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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(contact)" data-source="post: 442372" data-attributes="member: 41">For Lazybones, with no further ado . . .<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">From Chapter Seventeen:  A Gnomish delegate offers to accompany Jespo to Verbobonc, where he can warn the people of the coming assault, and perhaps petition Prisantha’s Master to teleport him to Greyhawk. Jespo and his Gnomish companions are, of course, greeted with all proper urgency and taken directly into the presence of the Lady Anne, Verbobonc’s new Viscountess.  Remembering the party’s tales of the Lady Marie, and cannily recalling their suspicions, Jespo forms a plan.  His gnomish associates don’t know him well enough to recoil in horror from the thought, and as it sounds like a kind of practical joke, agree.  The delegates from Wonderville contrive to ‘spill’ a little holy water on the Viscountess. Her flesh immediately burns, and the much-loved ruler of the Land cries out and accuses the group of being assassins sent to kill her.   Now Jespo too, will get to know the rare experience of being trapped inside a stronghold full of angry, charmed soldiers and hunted by a Demon with the abilities to both read his mind and teleport without error.</li> </ul>Interlude: What Mirror Shall Not Prove the Lie?  Part 2.(or  “You look familiar.  Didn’t you try to kill me before?”)Jespo Crim and his illusionist entourage find themselves in the midst of a furious melee.  Fortunately for them, the “Lady Anne” just couldn’t keep her hands off the help, and instead of fighting her 10th level bodyguard, they are facing a 4th level fighter, leading a band of low-level men-at-arms.Anne, of course, flees as the conflict breaks out, providing one of the illusionists with a perfect opportunity.  He creates an illusion of the Lady herself returning to the council room, and calling for a ceasing of hostility.  This is effective, saving Jespo’s life, as he was fighting “mano-y-mucho-macho-mano” with Arik, Lady Anne’s formerly high-level bodyguard.  The demonic Anne is forced into a re-appearance, making her a target for a dispel magic, causing her true form to be revealed.  The Verbobonc guardsmen recoil in terror from the red-eyed, bat-winged fiend that was a moment before their beloved mistress.  Jespo announces, “I am in a generous mood!  New saving throws for everyone!”.  The gnomes seize the initiative and dispatch, once and for all, the Succubus of Knulb.Arik Leglo is crushed to hear the truth.  He has failed, ultimately, in his sworn task.  Jespo cannily seizes on his emotionally distraught state to convince him that his best chance for redemption lies in bodyguarding Jespo.  Apparently, Arik has not heard of Jespo’s track record, because he agrees.Prisantha’s master is happy to help the cause, and teleports Jespo to Greyhawk where he recovers copies of his spellbooks, and personally briefs Mordenkainen and the Circle of Eight.  Well, not exactly, but he does give a deposition to the second assistant of Mordenkainen’s under-secretary.  Which is kind of like meeting the Eight.  In a way.An associate mage scrys the PCs for Jespo, revealing them to be questioning some unknown wizard in a clearing awash in demon and gnomish blood.  The mage teleports Jespo and Arik to the scene.“I’m back!”  Jespo triumphantly announces, surprising his party.  “Oh, Good Gods, no.”  Ren Qi stammers, as she scrambles to keep the requisite 50 foot distance between herself and the bumbling conjurer.Jespo and Pris put their conniving heads together, and make the suggestion to the evil wizard that the potion they are handing him will repair his mangled hands.  But the joke is on Crynnek, and Zinvellon’s number one man greedily drinks a potion of truth, then proceeds to rat out the entire organization:</blockquote>

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