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The night before the wedding, Alzar is walking down a cave after dinner when he passes by a tavern. A pair of gnomish illusionists are here casting a variety of illusions that awe the local dwarves. Alzar decides to stop in for a half hour. As the performance gathers up steam, one dwarf absent mindedly critiques the wedding party from the other side, and when he is overheard, refuses to apologize or back down. In a moment a shouting match has begun and Alzar quietly gathers a few spell components. Soon someone throws a mug and a brawl breaks out. Alzar casts spells like Sleep and Hypnotism and in a few rounds has subdued the brawl. In a moment, 5 dwarves break in, and tell Alzar that he is under arrest, draw steel and move to attack him. Alzar makes a spellcraft proficiency roll and a sage knowledge roll. These dwarves are a bit off, and a little jerk-ish. They aren’t undead, or being controlled, or…wait. Those are probably simulacra. Alzar tells Azzil to us detect magic, and they glow.
Alzar casts Power Word Kill and drops one and it turns to snow and melts. That’s a common 7th level spell – you make a duplicate of another creature from snow or ice. Afterwards it melts. The simulacra move in and stab at Alzar with weapons, and they all miss (cloak)
Alzar uses his Quick Action ring and casts Mass Domination and controls them, and then they come with him. The real guards arrive a few rounds later and Alzar tells them he needs to see their leaders.
He talks to them, shows them a simulacra, kills one and then the rest to see what happens, explains the tricks to identifying one and that they detect as magical or can be seen as an simulacrum with true seeing or a gem of seeing. Alzar suggests that they prepare tomorrow, because a high level mage has chosen to send 5 simulacra of dwarves to push this brawl, and that means they have penetrated the defenses of the caves.
Alzar suggests that they delay the wedding. Someone is clearly here to move against the wedding tomorrow, that’s the only thing that would make sense. But instead, they will strengthen their guards around the wedding party, and Alzar requests, and refuses to be denied, the opportunity to secret escort the two wedding parties tomorrow.
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