Well I guess it is safe to say we can fly at around 100mph East-by-Northeast until we find this ley line.

Agreed. I mean we could push it to 110 mph my maximum. Sophes does have supernatural PE afterall.

I generally stick to the yards conversion to keep things consistent (just because the books are all based in imperial), so let's just call it 105 mph.

What's Mika's max flying height? The Fly tattoo is 4000 ft if I remember right.

I do not think the Winged Flight spell has an altitude limit, do not have the books with me right now to verify though.

I'm back in Houston.

Mika's plan is to swoop down and use the Read Ley Line ability on the nearest one below.

From this distance can we make out any structures, persons, or creatures along the water body?

Secondly, size-wise is this body of water more of a lake or a pond?

Lake, thin, 150 miles long.  What could be settlements visible on the western side.

Any vibes of recognition of the lake from this distance?

Also where is the ley line relative to the lake? Is it at the foot of the mountain, going through the lake, or on the landside of the lake opposite the mountains?

The ley line mostly goes through the middle of the lake, though to the northwest end of the lake it is more on the southwest side.

And no, you don't see anything familiar.

So what now?
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Return to our original flight plan?

So now you're at the southwest end of a high elevation, expansive set of mountainous highlands, just past the long lake you're by.  The edges of the highlands appear to be north and east of you, with everything in between being highlands.

So this second ley line runs NW as well or does it track the mountain range NE?

We could proceed considerably faster in/along the ley line.

I think Erik said it ran parallel with the first one... so nw by se. I think we wanted to aim north/north-east..?

Yeah, that's what I was thinking as well but sought to clarify. Would just be convenient to use the leyline to head North for a way at speed.

For the type of recce we are doing it won't work well. If we needed to do a more in depth search from the NW to NE it would help speed things up in the future though.

As an aside if two ley lines that run in the same direction touch is it still a nexus?

Yes, it would be a nexus point by definition. But Erik said this leyline only runs another 50 miles NW and does not meet at a nexus point.

Since we're at a ley line is there any spell or something we want to do to help the search? Unlimited power source after all.

Good spot to recast a flight spell..?

I don't remember how affected by ley lines our tattoos would be.

At the very least recover some PPE and enough to recast. I'm honestly not sure how ley lines effect tattoo magic though I don't see a reason why it would be any different than other kinds of magic, like some boost to duration/range/damage.

I tried looking in Atlantis but of course could not find anything about ley line influence in the tattoo magic section; probably hiding in some other corner of the book.

All the details of ley line effects on magic and PPE recovery are in the "Other Game Rules" section in this site.  While on a ley line, you can have increased affects like on other magic, but those boosts are gone when you leave the influence of the line.

Right; much better place to keep it.

So for example if you cast a flight spell with a duration of 60 minutes, for each minute you are within 2miles of a ley line you actually get 90 seconds of flight instead of 60 (50% boost). As soon as you move beyond the 2 mile range you revert back to each minute of the spell giving you 1 minute of flight.

If nothing else we can go down to the ley line to recast the flight spells and replenish PPE back up to full, then continue heading N by NE.

Yeah, good to have a full tank of gas.

Hm, is our flight height... above mean sea level (msl) or above ground level (agl)?
If it's above msl, yeah... bit of a problem. Above ground level... the height stays at 2000ft above whatever ground is below it... less of a problem. I'm not even sure if books clarify this..?

Even if it is agl 2000 ft won't be enough, probably better to skim the foothills and see what can be seen.

I agree with replenishing ppe before moving on.