"I could certainly purchase one. But if you really want..."

"I dunno. Theft sounds like it could be some kind of fun."

"All right. We'll be spoiled for choice. What do you like in a ship?"

"Hm... Fast, reliable, pretty, cozy and well appointed inside... Room for me to collect stuff like the gremlin I am..."

"We may have to trade off between 'cozy' and 'room to collect stuff'."

She laughs. "If it comes down to a choice, I do have my own demiplanes to store things in."

"All right." She gets the heading programmed in, then pulls up some common ship designs on the main cabin screen to scroll through. Silhouettes range from bricks stapled together to ethereal designs whose curves flow like water.

She likes the more ethereal (and more menacing, but also ethereal) designs best. She actually has some feedback on materials - she can interact with certain ones better magically... Probably could actually make some prettier...

What materials are good?

Plastics are a pain. Metals and natural materials are easiest. There's assorted materials in between those... She could probably also transmute some material, though "plastic is obnoxious" remains a consideration. Some of the best materials are ones she suspects aren't native to this universe.

Plastics usually feature in the interior, though hulls are typically a metal or metal alloy.

Should be workable, then.

With that, she's able to narrow down their choices to a couple models. They'll see what's available when they arrive.

Alright. How long will it be?

Probably another hour or two.

Not too long, then.

As these trips go. Eliese remembers a bit about the shipyard's layout. Does Acererak want to make some preparations?

Perhaps one or two.

It's a vertical design, consisting of a stacked series of 'Y' shapes rotating around a central column. Each branch hosts a drydock for repair or construction, with logistics, administration, and crew quarters making up the middle.

Hmmm... She can make the two of them invisible for a time, with varying strength and length, which should help... Making the entire ship invisible would be hard... 

She frowns up into the air, thinking through her spells.

They'll have to physically disable or otherwise convince someone to release the anchor locks, and evade the perimeter patrol if cloaking isn't an option.

Might depend on how much ships weigh... She can make up to three thousand pounds invisible or teleport up to fifteen hundred pounds fairly trivially, would have to poke metamagic for more than that...

It's going to be... a bit more than that for anything worth stealing.

She laughs - she's not very surprised they don't have ultra lightweight materials.

Her metamagic isn't useful for increasing that, not significantly - and the widest portals she can open are only twenty feet in diameter... She can make illusions, probably can randomly displace the ship's image, not as effective as going invisible but will make them harder to hit... She can teleport onto enemy ships and kill anyone inside... She can summon monsters into enemy ships, also killing anyone inside... She can mind control people at a distance...

Mind control would probably be the most useful for a stealthy getaway.