Mirror, mirror update
Subject: Mirror, Mirror update
A bit of retcon. My PHB at home has contradicting statements about whether a person using scrying can hear the target. It looks like a misprint and the SRD online says that they can hear the target.
The man is changing his clothes. He is removing torn and bloody robes and gingerly touching a recently healed gash in his side. He is just about 6' tall, dark hair going grey. His brown eyes show a keen intellect. He seems to be mumbling to himself as he moves about the room. He puts on a clean set of robes and then sits down at a table. Ally can only see for 10 feet around the man so most of the room is out of focus. The table is wooden and looks to seat 4 easily. There is a silver urn and 4 silver mugs on a silver try in the center of the table and the man pours himself a drink.
Ally watches for several minutes while the man seems to just sit at the table, relaxing. From out of view a muffled voice comes "My Lord, the food you asked for is ready." The man yells back "Thank you. Just leave it by the door. I am indisposed at the moment." He moves towards the door and listens at it, seeming to make sure that the other person is gone. He then quickly opens the door and picks up a tray of food, still steaming and hot. He takes it to the table and starts eating. The food looks to be some type of stew with a dark brown bread, some fresh cut carrots and a large mug of ale. The sight and sound of the man stuffing him self fills the rest of Ally's vision.
Suddenly Ally is flying back the way he came. Almost with out transition he switches place with the real Ally and he is back in his body.
OODM: Commentary or anything else before I go on?
From: Josh
Subject: Mirror, Mirror update
oOoOOH. That actually makes a difference. We might be able to figurethis out after all.
From: Mark
Subject: Mirror, Mirror update
You expect him to be reporting back just at the 8 minutes in time that Ally is scrying on him. Be lucky he was not taking a bath or going to the bathroom. There would have been a fun 8 minutes. I could have added another sense to the spell. :)
You actually know more than you think. You just don't know it yet.
From: Josh
Subject: Mirror, mirror update
I was actually being sincere. I think that we learned alot from thatsmall chunk of dialog.
From: Derek
Subject: Mirror, mirror update
Really? I can't figure out what we learned then...
From: Jason
Subject: Mirror, mirror update
At first glance, the part about him being a Lord is probably significant. Its also at least slightly interesting that he has reasonably polite relationships with his servants, as opposed to being served by undead or imps or something... that's not particularly helpful but its an insight into his personality.
From: Derek
Subject: Mirror, mirror update
Well, probably anyone who's dressed well and has money is going to be called Lord. It just means he's educated and has money, both of which are pretty much a foregone conclusion with a wizard anyway. I guess he could be a sorceror, but he seemed to have too large of a variety of spells to be one of those.
From: Jason
Subject: Mirror, mirror update
That (the part about money) is true, I should have explained why I think he actually is a Lord... If he were in an inn or other public place, the owners would probably play it safe and call him Lord. But my impression is that he's probably at home, wherever that is, with his own servants. And they would presumably know the correct form of address for him.
From: Josh
Subject: Mirror, mirror update
Furthermore, he's keeping what happened a secret from his servants.Which means he's probably a well respected lord. Mix this from whatwe know earlier and we know he's a well respected lord that lives within 2 hours distance. That narrows it down to a pretty small group of guys.
From: Jason
Subject: Mirror, mirror update
Mmm... I was with you until the 2 hours thing. The problem is, what if he can teleport?