12 August 2006
Players/Characters
Crumpus (Russell) 6th level male Human Fighter
Elzara (Will) 6th level female Elven Monk
Kamal(Ian) 6th level Male Human Hexblade
Tanith (Ewar) 5th/1st level male Human Sorcerer/Warmage
Alexis Serria (Andrew) 5th /2nd level female Human Cleric/Fighter
Eolias (Richard) 6th/1st level male Elven Ranger/Wizard
Game Events
Returning to the Crooked House to recouperate and to mourn the loss of their companion, the party related their tale of woe to Tarquin, the Gnomish owner, who immediately introduced them to Kamal, a Hexblade of his acquaintance who would be willing to join the group in place of the fallen Torvar. Normally distrustful of strangers wanting to join, the party's fears were asuaged by Tarquin's personal recommendation of the fighter.
After a few days had passed, the group returned to the place of their shameful defeat, and once more entered the dusty warehouse, although this time they were fully equipped to meet anything that the place could throw at them.
Moving through the mainly empty storerooms, disaster nearly overtook them again as Crumpus wanted to open all the doors simultaneously as they had done before, but other more experienced hands vetoed the move before it could be done.
Entering the jail room they discovered that the two false guards had been replaced by two other dishevelled-looking humans who also claimed to be guards. Eolias, not wanting to believe their story, shot a couple of arrows into them, dropping one of them. He also, despite several of the party trying to stop him, put arrows into each of the other two prisoners, the female elf and the catatonic human.
Alexis healed the human, who turned out to be completely mad - one minute acting as though the party were servants, the next as a servant himself. The elf was next to be healed, and was questioned by Alexis using a Zone of Truth spell. She turned out to be a minor noblewoman, and expressed her personal gratitude at being freed by gifting the group with the only think of value left in her posessions (which the group had found nearby) which was a periapt of health.
Whilst this was going on, Eolias, Elzara and Crumpus had opened the door at the end of the chamber to find a room whose floor had mostly collapsed into a pool of stagnant river water, leaving only a rickety walkway of planks balanced on the remaining piles driven into the river bed.
Eolias volunteered to go first, but was hit by an invisible assailant and knocked into the water which he discovered was full of rusty weapons whose points were just below the surface. Alexis and Elzara attempted to go to his aid, but were also struck and fell into the water. Alexis managed to find a wand under the water amongst all the bodies with the aid of a Detect Magic spell, but was not able to identify Torvar's corpse. Tanith decided to run back to the walkway in the warehouse to retrieve the Rope of Climbing which the party had left there but as he passed by the first cage he was attacked by the two 'guardsmen' who had to let themselves out of their cell. Assisted by Crumpus and Kamal, Tanith was able to kill the two assailants who immediately turned into a strange looking humanoids with greyish skin and large black eyes. Tanith was able to identify them as being dopplegangers - shapechangers who can read minds and take on the form of anyone they choose.
Crumpus decided that theeasiest way to get across was to build a makeshift raft, but it could only hold three safely so Tanith, Eolias and Crumpus went first with Elzara using the walls and remaining piles to get round with a stunning display of acrobatic prowess.
As Alexis and Kamal waitied for their turn to cross, the others were assaulted by the two invisible beings who had caused them so many problems whilst trying to cross the planks. Alexis managed to strike a heavily wounded one with a spell and destroy it whilst the others managed to slay the last one.
Passing through another doorway the group entered a room whose sole feature was a well, with an empty barrel floating in it. Deciding that they would need some more equipment the party quickly returned to the town to purchase a potion of water breathing each before returning to the mysterious well.
Swimming to the bottom, they discovered a large water-filled chamber where they were attacked by an octopus which they were easily able to despatch. Elzara found a lever on the top of a pillar which drained the water from the chamber, and also lowered the pillar. Now they were out of the water, the group carried on into a corridor with doors on all sides. Crumpus and Elzara triggered a trap and fell into a 40' spiked pit, but when the rest of the group opened the lid to get them out they saw an empty 20' pit as an illusion stretched across half way up!
Realising that they were also in a silenced area, Elzara threw a shuriken up through the illusion, allowing the party to realise what had happened and get a rescue underway.
As the group were busy trying to retreive the missing two party members the other doors opened and half a dozen dopplegangers set upon them, causing serious injuries before being finally defeated.
The final cell was discovered to have an illusory wall, through which a doorway was found, passing through the door the group entered a strange, octagonal room made from smoky mirrored steel, but even more strange was the sight of a duplicate of each of them, manacled to a chair in the middle of the room.
One by one the duplicastes managed to free themselves and decry their double as being false until there was only Elzara's duplicate still chained at which point all the duplicates attacked, including the Elzara who had been with the party up to this point.
A hard fight ensued, with damage being meted out to all including the still-chained Elzara, with Crumpus and Eolias singling her out for particular attention. At the end of the battle, six dopplegangers lay dead on the floor, with Elzara only clinging to life by the slenderest thread before being saved by Alexis.
Magical Items Found
Periapt of Health
Wand
XP Summary
- Giant Octopus - 3,600 XP
- 14 Dopplegangers - 10,800 XP
- Elzara Doppleganger - 1,800 XP
- 2 x Invisible Assassins- 5,400 XP
Total XP - 21,600 XP
Kamal - 4,200 XP,
Eolias - 3,000 XP,
Crumpus - 4,200 XP,
Tanith - 4,200 XP,
Alexis - 3,000 XP,
Elzara - 3,000 XP,
Current Totals
Kamal - 19,341
Eolias - 23,337 - level up!
Crumpus 19,609
Tanith, 20,300
Alexis - 21,781 - level up!
Elzara - 18,141
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