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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iron Chef BBQ" data-source="post: 822580" data-attributes="member: 1844">DoppleDeke (end of 01-01-03 run)Our band travels cautiously to the Queens Head Tavern.  It is a seedy place in a decrepit part of town.  Rats run along the gutters, and low and dreadful moaning comes out of many of the dark alleys and doorways.  The party leaves Deke outside on a roof across the street.  Connecting with a message spell, he can warn the party if anyone suspicious enters the bar.  The others step inside and are almost overcome with the smell of liquor, body odor and urine.  The place is dark and filthy, and everyone inside seems to be in a bad mood.  Our group sticks out like the only clean people in a dark and filthy bar.  They separate and try to blend in none-the-less.Marja spots Black Harry talking to another man over in the corner.  She catches his eye, and he moves toward her.  “This ain’t no place for the likes of you, Miss.  Really, you shouldn’t ought to be here.”  As they begin a furtive conversation, Marja sees Harry’s head whip up and to the side like someone grabbed his forehead from behind.  Suddenly, blood spatters across her face.  A cloaked figure appears, and poor Harry slumps to the floor in a pool of blood, dead, his throat slit.Violence erupts, but not in the way the clientele of this establishment is used to.  Before an all-out bar fight can begin, the men scattered around realize that this fighting is beyond them.  They slink into the dark shadows.  The figure bolts for the door, and Kenyan, in an attempt to stop him, fires a stun spell that hits Lucre dead on.  The party follows the figure into the alley.  As the fighting continues two attacks from Deke go astray and hit other party members.  Hey, what’s going on here?  As Lucre regains his mobility, he moves in for the final blow, killing the attacker.  He stares at the body which shifts form as it dies.  “This guy is a doppelganger!” Lucre yells.  Remembering Deke’s errant attacks he yells, “I think Deke is one, too.”This is all too much to take in.  The party hesitates.  It flashes through Kalina’s mind that maybe Kenyan’s misfiring spell wasn’t a misfire after all.  She is in hawk form, but is determined to keep her eye on Kenyan.  As Lucre takes off after Deke, Marja catches Lucre’s eyes glowing green again.  “Maybe Deke isn’t the doppelganger,” she thinks.  “Maybe Lucre is.”Deke starts to run, at first protesting innocence.  A chase through the streets ensues with Kalina in the air, Lucre hot on his heels, and Kenyan staying far enough behind to be well out of the way of any real danger.  Finally, Lucre climbs a roof and closes in on DoppleDeke who, in a desperate attempt at self-preservation says that if he isn’t allowed to go free, the real Deke will die.  Lucre isn’t buying any of that.  He charges, grabs DoppleDeke, and hurls both of them off of the roof.Marja, Kalina and Kel are close enough to see them fall, into a giant bin of garbage.  They ready for the two to reappear.  Lucre stands up and grapples with…a peasant woman dressed in rags with a shawl tied around her shoulders.  She hollers for help.Who would have believed that in this area of town a constable would be so readily available?  But sure enough, down the street he comes, running and blowing his whistle.  Lucre keeps firm hands on the doppelganger, and Marja uses her best diplomacy skills to convince the officer to take the entire group to a local temple where the priests can prove their story.  Kalina flies high overhead, and Kenyan stays around the corner, uninvolved.  Our man in uniform is having none of this.  He attempts to haul them all off to jail when Lucre pushes him to the ground, hoists the doppelganger over his shoulder, and starts to run.  The others follow until a whistle blows and the officer yells, “Stop in the name of the law!”  Kel dutifully stops.  Marja catches a glimpse of Kel being hauled off to jail as she turns the corner and races to reach the others.</blockquote>

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