Okay. 
It was a little ambiguous, especially since Nale does have sorcerer levels and could probably cast a scrying.
Then how did they know about the location?
Tarquin seems to know something about Girard. Probably Nale does too. Maybe he learned the location of the fake gate from Girard.
Hence my suspicion that the scrying wasn’t the Linear Guild.
So how difficult will it be for
Yik yuk or whatever his name is and V to get back to the right plane? Is it a matter of waiting a day so he can prepare the right spell or is it more difficult?
If V knows Plane Shift, he just needs a day to memorize it, and then cast it. V’s certainly high enough level to cast it, operating on the assumption that V’s at least as powerful, if not more so, than the drow. However, that depends entirely on whether V’s ever learned the spell. It doesn’t make stuff blow up, so there’s a good chance V has never bothered to put it into his spell book.
Plane Shift is Conjuration, one of V’s prohibited schools. E can’t get out of there on es own. E can use Sending to contact Durkon, who should be able to Plane Shift himself, though Sending will have a small chance of failure for being cast cross-planes. And even once Durkon Plane Shifts in for the rescue, that’ll only put him somewhere within tens of miles of where V is (and another error of tens of miles for the return to the material plane), so it’s not something that can be done quickly.
On the other hand, that’s two Linear Guilders out of the fight, at a cost of only one Order of the Sticker (plus Haley, I guess, but she won’t be all that difficult to get back into action), so things still favor the good guys.
And ranch dressing is an element now? What kind of screwy periodic table is that?
“Periodic table”? Bah! The classical elements are classical for a reason.
(The paraelamental plane of ranch dressing appears in Ovid).
The Plane of Ranch Dressing is right next to the Thousand Islands and just to the left of the Caesarian Section.
No, no…it’s where the Condimental Plane of Buttermilk and the Condimental Plane of Garlic meet. On the other side of Garlic is the Condimental Plane of Vinegar, with the Semi-Condimental Plane of Italian where THEY meet.
Why didn’t Gygax ever come up with this stuff?
Maybe a local cleric of the Green Goddess can send V back.
Gyrate, I need a new keyboard. [shakes fist]
I notice that Z-person is unconscious, not dead, and will return as a returning returning villain. I also bet yik yak yuk, like kolbolds before him, will not be.
I sniff an Enemy Mine scenario with V and the Kobold as they cooperate to get out of their predicament.
Actually, come to think of it, V might have a way of returning under es own power: E could cast Dismissal on emself, which would send em back to es own plane. It’s probably not a good idea, though: It’s got a 20% chance of sending em to the wrong plane accidentally (some of which are much less hospitable than the Plane of Ranch), and even if e did get the right plane, nowhere in the spell does it say where on the plane the subject ends up.
I remember this Ranch Dressing appearing before. Possibly as a sarcastic thing V said.
Does Plane Shift just select some random plane that isn’t the current one? Is that what happened here? Could V have ended up in Roy’s L/G heaven for example? Or in the Three Fiends front office?
According to the rules:
"You move yourself or some other creature to another plane of existence or alternate dimension. If several willing persons link hands in a circle, as many as eight can be affected by the plane shift at the same time. Precise accuracy as to a particular arrival location on the intended plane is nigh impossible.
From the Material Plane, you can reach any other plane, though you appear 5 to 500 miles (5d%) from your intended destination.
Note: Plane shift transports creatures instantaneously and then ends. The creatures need to find other means if they are to travel back."
So it looks like you choose the plane, of course, this is real rules and OOTS likes to make shit up for plot and rule of funny. If we’re going by the rules, we can assume that Z was hastily thinking of ANYWHERE before he dropped, which happened to be the Semi-Elemental plane of Ranch Dressing… for some reason. Maybe Z had salad the previous night?
Reminds me of a *Casus Belli *article helpfully providing rules for playing Blood Bowl in an arena filled with spaghetti and meatballs. Very unsporting if halflings are playing, for obvious reasons.
Progress, V! A flick to the pride in the heat of battle and V was able to push it aside and rise above it. Before splorching into ranch dressing, but we can only control so much in life. I like how the the Ranch Semi-elemental has one red eye and one green, to match the flecks throughout itself.
Durkon!! Where are you??