p. 44, players handbook 3.5
at will, the paladin can use detect evil as per the spell
p. 218-219, players handbook 3.5
you sense the presense of evil. this amount of information revealed depends on how long you examine the subject.
round 1: presense of absense of evil
round 2: number of evil auras (creautesm objects, or spells) and the power of the most potent evil aura present. if you are of good alignment, and the evil aura's power us overwhelming (see below) and the HD or level is at least twice your character level, you are stunned for1 round and the spell ends
round 3: the power and LOCATION of each aura. if an aura is outside your line of sight, then you discern its direction but not exact location.
smite evil as per the players handbook 3.5. i would pull out 3.0, but its exactly the same. now, here goes.
a) i know the evil characters that were there.
b) a round is 6 seconds
c) we were standing there for more then a minute staring and waiting for a response
d) 5 points towards chaotic without a simple, friendly tell saying 'youre going the wrong way' would have been a much friendlier thing than what was done.
e) but the dms are dms
f) if i had not read
g) the simple instructions wrong
h) i would have
i) gone to the post
j) but
h) i was preoccupied
i) with having an
k) overly angry
l) war wizard comment
m) and the one character i was able to see
n) was invisible
o) and when she walked off, she were already in another area where the map indicator would not be on my map
p) and i was already in isinhold
q) so
r) the only anwser
s) is to keep off the server
t) when youre on
u) because
v) you would rather scold someone who read certain directions wrong
w) and if protesting an act is 'behaving terribly'
x) then why not
y) go
z) the whole way?
now that im done with the alphabet, i could reply on other things. it wasnt metagaming. it was misreading of instructions. you mentioned post, barracks, and all that other classy stuff. i figured you meant the post in isinhold, so i ran there. ofcourse, when we read something wrong and think we read it right, we dont go and reread it do we? no, we continue and <insert certain explicit word that means to have intercourse with> up. lets hope next time, we could use tells.
by the way, the j and car was more of a jest then it was serious.