Re: OOC: Who is doing what now?!
Shall we skip ahead to a minute later (in terms of outside time) when everybody is finished getting their tattoos?
Time: it is now the morning of day -1. At midnight it will be day 0: spellcasters who prepare spells will be able to decide their allotment for day 0. These are the spells you will take with you through the portal.
Just past midnight, at the beginning of day 1, you will start going through the portal.
Once there, you will have about 12 hours (as people go through one at a time, and the portal rests for over an hour after each person goes through) to use (or write down, in Archmage Sider's case) the spells you allocated on day 0.
After that, you will need to let 8 hours elapse before you can prepare your spells for day 1, so that you do not incur the penalty for recent spellcasting; however, if you have a ring of sustenance tattoo, only two of those hours will actually need to be spent resting (rather than, say, crafting magic items that do not require you to cast spells, such as a Pearl of Power or another item worth 1000 gp or less, which would mean it can be made in only 4 hours).
In terms of rest, a single Keep Watch spell will allow the entire party to stay awake while resting: that's story time! Is everyone ready with their first story?
Incidentally, I don't think Archmage Sider will have enough hours on the first day to write down his entire allotment of spells: even Zhorr needs almost 13 hours, and that's considering that he only has spells up to 6th level and almost all of his 1st and 5th and 6th slots will be spent rather than written, which means he only really writes half of his available spells.
This message was last edited by the GM at 20:28, Wed 19 Dec 2012.