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"Conjuration? Like, it might summon a powerful foe?" Vincent cracks his knuckles and re-draws his sword. "I like the sound of that. He walks into the room and thrusts his sword at the exact center of the room, seeing if an enemy decides to coalesce around the blade.
If nothing happens, he shrugs and looks at the next room.
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Vincent doesn't notice it a first but the longer he stands in the room the stronger a deep vibration in the walls gets. After about 15 seconds the vibrations reach a crescendo.
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While first watching the building vibration and then considering the possibilities, Garedon proceeds to cast Guidance from his wayfinder, then Resistance, and palms his wands of magic missiles and shield before stepping into the chamber after Victor.
"You may wish to wait for us here," Garedon advises.
"In for an copper penny, in for a gold measure."
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The door behind the party opens and there stand Vincent and Garedon. The room behind them is identical to the room the party was experimenting with.
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"Hmm. I may be better than 'all right' - I may well be interesting."
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Vincent looks over at Garedon, looks down at his hands and swings his sword a couple times experimentally. He glances back at the center of the room before shrugging and re-joining the others. "That works for me. I've always felt that lefties had an advantage in a sword fight. Easier to bypass most shields." He doesn't bother to explain what he's talking about to the others. "To the next room?"
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"What th..."
Tuich peers past the two into the other room. "Well that's pretty useless. Why would anyone set up permanent teleportation into a room right across the hall when they could just walk through the doors!"
She shakes her head in confused amazement. "But you two are alright, that's the main thing. Vincent, that was a foolish thing you did. And Garedon even foolisher!"
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Garedon considers the change: mundane and supernatural; simple and enormous.
"I have often been told that 'my heart is in the right place', which was always a mysterious observation for people to make: By what means did they come by this information? Still, now I am not so sure what difference it makes, insofar as each organ maintains its position and function relative to each connecting organ and tissue."
"Interestingly, I feel mentally no different. Hmm. Lausu naht esnes erom yna ekam siht seod? On? Hmm. I wonder if I will be able to prepare spells? Will magical inscriptions or, indeed, runes and holy symbols, work as expected?"
"Now, am I properly considered an opposite, obverse, reverse, inverse, converse, or, indeed, something perverse, like a doppleganger? ... Upon reflection, I believe that I may be a reflection."
(Some things do not change.)
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I realise, in retrospect, that I could have been a little clearer to the rest of the party there. Perhaps I should have just pointed.
--Miko Teppen, personal notes
Facing the hallway westward, Miko is looking somewhat confused:
So do we turn left, right for Garedon, there, or should we turn right, left for Garedon? If I'm left, left is where the dark creature right us. I'd suggest we go right. You are in your left if you want to disagree, but I think it would be best that we right no stone unturned, left?
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Garedon continues various tests of his new condition, sticking a thumb out and blinking with first one eye and then another. "It is, in the end, a simple matter: The left aspect of my person has become my right, and the right my left, correspondingly. Essentially, Vincent and I have become our mirror images."[b]
[b]"Um... Right, Miko, ri- 'correct', I think. Perhaps we should talk about the 'dextrous' and the 'sinistral', just so that everyone in understandable to everyone else, using the original point of references-- Or perhaps we should just point."
"To the great pit and beyond or back towards where we entered the ossuary complex?"
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Vincent's name is inscribed on the bottom of his Wayfinder. He examines it to see if the writing became reversed. If he can still read his name, he calls one of the others (other than Garedon) over to make sure that it still looks right to them too. "I'd hate to discover that all of Garedon's scrolls are unreadable now," he explains.
If everything is fine, he agrees with going south down the hallway.
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The group comes to an interection and looking to the west it appears the passage turns and continues south. To the east they see a suit of elaborate lacquered armor standing sentinel against the far eastern wall of the octagonal chamber. Silver chains attached to the armor's neck and chest run across the floor of the room, their ends clutched in the bony hand of a skeleton sprawled on the floor ten feet away.
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"It would be probably be the most prudent course of action to also target the suit of armor with your undead-disrupting ray, especially considering the non-expendable nature of the cantrip."
"This unusual pair seems possibly familiar to me. I shall consult a chapbook I have assembled regarding locally-relevant knowledge and lore. This shall only take a few moments as the information has been exceptionally well organized and indexed."
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Vincent steps forward and gets ready to try and lead the roaches away. With a few gestures Miko creates the sound of a vicious musical chord with the power to scatter and kill many of the roaches. Tuich takes a moment rummaging through her pack before she triumphantly retrieves an alchemist fire. The remaining insects make their move against Vincent who leads them to a far corner of the room before they swarm over him taking tiny bites out of his flesh.
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