Since he's the with the Court Mage I'll go for the companion character set-up.
Just to clarify here, you want your lackey to move from background color to actual combat participant as a 3rd PC (Brute) should this go the route of blows, yes?
1. I think he's in the Royal Gardens, a large space open to the sky nearby, with lots of trees & flowers & some vegetables. And probably a gazebo.
2. Lucann's probably better at this, but I'll try to "follow the trail of magic" back from the construct - hopefully that will give us a direction to go in, at least. I don't believe I have any specific divination magic, so that will be an Arcana check, if it's possible at all.
Arcana (1d20+19=37)
Hunter's Blessing is still active for Lucann. He can easily enough aid your efforts with a Nature check of his own (and with a + 2 bonus with a material link to the quarry). Your check plus his aid exceeds the Hard DC dramatically. I'm going to cut right to the scene. I need you guys to let me know what your intent is here ("Take Down" or "Other"). If "Other" then we will run it as a Skill Challenge.
With a piece of the construct the Court Mage so meticulously created, Lucann's eyes glow with a supernatural sight. With the spiritual emanations and the powerful magical ley line, fading but still present, connecting the construct to its creator, the two of you swiftly end up in the considerable acreage that make up the grounds of the Royal Gardens. You move to a particular grove, its beauty so enchanted that it reminds you of the Feywild Lucann. There amidst such unrivaled beauty, basking in the moonlight, in a kneeling position, seemingly lost in prayer is a beautiful Eladrin woman. Though you are many years removed from it, her silken voice, tinged with earthy undertones, is familiar to you Lucann. It is one of the Dryads that you spent your youth with, long since missing from your life.
"I come to this grove every highmoon. I pray every night to the Lady of the Moons but she hears me not. I followed my goals. I sought my destiny, new horizons and experiences; I left my very grove for them. I kept to the shadows and avoided the blazing light of good. The only tenant I ever broke was due to my affinity for the darkness. And Sehanine betrayed me. She betrayed all of us even before that when she let the filthy human swine burn our forests and destroy our very homes...for another night of kindling for fire or to build new homes in the stead of our natural ones. So I've found a new master that actually answers my prayers and gives me strength in return for fealty. Through her power I've become the greatest of assassins this world or the Feywild has ever seen. I’ve brought this entire city to its knees and killed its weakling human king; a king that sanctioned those massacres by his inaction. By my hand, the darkness consumed all of the human lands here, infiltrated the purity of the order of The Iron Tower, my thirst slaked by the blood of its former Knight Commander. The humans sack their own cities, spread pestilence in their own hands, destroy whatever they touch and move onto the next host. They are a parasite best stamped out and now...now I have the means to truly do that. I will show them the meaninglessness of their own pitiful existences and they will despair before their light fades to black."
"You disappoint me Lucann. But though I am filled with rage, I am not without sound mind. I offer you both an opportunity to be lieutenants in my army, sowing despair and death amongst the humans until the crawl back into the holes they came from like the orcs before them."
The dryad's image shimmers to her true, feminine plant hybrid visage, eyes as black as night, sharp teeth blued by Feywild flowers. You both feel the presence of terrible eyes upon you...hiding in the inky darkness of the Royal Garden's mighty grove...everywhere.
[MENTION=386]LostSoul[/MENTION] [MENTION=16586]Campbell[/MENTION]
1) Please answer the question outlined at the top LostSoul.
2) What do you do and please specify your intent clearly.
