I loved the changeling story - changelings are probably my favourite playable race all because of shenanigans like that (I once played one for 6 months without any of the rest of the party knowing I wasn't just an unusually clumsy elf). I'm curious, though - how did your group handle the 'which one is real' issue in character if one player was playing one of the copies?
That’s awesome. How was your changeling outed??
Hmm, I don’t know if I remember or ever knew all the details. Roll20 certainly helped in making things unclear.
I was the first person to mention that there were two Iorveths, so I might have been the first player to notice. The DM made it so the player could move both copies of the Iorveth figure, and if I really was first, even @wrathofthewraith couldn’t be totally sure which was the original.
He and @bloodyseagull can probably fill you in better than me. I’m sure there were secret whisperings in the chat.
Haha, okay. It’s possible someone else in my group could tell it better, because I am the least involved member, but I am our dubious chronicler, if you have seen my ridiculous game notes. But I am a necromancer called Enid, and our party is the Murder Nerds, because we’re all way too into research.
I guess where the story starts is with @wrathofthewraith ’s monk, Iorveth. He is exploring this dungeon because his friend Lydda asked him to join her. However, he was late, and her party decided they couldn’t wait for him.
As we moved through the dungeon, we kind of assumed she was dead. Iorveth tried to be hopeful, but we all figured there was no way. We are formidable, and we had nearly died numerous times. It’s been close enough that we have worked out reanimation consent agreements (everyone consents to becoming a zombie, except the paladin).
We thought she might be adventuring all alone. There was no way she could have survived.
We worked our way through the dungeon, and something we established in the first few sessions has to be noted: every monster kept trying to eat Iorveth. It happened so often that we gave him a new flaw - “I am delicious.” He can get inspiration when things try to eat him. It happens a lot.
So, we went down a hall one day and some darts fly at us and we find a tiny, scared halfling looking like the dungeon has treated her just as badly as us. And Iorveth peers into the darkness and says “Lydda?!?!” And it seems to be her! A happy reunion!!
I am stating now, on the record, and definitely not for the first time, that I hated this NPC. She abandoned us during a horrible fight with this elemental forge-like creature, she made a really off-putting bestiality joke about Iorveth, and we just didn’t get along.
She DID get along with our halfling paladin, Choka (gotta admit I have no idea what Will’s tumblr name is). We all rested in long-abandoned prison cells that night… and he and Lydda bunked together. Eyebrow waggle. Ularia ( @foxyknits ’s bard) and I had a slumber party, basically. We did each other’s hair and talked strategy for our next task. I was zoomed out on the map pinging different options.
When I zoomed back in, rather than two halflings banging in the next cell, there were TWO IORVETHS, two cells down. It took a little while for our characters to discover what was going on, but it was pretty clear to the players from that moment - an impostor, and probably a doppelganger.
So we have to deal with this problem, but FIRST, I have to backtrack and get Valis, my skeleton girlfriend, who has been working on a project for us all night. Well, that’s what I think, anyway. Everyone else wants to argue over which Iorveth is real.
Ularia and I left Choka on guard (that’s a whole other story), went down to retrieve Valis and talk about what to do about this situation. We didn’t really have a fully formed plan, but as we’re returning we see one of the Iorveths just straight-up BITE HIMSELF on the arm, hard enough to tear flesh.
The other one got freaked out and tried to run away, and our course of action became obvious: Iorveth is so delicious, even he can’t resist! The other one is clearly the impostor! We destroy it, and after the battle we’re looking at this gross doppelganger body and someone goes...
