Can somebody help me out with the name of that item?

Would that be sending stones?

Magic Item Compendium pg. 184

The problem with sending stones is that they only come in pairs and can only be used once a day.

The Farspeaker Amulet (Magic Item Compendium Page 99) is more expensive at 6000gp but more useful.

One person has the master stone, and up to four other people have axillary stones.  Three times per day the stones can be activated for up to 10 minutes, allowing all five people to be able to communicate with each other.

Just looked it up and Nolan can make that. It will take him several days to complete, though.

Oh that one does sound much better. It was very hard to keep up with all the different magic items in 3.5

Tell me about it! LOL

OK, I looked up the item and Nolan can build it, but it's going to take some time:

5 days 236 xp 2,400 gold

If Nolan wishes to build this item, what is the party going to do for 5 days?

I'd be building the item. *Laughs*. As for the rest of the group, I'd hope they would be making plans. We still need a way to get all those people on board the ship and we also need a way to get inside the mines without everyone in the area knowing about it.

OK, do you guys want a boring 5 days, or do you plan on doing things for 5 days?

Aliana doesn't mind a short vacation, but will join the others if they get ambitious

Scrying as much as possible - the outside of the mound looking for another way in, the area looking for a good place for the ship to rest, etc.

I'll talk to Timber about additional work on the ship that can be done over the next five days.

1) Gangway that can be extended/retracted from the ship.

2) Shields that can be temporarily fitted along the sides to give any guards we have a little extra protection.

3) Assessment of the spars, masts, and other wooden parts of the rigging to see what needs to be replaced.  Actually, why does a ship that flies on magic even have rigging?

4) Get an estimate (price and time) for a cargo crane to move cargo (and giant metal crabs) to and from the ship.

#2 I hope after the mission is completed.
#3 Probably to make it look less suspicious? I don't know
#4 Cargo cranes on the ship? I don't think it will fit and it might decrease the max speed of the ship.

Installing some shields is to give our people something to hide behind while they're protecting the ship during the raid. Even a +1 to AC is a 5% better chance not to get hit. Depending on how many of our friends volunteer, we can install a few brackets along the sides that we can slip a tower shield into. Certainly not movable and not something we'd want permanently.

I've seen small cranes on ships (real world and fantasy). They're to help get things into and out of the hold.  They don't need to be able to handle really heavy loads, hopefully the port will have a large crane if that's necessary. But smaller places ... or questionable places might not have anything and I don't want to be lifting thousands of pounds of weight on my back while climbing a ladder if I don't have to.  I'll see what Timber has to say about how realistic it might be.  This is definitely something for after the mission, if at all.

just letting people know that i am still here. i've had a difficult year so far with the death of a dear friend, my wife crashing her car (She's ok, just the car is written off).

My plan is to try catch up on posts on the weekend and then i'll be back posting by next week

So sorry to hear about that, Kalliyan!

Do we have any estimation on the Size/Age of the dracolich?

If it's a wrymling, we're good to go. If it's ancient, we're toast.

I've dug back through the posts but haven't been able to find anything. I remember Amara scried on it ... the cultists noticed ... so she stopped and we haven't looked again. But I don't remember what, if anything, we discovered.

Because even with two weapons of disruption, killing it isn't going to be easy.

First, we have to hit it and then it needs to make a Fort saving throw.  And dragons are really good at Fort saves.

As an example: A dracolich made from an Adult Green Dragon has an AC of 29 (even flat-footed) and a +17 on its Fort Save. Plus an average of 230 hitpoints. We'll skip over the damage it can do other than to say ... ouch!

I have about a fifty/fifty chance of hitting it with my best attack, and then it has to roll a Natural 1 for the disruption to work given the base DC of 14 for a 'weapon of disruption'.

Amara thinks it might be an Adult. But, she's not 100% sure.

It's not going to be an easy fight... I'll do my best to keep the cultists off you - but I'm useless against the dracolich.

Here's another option. I take all three Iron Golems through the front entrance. That would cause a ruckus.

A ruckus? LOL More like a riot!

While I'd love to give them the swords and send them in after the dragon, I don't think they can use weapons, we can't cast the Disruption spell on their fists, and I'm not even sure the Mariasha new hull is up to holding 7.5 tons of iron.

Can we even "program" them to not hit the civilians?

The waystone is outside the entrance to the mine. I'm figuring 250 yards? They're already at the waystone in Daak. I could have them at the mine quicker than you guys could get off the ship. But, they would attack everything unless I was with them to stop and direct them.