- Aarakess, Rohara, Dryn'taka
Kilthan calls up, "Aara? What's going on? Who pushed Jadgbach and Skorhald into the pit?"
With little physical help coming from others the woman moves in to tie up Dryn...
Aarakess calls down:
I think Dryn is possessed. Can you get up quick? What happened?
Aarakess continues to zap Dryn with Evil Eye Hexes.
Move: Cackle
Standard: EE Hex - reduce attacks by 2 for 7 rounds, DC19 Will reduces to 1 round. - will be continued by Cackle whether or not the save is made.
Dryn'taka fights off the grapple attempt and opens the door and steps back into the room.
- Aarakess, Rohara, Dryn'taka
EE Hex: -2 on AC - DC19 Will
Round 4
A quick look to Aarakess, "You are aware that I am not very good at this?" With a deep sigh Rohara continues in her attempt to grapple with Dryn.
As Rohara and Dryn'taka struggle at the doorway, Dryn tries to shake off the effects of the breath weapon.
*Fail*
- Aarakess, Rohara, Dryn'taka
While Aarakess continues to slam evil eye hexes into Dryn, Cieslx once more breathes a cone of color upon Dryn.
Move: Cackle
Standard: EE Hex - reduce ability checks by 2 for 9 rounds, DC19 Will reduces to 1 round, but will be continued by Cackle
Cieslx
Breath Weapon - Euphoria -- DC12 Fort or sickened and staggered for rounds.
BW recharge: rounds.
*Fail*
After Rohara goes, Dryn'taka moves to the back of the room and disappears through the wall in the back. Rohara does not see any open door or passage on that wall.
After Rohara goes, Dryn'taka moves to the back of the room and disappears through the wall in the back. Rohara does not see any open door or passage on that wall.
<-- +2 more if spell or spell like ability
After Rohara yells out she left She flies over to the doorway and peers in, but from outside the wall looks real
Lets get the others up here. Drop down more rope if necessary.
Aarakess stays floating outside the room watching the wall to make sure than nobody comes forth.
Once combat is over it is not a problem getting the others back up out of the pit. Where the illusion of the pit's floor was, a silence spell prevent sound traveling between the top and bottom. After a couple of minutes everyone is once again together at the top.
Dryn'taka does not return during this time.
Kilthan asks, "Before this, when's the last time that Dryn was alone? We need to find the real her -- especially since this lot's already tried to ruin our reputation once so far tonight."
As you converse the last time Dryn'taka was alone was sometime before the doppleganger attack in the Crooked Inn.
Aarakess shakes her head:
More likely, someone possessed her. Rohara checked her for magic and what she saw were Dryn's items. If it was a doppleganger, it took her equipment as well as her form.
Anyway, lets find out who or what this is. She went through the wall, lets see what type of an illusion it is.
"That does not bode, well. This entire time, Dryn was not Dryn?" Rohara stated in a shocked contemplation.
At the mention of rope Rohara ties a bit of rope off and tosses it down to the others as well.
Kilthan nods at Aara's statement, "Huh, didn't know that it was possible to do that. Either way, they got her and we want her back."
"Can we track her, find her with magic? She's got a bit of a head start on us now..."
Kilthan nods and says, "Yup. Fresh scent and tracks both, but I'm betting they end at that wall."
She walked through the wall. Dryn does not have such magic. More likely it is an illusion. The wall did not appear to move like a secret door.
Despite feeling like the wall could be an illusion, try as you might you all cannot see past the illusion and believe the wall is real. However you and other objects are able to pass through it. Behind the fake wall is a door set into the southeast wall (map updated)
Aarakess nods:
I have read about this type of spell. I believe it is called an illusory wall. Fairly powerful magic, so we shall have to be careful for whoever cast it is unlikely to be a slouch.
"Well, if'n ye can fall through the floor I suppose ye can walk through a wall." Looking to Kilthan he adds, "Ye should check for traps first, as apparently it is that sort of place?"
Kilthan says, "I can do that, but it takes time. Might be faster to follow in Dryn's footsteps... we know she made it to wherever she is now."
"Lead the way then, tracker..."
The walls of this tall octagonal chamber are mirrored with a dark black glass reflecting ghostly blue flames from a trio of torches suspended above. In the center of the room is each one of you, manacled and tied to a chair, struggling to escape.
Kilthan in the chair says, "Jagdbach, come here! Get away from that thing. Even its scent is masked from you."
Dryn'taka in the chair says, [b]"Thank goodness you have finally found me! They took me the first night we got into town. They attached some device that could read my mind so the dopplegangers would know everything I knew. Please get me out of here!"
Justin in the chair says, "She lies! She just stumbled in here and manacled herself to the chair."
Tobar in the chair says, "Thank goodness you have finally found me! They took me as soon as I walked away from you then I watched as he changed shape into that dwarf who they said is Kilthan's friend!"
Anala in the chair looks at the Rohara and says, "I wanted to believe she was alive again too, but it is obvious to me now she is a fake after they captured me when I went back to the inn."
Aarakess in the chair says, "They captured me at the inn after I retired for the night. I overheard them say they were going to stage a failed assassination attempt and then inject the fake me into your party and lure you here. You must have noticed the other me acting odd."
Dryn'taka in the chair says, "Thank goodness you have finally found me! They took me the first night we got into town. They attached some device that could read my mind so the dopplegangers would know everything I knew. Please get me out of here!"
Aarakess throws back her head and laughs.
Well, there is an easy test for that. Just give me a moment.
She reaches into her pouch and pulls out some powdered iron which she tosses at Justin while speaking arcane words.
Cast Enlarge Person on the Justin with the party. It only effects humanoids and to the best of my knowledge, dopplegangers are not humanoid. I suppose it could work work on a doppleganger, but shouldn't be RAW.
Justin comments: "Most of us must be our real selves, or we would have aided the chaos created by what appeared to be Drynn."
Justin points to the seated Rohara: "Heal us with your holy symbol, some of us are still injured."
Justin casts bless on his friends after fingering his holy symbol.
Kilthan holds up a hand and extends one finger, "We've seen our Aara fly just a few minutes ago...", then another finger, "..Rohara healed me before the pit... and besides, she wasn't with us when we were at the inn... heck, we thought she was dead..", a third finger, "...and, to be fair, I thought that same of Skorhald until half an hour ago... so taking those shapes makes no sense."
He shrugs, "Way I see it, that just leaves Justin and me, and I'm thinking Justin can prove himself by healing one of us... and I'm pretty sure I'm the real me... and while I can't heal or do showy magic, I'm willing to bet that I'm a mite bit better at fighting with both axe and klar than that one..."
"Don't be worrying lad, no one doubts that your furry friend would know the real you and not obey another as he has been. Enough of these treacherous shifters, let us dispose of them with all due haste..."
With that the dwarf utters some arcane words as he gestures toward the Justin, Aarakess, Rohara, Kilthan, and Jadgbach that he walked in with and starts his dorn-dergar swinging as he chants with a cadence now familiar strikes a chord within you...
"'Ware treacherous doubles as they spin lies'
wearing faces not theirs, with hate in their eyes;
Time for talking is past, time for vengeance is nigh;
Raise weapons friends, these fiends must die!"
Rohara looks to those locked up to the chairs and considers how eerie it is to look at copies of many of the group.
"it is strange," Rohara looks back to Anala, "That you would wish I was alive, considering you did not know me at all. And the fact that I have been with Skorhold prior to even knowing of a doppelganger threat."
She looks to the free Aarakess, "I do not suppose a spell to dispel magics would reveal a true form of a doppelganger?"
"As to Dryn, did she ever mix up one of her concoctions since coming to this place? It might be a way to tell her from a fake. Hard to do what she does without training. I am not saying that would be a definitive, but it would be a start, just like Aarakess flying, Justin using a Holy symbol of Iomedae." Rohara states.
Aarakess begins to cast enlarge person while Justin casts bless. Skorhald casts haste while Kilthan readies himself. Not surprisingly, the majority of "you' jump up out of the chair, except for the other "Dryn'taka", and attack.
Anala and Kilthan attack the real Kilthan, with both copies landing a
blow, but the other Kilthan hits a vital spot
Justing gets attacked by both a copy of himself and Aarakess, with both landing solid blows
Jagdbach gets attacked by the copy of Tobar and takes a glancing blow
[dice=Anala "C" Claw vs Kilthan]1d20+8[/dice]
[dice=Kilthan "C" Claw vs Kilthan]1d20+8[/dice]
[dice=Aarakess "C" Claw vs Justin]1d20+8[/dice]
[dice=Justin "C" Claw vs Justin]1d20+8[/dice]
[dice=Tobar "C" Claw vs Jagdbach]1d20+8[/dice]
Confirmations
[dice=Confirm Kilthan "C" Claw vs Kilthan]1d20+8[/dice]
[dice=Confirm Justin "C" Claw vs Justin]1d20+8[/dice]
- Kilthan, Rohara, Aarakess, Justin, Skorhald, Copies
AC 16 T 12 FF 14 CMD 20
Kilthan snarls in Dwarven, "Jagdbach, fury-kill."
He then starts to spin his waraxe, trying to reconcile in his mind the strangeness of attacking himself, pleased to have his spirits buyoed by the cadence of Skorhald's chant. He plants his feet firmly and lashes out, hoping that lashing out in a flurry catches the other "him" by surprise and brings things to a quick end.
Jagdbach snarls and begins to froth at the mouth, not sure which two-foots are which, but knowing which one hit him.
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Kilthan: HP: 53/82 ; AC: 22/13/20
Full-Round Action: Full Attack (PA)
Jagdbach: HP: 72/77; AC: 21/11/18 [Raging, 7 rounds remain]
Full-Round Action: Full attack
Round 2 Justin
Justin watches the copies jump up and calls to Kilthan:
"Attack with we and we will maneuver to let Sknornag into the room."
Justin starts attacking the Tobar copy and moves to the Aarakess copy if he drops the Tobar copy.
Aarakess will finish casting her Enlarge Person on Justin, and then cast Glitterdust to blind as many as possible.
I have not spotted where I will cast the Glitterdust, as I need to know how the battlefield will be adjusted when Justin enlarges and forces some of the dopplegangers back.
Kilthan chooses to fight the copy of himself and is just unsettling enough for him to miss all but one of his attacks
However Justin and Jagdbach combine to kill off the copy of Tobar and Aarakess, while Justin wounds his likeness. Both of the dead copies revert to the grey form of a doppelganger when killed.
Ok, seeing two of the dopplegangers go down, Aarakess changes her tactics and instead squeezes into the doorway and focuses on doppleganger Kilthan making him realize that his poor choice of a person to emulate has resulted in his attacks suffering just like the real Kilthan (who the dicebot hates).
Standard: Evil Eye Hex on fake Kilthan: -2 to attacks for 9 rounds, DC19 Will reduces to 1 round
Move: Cackle
5-foot more - step into doorway space so that I can see fake Kilthan
The cleric seems to be stuck in the back of the party and sees little room to help with any healing or other spells as every bunches up in and by the doorway. She waits for her time to act.
Skorhald is up last before the Doppelgangers.
Charging his dorn-derger with arcane energy, the dwarf takes advantage of his magically enhanced speed and the long range of his weapon to strike out over Kilthan at Kilthan's likeness with his enhanced attacks.
Performance Rounds: 15/18
Current Performance: None; Lingering: Inspire Courage
Performances Available: (move action) bladethirst, distraction, fascinate, inspire competence +3, inspire courage +2, rallying cry.
Bard Spells Known (CL 7th; concentration +9):
3rd (1/day)—good hope, haste(Cast)
2nd (4/day)—bladed dash, blistering invective, rage, silence (DC 14)
1st (5/day)—ear-piercing scream (DC 13), feather step (DC 13), grease (DC 13), saving finale (DC 13), vanish
0 (at will)—daze (DC 12), detect magic, mage hand, mending, message, prestidigitation (DC 12)
The wall opens up to the south revealing a secret door and the other Dryn'taka standing there. Another Justin comes out of it and moves up to the real Justin swinging his longsword. (Provoking an AoO, remember the -2 to attack)
From behind, a Rohara and Skorhald come through the door from the hallway and attack their likeness with longswords. (Skorhald 'D' provokes an AoO from Skorhald and Rohara, remember the -2 to attack against your likeness)
Justin is missed by both of his doubles.
[dice=Justin "C" claw #1 vs Justin]1d20+8[/dice]
[dice=Justin "C" claw #2 vs Justin]1d20+8[/dice]
[dice=Justin "D" longsword + VS vs Justin]1d20+8[/dice]
Kilthan is hit by a number of claws
[dice=Anala "C" claw #1 vs Kilthan]1d20+8[/dice] *Hit*
[dice=Anala "C" claw #2 vs Kilthan]1d20+8[/dice] *Hit*
[dice=Kilthan "C" claw #1 vs Kilthan]1d20+8[/dice]
[dice=Kilthan "C" claw #2 vs Kilthan]1d20+8[/dice]
Rohara's double misses her completely
[dice=Rohara "D" longsword + PA + VS vs Rohara]1d20+8[/dice]
Skorhald's double closes and lands a hit with his longsword.
[dice=Skorhald "D" longsword + PA + VS vs Skorhald]1d20+8[/dice] *Hit*