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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmichels" data-source="post: 2169006" data-attributes="member: 28795">I'm still cloudy on this churches motivation in all this.  So they don't believe the party and don't want to waste their resources on the trying to find out if the party is telling the truth?  Hmm, a simple zone of truth and a question and answer session would provide all the proof they need.     Or are they using the PCs to test the badguys in a scouting in force type of thing?  They can cast a quick Divination or Commune spells and find out much of the stuff that PCs may die to find out.  Is there an enemy of the PCs pretending to be part of the church higherups?Whatever the case though, the help the PCs would get would probably be minimal at best.  It seems the church doesn't believe the PCs for some reason (perhaps the PCs church enemy if one exists is blinding them to the truth) and refuses to use any spells to confirm their story.  So they probably won't want to waste men or materiel to directly help the PCs.    So what I would have the church do is Scry (that's pretty much only 100gp) the PCs and check what they are doing and who they are fighting.  The church needs to make sure that the PCs waive their Will saves by only Scrying them at certain appointed times though.</blockquote>