Counterfeit Mage

Turkish scout's page

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And so the company of two dozen Turkish scouts that originally spotted the Black Pyramid are sent back to the clearing in Kiev where they first saw the great obsidian edifice, and it is here that they once more encounter the strange artifact after it returns from a brief trip to Rome...

In Turkish: There! It is there again! Send word to the Sultan!

A silver raven flies to the Sultan's tent on the Dnieper River with the message he had hoped beyond hope to hear!


The captain of the Turkish scouts quietly orders his men to break camp and prepare to ride back to where the main force of Turks was encamped near the river.

This is something out of my scope... I must report what I saw to my superiors... to the Sultan himself! ... This could make me famous... but what in Allah's creation is this thing!?

The two dozen scouts quickly return to their horses and break camp, and within minutes of their encounter with the mystifying Black Pyramid, they are galloping hard for the river...


Stealthily, the company of scouts approaches and circumnavigates the Black Pyramid on foot, as their horses will not approach the strange vessel...

Stealth checks modified by +8 bonus: 24d20 ⇒ (2, 19, 2, 11, 16, 7, 17, 4, 15, 2, 3, 2, 12, 7, 14, 18, 2, 17, 3, 4, 17, 19, 5, 20) = 238

What in the Prophet's name is this thing? It looks like a pyramid of Egypt, but black as the night sky, with glowing golden glyphs of alien origin! It cannot be of Earth... it must be from either Heaven or Hell...


Perception to notice the Black Pyramid appear 400 ft away vs DC 20: 24d20 ⇒ (13, 1, 13, 15, 7, 15, 2, 1, 19, 5, 17, 8, 1, 16, 6, 19, 6, 4, 15, 1, 3, 8, 8, 18) = 221 with +8 Perception bonus, 10 scouts spot the Pyramid!

The encamped scouts are soon aware of the strange black pyramid some four hundred feet to the north that wasn't there before...

In Turkish: Allah preserve us! What is that!?