Well for goodness sake, don't try to sell the loot anywhere near that guild or any of the schools where the members of the guild studied.
You'll be nabbed almost immediately and it won't be by divination. Wait until you're sure you've been released from the Culpable Stupidity spell
You'll have to buy protection. Which means you'll have to find someone willing to sell you protection.
Have you got enough cash to pay a rival wizard for a protection spell or item?
Nondetection works against many divinations but could get expensive over the long term, especially if you have to buy items or pay someone else to cast it.
The obvious question though is what sort of divinations might they use? If they're willing to go up to Contact Other Plane turn yourself in now. If they're using Locate Object it sounds like you've got that covered. If they're trying to scry you do they have enough info to try? Almost anything else has a very limited range and usually just one target, they'd have to suspect you already for them to even try.
Were you seen?
Did you leave anything behind? Your blood on somebody's weapons, for example?
First, I'd recommend investing into a disguise. Be somebody else. Change your character's name, make sure all your allies know your new name. Mundane disguises as well as magical for extra security.
For items, a Hat of Disguise (1,800 gp) will add a +10 bonus to your disguise check, but also allows a Will save for anyone interacting with your physical person. Ring of Mindshielding (8,000 gp) will get you out of any attempt to read your mind or force you to tell the truth.
For scrying, the only guaranteed option is a lead lined box. Short of that, only the Mindblank spell can foil scrying outright, and that's obviously not available as an always-on item.
Probably out of your price range, but look up Rune of the Inscrutable One.
I would worry about more mundane means being used to literally track you.
It's only a DC20 to track you, and it only increases by 1 for every 24 hours past the occurrence.
Nobody saw US?
How many were involved?
Are you accomplices immune to defection?
....unlikely to speak out of turn?
....safely dead, bodies eliminated?
Well, there are some decent ways of fouling some divinations without spells.
It depends on how they are tracking you but if they are using:
The spell is blocked by even a thin sheet of lead. Creatures cannot be found by this spell. Polymorph any object and nondetection fool it.
A thin sheet of lead should be inexpensive.
If they are trying to locate you,
Running water blocks the spell.
Avr, nondetection is one of the things I was looking at. If I do that one, it's... measured in hours, so 6k for an item that does it constantly. Not a huge problem.
AS to enough information, I suppose it depends on the method. In theory, there's a few spells that can contact Deities. Diviner spells, specifically. Don't suppose there's anything to hide from deities? :P
Mind Blank even foils miracle, and miracle is the intercession of a deity. If the intercession of a deity can not gain information about someone, then you are effectively hidden.
The key to being effectively hidden, is to be hidden enough to foil the effort they are willing to put in.
If the item was expensive enough, then they may well cast discern location.
At that point only mind blank will stop them from knowing exactly where it is.
If none of the wizards are capable of casting the spell, a scroll of it only costs 3,000 gold.
It is likely that they will be willing to pay 3,000 gold to figure out where a 30,000 gold piece item is.
To be honest, I would sell it someplace far away and quick.
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Commission an armorer to make a suit of plate mail with a clad lead layer (steel on the outside, lead in the middle, steel on the inside). Then get someone unaffiliated with the angry wizards to put the comfort special ability on your plate mail and never take it off.
What kind of spell casting is available to the wizards guild and to what extent does you GM's NPCs adhere to the spells as written and available to PCs (would his NPC guild just have hand-wavery plot-magic?) Ultimately it comes down to how your GM runs their world e.g. discern location is a powerful spell but the wizards might not be able to cast it and even if they can afford the listed cost that doesn't necessarily mean they can get it and thus it's not something to worry about.
Why are you trying to sell things you didn't intend to steal?
Since you stole the goods entirely by accident (how did that happen, anyway?), return them either openly, freely explaining the situation, or drop them off quietly with a simple note explaining.
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Hunt down the Batman, talk him into helping you retrain into a vigilante. Use vigilante abilities to conceal your identity from everything and everybody.
It will be easier than trying to out think/out fight a wizard guild.
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Oh no,
I completely agree with Ravingdork here.
It has been an honor to serve with you all. :)
I was wondering whether you were being a dick player, playing one of those I can do whatever I want characters, but as you have stated that you are not so I'll take that as a given.
First question, is the other player involved being a dick? If not, are the pair of you derailing the plot or is the GM happy with the course of events?
If the other player is being a dick, or you are otherwise derailing the game and are now looking for an in-game way to thwart the GM's efforts then you are going to lose have already lost. The GM can invent whatever resources he wants to allocate to the Wizardry Guild and outgun you in-game. E.g. a wish spell stating, "I wish the person who stole the item to be instantly teleported into this cell". If this is the case your best course of action is to work with the GM to get the game back on track. Basically it doesn't matter if they can't locate the item, they can always locate you.
If however, this is part of the plot or a welcome diversion, then the GM will be looking for you to be inventive and will probably allow anything that sounds plausible. If this is the case then it seems you have two problems.
1. You have a very high risk of being caught if you remove the item from it's current location.
2. You may bring suspicion upon yourself if your interactions change. E.g. if you still have to deal with the guild then every social encounter may require a bluff check to make sure your character doesn't say something by mistake. If you suddenly bail unexpectedly then that will also be suspicious.
You will have a great deal of difficulty fencing something that you cannot show people, and everyone you tell is a potential way of getting caught. If you do find a middleman they are likely to require both bags of holding so that they can transport it safely and pay at best say 5% of the unauthenticated item's value. You are likely to make a loss on the deal; so until the heat dies down, I think you need to forget about selling it.
Forget about using a spell or magic item to obfuscate your guilt. There are too many other mundane avenues available to the investigators. You need to find a plausible reason to break contact with the Wizard's guild, leave the local vicinity and head a long way away before the Wizard's guild and potentially the Thieves or Assassin's Guild, commissioned by the Wizard's guild tracks you down. Also, I would not leave by ship as you are effectively stuck on board until it makes port. That gives the investigators plenty of time to learn which ship you left on and overtake you (e.g. by teleport, or some communication method).
Lead. Lead, lead, lead. Only a thin sheet is enough to block divinations, so you can line armor with it (though that would be heavy). You can also bunker down in a place with lead-lined walls for a little while.
Think a lot will depend on what was stolen and the politics of the city and wizard guild.
Most wizard guilds don't want it being know they got stolen from. So any 'searches' for you will be kept 'quiet'.
Disguises - not need and might even be harmful. No one saw you so they should have no idea that you took stole stuff. Having you 'disappear' right after the theft is a sign of guilt.
Misdirection is very useful, get yourself a patsy. If you know someone unfriendly to the town/wizard guild (or even a rival), maybe send a easily identifiable magic item to that person/region in a round about manor to throw the investigators off.
Think there's also some misdirection spells that could be useful. Just don't know how those work.
That's all true, I would still have him make bluff checks whenever he interacted with the Guild to hide his own guilt. Rather than a direct opposed Bluff - Sense Motive Check it would be a check that his body language gives the Guild representative a hunch that something is up. So DC20+Bluff opposed by Sense Motive is how I would run it. If the topic of conversation was directly about the stolen item then it would be a straight opposed check.
Darker, The character is a 10 year old kid (Oracle, Child cursed, we just decided to say screw it and go whole hog with it, he's ACTUALLY a kid, just coming into his power). Lead armor, or even the previous idea of lead-plating sandwiched between steel plating, would be too heavy for him. (Str 10, small-sized - again, we took liberties with the curse's wording - so 75% carry). Anything ELSE, as far as lead would go, would be non-portable. I GUESS I could buy a wagon and have it lead lined... but that kind of custom job would be suspicious. It would ALSO be suspicious for the 10 year old to just up and vanish for a couple weeks. :P
I mean, if we want to play by the rules: technically characters that are not fully adults cannot take regular class levels. I see that you've house ruled it, but just sayin'. Anyway, at level 5 you're pretty screwed. Scrolls and magical items (which I assume is what you're looking for) are simply WAAAY out of your price range for WBL. On the other note, technically is says a "thin layer of lead." You only need enough to cover. You don't need an inch around you. Lead's heavy. It's not THAT heavy. You'll only need a couple of lbs. to line a child-sized suit of armor. So, I guess hit the gym or have some potions of Bull's Strength on tap if you can't afford, say, 30 lbs of weight to account for the base weight of low-tier armor (using chain shirt as base) plus the couple of lbs of lead to line it.
If they did not see you or have an item that once belonged to you, they could not use discern location to find you. But as long as they once touched the item you stole, these measure would not stop the spell.So, OK. Location of the items is inside of one bag of holding inside of ANOTHER bag of holding type item (No, NOT a portable hole). The later bag can only be opened by someone directly related to my character via his demonic progenitor (no benefits, just a bit of a handwave back story). So effectively, they're in an completely inaccessible pocket dimension... unless I take the bag out of the other bag. Would Discern Location even WORK under these conditions? They can't find ME with it, becasue while they've TECHNICALLY seen me, they HAVEN'T seen "the person what robbed our vault." Even if they COULD locate the items, it'll be pretty hard to name, track, or locate a pocket dimension that's been sealed off.
A discern location spell is among the most powerful means of locating creatures or objects. Nothing short of a mind blank spell or the direct intervention of a deity keeps you from learning the exact location of a single individual or object. Discern location circumvents normal means of protection from scrying or location. The spell reveals the name of the creature or object's location (place, name, business name, building name, or the like), community, county (or similar political division), country, continent, and the plane of existence where the target lies.
What you discribed was "hidden very well" but it falls short of mind blank or the direct intervention of a deity.
They would get a result similar to, "in a pocket dimension, coterminous with the material plane at 415 Baker Street, Absolom."
Object lesson, never, ever make a move on the Wizards Guild, or similar resourced organization without having a comprehensive exit strategy already in place.
I mean, if we want to play by the rules: technically characters that are not fully adults cannot take regular class levels. I see that you've house ruled it, but just sayin'.
Tell that to Paizo's Kineticist iconic.
Zarius,
Perhaps you could have included loot disposal as part of your exit strategy.
No job is finished until the paperwork is done is not a new concept. :)
Best of luck though.