Need advice on getting my party to Portland!

[kiikibobikki]

Hey pathfinder pros,
I am part of an evil party and our current goal is to find a way to travel to real world Portland and open up a farm to table restaurant. Sounds wild and implausible, but not after considering a couple psionic powers gifted to one of my party members: probability travel and know course. We are regularly using these powers to travel to the astral plane and then enter different realms/specific places from there. The obstacle in our way is finding some knowledge or information in the our game of Earth. In other words, we need to know of Earth to “know course” to Earth. Does anyone have any pointers or hints on how we can hear/read about Earth? Furthermore, our probability travel doesn’t allow us to travel through time. Once we reach Earth, our next obstacle would be time travel to reach 2017. Any ideas on this would be greatly appreciated also.

Love,

Kiiki

[Lunaramblings]

First, which Portland? There are a few. And depending on the one you want may open different ideas. For example, Portland, Maine has a long history of Fey lore. As such portaling from a Fey Realm may make sense. Also who's to say that the timelines are synced? Perhaps the realm your players are from are in year Bleh, but the time traits and evolution of the two realities are very different so our timeline on Earth may be our own modern day society.

[Coidzor]

If you're on Golarion or can get there and the Reign of Winter AP has happened, there's people who have been to earth on Golarion or that are from Golarion and have gone elsewhere in the planes.

Baba Yaga knows how to get to Earth, but you generally don't want her attention.

Various outsiders would know of it, but why you'd think to ask them about it would require some explaining.

If you arrive in the Earth's past, find a convenient location, such as a hollowed out, super-reinforced chamber on the moon, to store the party while preserved by Flesh to Stone on the moon and while they're guarded by a number of servitors with orders to restore them once enough time has passed.

Alternatively make them immortal and use their powers to manipulate the course of history and enrich themselves so that they can do whatever they want come 2017.

[Chuck Mount]

I have no idea how you would purposefully travel to Earth (or why). There was an old AD&D adventure in Dragon Magazine called The Mace of Saint Cuthbert. I think that was what it was called. You traveled to England to find his mace. I never ran it, but I had the issue and it was pretty cool. I would ask the DM to just send you on adventure to Earth.

As for traveling to 2017, who's to say that both planes of existence aren't moving at parallel times. The D&D worlds (and pathfinder) have been in the same basic state of technology for thousands of years. They simply don't progress like we do because they have magic. We're forced to build machines to accomplish the same stuff they do with magic, so their world is much cleaner and greener due to no factories and magic people and critters that live in nature.