Asimov and Irony | Hugh | AC 21/16/15 HP 18/45 | AC 18/11/17 HP -3/35 Hardness 2 d20+5=11 ; d6+5=9 ; Sunday October 10th, 2021 10:25:03 PM
Asimov needs 15 minutes to whip up any healing and even then he can only make 3 devices.
In the meantime Asimov readies an action to throw and hopefully hit with a small ball of fire the next hostile thing to come through the mirror with his fire handling gloves which will give him 5 minutes of flame throwing capability.
(11 vs touch; 9 fire damage)
Irony is Inert reduced to a 50 pound metal ball.
Active Effects: Produce Flame - 5 min; Asimov can make 5 touch or range touch attacks for 1d6 + 5 fire damage; each use subtracts a minute of time
Mundhildur Karadottir, Jotun singing giant (large 10'4") (Kim) AC 17 Touch 13 FF15 HP -3/41 Monday October 11th, 2021 12:43:22 AM
[OOC: I love Elron.]
DM Mitch/The Twins d20+8=9 ; d20+8=16 ; d20+8=13 ; d20+8=19 ; Monday October 11th, 2021 5:40:37 AM
The unconscious dream poems and of urgently needing to wake up.
Asimov and The Twins prepare actions to attack.
Fake Asimov touches the mirror, swapping places with real Asimov and setting off the prepared actions. Both attacks hit.
Snarling the two dopplegangers press the assault but the armor of the two remaining heroes keeps them safe (all misses!)
Enemy AC 17
Mirror side A (the room you came in) Doppleganger 1 (Fake Honor): Dead Doppleganger 2 (fake Irony): Dead Doppleganger 3 (Fake Elron): Dead
Mirror side B (The reflection side) Doppleganger 4 (Fake Zeoll): Dead Doppleganger 7 (Fake Munhildur): Dead Doppleganger 9 (Fake camel): Dead Doppleganger 5 (fake twin 1): 18 Doppleganger 6 (fake twin 2): Dead Doppleganger 8 (Fake Asimov): 17
DM Mitch/The Twins d20+10=22 ; d6=4 ; d6=5 ; d20+10=28 ; d6=6 ; d6=2 ; Monday October 11th, 2021 5:42:31 AM
The Twins smash fake Asimov for 14 damage, then heroically attack again to kill the thing. (22 to hit, 28 to hit, last hero point used.)
Honor Bright [AC 19; HP -3/35] (Kathy) Monday October 11th, 2021 1:13:34 PM
Honor remains unconscious.
SteveM - Elron | AC 21 (19 if raging), HP -13/49 Monday October 11th, 2021 8:38:08 PM
Elron continues to dream, confident that things will get better. Even if this is the longest his friends have seen him go without talking.
Asimov and Irony | Hugh | AC 21/16/15 HP 18/45 | AC 18/11/17 HP -3/35 Hardness 2 d20+5=9 ; d6+5=10 ; Monday October 11th, 2021 11:26:27 PM
Asimov chases after the remaining twin doppleganger throwing a ball of fire at it. (9 vs Touch; 10 fire damage if that hits)
Active Effects: Produce Flame - 3 min; Asimov can make 3 touch or range touch attacks for 1d6 + 5 fire damage; each use subtracts a minute of time
Zeoll the Greensinger | AC18, -6 of 34hp | Cayzle Monday October 11th, 2021 11:33:11 PM
Camel and Zeoll sleep the deep sleep of the nearly dead.
Mundhildur Karadottir, Jotun singing giant (large 10'4") (Kim) AC 17 Touch 13 FF15 HP -3/41 Tuesday October 12th, 2021 12:17:36 AM
... awaiting the denouement...
"Heavens above, wake us from our slumber."
DM Mitch/The Twins d20+8=26 ; d20+8=15 ; d8=6 ; Tuesday October 12th, 2021 7:17:04 AM The Twins take out an enemy Asimov goes for the kill but misses. The others dream impatiently for the combat to end.
The final doppleganger snarls and charges Asimov, managing to hit him once for 10 damage.
Enemy AC 17
Mirror side A (the room you came in) Doppleganger 1 (Fake Honor): Dead Doppleganger 2 (fake Irony): Dead Doppleganger 3 (Fake Elron): Dead
Mirror side B (The reflection side) Doppleganger 4 (Fake Zeoll): Dead Doppleganger 7 (Fake Munhildur): Dead Doppleganger 9 (Fake camel): Dead Doppleganger 5 (fake twin 1): 18 Doppleganger 6 (fake twin 2): Dead Doppleganger 8 (Fake Asimov): Dead
DM Mitch/The Twins d8=1 ; d8=5 ; Tuesday October 12th, 2021 7:18:56 AM
The Twins search their companions, find Honor's healing potion, and give it to her healing her for 6 hp.
Honor Bright [AC 19; HP 3/35] (Kathy) Tuesday October 12th, 2021 4:30:20 PM
Awakening for the second time in the same battle, Honor realizes that the group could use some reinforcements. She begins a full-round action.
At the beginning of the next round, Justice (Honor's paladin mount) will appear by her side.
[DM note: Justice's stats are in a separate tab of Honor's character sheet.]
SteveM - Elron | AC 21 (19 if raging), HP -13/49 Tuesday October 12th, 2021 7:46:25 PM
All of a sudden and without warning, the realization that tanj has a nice sound to it pops into Elron's mind. It's the only thought there at the moment, which might do complicated things to his dreams except that he often has only one or fewer thoughts in there.
Zeoll the Greensinger | AC18, -6 of 34hp | Cayzle Tuesday October 12th, 2021 11:46:31 PM
Zeoll and Camel rest.
Mundhildur Karadottir, Jotun singing giant (large 10'4") (Kim) AC 17 Touch 13 FF15 HP -3/41 Wednesday October 13th, 2021 12:12:33 AM
Mundhildur's thoughts and concerns begin to subside following her semi-conscious prayer to the Heavens. Her body further relaxes, and she moves from semi-conscious towards simple slumber. Her body needs the rest.
Asimov and Irony | Hugh | AC 17/13/15 HP 8/45 | AC 18/11/17 HP -3/35 Hardness 2 d20+5=13 ; d6+5=7 ; d20+5=14 ; d6+5=11 ; Wednesday October 13th, 2021 2:27:53 AM
Asimov uses another charge of his gloves against the evil twin (13 vs touch; 7 fire damage)
If it is still standing after that he heroically throws another fireball at it (14 vs touch; 11 fire damage)
DM Mitch/The Twins Wednesday October 13th, 2021 6:56:43 AM The Twins use Honor’s healing potion on her. Honor summons her mount to join the fight. Asimov heroically finishes the last opponent!
The final enemy finally lays dead. Now there is time for rest and recovery.
Honor Bright [AC 19; HP 3/35] (Kathy) d6=6 ; d6=1 ; d6=3 ; d6=4 ; d6=4 ; d6=6 ; d6=4 ; Wednesday October 13th, 2021 3:52:45 PM
Honor begins moving about, healing her companions using her Lay on Hands ability.
During this time, she keeps Justice well away from the "mirror." He doesn't have a doppelganger on the other side, and Honor isn't sure what will happen if he touches the barrier. Time to experiment with that after everyone is on their feet again.
SteveM - Elron | AC 21 (19 if raging), HP -4/49 Wednesday October 13th, 2021 5:56:11 PM
Elron's feeling better, but still not functioning. Not even up to his usual standards.
Zeoll the Greensinger | AC18, 3 of 34hp | Cayzle d4=2 ; d4=3 ; Wednesday October 13th, 2021 6:40:06 PM
Zeoll awakens, looks around at the carnage, and says a quick prayer of thanks that no one is dead.
He casts and uses goodberries to get Camel on his feet.
Mundhildur Karadottir, Jotun singing giant (large 10'4") (Kim) AC 17 Touch 13 FF15 HP 7/41 Wednesday October 13th, 2021 11:58:13 PM
A touch, and tingling sensations quickly awaken the slumbering giant woman. She opens her eyes, and sees Honor rising up above her. "You healed me," she says. "I needed that." It is her way of saying thanks. She rolls to her side and looks about. Slowly, carefully, she rolls over onto her knees, and rises to her feet.
She sees Elron, languishing. She reaches into a pouch, and takes out a small yellow berry. "Here, Elron, sweetie. This will help a teeny tiny bit." She places it in his beak. "Swallow. I say, swallow the berry." It does help a teeny tiny bit. Elron gains one more hit point. [Goodberry from Zeoll from a few days back.]
"So, after they piled on me, what happened next?" She walks around and with her longspear, cuts the throats of each doppleganger. Enough so that the esophageal tube is included in the slicing, and the veins which feed the brain. "These must never again be able to use their deceptive imitations to practice evil." Once she is done on one side of the mirror, she goes to the other side, and continues her last rites for the wicked dead.
Asimov and Irony | Hugh | AC 17/13/15 HP 8/45 | AC 18/11/17 HP 34/35 Hardness 2 d8=6 ; d8=2 ; d8=1 ; d8=5 ; d8=7 ; d6=5 ; d6=2 ; d6=3 ; d6=3 ; d6=4 ; d6=5 ; d6=1 ; d6=6 ; d6=3 ; d6=5 ; d6=4 ; d20+9=15 ; Thursday October 14th, 2021 12:34:36 AM
Seeing as the twins and the others are dispatching healing items all around Asimov sets to work on the 15 minutes of time he needs to prepare 2 medihaler lights and a medihaler medium.
He then observes his companions and says, "I guess Elron is the worst off and uses the medihaler medium on the chicken man." Elron heals 13 points of damage from the application of the medihaler medium.
He continues and says, " Looks like Honor and Zeoll are equally banged up so you each get a dose of the medihaler light." (OOC: good thing we get to re-roll 1s on healing spells). Honor heals 10 points of damge from the medihaler light. Zeoll heals 12 points of damage.
Asimov then starts up the rapid repair nanobots on Irony needing 20 minutes total for them to do their thing. Asimov repairs Irony for 17 points of damage with the first usage and 20 - 23 points of damage on the second casting (OOC: do we re-roll 1s when casting repair spells if healing a construct?; if we do Irony is fully healed if not he is 1 point off)
After using all these devices Asimov says, "I'm down to only my thingamabobs; I don't think we should try anymore physical exertion today."
Asimov starts searching the dopplegangers for any treasure (Perception: 15)
Mundhildur Karadottir, Jotun singing giant (large 10'4") (Kim) AC 17 Touch 13 FF15 HP 7/41 Thursday October 14th, 2021 2:26:23 AM
By my count: Asimov: 8/45 Irony: 35/35 (maybe 34/35) Elron: 10/49 Honor: 13/35 Mundhildur: 7/41 Zeoll: 15/34 Bill the Camel: ??/24 Twins: ??/43 (Mitch - no hit points listed on the page since the last level for The Twins)
DM Mitch/The Twins Thursday October 14th, 2021 8:00:58 AM
The Twins can't help with the healing so they find a seat and sit down, exhausted from the fight. (Swapping headers each time was becoming a huge pain and I just started tracking their HP on the DM scratchpad with the monsters. Twins are at 16/43 hp)
DM Mitch/The Twins Thursday October 14th, 2021 8:01:44 AM Honor gets people back on their feet and wonders what would happen something with no doppleganger touched the mirror/wall of force Elron is still down. Zeoll helas camel Mundhildur thanks her healer and asks what happened. She makes sure the dopplegangers are thoroughly dead. Asimov prepares some healing devices and gets the rest of the party on their feet. The Twins rest.
With at least some healing passed out the party agrees not to continue on this day. The question is where do they rest, here or do they take the long walk to the drow?
Zeoll the Greensinger | AC18, 6 of 34hp | Cayzle 8d4=18 ; d20+10=23 ; d20+10=25 ; Thursday October 14th, 2021 12:06:34 PM
Zeoll shakes off the last vestiges of deathly torpor and springs into action.
"Therre is too much herre forr us to considerr leaving yet, I deem," says Zeoll. "And ourr experrience so farr suggests that therre arre no, ahem, wanderring monsterrs about which we must worrry."
Zeoll wants more detail about this place. How big is it? Can we pass through the "mirror" now that the monsters are dead? When we removed the tapestries, did the tapestries in the reflection go away too? What else is in this room? What are the ways out? Has anyone checked out the bodies for trickery, regeneration, or loot? Zeoll himself casts four goodberries, creating 18. He passes them out, three each to Asimov, Honor, the Twins, Elron, Mundhi, and himself.
"That should take carre of ourr hungerr as well as a little curring."
The liontaur also casts Detect Magic as needed, checking everywhere.
He also casts guidance repeatedly and searched the place.
Perception checks 23, 25.
He suggests securing the entrance and camping here for a day or two.
Mundhildur Karadottir, Jotun singing giant (large 10'4") (Kim) AC 17 Touch 13 FF15 HP 9/41 d20+3=23 ; d20+7=22 ; Thursday October 14th, 2021 4:24:03 PM
"Thank you for the berries, Zeoll." Mundhi takes two, and uses the third to replace the one she gave to Elron back in her pouch.
Once a decision is taken as to where they shall camp, Mundhildur will set to work in using her healing skills to help restore her friends to health. For each person who submits to a 24-hour care cycle from the Jotun healer, 20 hit points will be restored. If only resting for 8 hours under her care, they will recover 10 hp. Mundhildur herself will not recover hit points herself as she cares for others, so would welcome whatever healing aids others may apply to her. Two full days of rest could have everyone (except for Mundhi) back to full hit points (adding 40), as she continues her care. Or, a day of rest, plus an additional 8 hours of sleep, could have everyone up by 30.
Prior to that, however, she also wishes to have the group remove the doppleganger corpses to another place. If they have passed through an area where ventilation is quite good, then perhaps even burning the bodies may be considered. If not, then at least she wants them out of where they will be recovering. Perhaps near the pit? She asks her companions what they think.
Also, she checks the area where their imitators were first seen, to learn whether there may be a passage to another area, even if it's a secret or concealed door or the like. She is happy to work with Zeoll or others to help augment the search routine.
========= Heal: 23 (nat 20). Perception: 22
Party HP by my count after Honor's healing and Zeoll's Goodberries: Asimov: 11/45 Irony: 35/35 (maybe 34/35) Elron: 13/49 Honor: 16/35 Mundhildur: 9/41 Zeoll: 6/34 Bill the Camel: ??/24 Twins: 19/43
Honor Bright [AC 19; HP 6/35] (Kathy) Thursday October 14th, 2021 5:35:30 PM
"Thank you for the berries," Honor says.
"And I agree with Zeoll. We don't know enough about how these rooms work. If we go back to the drow, and then return here, do new doubles of us appear? Would we have to fight the battle over again? Is there anyway to dispel or remove the barrier?"
"There's one experiment I'd like to do right away, when people are ready. My horse Justice wasn't here when this started, so he doesn't have a double. I'd like to see if he can move back and forth through the barrier--and if he can, whether any of the movements spawn a double of him. I think that would be enlightening. But not until everyone is ready."
Zeoll the Greensinger | AC18, 6 of 34hp | Cayzle Thursday October 14th, 2021 9:26:00 PM
"That's a good idea, Honorr," says Zeoll.
"And if we do camp herre, as I suggest, yourr healing arrts will be most welcome, Mundhi! I'll make you some goodberrries, too."
Asimov and Irony | Hugh | AC 17/13/15 HP 11/45 | AC 18/11/17 HP 35/35 Hardness 2 d20+9=21 ; d20+12=18 ; d20+12=26 ; Thursday October 14th, 2021 11:24:09 PM
Asimov eats the 3 goodberries healing a little. He too uses his magic detector to take a look around.
Thank you for the goodberries Zeoll. I'm still pretty beat up though. I guess tomorrow I'll just put healing devices in all the slots I usually leave open?
(Perception 21) (Spellcraft 18) (Know:Arcane 26)
SteveM - Elron | AC 21 (19 if raging), HP 13/49 Friday October 15th, 2021 12:19:24 AM
Elron wakes up to hear people discussing camping here -- which he's for -- and experimenting with the mirror -- which doesn't sound quite right somehow. It's not that he minds a horse trying to cross the mirror, it's that Honor seems to think she might get a second horse somehow. "If we're gonna do that, can we arrange it so the second horse appears on th'otha' side o' th' mirror from where we are?"
DM Mitch/The Twins Friday October 15th, 2021 8:05:37 AM Zeoll thinks they should just rest here. He searches the room Mundhildur deals with the corpses before the party rests and heals up everyone as best she can. Honor wants to send justic through as a test. Zeoll thinks it’s a good idea to do said test. Asimov thanks the group for the healing. Elron doesn’t think a second horse is a good idea.
Unlike the other side of the mirror there isn’t any magic items or valuables here. The Dopplegangers took down the tapestries when the party did but just hid them in a corner. Anyone can cross the mirror just by touching it, including Honor’s mount Justice. The wall of force is also a wall of force and could probably be destroyed with great effort.
The corpses are successfully disposed of and the party gets a chance to rest. I’m just going to say everyone manages to top off via magic, heal checks, and resting.
There is a door matching the position of the way you entered the original room, but a quick check shows it heads deeper in and to an entirely different area.
SteveM - Elron | AC 21 (19 if raging), HP 49/49 Friday October 15th, 2021 1:24:08 PM OOC: Topped off...
If the only obvious way left to explore is the door out of the room on the far side of the mirror from where they came in, then Elron figures that's the way they should explore. Elron isn't sure which side of the mirror he is on, now. But if he and the horse Justice are on the same side, then he expects to cross before the horse next time they need to cross.
Honor Bright [AC 19; HP 6/35] (Kathy) Friday October 15th, 2021 10:29:55 PM
Once the experiments with Justice are finished, Honor tells him he is a very good horse and sends him back to the Celestial Realm. "We don't need a horse and a camel," she says.
Mundhildur Karadottir, Jotun singing giant (large 10'4") (Kim) AC 17 Touch 13 FF15 HP 9/41 d20+7=20 ; Saturday October 16th, 2021 1:02:16 PM
Mundhildur, grateful for the healing others provided her, says towards the end of their rest, "I have thought it over. If that magical quiver can hold my longspears, then I would like to keep it, as no one else has expressed interest in it." She experiments with it. If it does hold her longspears, she slings it over her shoulder to use from here on out. She also places some of her remaining torches inside.
As others rested, she takes the hidden tapestries across the barrier and works to hang on the side of the room they first came in. Does she note they are mirror images of the originals?
She also repaired with needle and thread any tears to her dress caused by this last battle.
During the resting time she prepared meals for all to enjoy, and now a breakfast. With everyone restored to health, and well fed, and after cleaning up, the Jotunar maiden says, "We have more to explore, and a little ghost girl to help. Is everyone ready to move on?"
If so, she is ready, too. Unless any object, and after lighting a torch, she will open the door, and see what is on the other side.
=========== Perception: 20
Asimov and Irony | Hugh | AC 17/13/15 HP 45/45 | AC 18/11/17 HP 35/35 Hardness 2 Sunday October 17th, 2021 8:33:24 PM
Asimov says to Honor, "What about Irony? He's kind of like Bill or Justice, he's just a construct and he is still my partner."
DM Mitch/The Twins 43/43 Monday October 18th, 2021 6:31:37 AM
The Twins are also ready to go. They don't understand Asimov's question and give him a funny look.
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