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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 8436892" data-attributes="member: 2012">[USER=6776182]@JustinCase[/USER],The PCs will need to find the three special components needed for the ritual before they can begin. Finding the night plague and the stormdust won't take very much time. Cearth can either go pick some fresh night plague or look to see if their is some in Aeron's house. Fresh is probably better. Caerth would need to make a DC 10 Search check and he can Take 10 on this check.He also knows where to find stormdust along the coastline. It's a bit harder to find and requires a DC 15 Search check to locate in the wilderness (he can't take 10). Galzadar did say that his forced-upon apprentice might have some in his home. Caerth knew who Reynold was in town but didn't know the man was a necromancer. He seemed like a normal apothecary.Finding the starclay won't be as easy. The PCs are unlikely to find it anywhere near Carnell, as it requires a specific environment to come into existence in the wild. This is a DC 40 Search check and the PCs would have to be in mountainous terrain (near a lake) to have any chance at finding it. However, it can be made with a successful DC 30 Craft (alchemy) check. Crafting the starclay requires a minimum of 12 hours plus 1d6 hours to complete (and access to an alchemist's lab). For every 5 the roll is above the DC, the number of hours in takes drops by 1.The PCs can use Aid Another for the Craft (alchemy) check but only 2 others can help. Any more than that will just be 'too many cooks'.The PCs could also go to Belporte (the closest city) and try buy the starclay from an alchemist. It is very expensive, however. It costs 600 gp per lb. but the PCs would only need 1 lb. While it isn't an illegal alchemical item, it is considered to be restricted in the Strandlands, so the PCs might to explain why they need it (or might have to pay more).EDIT: Belport is 72 miles away if the PCs follow the trail from Carnell to the city. It is only 48 miles if the PCs go overland through the wilderness. In both cases, the PCs will have to travel through 8 miles of hills but the rest of the terrain is either grassland (along the trail) or low, grassy hills (overland).Of course, the PCs could get there quickly by flying. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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