Yeah, I figured. It was just against me specifically. XD
Without Eben's Haste and a decent roll on that AP at least I would probably be dead by now. I just BARELY passed that Slow DC, and Staggered I'd have probably been sliced in half by Telakin next round.
By the by: Greater Doppleganger = Coolest enemy ever.
I've always loved both shapeshifters and "copycats". This guy is both.
Right, you guys are more-or-less halfway through this installment! Applaud, everyone!
I'll post the general "I loot the room" information in a bit. There are a few enemies nobody ever looted that I assume you'll want to go for now.
Yay! :D
"...I'd frame us for murder and get us arrested or run out of town..."
I just wanted to aside and say that that was actually going to happen. The doppelgangers would have staged a murder (targeting the owner of the Crooked House, incidentally) and riled up a mob to target the PCs. This encounter would have involved Elaxan, and had you screwed up and gotten arrested, you would have been quickly transferred to the doppelgangers' prison. From there, you would have been mind cloned one-by-one (despite this being a prohibitively expensive process), then slain. One of you might have even been eaten by Telakin. Assuming you didn't manage to break out first, of course.
That said, had you beaten Elaxan and avoided arrest, you'd have found suspicious clues on her to lead you to the lair. Instead, you got to the Sodden Hold very early (earlier than Telakin, or his GM, had intended) and immediately headed inside, so I just scrapped the encounter altogether.
Bah! Beat me by seconds.
"...I'd frame us for murder and get us arrested or run out of town..."I just wanted to aside and say that that was actually going to happen. The doppelgangers would have staged a murder (targeting the owner of the Crooked House, incidentally) and riled up a mob to target the PCs. This encounter would have involved Elaxan, and had you screwed up and gotten arrested, you would have been quickly transferred to the doppelgangers' prison. From there, you would have been mind cloned one-by-one (despite this being a prohibitively expensive process), then slain. One of you might have even been eaten by Telakin. Assuming you didn't manage to break out first, of course.
That said, had you beaten Elaxan and avoided arrest, you'd have found suspicious clues on her to lead you to the lair. Instead, you got to the Sodden Hold very early (earlier than Telakin, or his GM, had intended) and immediately headed inside, so I just scrapped the encounter altogether.
Oh. Thus the earlier (preliminary, I assume) encounter with the obligatory obstructive/obnoxious watch officer.
Well, good thing things went this way, I like Tarquin!
Oh no! We jumped the tracks!
My sympathies.
Kinda how my RotRL group wanted to go exploring Chopper's Isle, so I ended up moving the Catacombs of Wrath to underneath his house.
Well, since Elaxan's being alive to join us in the Sodden Hold pretty much directly led to Cuetz's death, skipping that bit sounds like a mixed blessing.
Hey, don't be pessimistic.
They unknowingly laid down their lives for an innocent. =)
Tanith isn't terribly excited about the ratio either.
Granted he doesn't really understand what a ratio is.
Sure he does.
He understands that his leg muscles are a lot bigger than his arm muscles.
That's a ratio!
Hey, I do know that!
Sorry for biting you Eben! Damn y'all post a lot. I'll try to catch up after work.
I laughed for a solid minute after "Do not get between Al'Khatel and wall".
Tanith isn't terribly excited about the ratio either.
Granted he doesn't really understand what a ratio is.
I'm sure Tanith would have an easier time understanding that with a pie chart in front of him.
Or at least an actual pie.
I was just thinking, if/when Spiny gets awakened, Tanith (or whoever) can ride him! Then the battlefield will be less crowded and Tanith could reach that much more with his polearm.
I'm going to start tallying loot but until we figure out how much we're spending on raises I'm not going to bother assigning stuff.
Did Farrukh end up drinking the barkskin potion from the 'potentially dangerous' list?
There was also:
"Necroturgon" of False Life x1
potion of shield of faith x2
potion of expeditious retreat x1
I drank Barkskin, Shield of Faith, Expeditious Retreat, and Invisibility.
The loot sheet's updated but without someone to identify stuff it's kind of pointless.
Incidentally, "cold furnace" is something you can "solve". It's a rather obscure reference to something from the last time you all visited Greyhawk. Eben (and only Eben) can also make an Intelligence check to flat-out remember it, since it's been a lot longer for DankeSean than it has for his PC, so I get that there's a bit of memory unfairness. :P
does anyone among the living have detect magic? at least that way we can sort out which 'masterwork' items are mundane or not.
I suspect this is going to be a 'clear every bit of possible treasure that's not nailed down' scenario, given the need for some raising. The assorted costumes in the wardrobes and the various 'rich accouterments' of Telakin's room might fetch some decent cash.
Not today. Tanith can prep it tomorrow.
Can someone with appraise figure out what's worth looting?
Well, that depends. Got a spare Raise Dead for Gattel?
Eh, I'm smarter than Eben. Or at least better able to go back and check the archived past. If I got it myself can I skip the +0 intelligence check?
Of course. The Int check is just an option.
We don't have anyone with appraise and we don't have any way to raise anyone with appraise right now.
Let's nab whatever we can now and leave. We've got enough in coin and assorted gems to cover raising Astraden. She can help us sort out the rest.
I have an idea that might help defer the cost of an actual raise dead. Depends on how grateful the thieves guild is for us taking out the doppelgangers.
We've got ~15k in liquid cash right now. The raise dead isn't a big deal.
If Eben's contacts can do it for cheaper great but I'd rather not waste time shopping around.
Oh, well that's entirely different. =P
Reincarnate it is!
But what if you come back as something gross, like a troglodyte, or worse, a gnome? We have a reputation to uphold!
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does anyone among the living have detect magic? at least that way we can sort out which 'masterwork' items are mundane or not.
I suspect this is going to be a 'clear every bit of possible treasure that's not nailed down' scenario, given the need for some raising. The assorted costumes in the wardrobes and the various 'rich accouterments' of Telakin's room might fetch some decent cash.
Don't forget the Everburning Torches. =)
So, it looks like we'll only need to pony up enough cash for a Reincarnate and a Raise Dead then.
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Maybe 150 for speak with dead so you can know for sure, though. I mean it's reasonable to think Astraden would be fine with reincarnation since she is down with randomness but you guys weren't even thinking about it before.
Maybe a good bet for Cuetzpalli too. A whole "make sure your 4000-gp investment will pay off before making it" thing.
If I recall, the component isn't expended unless the spell fully completed, which it wouldn't if the target chose not to come back.
So, now what? Having looted the rooms, where to now?
Also, with regards to Farrukh's comment—there are a total of twenty everburning torches in this place.
We're going to meet Eben's contacts.
Might as well pack the everburning torches up and take them with us too.
I don't see why not.
I'll move things along once the mirror matter is resolved.
Who speaks draconic?