:You're almost back, right? We can talk about it then?: Jisa is pretty sure it's fine actually to hang out in front of the kyree caves, and she has Endure Elements so she's comfy, but Enara was nervous. 

:I think half a candlemark but I can tell Aroon to go faster.: 

They can be back in half that time! At the cost of lots of terrifying leaps and making Vanyel motion-sick again.

Ughhhhhh. 

Vanyel is stumbling slightly on his way back into the cave, but - they're here, Jisa is safe, Stef is safe, Yfandes is hurrying to meet him and snuffling at his hair, and - it feels like things are very very bad but they have more information than they did before - or could reasonably have expected to have at all, really - and probably there's still a way to stop this from ending with Leareth maybe permanently dead and Vanyel himself ???Final Striking Haven or maybe incompetently trying to create a tiny god???

:...I should try to get the communication spell working and contact Leareth. I think we want to know right away that it does work and - I do want to ask what he thinks of the other prophecy. We can try to get in contact with Haven after that.: 

:I can just go to Waymeet while you're doing that? It feels risky to wait. - Enara and Yfandes both tried reaching the Groveborn but we must be too far, and if there are any Companions in Waymeet they're behind shields.: 

The problem is that, while Vanyel can't specifically think of what could go wrong, Waymeet is in the Web and he's starting to feel like the possibilities of things that could go wrong there are unlimited. He wants to think about it and it's hard to think while he's still nauseous. He looks helplessly at Blai. 

:It seems plausibly important to have someone physically in Haven. If it is essential that they not be able to explode, I meet that criterion and do not seem at this time to be wanted at Leareth's stronghold.:

Nod. :I think Leareth, er, left in a hurry, it's possible he didn't have a chance to bring up some plan that would involve you going, but - I feel like what he would need you for most is figuring out how to get to your world? And I think not going to war with Valdemar has got to be a more urgent priority than that. I should probably try to talk to Leareth and - ask? - before we send you - and we'll need to Gate anyway and plausibly should try to arrange that in Waymeet...: 

:Oh! Blai, if you might be going - I had a thought, there's a thing I might want to try first. That would make it easier to Gate you to Haven, it makes me stronger as a mage, but it's been slightly too hard every time I tried and I was wondering if that spell you have that makes you better at things would help.: 

:I'm perfectly willing to cast Guidance on you.:

:That would be really neat! ...It might need to be a lot of times. The ritual takes half a candlemark.: 

:I can cast it as often as you like.:

:I would really appreciate that! ...The kyree gave me a spot to do it, in the back. I need to redo the other self-test rituals, you have to do them all in order, but I passed Master a while ago, I don't need help for it. I can Mindspeak you when I'm ready?: 

..Vanyel is going to sit down and get to work on reading the communication-spell instructions. 

Blai nods to Jisa. Would she like a Guidance to start out with?

Sure, why not, she can get off to an extra-good start. :And, I mean, you're welcome to come watch if you want. It probably looks interesting to the magic-detecting spell. I just don't want to make you sit there for almost a whole candlemark if you'd rather do other things.: 

He has basically nothing else to do in here! He will go watch with Detect Magic up if it won't disturb her to have it recast a few times.

Jisa doesn't mind! She's very good at concentrating when she wants to (being able to do arbitrary Mindhealing redirects on yourself helps). 

The magic does look very interesting to Detect Magic. It's actually more reminiscent of Golarion magic; there's an intricate structured spellform that Jisa builds up over about ten minutes, and it's not actually an extraplanar space but it's an extraplanar - passage? Between two places neither of which is here, supported by a sort of scaffolding, with an outlet in the middle where Jisa can access it. 

And then she releases the spell, and the structure doesn't stay stable for very long, but mage-energies flow 'downhill' from one place to another, the scaffolding siphons off a fraction of it, and it swirls around Jisa before settling on her in a bright shimmer. 

She stands for a moment, beaming, and then starts methodically building another spellform - it's not that dissimilar in structure, but she's putting nearly all of the power she just collected into it and it's significantly more overbuilt. 

That, too, seems to work flawlessly, and Jisa turns around, radiating magic. :This is where I need help.: 

Presumably it's safe to touch her because she's probably noticed that Guidance is touch-range by now. He casts it and taps her on the shoulder.

It's fine, the energy she collected is tucked into her reserves and won't zap him or anything, and it's not going to disturb her focus. She'll tell him not to be touching it when she finishes and is ready to release the spell, assuming she gets that far, but - if she does she can hold it stable for a few seconds, and he should get to watch it go off. 

She starts building a much more complicated spellform; there are multiple extraplanar passages in this one, looping around each other, almost braided together. She's fairly smooth at the beginning but it looks like it's very rapidly increasing in difficulty. She can try to prompt him the first few times she thinks she's used up the spell and it's no longer active but it's hard to keep track of that on top of everything else. 

He cannot concentrate on Detect Magic and cast Guidance at the same time so he misses lots of the show but he can supply her with lots of Guidances.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand....there? 

It doesn't fall apart. It looks like how it did when she watched an Adept run it. 

:All right. I think I have it - you'll want to step back, there's a lot of power release if it works - and you should cast the spell to watch it.: It's going to be SO COOL. If it works. She's pretty sure if it's stable at this point it's going to but aaaaaaah. 

Detect Magic!

There is SO MUCH MAGIC, exploding in a (reasonably controlled) fountain out of the ground and air and spaces in between those, swirling around Jisa like a (reasonably controlled) hurricane, and eventually settling on her in a glow that might be ten times brighter than the result of the last spell. 

EEEEEEEEEEEEEE SHE DID IT SHE DID IT SHE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!