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Mirror, Mirror
What happens
- 00:00:54 Brennan welcomes the audience; recap of the six heroes (recap) at 00:01:13–00:03:10.
- 00:03:10 Evening at a campfire supper on the road to Shoeberg; Bandlebridge stays in his shoe carriage; Boffit puts the silvery birch log on the fire; the Hen lets those who helped serve themselves.
- 00:06:14 Timothy casts Healing Word (a good nine) on Ylfa, who has not let go of a sword blade.
- 00:06:21 Timothy sits with King Cole of Jubilee; Cole tells of his lost kingdom and three fiddlers (Timothy's Insight 17); Gerard hears faint fiddle music (Perception 15); Timothy hears it from his book (Perception 23).
- 00:17:00 Light and music pour out of a book page; Cole sees his fiddlers, recites "Old King Cole" and is taken into the book as the rhyme completes; the Hen, seeing it, flees the camp with the other wagons.
- 00:26:52 Pib and Pinocchio get Stephan to step out and slap the horses so the shoe carriage drives off without him; the party takes Cole's chariot and ram.
- 00:29:09 The caravan flees ahead; the blue-cloaked traveler gives his name as Herr Drosselmeyer and asks why everyone left; Gerard answers "There was a terrifying ostrich in the woods." 00:29:31; he vanishes in light and leaves his teapot carriage and its rabbit.
- 00:31:05 Pib picks the carriage lock (24) and finds an alpine clockwork manor inside.
- 00:32:31 Outside, Pinocchio, Ylfa, Gerard and Rosamund each touch Timothy's book; each touch gives a different result (an etching of toys that slowly fades, a bloody wolf, a half-return to human form, a prince portrait then a glass-armored woman); a parchment hand reaches for Timothy's throat.
- 00:48:54 Inside, Pib's Investigation is a natural 20: a running cat clock, a hook that stops time, and a covered mirror from the Kingdom of Tapestry who speaks to him and shows two visions (Marienne in ruin; the land swallowed into a large book, strife removed, a cat in boots on a cushion on its last page) and answers a third question aloud.
- 01:03:35 Pib returns; Herr Drosselmeyer comes back leading an ostrich, questions the party, touches the book, speaks a prophecy and turns into an owl and then text.
- 01:21:24 Pib takes Pinocchio to the mirror; the mirror demands "Bring me back to her" and the teapot carriage collapses.
- 01:22:30 The party shares information: Ylfa says she is a werewolf; Gerard's remembered golden sphere; Elegy (History 17 and 23); Timothy's Arcana 23 finds new pages; Pib shows Bandlebridge's genealogy scroll.
- 01:36:11 The rabbit Eidelgrin offers to avoid Shoeberg; Timothy gets a wig made from Ylfa's cut pigtails; the party enters the forest led by Rosamund and emerges after a day or two at an abandoned hamlet.
- 01:51:34 Wine cellar, the mice and their account of a fairy godmother who turns creatures and objects into servants.
- 02:03:07 Pinocchio opens an old door upstairs onto a bedroom with two skeletons, a carving knife and an etching; he takes a doorknob.
- 02:13:51 Ylfa smells godmother's blood and tracks it; Eidelgrin and the ram (named Senator by Pinocchio) go back to the house.
- 02:16:34 On the trail: corpses, gold, claw marks of furniture; later, wire-and-household-object sculptures ("a birdhouse full of human finger bones, a strange watering can filled with blood" 02:20:37); the party sneaks to a camp of half-transformed objects and a sickly fairy godmother with a glass spear in her chest.
- 02:32:25 A distraction and extraction plan is made; a second Stealth check fails; the godmother hears them; initiative is called.
- 02:35:35 End of the game; next-time preview (see Table talk).
Frames
Key quotes
- “Aw shucks.” — Brennan 0:01:06
- “He's dead.” — Pib 0:22:50
- “You brush your hand over the book, and as you drag your fingers across a blank page, a beautiful etching of an island filled with toys appears.” — Brennan 0:34:10
- “Tim, you gotta stop!” — Pinocchio 0:48:37
- “The road to the Kingdom of Elegy, in that place is the first of many treasures that the book requires.” — Mirror 1:02:01
- “The six of you have come together. It is no accident.” — Herr Drosselmeyer 1:16:22
- “I just wanted to be a human, and I still do.” — Timothy 1:25:11
- “Let's do the fuckin' forest.” — Pinocchio 1:42:23
- “Gown. Gown and that and a hood and a crown and ringlets.” — Ogbert 1:57:18
- “It feels like you would like bet on a ram named Senator.” — Murph 2:16:14
Who and what appears
Player characters
- Mother Timothy Goose
- Pinocchio
- Prince Gerard of Greenleigh
- Princess Rosamund du Prix
- Puss in Boots
- Ylfa Snorgelsson
NPCs
- Boffit
- Cinderella
- Fairy Godmother
- Herr Drosselmyer
- Magic Mirror
- Merchant in the etching
- Old King Cole
- Stephan
- The Fairy Godmother's servants
- The Fiddlers
- The Ostrich
- The Red Hen
- The mice of the hamlet
- Woman in glass armor
- Young girl of the caravan
Locations
- Amanti
- Elegy
- Greenleigh
- Jubilee
- Marienne
- Shoeberg
- Shoeberg road
- Tapestry
- The Blackwood Forest
- The abandoned hamlet
- The pumpkin carriage
- The well
Items and artifacts
- 10 gold pieces
- Broken candle
- Cole's pipe
- Doorknob
- Drosselmeyer's cloak
- Drosselmeyer's teapot carriage
- Genealogy scroll
- Gerard's book of forms
- Mother Goose's book
- Silvery birch log
- The cat clock and hook
- The glass shard
- The golden ball
- Wigs and pigtails
- Wine
Factions and organizations
Creatures
- Animated furniture
- Barrel soldiers
- Eidelgrin
- Parchment hand
- Senator
- Werewolf (Neverafter)
- Wolf in the book
Roll log
| Time | Character (player) | Roll | Result | DC / AC | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:06:14 | Timothy (Ally) | Healing Word | 9 | — | on Ylfa |
| 00:08:45 | Timothy (Ally) | Insight | 17 | — | familiar |
| 00:14:45 | Pib (Zac) | Perception | 12 | — | hears talk |
| 00:14:47 | Gerard (Murph) | Perception | 15 | — | hears fiddles |
| 00:16:38 | Timothy (Ally) | Perception | 23 | DC 15 | music from book |
| 00:20:04 | Timothy (Ally) | Arcana | 21 | — | O illuminated |
| 00:20:05 | Rosamund (Siobhan) | Arcana | 18 | — | — |
| 00:20:06 | Ylfa (Emily) | Insight | 14 | — | — |
| 00:20:10 | Pib (Zac) | Insight | 19 | — | — |
| 00:20:11 | Pinocchio (Lou) | Insight | 15 | — | — |
| 00:20:12 | Rosamund (Siobhan) | Insight | 21 | — | — |
| 00:23:28 | Timothy (Ally) | Persuasion, disadvantage | 6 | — | Hen flees |
| 00:24:58 | Rosamund (Siobhan) | Animal Handling | 9 | — | ram backs up |
| 00:26:05 | Timothy (Ally) | Persuasion, disadvantage | 14 | — | — |
| 00:27:27 | Pib (Zac) | Deception | 21 | — | Stephan steps out |
| 00:27:51 | Pib (Zac) | Pickpocket attempt | 8 | Stephan must roll 5 or under | Stephan's roll 18 |
| 00:31:22 | Pib (Zac) | Thieves' tools | 24 (19 + 5) | DC 20 | door opens |
| 00:33:59 | Pinocchio (Lou) | Charisma save | 19 | — | toy island |
| 00:34:52 | Ylfa (Emily) | Constitution save | natural 1 | — | grows |
| 00:39:44 | Gerard (Murph) | Constitution save | 8 | — | pink hand |
| 00:44:08 | Rosamund (Siobhan) | save | 18 | — | — |
| 00:44:57 | Ylfa (Emily) | Arcana | natural 1 (total 0) | — | — |
| 00:45:01 | Gerard (Murph) | Insight | 16 | — | — |
| 00:45:03 | Pinocchio (Lou) | Arcana | 12 | — | — |
| 00:45:01 | Timothy (Ally) | Arcana | 11 | — | — |
| 00:49:20 | Pib (Zac) | Investigation | natural 20 | — | clock and mirror |
| 01:05:57 | Ylfa (Emily) | Animal Handling | 18 | — | ostrich talks |
| 01:08:19 | Gerard (Murph) | Insight | 15 | — | truthful as magician |
| 01:24:04 | Gerard (Murph) | History, advantage | natural 20 | — | golden ball |
| 01:26:35 | Rosamund (Siobhan) | History | 17 | — | Elegy |
| 01:26:38 | Gerard (Murph) | History | 23 | — | shoe story |
| 01:31:42 | Timothy (Ally) | Arcana | 23 | — | pages |
| 01:35:09 | Ylfa (Emily) | Investigation or Perception | natural 1 (total 0) | — | — |
| 01:35:12 | Rosamund (Siobhan) | Investigation or Perception | 13 | — | — |
| 01:35:14 | Pinocchio (Lou) | Perception | 18 | — | — |
| 01:35:17 | Timothy (Ally) | Perception | 19 | — | name and age |
| 01:47:54 | Rosamund (Siobhan) | Survival | 25 | — | hamlet abandoned |
| 01:51:37 | Pib (Zac) | Investigation | natural 20 | — | wine cellar |
| 01:52:26 | Ylfa (Emily) | Investigation | 9 | — | — |
| 01:52:46 | Rosamund (Siobhan) | Investigation | 9 (11 with double proficiency) | — | — |
| 01:59:24 | Pinocchio (Lou) | Arcana | 4 | — | tipsy |
| 02:02:00 | Ylfa (Emily) | Survival, advantage + Bardic | 18 | — | godmother blood |
| 02:03:07 | Pinocchio (Lou) | Perception, advantage | 15 | — | door |
| 02:07:07 | Pinocchio (Lou) | Investigation | 17 | — | knob loose |
| 02:13:17 | Pib (Zac) | Investigation | 17 + 3 = dirty 20 | — | the well |
| 02:17:38 | Rosamund (Siobhan) | Survival | "a crit" (said) | — | claw marks |
| 02:20:12 | Ylfa (Emily) | Stealth (group) | 18 | — | — |
| 02:20:14 | Rosamund (Siobhan) | Stealth (group) | 28, then 27 | — | — |
| 02:20:16 | Timothy (Ally) | Stealth (group) | 14 | — | — |
| 02:20:25 | Gerard (Murph) | Stealth (group), disadvantage | 11 | — | — |
| 02:20:26 | Pib (Zac) | Stealth (group) | 9 | — | — |
| 02:20:31 | Pinocchio (Lou) | Stealth (group) | 16 | — | group success |
| 02:27:43 | Pib (Zac) | Stealth | dirty 20 | — | unseen |
| 02:28:30 | Pib (Zac) | Perception, disadvantage | 13 + 6 = 19 | — | sees the camp |
| 02:34:54 | Ylfa (Emily) | Stealth (group) | dirty 20 | — | — |
| 02:34:58 | Rosamund (Siobhan) | Stealth (group) | 11 | — | — |
| 02:35:03 | Gerard (Murph) | Stealth (group) | 3 | — | — |
| 02:35:03 | Pib (Zac) | Stealth (group) | 8 | — | — |
| 02:35:15 | Pinocchio (Lou) | Stealth (group) | 3 | — | — |
| 02:35:16 | Timothy (Ally) | Stealth (group) | 9 | — | godmother hears |
Natural 20s: Pib 2 (Investigation twice), Gerard 1 (History) · Natural 1s: Ylfa 3 (Constitution save, Arcana, Investigation or Perception).