vs DC 18
"Oh, hey, this is a cloak of the elvenkind. Very nice, but not my style really." he passes it on. He nods when Heinrich takes the dagger and is very pleased at the coins.
When Tristain starts talking about death, he sort of glazes over and doesn't really listen, just enjoys the timber of the speech. He smiles and nods until all the sex acts are brought in. He laughs and shakes his head, "You are a very creative man Tristain. I'm not sure you're right, but it's a pleasant thought."
He too follows Albert to the north, ready for anything... he hopes!
Albert leads the way fully expecting more skum and zombies to bar their path. "Them dogs ain't around or barking at us, that's a good thing, but let's beware of them creatures springing an ambush on us."
Al and Kyffin lead the way through the door, finding a small kitchen fitted with a cabinet and a stone worktable. A blackened iron cauldron hangs in the fireplace. A set of stairs leads up and another door opens to the courtyard.
Back in the earlier room, Heinrich has a sudden fright however, as his reflection seems to crawl out of the mirror! Before he can react, it slashes at him with a blade, but somehow manages to just scratch his armor, cutting nothing but fabric.
It actually appears to be a mirror image of Heinrich, as a slight blemish in his facial hair is on the opposite side in the new version.
Round 1, Init 20
Perception
"OH ZOINKS!" Tristain's head goes from one Heinrich to the next. "Maybe I was wrong about coming back! Maybe that wasn't the real you! Maybe this is the real you who hates you!"
Tristain fires his wand at the west Heinrich, hoping for the best. He's at least trying to kill the non-evil Heinrich.
"gad-ZOOKS!"
Wand of Magic Missile (5): 31/50 left
force damage
HP: 25/25
AC: 12
Points: 2/4 left
Spells: Lvl 1: 7/7 left
Spells: Lvl 2: 2/4 left
Cure Used: 0/2 used
Scroll SMIII
"gad-ZOOKS!"
Wand of Magic Missile (5): 31?/50 left
force damage
Wand of Bless: 7/18 left
[ dice]1d6+1[/dice] force damage
[ dice]1d20+8[/dice] CMB to trip vs. CMD
[ dice]1d20+2-4[/dice] to hit; ()
[ dice]1d8-1[/dice] piercing damage
[ dice]1d6+1[/dice] force damage
[ dice]1d20+7[/dice] CMB to trip vs. CMD
[ dice]1d6+1[/dice] force damage
[ dice]1d6+1[/dice] force damage
"Great Beyond!" Heinrich exclaims, spotting his doppelHeinrich. "I am the real Heinrich, I say!" He slashes with the dagger at his shadowy double!
for damage!
Tenebrynn barks in reply, "That's exactly what the fake Heinrich would say!" but she sends a blast of air at the Heinrich with the backwards beard blemish.
HP: 43/43
Nonlethal: 4
AC: 16 (13 T / 12 FF)
Fort: +8 // Ref: +7 // Will: +2 (+2 vs illusion)
Talisman of Warrior's Courage: [ ]
Burn Accrued: 4/7
SLAs: dancing lights [ ], ghost sound [ ], prestidigitation [ ], speak with animals [ ]
Ongoing Effects:
Warden of Nature: +1 to hit/+2 dodge bonus vs aberrations, oozes, vermin
Foe of the Strange: +1 to saves vs aberrations, -10 to confusion results
Point Blank Shot: +1/+1
Elemental overflow: +1 to hit, +2 damage, and visual effects on person as long as burn is present
Round 1, Initiative: 18
Weapon Equipped = Scimitar
Cold Iron/Silver Blanch Bolts = 6/6
Cold Iron/Ghost Salt Bolts = 4/4
Conditions = -1 cha damage
Melee: Attack: BAB +3, Str +4, (Weapon Focus Scimitar +1), (Power Attack -1) Damage: Str +4, (Power Attack +2)
Ranged: Attack: BAB +3, Dex +1 Damage: +0 (Str +4 thrown)
Blessings (su)(5/5) (DC 14) (Holy Strike (std) or Powerful Healer) (sw)
Fervor (su, sw) (3/4) (DC 14, 1d6)
Sacred Weapon (su, sw)(0/4r)(+1)
Pearl of Power (first) 1/1
Spells (Caster Level 4, Concentration +6)
Zero (12): Create Water, Detect Magic, Light, Stabilize
First (13): Command, Divine Favor,
Second (14):
”What is going on here now? More craziness?”
Kyffin moves up, provoking from the western Heinrich to attack the eastern Heinrich.
(2hp is fire)
Unable to enter the fray, Albert stands defensively in the kitchen and waits for an opening.
Albert: 20
Tristain: 20
Heinrich: 19
Kyffin: 18
Tenebrynn: 19
Antagonist: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22
Tristain blasts Heinrich as he and his companions try to attack the mirror version. Unfortunately, it appears to be far more dextrous than the original version, and manages to avoid Heinrich's slash and Tenebrynn's blast, weaving and dodging until Kyfin closes in and badly cuts it.
Its wounds healing slightly as it battles back, it slashes back at the half-orc with dual blades, but can't quite penetrate Kyffin's guard.
FH: 22
"The right Heinrich is apparently the bleeding one." Heinrich mutters as he feels the pain remind him he's alive. He slashes back. for damage! He tries to step five feet away from the doppelHeinrich.
Round 2, Init 20
"OH SORRY! I’M SO SORRY! THIS IS VERY CONFUSING!" Tristain cries, truly sorry.
Tristain fires his wand at the evil Heinrich, hoping for the best.
"gad-ZOOKS!"
Wand of Magic Missile (5): 30/50 left
force damage
HP: 25/25
AC: 12
Points: 2/4 left
Spells: Lvl 1: 7/7 left
Spells: Lvl 2: 2/4 left
Cure Used: 0/2 used
Scroll SMIII
"gad-ZOOKS!"
Wand of Magic Missile (5): 31?/50 left
force damage
Wand of Bless: 7/18 left
[ dice]1d6+1[/dice] force damage
[ dice]1d20+8[/dice] CMB to trip vs. CMD
[ dice]1d20+2-4[/dice] to hit; ()
[ dice]1d8-1[/dice] piercing damage
[ dice]1d6+1[/dice] force damage
[ dice]1d20+7[/dice] CMB to trip vs. CMD
[ dice]1d6+1[/dice] force damage
[ dice]1d6+1[/dice] force damage
Round 2, Initiative: 18
Weapon Equipped = Scimitar
Cold Iron/Silver Blanch Bolts = 6/6
Cold Iron/Ghost Salt Bolts = 4/4
Conditions = -1 cha damage
Melee: Attack: BAB +3, Str +4, (Weapon Focus Scimitar +1), (Power Attack -1) Damage: Str +4, (Power Attack +2)
Ranged: Attack: BAB +3, Dex +1 Damage: +0 (Str +4 thrown)
Blessings (su)(5/5) (DC 14) (Holy Strike (std) or Powerful Healer) (sw)
Fervor (su, sw) (3/4) (DC 14, 1d6)
Sacred Weapon (su, sw)(0/4r)(+1)
Pearl of Power (first) 1/1
Spells (Caster Level 4, Concentration +6)
Zero (12): Create Water, Detect Magic, Light, Stabilize
First (13): Command, Divine Favor,
Second (14):
”It’s healing! Do you see that?! Damn thing is getting better!”
He does his best to try and carve up some more of the evil Heinrich as moves another 5' east to open up the room a little.
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”It’s healing! Do you see that?! Damn thing is getting better!”
Tristain nods excitedly, having found a way to ID the evil Heinrich.
”Way to see that Kyffin! We can easily tell them apart now. Our Heinrich loves to bleed all over the place.”
Still unable to enter the fray, Albert continues to stand defensively in the kitchen and wait for an opening. "I can't see nothing from back here, what's going on, who's Heinrich bleeding on?"
Tenebrynn shouts to Albert, "Heinrich is bleeding on another Heinrich!" as another of her blasts scatter uselessly across the wall to the new Heinrich's left. "He's hard to hit too!" She then turns to their latest assailant and frowns, "Stand still other Heinrich!"
HP: 43/43
Nonlethal: 4
AC: 16 (13 T / 12 FF)
Fort: +8 // Ref: +7 // Will: +2 (+2 vs illusion)
Talisman of Warrior's Courage: [ ]
Burn Accrued: 4/7
SLAs: dancing lights [ ], ghost sound [ ], prestidigitation [ ], speak with animals [ ]
Ongoing Effects:
Warden of Nature: +1 to hit/+2 dodge bonus vs aberrations, oozes, vermin
Foe of the Strange: +1 to saves vs aberrations, -10 to confusion results
Point Blank Shot: +1/+1
Elemental overflow: +1 to hit, +2 damage, and visual effects on person as long as burn is present
Tristain's blast -- and Kyffin's sword -- hit the creature, and it retreats, crawling back into the mirror!
Seeing a Heinrich turn and heinrun away through the mirror, Tristain casts Detect Magic to examine the mirror while trying of think of a monster ability that allows mirror walk type stuff.
Spellcraft
Kyffin draws black his blade for another attack when the creature disappears! He almost smashes the mirror until he sees Tristain investigating it. He tries to help casting Detect Magic and reading the auras.
Unfortunately he's of little aid.
The mirror does not have any aura in and of itself.
It could be a soulsliver, an extradimensional shapechanger that lurks in the half-dimensions behind mirrors and can assume the appearance of other creatures. It could certainly be something else too -- some type of doppelganger, but you recall hearing a proverb about thinking of horses when you hear hooves -- and not centaurs -- so a soulsliver would make as much sense as anything here does.
Tristain doesn’t know what the creature was, but does think it’s a good idea to smash the mirror into pieces so small that it couldn’t come through it again. And then he does so.
Tristain waits to see what others do after that.
Kyffin nods when the mirror is broken. "Might not be that mirror, but at least it's one less source for him." he looks at all the shards on the floor, "I hope."
He heads to the next door and, when everyone is ready and Albert is in front, cracks it open, scimitar in hand.
Tristain waits to see if Goodrich is healing on his own or all over the place, and waits to see if he needs to be healed before moving on.
"Man, can't believe someone would have done that to you, sorry..."
Kyffin and the others return to what they were doing before faux-Heinrich attacked, looking around the small kitchen fitted with a cabinet and a stone worktable. A blackened iron cauldron hangs in the fireplace. A set of stairs leads up.
The cabinet here contains enough kitchen tools and cutlery for a couple of cooks, and enough dishes and flatware for about two dozen diners. The cauldron in the fireplace contains a greasy residue and some discarded humanoid bones.
"Great gods. Next time I will let someone else have the vanity mirror." Heinrich tries to bandage his wounds. "I fear I have bled out all my vanity." He pulls his extract of Cure Light Wounds and downs it.
If the stairs leading up go somewhere we haven't been, let's go up.
Kyffin looks a little confused, "Anyone know where these lead?" he gestures to the stairs up.
If the party has been there, he suggests going down. "No sense in messing with the dogs if we don't have to."
Tristain agrees, stopping his wall-bonking for enough time to nod at Kyffin.
”We should leave the dogs be. No sense in bringing more trouble upon ourselves,” Tris comments. ”Besides these dogs probably are weird in some way, like they meow instead of bark or shoot bees from their mouths.”
"Definitely the bees, I think." Heinrich mutters.
Everything in the room at the top of the stairs is in disarray. Overturned and broken furniture litters the floor, and sprays of dried blood mark the room’s stone walls. A cracked mirror hangs on the eastern wall at the top of the stairs to this room.
A portrait of an aging couple lies amid bloodied and torn bedclothes near a large double bed. The room’s wardrobe stands open, its contents spilled out in front of its mahogany doors. It is clear that in addition to a fight in this room, someone rifled through the belongings in search of something.
A secret cache under the floor planks holds a pouch with 22 sp, 88 gp, and three freshwater pearls (worth 100 gp each).
You discover a key stuck to the underside of one of the desk’s drawers with a wad of dark red wax.
Albert stands guard while the others search the messy room for clues. "If them things wrecked this room, but left the file cabinet closed, then they either found what their scummy leaders were looking for, or missed something important."
Heinrich tosses through things, but finds nothing of note.
Perception
”Hey! Look what I found!” Tristain pulls out a pouch after prying up a plank. ”I think it’s money. Loot. Or probably a bag of poop, knowing this place...” Tristain passes the bag to Heinrich.
”Maybe we should try bashing the cabinets open?” Tristain asks, then thinks more. ”Or...we should burn it open! That’ll work too.” Tristain looks around to see if anyone else thinks his good idea is a good idea, because it is one.
"Loot, thank the gods below." Heinrich confirms.
"Let's wait to set fire to things until we've cleared the place. No sense in destroying it all." Kyffin suggests. He keeps watch while the others search, worried the mirror man was going to return - and fully healed to boot. He watches the mirror carefully as well as the door.
When folks are finished, he asks, "So where to from here?"
Quill smashes the mirror a bit more, trying to leave no pieces big enough for evil Heinrich to crawl through. He looks around, trying to answer Kyffin’s question.
Descending cautiously down the stairs, you open a door into the fort's subterranean levels. The walls of this cool and surprisingly dry room are lined with sturdy shelves laden with chopped wood. A couple of axes sit propped in the corner, and a small hatchet is driven into a stump used to split smaller logs and make kindling.
With no clear difference between the two doors, you decide to try one and discover it's locked. A quick check reveals you could open it with the keys you took off the skum the previous day, or you could try the other door.
Kyffin shrugs, "If it's locked, maybe it'll stay that way until our return. Let's try the other door first shall we?"
He moves over to the other door, and when everyone is ready, opens it, scimitar in hand.
Albert stands at guard with his shield and blade ready as Kyffin prepares to open the door. "If we find an outhouse, or whatever crapping hole them skum use, we outta break that mirror into that thing."
The other door opens as you turn it.
The many wooden shelves in the room it leads into are stacked with wooden crates, paper-wrapped packets, and small clay jars sealed with wax. Smoked trout and other dried fish hang from metal hooks fixed to the ceiling. A number of boxes and containers have been emptied and smashed, and now lie in pieces on the floor, along with discarded fish bones and other refuse.
The cause of the mayhem is mmediately apparent: Three skum are rummaging through the pantry. One skum tears into the side of a large smoked trout, while another is using a small pry bar to open a crate of dried figs. All three turn as the door opens and immediately move to attack.
Initiative
Round 1, Initiative: 16
Weapon Equipped = Scimitar
Cold Iron/Silver Blanch Bolts = 6/6
Cold Iron/Ghost Salt Bolts = 4/4
Conditions = -1 cha damage
Melee: Attack: BAB +3, Str +4, (Weapon Focus Scimitar +1), (Power Attack -1) Damage: Str +4, (Power Attack +2)
Ranged: Attack: BAB +3, Dex +1 Damage: +0 (Str +4 thrown)
Blessings (su)(5/5) (DC 14) (Holy Strike (std) or Powerful Healer) (sw)
Fervor (su, sw) (3/4) (DC 14, 1d6)
Sacred Weapon (su, sw)(0/4r)(+1)
Pearl of Power (first) 1/1
Spells (Caster Level 4, Concentration +6)
Zero (12): Create Water, Detect Magic, Light, Stabilize
First (13): Command, Divine Favor,
Second (14):
Kyffin takes advantage of their flat-footedness to enter the room and tuck himself in the corner directly north of the purple skum, which he then attacks!
(2hp is fire)
Round 1, Init 15
"Oh man, more skum. Seems like it's been weeks since I've seen them!" Tristain fires his wand at the nearest skum, hoping its magics will work against these foes.
"gad-ZOOKS!"
Wand of Magic Missile (5): 29/50 left
force damage
HP: 25/25
AC: 12
Points: 2/4 left
Spells: Lvl 1: 7/7 left
Spells: Lvl 2: 2/4 left
Cure Used: 0/2 used
Scroll SMIII
"gad-ZOOKS!"
Wand of Magic Missile (5): 31?/50 left
force damage
Wand of Bless: 7/18 left
[ dice]1d6+1[/dice] force damage
[ dice]1d20+8[/dice] CMB to trip vs. CMD
[ dice]1d20+2-4[/dice] to hit; ()
[ dice]1d8-1[/dice] piercing damage
[ dice]1d6+1[/dice] force damage
[ dice]1d20+7[/dice] CMB to trip vs. CMD
[ dice]1d6+1[/dice] force damage
[ dice]1d6+1[/dice] force damage
Heinrich: 12*
Albert: 11*
Tenebrynn: 6*
Kyffin: 16
Tristain: 15
Antagonist: 14
The skum let out cries of pain and as Kyffin and Tristain immediately press the attack, Kyffin's blade cutting deep into his foe. The creature attacks back but its wounds appear to be too much for it, and it Kyffin easily fends it off.
The other two skum rush forward, Kyffin again fending off the first's trident thrust. The other surprises Al by attacking him, the points of its trident coming away red as it jabs the old man in a weak spot in his armor.
Skum (purple): 17
Skum (red):
Skum (yellow): 9
Round 2, Init 15
Tristain, his mind nearly overwhelmed by indecision, confusion, & horror, feels like he’s moving very slowly as he points his wand at another scum and says the command word.
"gad-ZOOKS!"
Wand of Magic Missile (5): 28/50 left
force damage
HP: 25/25
AC: 12
Points: 2/4 left
Spells: Lvl 1: 7/7 left
Spells: Lvl 2: 2/4 left
Cure Used: 0/2 used
Scroll SMIII
"gad-ZOOKS!"
Wand of Magic Missile (5): 31?/50 left
force damage
Wand of Bless: 7/18 left
[ dice]1d6+1[/dice] force damage
[ dice]1d20+8[/dice] CMB to trip vs. CMD
[ dice]1d20+2-4[/dice] to hit; ()
[ dice]1d8-1[/dice] piercing damage
[ dice]1d6+1[/dice] force damage
[ dice]1d20+7[/dice] CMB to trip vs. CMD
[ dice]1d6+1[/dice] force damage
[ dice]1d6+1[/dice] force damage
Round 2, Initiative: 16
Weapon Equipped = Scimitar
Cold Iron/Silver Blanch Bolts = 6/6
Cold Iron/Ghost Salt Bolts = 4/4
Conditions = -1 cha damage
Melee: Attack: BAB +3, Str +4, (Weapon Focus Scimitar +1), (Power Attack -1) Damage: Str +4, (Power Attack +2)
Ranged: Attack: BAB +3, Dex +1 Damage: +0 (Str +4 thrown)
Blessings (su)(5/5) (DC 14) (Holy Strike (std) or Powerful Healer) (sw)
Fervor (su, sw) (3/4) (DC 14, 1d6)
Sacred Weapon (su, sw)(0/4r)(+1)
Pearl of Power (first) 1/1
Spells (Caster Level 4, Concentration +6)
Zero (12): Create Water, Detect Magic, Light, Stabilize
First (13): Command, Divine Favor,
Second (14):
Kyffin attacks purple or red, whichever seems the most wounded.
Albert shifts forward to protect Kyffin's side and hacks at the wounded skum.
Albert: 11
Tenebrynn: 6
Kyffin: 16
Tristain: 15
Heinrich: 12
Antagonist: 14
Al moves into the room and cuts down the most wounded skum as Kyffin chops the next attacker in his way. Tristain's wand's magic slams into the other skum, followed by a gust of air from Tenebrynn that doesn't manage to strike a target.
Heinrich shuffles forward, behind Al, and manages to land a solid blow with his truncheon, despite the doorway providing some cover.
Undeterred, the skum press the attack, but their wounds are taking a toll and Al and Kyffin emerge almost completely unharmed. One trident does manage to draw blood against Al, though, slipping in past his defenses.
Skum (red): 12
Skum (yellow): 17
Round 3, Initiative: 16
Weapon Equipped = Scimitar
Cold Iron/Silver Blanch Bolts = 6/6
Cold Iron/Ghost Salt Bolts = 4/4
Conditions = -1 cha damage
Melee: Attack: BAB +3, Str +4, (Weapon Focus Scimitar +1), (Power Attack -1) Damage: Str +4, (Power Attack +2)
Ranged: Attack: BAB +3, Dex +1 Damage: +0 (Str +4 thrown)
Blessings (su)(5/5) (DC 14) (Holy Strike (std) or Powerful Healer) (sw)
Fervor (su, sw) (3/4) (DC 14, 1d6)
Sacred Weapon (su, sw)(0/4r)(+1)
Pearl of Power (first) 1/1
Spells (Caster Level 4, Concentration +6)
Zero (12): Create Water, Detect Magic, Light, Stabilize
First (13): Command, Divine Favor,
Second (14):
Kyffin takes another step forward so as to prepare a flank, as he attacks the only skum within reach.
Tenebrynn tries to thread of a blast of tumbling wind through again, focusing on how her friends move and trying to anticipate where they will and won't step as the scuffle drags on.
HP: 43/43
Nonlethal: 4
AC: 16 (13 T / 12 FF)
Fort: +8 // Ref: +7 // Will: +2 (+2 vs illusion)
Talisman of Warrior's Courage: [ ]
Burn Accrued: 4/7
SLAs: dancing lights [ ], ghost sound [ ], prestidigitation [ ], speak with animals [ ]
Ongoing Effects:
Warden of Nature: +1 to hit/+2 dodge bonus vs aberrations, oozes, vermin
Foe of the Strange: +1 to saves vs aberrations, -10 to confusion results
Point Blank Shot: +1/+1
Elemental overflow: +1 to hit, +2 damage, and visual effects on person as long as burn is present
Tenebrynn and Kyffin cut down the last two skum. as they fall, however, you can hear what sounds like some sort of arcane spellcasting from the far hallway.