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Dunmari Frontier - Session 103

Doppelganger Threats: in which clones and chaos abound

Featuring: Seeker, Delwath, Kenzo, Wellby, Riswynn
In Taelgar: May 12, 1749 DR to May 14, 1749 DR
On Earth: Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
Uzgukhar and the Garamjala Desert

The party learns of doppelganger threats, resurrects fallen allies, and splits up to address multiple crises.

16 days until Apollyon escapes.

Session Info

Summary

  • Faldrick recounts an attack by Seeker’s doppelganger, resulting in the deaths of Jotha and Aygul.
  • The party discusses their next steps and mourns their losses, while Riswynn plans to resurrect the fallen.
  • An urgent message reveals Wellby’s doppelganger causing chaos, but the party decides to continue their quest.
  • Riswynn resurrects Aygul and Jotha, revealing a troubling connection between doppelgangers and trapped souls.
  • Riswynn teleports to Tharn Todor to stop her doppelganger from leading dwarves to their deaths.
  • Seeker creates a simulacrum of Kenzo to combat the pirate Wellby clone.

Timeline

  • May 12, 1749 DR, morning: manage logistics in Uzgukhar
  • May 12, 1749 DR, afternoon: Depart Uzgukhar, heading southwest for the coast of the Sea of Storms. Contacted by Sura with news of a Wellby doppleganger rampaging as pirate in the Nevos Sea.
  • May 13, 1749 DR, morning: Resurrect Aygul and Jotha while traveling. Discuss dopplegangers and souls.
  • May 13, 1749 DR, afternoon: Riswynn is contacted by Dwarves of Tharn Todor concerning Riswynn doppleganger, and departs with Kethra to deal with it.
  • May 13, 1749 DR, overnight: Seeker makes simulacrum of Kenzo
  • May 14, 1749 DR, morning: Continue flying south.
  • May 14, 1749 DR, afternoon: Seeker teleports Kenzo’s simulacrum to clone Wellby’s pirate ship, The Vengenace.

Mirror of the Past

  • May 13, 1749 DR: The past of the dust from Seeker’s doppleganger is revealed( recharge:: mirror)

Narrative

We begin on Vindristjarna, hovering over the bustling orcish city of Uzgukhar, with morning activities visible below, the slain body of the Merfolk warlock Buruli wrapped in a cloak on the deck, and the rescued halfling crew of the Stormdancer adjusting to their situation. Faldrick, a dwarf with a silver cane, approached Seeker urgently, demanding a passcode to verify the party’s identity, claiming to be wary of another doppelganger attack. After the party confirmed their identity and inspected the treasures on the dead merfolk’s body, Faldrak told his tale. Two days ago, the ship was attacked by Seeker’s doppelganger, a fierce battle with Seeker’s clone unleashing powerful spells, leading tot he deaths of Jotha and Aygul. The doppleganger was only driven off, as Faldrak tells it, by the power of the icicle turrets he was firing.

The party spends some time discussing the aftermath and implications of these events, and mourning the losses of the battle, while being grateful that their crew stopped the Seeker clone from capturing Vindristjarna in its entirety. During the conversation, Riswynn agrees to raise the dead, but needs time to prepare. The party, eager to be on the move, spends a few hours organizing supplies, and rounding up a wizard to help free the rest of the Stormdancer crew still trapped as half-sharks, before departing Uzgukhar for the south. Wellby manages to convince Milo Thistlefoot and crew to remain on board for some time, at least, with the promise of adventure.

Just past noon, the party departs. With Vindristjarna underway, the party distributes magic items and thanks for aid in a small ceremony for the crew. The ceremony was interrupted by an urgent message using the Drankorian Message Stone, from Sura, reporting first that three Chardonian legions were mobilizing and on the march towards Songara, and more importantly, that a doppelganger of Wellby was causing chaos in Illoria by sinking ships. Ultimately, the party decided they could not divert from their quest to deal with the pirate Wellby, but told Sura they would think on it, and that evening had further conversations with Sura and with Abha about the situation via the Dream spell.

The next morning, Riswynn resurrected Aygul and Jotha using Raise Dead. Aygul, an orc, described a strange, dark prison with a growing light, relating her experience to Thark’s domain. Jotha, a Deno’qai, described being trapped in a stone-like encasement with other souls. In the course of this conversation, the party realized that the souls of people killed by the dopplegangers were, somehow, being trapped in the locks of Apollyon’s prison, and as these trapped souls broke free, it was weakening the lock. This was confirmed both by the Tanshi, who reported to Delwath that some souls of their followers were missing, and Wellby, who sensed a hole in the halfing ancestral memory. This then explained why the dopplegangers were causing so much chaos, and increased the urgency to do something about them. During this discussion, the party also used the Mirror of the Past to examine the dust from Seeker’s doppleganger, seeing a vision of its past.

While discussing what to do next, Riswynn received an urgent message from her clan in Tharn Todor, reporting that her doppleganger had recently appeared and was apparently – and very successfuly – recruiting warriors for a mission to the deep underdark, which seemed doomed to failure and death, likely in an effort to cause the deaths and harvest the souls of many dwarves. Unwilling to let the dwarves of Tharn Todor be led to their deaths, Riswynn used Word of Recall to teleport, with Kethra, to help, while the rest of the party debated what to do about the pirate clone of Wellby.

Using scrying, Delwath was able to find both the pirate Wellby, seeing him onboard a pirate ship called The Vengenance, and the Seeker doppleganger, apparently waiting or standing guard in Drankor. The party decided, then to use Seeker’s magic to create a simulacrum of Kenzo, and send it to destroy the pirate Wellby clone.

We end the session the following day, in the late afternoon, after Seeker spends all night casting simulacrum to make a clone of Kenzo, and then rests and teleports the Kenzo clone, using one of the two dice from the Prince of Luck to ensure the teleport is on target.