Editing X12: Skarda's Mirror (section)

==The Adventure==
Teranon and Andrya deliver the above expo to the party, begging them to come to Retameron's tower at the Verge. It is now abandoned except for monsters who've entered from outside or else escaped from Halia's lab. No Mirror in here; [[Meme|in Skardiat Russia, you are in Mirror]]! ... and so it happens that this asshole finds you snooping around and takes you "Through The Looking-Glass" (actual title of "Episode Two") into "Episode Three".

"Episode Two" isn't really an episode so much as a mini-gazetteer: describing the slave-quarters, the hydroponics, even a gladiatorial arena. Skarda also owns a palace - but Allston doesn't want you in there (reasonably, because the slaves just want ''out'' and Skarda is off doing evil in Karameikos), so there's no map of that.

Overall the mirror-world is Skarda's very own [[magical realm]] with no less than 5000 slaves, whom this bastard has penned up in that Slaves' Quarter which they call "Hell". In Episode Three the party frees itself from the dungeon; Episode Four is about freeing the slaves. Allston here allows much leeway to the party on how they might be able to do either. The slaves want to get out through the portals.

And they better git-'er-dun soon because, the balance is broken here, causing earthquake and flood.

The last Episode concerns Skarda's hit on the Duke, currently at a hunting-lodge. Which is now being overrun with thousands of newly-freed-men and various soldiers following various banners. When Skarda is confronted, and killed - his Mirror breaks, releasing everything except mirror-stuff and water onto the Duke's lodge. Which should include Skarda's treasure from the Palace, which is 15000 gp plus twelve works of art. Including portraits of women. Oh we didn't know you had it in you, you dog.

Take a note [[Ed Greenwood]]; ''this'' is [[CM8: The Endless Stair|how you clean up after yourself]].