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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.
Master Delmore, we'll reimburse you later. You can name your price under truthtelling or fairness.
For now please put the shadows in the Bag of Holding.
In that case she'll start rehearsing reasons why they should pay her a lot of money for this while she Bags the shadows.
Truthtelling is fairly robust to that kind of willing self-deception, and fairness moreso, but neither are perfect.
In that case, Glorio Arkona's retinue are going to try and rescue him!
They hope it isn't too late!
Cangi will continue to lurk invisibly by Orianna Delmore, ready to defeat attacks.
They're not out of the woods yet, not while there are still shadows which answer to her blocking the way into Vault.
The 400ish people living in this mansion collapse into a pile of confusion and writhing limbs, to be immediately drenched with water and crushed with stone, and the water disappears when the antimagic field snaps into place around them, to be replaced with various shunken objects and fires growing to full size and the shrunken flame drake lymph that Togomor spread inside the mansion detonating inside the pile like a firecracker in an anthill and killing everyone without a whole heap of hitdice or - more likely - someone between themself and the blast.
Toff Ornelos struggles to extricate himself, tries find his feet minus his Belt of Constitution and age resistance, he's taken something like 20d6 damage today from assorted Sneak Attacks, freezing spheres, and falling objects,
and is knocked back to the ground by a younger stronger angrier man,
and stung by Pudgy Knuckles and also Togomor stands on his throat.
That was fun!
Four hundred Korvosans, an igloo made of several thousand pounds of sculpted stone, a variety of summoned creatures, and two horses were all ejected into one five-foot square.
There wasn't enough room for all of them, so some people got jostled around pretty good there.
Those with good Reflex saves or Acrobatics had the chance to get out of the pile the while it was growing - or at least on top or near the top of it.
As, of course, did those with magical flight.
If we assume each person rests on four people, that's pyramid with four levels and a base of 200ish people. Assume two base-level people to each five-foot square, and that's a one hundred five-foot squares, which would fit into a fifty-foot square - discounting the people displaced by the igloo - before people extricating themselves from the edges and the detonating flame drake lymph spread the pile further out. (In practice it does not look like anything as orderly as a pyramid.)
Antimagic field fills a sphere with a 20-foot diameter. A sphere is a kind of circle, and a circle is a kind of square, from which we can calculate that the antimagic field covered about a fourth of the pile, or less - as it was centered near the edge where Togomor found fleeing Toff Ornelos. (This also means that only a fraction of the shrunken flame drake lymph detonated, for which dozens or hundreds of people owe their lives.)
Clerics hie to the carnage. Most of the worst injured have Korvoan cover too thick to penetrate with the first round of channeled energy.
Wasting no time, doughty Korvosans begin disassembling the pile - dragging away the injured and dead.
When the injured have been stabilized and the dead counted, there will be forty fewer Korvosans in the Vault.
Including at least one person who was commanding a shadow guarding the way into the Vault, oops.
Considering the distracting commotion, it might be a few minutes before -
Actually there's a wizard in the Vault who's job it is to stand near the doorway and stoneshape it shut if his senses report a distracting commotion of any stripe, and then stand near the door ready to cast command undead if any shadows make it through anyway, and raise an alarm if this seems in his best judgement like there's a 1% chance of it being insuficient, and another weaker wizard assigned to conceal them both with a silent image, and both of them with orders not to help in any way or even pay the slightest mind to any commotion which might possibly distract other people.
The door is stoppered before any of the shadows themselves realize that they're newly free.
It seems like one of the people within that quarter of the heap under the effect of an antimagic field has her hands on backwards and a fox's head.
Did anyone notice that?
I may have 7 INT, but that's INT enough to keep Perception maxed.
That's unfortunate.
Is there anyone who saw and who also knows what it means?
Which Knowledge skill would that be?
Not that it super matters, since I have ranks in all of them.
Of course he has a clone - he's an important man. He's the Dean of Evocation at the Acadamae of Korvosa.
But this raises the question.
Where are all the other important people's clones?
Golarion, as written by its creators, is straightforwardly not a setting where clones exist and important people have them.
It takes Toff Ornelos ten minutes and 1,000 gp to create a clone for someone.
If important people in Korvosa had clones, how in The Curse of the Crimson Throne does Ileosa poison her husband to inherit the kingdom? He should have woken up in his clone.
(Setting aside how he could have been recalled to life after the fact with other spells.)
Why does it say in Cheliax, Empire of Devils that Carellia Thrune accidentally drowned and left her cousin Infrexus Thrune to inherit that kingdom? She should have woken up in her clone.
And how in his turn did Infrexus Thrune accidentally drown and leave the Empire of Cheliax to his daughter Queen Abrogail II?
(Accidentally drowning is something of a family tradition, among Thrunes.)
And how did the Eternal Lord Volshyenek Ornelos the Immortal, after proving for two hundred years that time could not take him, fake his death at the hands of attacking devils?
Everyone should have expected that he'd wake up in his clone.
How in Wrath of the Righteous is the silver dragon Terendelev slain by the balor demon Khorramzadeh?
Don't worry about those names, they won't be on the test, but Terendelev should have woken up in her clone.
How in The Curse of the Crimson Throne: Crown of Fangs (the final book in that series) do the Player Characters first kill the eighth-circle Togomor and then his employer Swoleosa Arabasti?
Why didn't Togomor make them both clones?
How on Golarion does anyone manage to ever die, if they can just return to their clones?
Lord Headmaster Ornelos is happy to supply them, for a quite reasonable fee.
You don't need to find his name in a dusty tome and climb a mountain to find him, the man has a street address!
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