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He should have fallen on his sword. That would have been the sensible thing to do.
Punched his ticket for Elysium right away, no waiting around.
He thought they'd only kill him.
Why did he think that? How stupid was he? Why in the world did he think that?
And now instead of his next great adventure he's flubbed a save against dominate person.
She's doomed.
Cressida Kroft will say "Melyia Arkona, I am going to ask you under truthtelling whether you eat people for fun, please know that your silence will be taken as an admission of guilt." and from there her remaining lifespan will be measured in rounds.
Glorio, message, if it's any source of inspiration to you, my plan to improve on is outing you as a Rakshasa so that you have to fight with me. It won't make my survival much more likely, but at least I won't die knowing that you outlived me.
No, don't give up, we can do this.
I can fool truthtelling. If we shapeshift[1] and swap places -
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1. A supernatural ability, which wouldn't show to arcane sight.
Your trick breaks the spell's hold like any other show of will.
The sudden lack of an enchantment aura would be incandescently suspicious.
GAH!
Message everyone. There are half a dozen rakshasa in this room.
Lying is our entire shtick.
Someone here ought to have a trick that works.
I've got Eldritch Heritage: Rakshasa Bloodline, since rakshasa bloodline sorcerers are better liars than mere rakshasa sorcerers.
But it only works for me.
I've got a cloak clasp that does protection from law three times a day. (Stings like a motherfucker, though, so be ready to keep a straight face.)
Can we get one of you with magic aura to cast it on the clasp and hide it from detect magic?
Wouldn't do you a lick of good - the item casts the spell on the person, and that aura would be visible.
I've got this Seducer's Bane bracelet, although, no, I think Rules As Written it doesn't quite work...
New plan. No one here knows jack shit about rakshasa besides us and Oliv - and Lyvina Mayyad.
Our story is that rakshasa are immune to compulsions.
We just have to convince her not to contradict us - someone get her on a relay with me.
Lyvina Mayyad hears a whisper in her ear.
It says, 'No one react in-character.'
It doesn't say not react out of character, and maybe the text of the message ("no one") is meant to suggest that she share it, but you can't unreact to a secret message passed to you by the GM, so the player at the table doesn't twitch.
Does this message find the origin of its causal chain in the actions of Cressida Kroft? Of Ileosa Arabasti?
Possibly the high-level wizard Togomor, who if we're being honest she acted pretty darned suspicious in the immediate vicinity of and who might have decided to look into things further?
Or some unknown fourth party? (Fifth party? Should she be counting her own party as an involved party?)
Glorio Arkona wants her to believe that Melyia Arkona is a reformed rakshasa (possibly because it's true! but, uh, probably not), so that she'll attempt to verify it and get the result which he knows she'll get and which he's counting on. (Possibly because it's true! But, uh, probably not.)
She plans to check anyway, because you always give your counterparty a chance to get sloppy, but, yeah.
Ah. So she's having her mind read right now.
Olivia writes, "What happens if I lie or refuse to say?" on the note and slides it back to the gamemaster.
Suppose against all odds we convince them enchantments don't work on Rakshasa.
They'll want me to take off my Ring of Mind Shielding so they can use divinations.
Hold up now, I thought you had a second Ring, on a hidden Hand of Glory, shrouded by magic aura?
Lyvina is thinking about something which only the two of you would know.
Well.
The two of you and whoever is reading your mind.
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