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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fba827" data-source="post: 5247841" data-attributes="member: 807">Sending is a ritual (at the back of PHB1, page 300-something).  The sender can send up to 25 words to someone he knows (like a mental whisper type thing) and that person can do an instantaneous  mental whisper back (up to 25 words)Carl could have it as a scroll (scrolls can be used by anyone).It would take 50gp worth of magical components and only takes 5 minutes (half normal time since it's a scroll) - though since it's an NPC doing this and it's all off screen, those two points are irrelevant.However, the distance a sending can transmit is limited by an arcana check.Low arcana check could be as little as a 10mile distance between sender and recipient.  Higher checks are hundreds, if not thousands, of miles.   But, again, if it's an NPC doing it and it's off screen, you can say he has a special device OR he had an arcanist in town help him, etc.That leaves the question, why doesn't he use the sending to contact his own superior instead?  perhaps because he knows that guy is busy with politics right now and he's much further away than the PCs.</blockquote>