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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drnuncheon" data-source="post: 141823" data-attributes="member: 96">Sometimes the best methods are completely mundane.  Have her work through a cut-out.  She didn't hire the mercenaries, this other fellow did.  Even if they do find him, he doesn't know anything about the person who hired him.  For added fun, have her polymorph into the form of a rival, so when enterprising PCs find the cut-out, he sends them on the wrong track.If you think about it, most of the questions that people would ask of a divination would be "who sent these people to attack us" - to which the answer is, of course, the cut-out.Dealing with specific divinations:Commune and Contact Other Plane are easy - they're yes/no questions anyway, so the investigators would have to have a level of initial knowledge to ask the right questions - which they don't.Divination is much trickier - hard to mess with the gods.  I think you just need to hope on this one.Speak with Dead could gice results if they talk to one of the dead mercenaries.  The best way to protect from this is to make sure they don't know anything! That's what the cut-out described above is for.Most of the other spells require you to know something about the target (locate creature, scrying, etc.)  I don't think that you can specify 'whoever is behind this plot' as the target of a scrying spell.  If you have something from the person who hired the mercenaries it might count as a connection - but that'd be the cut-out anyway.Needless to say, the cut-out should be a) unaffiliated with the devil's organization, and b) expendable!Hope these help.J</blockquote>

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