Serini’s the last surviving (maybe) Order of the Scribble member. Her diary had the coded locations of all of the Gates. Or, at least the general vicinity, which is why Xykon & Co have had to dungeon crawl all of this time to look for the last Gate.
Question, now that I think of it. The Diary gave coded locations for the Gates. Good enough for Team Evil to Teleport right to the front door of Girard’s Pyramid, despite the pyramid being covered with a number of illusions until the Order showed up that day. Still pretty close. What location did Serini give for her (Kraggor’s) Gate in her Diary, and shouldn’t that be really close to the last Gate too?
Oh, and disguise is somewhat covered by her being an Epic Rogue. Though maybe she asked to be reincarnated as a Dwarf to honor Kraggor, I dunno. I think she’s one of the Invisible Twosome, personally.
Well, her instructions might have put them at the “front door” of the last Gate; it just so happens that there’s hundreds of other front doors there as well. Just like it put them at the front door of the Pyramid, but Team Evil still would have had to fight their way through (had V not inadvertently killed the Girard clan) and get past any traps, etc.
I do like the idea of Serini being one of the kidnappers.
My guess is that there are wards built into the pyramid and the warren of dungeons that prevent teleporting into these structures. So they teleport to the nearest unwarded location.
Burlew has said that he brought Minrah into the strip because a cleric of Durkon’s level should have a follower. He also said it would be an interesting new direction for Durkon’s character to put him in a position where he was giving orders to somebody else. It’s an outgrowth of his recent battle with the vampire, where he had to learn to take on more initiative.
So I don’t see Minrah as somebody who is secretly hiding her identity as a high-level character. That would throw off the follower dynamic.
I endorse this theory. Or I would except Serini supposedly was honoring her friend by putting the gate behind monsters and walls, because that fit Kraagor belief in might. Well, according to the Lore of the Sapphire Guard, which could be bullshit.
The pound sign I think bumps up the font size. The double puffy thingy bolds text. There’s a way to combine puffy stars and underscores to bold and italicize text, but I didn’t want to spend the time re-looking up how to do it.
Fight’s going on a lot longer than I would’ve guessed. RC’s got some decent dodge AC too. I had no idea you could make a stone golem with Animate Object.
I did…not realizing there were stat blocks for animated objects. They look like mini-stone golems, minus the resistance to magic. Shouldn’t take Durkon or Minrah long to smash it, but that’s a round they aren’t attacking RC. They need to get the Hell out of there. Like now.
Because RC isn’t going to meet with them again - I think they need to subdue him and then beat some sense into him. And hope Xykon and/or help doesn’t show up in the meantime.
Not to mention they blew the element of surprise. If they can’t take RC out of the fight, at least temporarily, they have seriously compromised the rest of Roy plan to no gain. RC is not going to assume these two clerics are all by themselves. As soon as they flee, the bugbears will start scouring the valley.
Specifically to avoid that kind of cheese, it takes five rounds to transform to (or from) wind form. The rules don’t specify if you can do anything else during those rounds, which is a pretty big oversight; but we’ve tended to play that you’re focused on the transformation and can’t do effective things while transforming