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<blockquote data-quote="Menexenus" data-source="post: 3363383" data-attributes="member: 8951"><p><strong>Session 21: Discovering the Doppelganger Lair, or Thorash vs. the Kraken</strong></p><p></p><p><em>5th of Richfest (continued)</em>. The party had just defeated the doppelgangers who had been pretending to be prisoners. These doppelgangers were wearing tight-fitting (finely crafted) studded leather armor that they were able to conceal successfully underneath their merchant costumes. They had pulled longswords and heavy steel shields out from under their bunks. The longswords seem to be of fine make, but the shields seem to be of standard quality.</p><p></p><p> With the action over, the party started interrogating the elf woman with renewed skepticism. The party was now much more suspicious of Ilya, thinking that she may also be a doppelganger. Although Ilya was haughty and impatient with the party's questions, she answered them in the hopes of finally being freed. She told the party that she had been in the cell for about a month. Her captives had fed her and occasionally played cruel tricks on her, like impersonating her friends and pretending to rescue her. She said that the doppelgangers who were killed had been in the cell across from her for a week. When the party asked why the doppelgangers would stay in a prison cell for so long, she replied in an exasperated tone that she had no idea. She suggested that perhaps the doppelgangers had been working in shifts, changing places while she was sleeping. The party asked what was beyond the double doors at the end of the room. She said she didn't know. She volunteered that none of the prisoners who had gone through those doors had ever come back. Thorash cast Detect Magic on her. Nothing on Ilya glowed. (However, he did notice out of the corner of his eye that the longswords that the doppelgangers had been using were glowing.)</p><p></p><p> Thorash, Alees, and Katawan were still distrustful of the girl and wanted to keep her locked up until the party was through with its incursion into the Sodden Hold. Alexander was adamant that the girl should be set free immediately, and Killick reluctantly agreed. Tarric, who was trying to score points with the hot babe, agreed that the girl should go free. This left the party at an impasse until Katawan changed his mind. Although Ilya was grateful that she was finally being set free, she didn't seem to have much love for the party. She told them that when the doppelgangers captured her, they stripped her of all her valuables and put them in the closet across the room. She went to retrieve her things (along with a couple members of the party who wanted to observe her actions in the closet), and when she came back, she tossed a bag at the party's feet, saying, "I found this along with my belongings. It's not mine, so as far as I'm concerned, you're welcome to it." With some reluctance, she concluded, "I suppose you've earned it." Thorash, whose Detect Magic spell was still active, noticed that the bag was glowing. He and the rest of the party looked inside and found that there was more room inside the bag than there appeared to be on the outside. The bag contained hundreds of gold coins (864gp, to be exact). As Ilya was about to leave, Thorash vindictively frightened the girl with stories of deadly monsters in the next room. When she appeared to be somewhat concerned about the danger to herself, Tarric offered to escort her out to safety.</p><p></p><p> Without waiting for Tarric to return, Thorash opened the double doors and found what must once have been a large loading dock. There were large doors on the far wall that might once have allowed river boats to dock and unload their wares. (However, these doors were completely boarded up now.) The wooden floor of the room had almost completely rotted away, leaving only a few small portions of floor in the corners of the room intact. Where the floor had rotted away, the party could see the shore of the Selintan River below. In the shallow water had been planted numerous old, rusty swords and spears with points facing upward. To facilitate traversing the room, narrow planks of newer wood had been lain across old wooden pylons that might once have held the collapsed floor up. Alexander flew into the room to get a better look at the far side. When he did so, a sudden gust of wind blew around him. The wind seemed to take shape and started pummeling him. Because of his surprise, he was quickly knocked unconscious. But rather than plummeting to his doom, his unconscious body fell very slowly. Once Alexander was knocked out, the second air being moved to Thorash and attacked him. Killick moved in to help Thorash. Katawan tumbled acrobatically across the narrow planks and grabbed Alexander's floating body, setting it to rest safely on one of the few remaining portions of wooden floor along the wall. Alees fired a few shots from her crossbow at the invisible attackers, missing horribly. Some of Killick's blows also missed due to the creatures' invisibility. Tarric came running back and joined the melee. Katawan heroically stood over Alexander's body, protecting it from the large wind creatures and also delivering curative spells from his Ring of Spell Storing. Alexander awakened and cast a fireball in the area where he surmised that the creatures must be. With the explosion, one of the creatures seemed to dissipate and the system of wooden planks was blown to smithereens. The rest of the wooden building smoldered but did not catch fire due to its being water-logged. Soon thereafter, Killick and Tarric combined their attacks to destroy the last remaining wind creature.</p><p></p><p> Alexander used his flight to transport the party to the far side of the room where there is a door. They opened it and found that the room beyond contained nothing but the stone shaft of an old well. However there was a fairly new rope ladder attached to the side leading down into the well. Peering over the side, the party saw that the water level was about 35 feet below where the PCs are standing. Killick used tracking to determine that the ladder had been used frequently. Katawan climbed down the ladder and swam under the water to try to find out how deep it went. He returned to the party and told them that the water was deeper than 20 feet. Thorash decided to hold is breath and go down to the bottom to investigate. The ladder led down to a small cistern whose bottom was 40 feet below the water level. A tunnel has been dug through one side of the cistern, leading away towards the direction of shore for about 40 feet before opening out into a larger space. Thorash returned and reported this information to the party, announcing that he was going to investigate further. Killick decided to join him, just in case. This time Thorash sank to the bottom rather than climbing. Killick followed him, swimming. Thorash moved to the end of the tunnel and saw a much larger room with a large stone pillar in the center. He noticed that the water also seemed to be about 40 feet deep in this room and that there was some air at the top. He moved to the 10 foot diameter pillar to investigate. He found a ladder constructed into the stone of the pillar on one side.</p><p> </p><p> At this moment, Thorash was attacked by a giant octopus. It quickly grabbed him in one of its tentacles and began squeezing the life out of him. Killick swam back to the party as quickly as he could and reported that Thorash was in trouble. Meanwhile, Thorash used the grapple to automatically perform his Death Touch on the kraken, but it still continued to squeeze. Then he used his new spikey armor to deliver damage to the beast, but still it continued to squeeze. Realizing that he was about to black out, he quaffed a potion to keep himself conscious, in the hope that his party mates might still save him. At just that moment, a porpoise swam out of the tunnel and attacked the octopus. The octopus, distracted by the attack, quickly destroyed the summoned creature. Then Alexander flew out of the tunnel and into the open air above Thorash. He saw that there was a metal lever at the top of the stone pillar as well as a stone walkway leading to a door. But an investigation would have to wait, as he had other pressing matters to attend to. He cast Magic Missiles that struck the octopus. Thorash, seeing that the cavalry had arrived, continued damaging the creature with his armor spikes. The kraken now decided that the small dwarf was not worth the hassle. It produced a large black cloud of ink to obscure its exit, and by expelling a jet of stored water, the octopus moved extremely quickly away from its foes. Thorash, with his darkvision, saw the creature slither through a large grate in the floor on the far side of the room.</p><p></p><p> With the creature gone, Thorash moved up the ladder as quickly as he could, and gasped for air when he reached the top. As Thorash regained his breath, Alexander pulled the lever, and the water began to drain out of the room (and the well). A minute later, when the water was gone and the way was clear, the rest of the party joined Killick, Alexander, and Thorash at the top of the large stone pillar. They opened the door across the walkway and found a T-intersection with a long crosshallway lined with many single doors and capped by doubledoors at each end. The area was lit by a continual light torch, and since Killick had just lost his old torch down the drain, he took this new one off the wall to replace it. The party listened at each of the single doors and heard nothing. Alees checked the floor for traps in front of the double doors and found none. Tarric moved up to one of the double doors and the floor suddenly gave way. As Tarric fell, everyone noticed that his scream ended very abruptly and there was no "thud" when he hit the ground. Thorash moved up to the edge to investigate. He saw a 30 foot deep pit, but Tarric was nowhere to be found inside it.</p><p></p><p> Just at that moment, 4 of the single doors along the hallway opened, and doppelgangers emerged. They tried desperately to push Thorash into the pit with no luck. They attacked without weapons or armor and were quickly cut down. During the battle, the party saw a continual light torch fly up out of the pit and fall back in. When the "danger" was over, Alexander flew to the bottom of the pit, discovering that the bottom was an illusion. When he passed through it, he saw Tarric standing at the bottom of a deeper spiked pit gesticulating wildly, but making no sound. Alexander picked him up and flew him to safety. </p><p></p><p>The party investigated the rooms the doppelgangers had came out of. They seemed to be sleeping chambers. Each chamber contained a bed, a full-length mirror, and rung full of hanging clothes. The clothes were very differentiated, running the gamet from very poor-looking to very rich-looking. Along with the clothing, each room also contained a small box full of costume jewelry. None of the jewelry was as valuable as it looked at first glance, but Alees thought that she could still sell the whole lot to a vendor for about 500 gp.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Menexenus, post: 3363383, member: 8951"] [b]Session 21: Discovering the Doppelganger Lair, or Thorash vs. the Kraken[/b] [I]5th of Richfest (continued)[/I]. The party had just defeated the doppelgangers who had been pretending to be prisoners. These doppelgangers were wearing tight-fitting (finely crafted) studded leather armor that they were able to conceal successfully underneath their merchant costumes. They had pulled longswords and heavy steel shields out from under their bunks. The longswords seem to be of fine make, but the shields seem to be of standard quality. With the action over, the party started interrogating the elf woman with renewed skepticism. The party was now much more suspicious of Ilya, thinking that she may also be a doppelganger. Although Ilya was haughty and impatient with the party's questions, she answered them in the hopes of finally being freed. She told the party that she had been in the cell for about a month. Her captives had fed her and occasionally played cruel tricks on her, like impersonating her friends and pretending to rescue her. She said that the doppelgangers who were killed had been in the cell across from her for a week. When the party asked why the doppelgangers would stay in a prison cell for so long, she replied in an exasperated tone that she had no idea. She suggested that perhaps the doppelgangers had been working in shifts, changing places while she was sleeping. The party asked what was beyond the double doors at the end of the room. She said she didn't know. She volunteered that none of the prisoners who had gone through those doors had ever come back. Thorash cast Detect Magic on her. Nothing on Ilya glowed. (However, he did notice out of the corner of his eye that the longswords that the doppelgangers had been using were glowing.) Thorash, Alees, and Katawan were still distrustful of the girl and wanted to keep her locked up until the party was through with its incursion into the Sodden Hold. Alexander was adamant that the girl should be set free immediately, and Killick reluctantly agreed. Tarric, who was trying to score points with the hot babe, agreed that the girl should go free. This left the party at an impasse until Katawan changed his mind. Although Ilya was grateful that she was finally being set free, she didn't seem to have much love for the party. She told them that when the doppelgangers captured her, they stripped her of all her valuables and put them in the closet across the room. She went to retrieve her things (along with a couple members of the party who wanted to observe her actions in the closet), and when she came back, she tossed a bag at the party's feet, saying, "I found this along with my belongings. It's not mine, so as far as I'm concerned, you're welcome to it." With some reluctance, she concluded, "I suppose you've earned it." Thorash, whose Detect Magic spell was still active, noticed that the bag was glowing. He and the rest of the party looked inside and found that there was more room inside the bag than there appeared to be on the outside. The bag contained hundreds of gold coins (864gp, to be exact). As Ilya was about to leave, Thorash vindictively frightened the girl with stories of deadly monsters in the next room. When she appeared to be somewhat concerned about the danger to herself, Tarric offered to escort her out to safety. Without waiting for Tarric to return, Thorash opened the double doors and found what must once have been a large loading dock. There were large doors on the far wall that might once have allowed river boats to dock and unload their wares. (However, these doors were completely boarded up now.) The wooden floor of the room had almost completely rotted away, leaving only a few small portions of floor in the corners of the room intact. Where the floor had rotted away, the party could see the shore of the Selintan River below. In the shallow water had been planted numerous old, rusty swords and spears with points facing upward. To facilitate traversing the room, narrow planks of newer wood had been lain across old wooden pylons that might once have held the collapsed floor up. Alexander flew into the room to get a better look at the far side. When he did so, a sudden gust of wind blew around him. The wind seemed to take shape and started pummeling him. Because of his surprise, he was quickly knocked unconscious. But rather than plummeting to his doom, his unconscious body fell very slowly. Once Alexander was knocked out, the second air being moved to Thorash and attacked him. Killick moved in to help Thorash. Katawan tumbled acrobatically across the narrow planks and grabbed Alexander's floating body, setting it to rest safely on one of the few remaining portions of wooden floor along the wall. Alees fired a few shots from her crossbow at the invisible attackers, missing horribly. Some of Killick's blows also missed due to the creatures' invisibility. Tarric came running back and joined the melee. Katawan heroically stood over Alexander's body, protecting it from the large wind creatures and also delivering curative spells from his Ring of Spell Storing. Alexander awakened and cast a fireball in the area where he surmised that the creatures must be. With the explosion, one of the creatures seemed to dissipate and the system of wooden planks was blown to smithereens. The rest of the wooden building smoldered but did not catch fire due to its being water-logged. Soon thereafter, Killick and Tarric combined their attacks to destroy the last remaining wind creature. Alexander used his flight to transport the party to the far side of the room where there is a door. They opened it and found that the room beyond contained nothing but the stone shaft of an old well. However there was a fairly new rope ladder attached to the side leading down into the well. Peering over the side, the party saw that the water level was about 35 feet below where the PCs are standing. Killick used tracking to determine that the ladder had been used frequently. Katawan climbed down the ladder and swam under the water to try to find out how deep it went. He returned to the party and told them that the water was deeper than 20 feet. Thorash decided to hold is breath and go down to the bottom to investigate. The ladder led down to a small cistern whose bottom was 40 feet below the water level. A tunnel has been dug through one side of the cistern, leading away towards the direction of shore for about 40 feet before opening out into a larger space. Thorash returned and reported this information to the party, announcing that he was going to investigate further. Killick decided to join him, just in case. This time Thorash sank to the bottom rather than climbing. Killick followed him, swimming. Thorash moved to the end of the tunnel and saw a much larger room with a large stone pillar in the center. He noticed that the water also seemed to be about 40 feet deep in this room and that there was some air at the top. He moved to the 10 foot diameter pillar to investigate. He found a ladder constructed into the stone of the pillar on one side. At this moment, Thorash was attacked by a giant octopus. It quickly grabbed him in one of its tentacles and began squeezing the life out of him. Killick swam back to the party as quickly as he could and reported that Thorash was in trouble. Meanwhile, Thorash used the grapple to automatically perform his Death Touch on the kraken, but it still continued to squeeze. Then he used his new spikey armor to deliver damage to the beast, but still it continued to squeeze. Realizing that he was about to black out, he quaffed a potion to keep himself conscious, in the hope that his party mates might still save him. At just that moment, a porpoise swam out of the tunnel and attacked the octopus. The octopus, distracted by the attack, quickly destroyed the summoned creature. Then Alexander flew out of the tunnel and into the open air above Thorash. He saw that there was a metal lever at the top of the stone pillar as well as a stone walkway leading to a door. But an investigation would have to wait, as he had other pressing matters to attend to. He cast Magic Missiles that struck the octopus. Thorash, seeing that the cavalry had arrived, continued damaging the creature with his armor spikes. The kraken now decided that the small dwarf was not worth the hassle. It produced a large black cloud of ink to obscure its exit, and by expelling a jet of stored water, the octopus moved extremely quickly away from its foes. Thorash, with his darkvision, saw the creature slither through a large grate in the floor on the far side of the room. With the creature gone, Thorash moved up the ladder as quickly as he could, and gasped for air when he reached the top. As Thorash regained his breath, Alexander pulled the lever, and the water began to drain out of the room (and the well). A minute later, when the water was gone and the way was clear, the rest of the party joined Killick, Alexander, and Thorash at the top of the large stone pillar. They opened the door across the walkway and found a T-intersection with a long crosshallway lined with many single doors and capped by doubledoors at each end. The area was lit by a continual light torch, and since Killick had just lost his old torch down the drain, he took this new one off the wall to replace it. The party listened at each of the single doors and heard nothing. Alees checked the floor for traps in front of the double doors and found none. Tarric moved up to one of the double doors and the floor suddenly gave way. As Tarric fell, everyone noticed that his scream ended very abruptly and there was no "thud" when he hit the ground. Thorash moved up to the edge to investigate. He saw a 30 foot deep pit, but Tarric was nowhere to be found inside it. Just at that moment, 4 of the single doors along the hallway opened, and doppelgangers emerged. They tried desperately to push Thorash into the pit with no luck. They attacked without weapons or armor and were quickly cut down. During the battle, the party saw a continual light torch fly up out of the pit and fall back in. When the "danger" was over, Alexander flew to the bottom of the pit, discovering that the bottom was an illusion. When he passed through it, he saw Tarric standing at the bottom of a deeper spiked pit gesticulating wildly, but making no sound. Alexander picked him up and flew him to safety. The party investigated the rooms the doppelgangers had came out of. They seemed to be sleeping chambers. Each chamber contained a bed, a full-length mirror, and rung full of hanging clothes. The clothes were very differentiated, running the gamet from very poor-looking to very rich-looking. Along with the clothing, each room also contained a small box full of costume jewelry. None of the jewelry was as valuable as it looked at first glance, but Alees thought that she could still sell the whole lot to a vendor for about 500 gp. [/QUOTE]
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