to cast a spell she knows exactly one fact about, didn't she, where the one fact is that it stacks with Guidance but, like, he informed her of this while under the impression that she was his Asmodean seminary instructor or something like that, and Shavri did not, actually, spend long enough considering how certain she ought to be that they stack in a desirable way - 

Prayer is good. It helps with everything. It doesn't last very long though.

Good. At least this wasn't the point where Shavri made a horrible judgement error because she hasn't slept. 

(Brightstar goes through Jisa's short-range Gate to the really well-shielded Work Room.) 

It might even work. Shavri is, in fact, getting the impression that Someone is trying really quite hard to pull out a miracle for them. And she...it would just be so stupid, to let anyone die now when stretching it out for a few more candlemarks would have saved them. 

It's not - it feels unfair, is the thing, she's almost upset, that now she has to find a way to stretch out what little she has even longer, when she had - when on some level she gave up yesterday. They're suffering and Shavri doesn't have the stomach for this, anymore, but it would be so stupid to give up just before - and Stef made it clear what he wants, and Blai, she's pretty sure, wouldn't want her to trade off any kind of concrete objective like "saving them a diamond and a spell" against his suffering. 

They need Blai's spells. (Aaaaaand then probably to cast the Remove Diseases on Vanyel and Stef and leave Blai suffering horribly because she, in fact, doesn't think he's going to die of blood-poisoning before, like, late afternoon, whereas Van and Stef won't make it very many candlemarks past dawn, and she has to assume that even if it works it does not take literally zero time to do diplomacy in Sothis and negotiate for the healing they need.) 

She needs Blai oriented enough to pray to the right god - he doesn't need to be very oriented, apparently, but she thinks more than this - and capable of actually staying awake the whole time. The latter problem is solvable with stimulants, which is possibly the worst idea she's ever had medically speaking but she does think it would work, once, to get Blai to stay awake for one candlemark and then a little longer to cast everything. 

...Oh. Huh. That might work, actually, if Someone really is steering for them to win. 

Brightstar is in the Work Room four seconds after the Prayer is cast and the shape of it is still clear in his mind, a single long bright shining twisting line. He already has his Gate-like-structure, he doesn't need to build a threshold on this end. Just - reach - 

Void.

Fire.

Void.

Air.

Void.

Earth.

(The accordion bit goes on for a while and at one point he catches in time that he was about to go one too far and snaps the Guidance in the process but it's okay, he's caught it, the spell twists itself through the Elemental Plane of Air one last time just, right, here....)

Water.

Void.

Fire. 

Gate, fling the search-anchor through, close the Gate come on close close close - he doesn't get it but the set-spell shuts down the threshold on this end in time. 

Jisa staggers through another short-range Gate hauling Brightstar with more third-degree burns over most of his body. They've really got to stop opening Gates directly into the Elemental Plane of Fire. Why did that at some point start seeming like a sane thing to do, again? 

:Did it work: 

:Dunno yet. Need to actually try using it to anchor a search-spell and see if we can scry Golarion now. We'll know in a candlemark.: 

Shavri shakes Blai awake and orders him to use his last channel. 

:And then how long?: she asks Jisa. :To get a Gate and, and diplomacy, and negotiate for a cleric to heal them–: 

:Um. Might depend if Brightstar can cast it as soon as we find a safe place to put it or if he needs a rest. No one else can make sense of the routing yet.: 

Channel.

Brightstar is no longer covered in horrific third degree burns!

(Also everyone else is very slightly less dying. But it's really very slightly, at this point, everyone's capacity to hold life-force is declining and that's even apart from the fact that Van and Stef are both dying of sepsis at this point. They're going to need to frontload Vanyel's new channels, Stef in particular has since midnight been really, really struggling to hang on for an entire three candlemarks in between channels.) 

That's okay. Today Shavri doesn't need the pace to be sustainable for a whole day and night. They can move it up to every ninety minutes, and with eight total channels that's still - damn it, she can definitely do math, keep it together Shavri - that's twelve candlemarks. They shouldn't need anywhere near that long. 

Brightstar leaves to try the routing. 

...He's pretty sure they're in the right general area because he's noticing...distortions, tugs on the search-spell...that he thinks are hinting at some very interesting planar anomalies at various degrees of adjacent-to-the-Void. They're not what he's looking for so he ignores them but they've got to be done with magic, like Leareth's soul-structure. He doesn't have time to look but it's fascinating, and surely it would only happen near a place with really quite a lot of powerful magic users.  

The search-spell thinks there's a lot of magic with the specific traits it's set to look for in the material plane here. 

Brightstar is not supposed to just open a Gate directly. He's actually much worse at scrying-spells but he can eventually manage to get one up and see what all that magic is. 

All that magic is: a gigantic hurricane!