| clcman |
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Super-necroposting here, but it seems like this is a recurring enough issue for people that I thought I'd share my solution.
When the PCs get up into the courtyard and look around, they see one of Scaen's knives on the ground, next to a line of footprints in the muddy grass that just... stop in the middle of the courtyard. They look around some more, but don't see or hear anything.
Eventually, they move on towards the door. As they do, they hear a shriek and something comes tumbling out of the mist from above, slamming into a nearby rooftop with a sickening crunch before bouncing off and splattering onto the ground.
The corpse of Ilesi Scaen, a look of horror on her face, slowly morphs into her true doppelganger form (which the PCs had not previously seen) as sharp-eyed PCs catch a glimpse of large, bat-like wings flying away into the mist...
There. Loose end clipped without making hard fights harder, doppelganger nature revealed, Nightgaunt foreshadowed, "there are bigger fish here" established, players freaked out. Objective complete.