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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 8178607" data-attributes="member: 42856">Part III : THE KILLA few days later, the bell ran again. Apparently, the Mad Sorcerer had left his retreat, warded at the maximum of his possibilities against all kind of attack. The previous poundings had made him wary. Quickly consulting on maps, Alfred saw he was moving toward the Friendly Arm Inn. "It was a wise choice to start rumour-mongering as the Inn was a popular stop along the Sword Coast, so many merchants and travellers could propagate the rumours as far as Luskan in the North and Calimport in the South.", reflected Alfred while shooting his pipe -- along catnip and tea, Alfred also grew tabacco in his garden.Alfred Teleported to the Inn, along with his Invisible Servant and his trusty Butler, whose number this day was 438. They took a room and waited for the sorcerer to arrive and make his impassionate speech about Wizard being a threat to peace, a very convincing story involving lava eruptions, rice tsunamis and hostile pebbles that were enchanted to attack anyone passing along the Lion's Way;Alfred took the stairs down to the common room, no longer followed by his servant. Stories of being twins could only go so far, and he wouldn't want a looney buying the conspiracy theories against wizard to stab him in the back. He knew security was tight at the Friendly Arm Inn, so he wasn't overly concerned about petty thief. He nonetheless made sure not to make his expensive, golden and gem-incrusted reliquary was in view of everyone and kept it into a tote bag.Alfred sat at a table, ordering a beer. The crowd was aghast at the narration of wizards turning people into toad and feeding them to their pet serpents, which was what happened to the population of whole villages according to the Mad Sorcerer. Apparently, he was quite charismatic and slowly was convincing people of his lies.The Sorcerer had been doing his speech for several minutes now and he was sure he wasn't in a transe of order at this point, having probably exhausting his sorcerous power at this point if he was under the habit of always keeping it up. Plus, there was absolutely no reason to be extra suspicious at this time. He was in a crowd, and a new murder attempt would only confirm his crazy conspiracy theories to the onlookers. He was as safe as he could be from any attack.It was time to strike... Alfred never liked to leave the comfort of his cottage, let alone Foggy Bottom, and he longed to get back already. One beer was enough! He mentally ordered his Butler to exit the reliquary and possess the on stage sorcerer. Sitting at 60 ft of him, he'd use Convergent Future -- he'd really need at some point to move through time and space and thank Agamoto, the founder of his school, for his work -- to ensure failure at the saving throw.Commanding the Simulacrum to Teleport home, he ended the hate speech mid-sentence, leaving a flabbergasted audience. Alfred did the exact same thing, rejoining with his servant. He was in possession of a Sorcerer-shaped Simulacrum and the soul of his quarry was within a Magic Jar. If the Simulacrum died within 100 ft of the reliquary, the Sorcerer would be free again. Eventual demise of the Butler was inevitable, if only by the force of habit, as Alfred would certainly cast a new Simulacrum without thinking... So he gagged and bound the Sorcerer's body commanded his simulacrum to fail Imprisonment saving throws, containing him into a small gem. Then, he ended the spell, releasing the soul of the Sorcerer from the reliquary... and back to the Minimus gem. Escaping the frying pan to get into the fire. He needed to both make sure the Sorcerer wouldn't escape AND that he could keep casting Imprisonment. The threat of the Mad Supremacist wasn't enough to commit any definitive resource.So he opened the door to a nondesript Demiplane, barren of anything, where he dropped the gem. Over the next 30 days, a Simulacrum of his cast Private Sanctum within the Demiplane, whose size was under the area covered by the Sanctum, blocking all form of planar travel and teleportation. On the last day, Alfred perceived the quizzical mental probe of his Simulacrum, who realized he was trapped alongside the gem by his own spell within the demiplane. Alfred reassured him it was only a temporary nuisance, before casting Simulacrum again.Should Alfred cast a Minimus Imprisonment again in the future, the Sorcerer would be free, but still gagged and bound so unable to dispel the magic preventing any ally of his to help him. He could theoretically still be Gated away, but as he never divulgued his name to anyone, this possibility of escape was forever closed to him.Well, so, what's the next Sorc? Aberrant Mind?</blockquote>

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