So, I'm GMing a large party through RoW on these boards and had a rather interesting situation arise. The story thus far isn't relevant except that the PCs are an extremely odd bunch to say the least. Important characters in this instance are Gnome twin sisters. One's a Spellscar Oracle, and the other's a Sorceer.
The situation: the Sorcerer has Dissociative Identity Disorder (think Gollum/Smeagol without the conversations) but doesn't realize it. Depending on who's in control, her alignment shifts between CG and NE. The rest of the party knows something's up and is assuming some sort of curse/possession/foul magic is at work. Last time the Sorcerer swapped personalities, her sister triggered a Primal Magic event duplicating magic jar and proceeded to voluntarily fail her saving throw in an attempt to get her real sister back.
What happens now - assuming the Sorcerer fails her Will save? I'm stumped.
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Well it's largely up to you and your interpretation of soul and character. As the Dissociation is a mental disorder rather than posession Id say both personalities land in the jar and the best solution now would be to somehow enter it so that there's two real people inside..and then run an adventure inside someones twisted and divided mind-soul reality with a quest to fully cleave that single soul realm in two..and then there's the problem of which half makes it back..or the classical way - imprison the evil twin deep within the soul realm. That second option is quite a classic, but a little unstable one, as theres always a chance the prisoner will escape.
A lazier option is to just treat the disorder as being caused by a meld of two souls..and flip a coin to see which one you catch..not as much fun id say.
Go for the "im in your head and what do I see?" adventure. Much fun with a bigger sidequest :)
And make sure the disorderly gnome player is content with possible outcomes.
What is the source of the second personality? Was a second soul forced to live in the same body as the first one or is it something that occurred over time or in reaction to events? If it's the latter then it's only one soul that has twisted to create a second face more capable of dealing with what it has to do to survive.
Let the magic jar work but it's one soul and one body. There is no evil magic or second soul to separate. After all Smeagol is just a Golum strong enough to kill to preserve his addiction and an adaptation to extreme magic, not a personality forced into Golum by the ring