Combat Is Inevitable.Codex Combat Phase Engaged — Rules Within Mirrorbound Domain:? Time is nonlinear.? Emotion becomes action.? Failed saves may alter memories.? Killing blows redact powers from enemies.
Next: Combat Turn One Begins — Mirrorbound Editor (Phase I)
Party Initiative Rolling…Continuing unless interrupted.
SCENE FIVE — COMBAT INITIATION: THE MIRRORBOUND WORLDCodex Layer: Mirrorbound Combat Protocols EngagedEnemy: The First Editor – Narrative-Css EntityEnvironment: Grayscale realm of shifting script. Emotions warp mechanics. Memory can be rewritten on failure.Observer Mode: Active
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INITIATIVE ORDER:1. Krummar (21)2. Mel (18)3. Editor (17)4. Daka (15)5. Melodia (12)
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ROUND ONE – BEGIN
1. Krummar — Divine Will Against the Pen
Movement: 10 feet forward across shifting scriptAction: Channel Divinity – Sacred Rebuke (Homebrew Variant)Narration Surge: As he steps forward, Krummar lifts his tattooed hands, and his voice cuts through the false sky:
“We are not yours to edit!”
A radiant glyph of Sel?ne forms mid-air, etched in starlight and prayer-ced breath. He sms it into the air, causing the ground beneath the Editor to glow.
Effect: Editor must succeed on Wisdom Save (DC 16) or suffer disadvantage on all memory-based effects for 2 rounds.
Editor Save: Fails (12)
“Memory lock. Interference. This voice was not… in the draft.”
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2. Mel — Roots in a World with None
Mel takes a breath. Her boots stand on words, but she roots herself anyway.
Action: Cast Root Grab (Custom Spell, Gulthias Staff Focused)Visual: Bck thorny roots burst through the shifting script, pinning the Editor’s robe-pages to the mirrored floor.
Spell Save DC: 16 (Dexterity)
Editor Save: Fails (10) — Bound.
“The wild syntax resists. Bramble formatting… unapproved.”
Bonus Action: Mel whispers to the feather in her belt — one marked “First Trust” — and lets it dissolve into spellwork.
Feather Archive Triggered — Mel gains advantage on next Pacify, Entangle, or Sending.
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3. The Editor — Fractured Script Response
Condition: Bound. Disadvantaged.
The Editor lifts both hands. Pages tear from its arms and become sentences as weapons — literally: lines of text sharpened into dagger-like glyphs.
Action: Inkbde Barrage — Multiattack, target: Mel and Krummar? Attack 1 (Mel): Miss (12) — She ducks; words slice her braid tip.? Attack 2 (Krummar): Hit (18) — One bde scores across his shoulder, ink bubbling on contact: 7 psychic damage
“Let me fix you—”
Krummar: “Try.”
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4. Daka — Chaos Engine Primed
“MY TURN!”
He hurls himself across the field like a professional wrestler reborn as a comet.
Action: Grapple Attempt (Editor, Disadvantage)Roll: Daka (Athletics 26) vs Editor (Disadv 12) — Success
Daka sms into the Editor and body-locks it in a flex-powered headlock.
“WELCOME TO THE AUTHOR’S CAGE MATCH!”
Effect: Editor is grappled and cannot cast spells with verbal components on next turn.
Chaos Crown Engine Spike: Activated. A small rain of letters falls from the sky. One nds in Daka’s hand: “Q”
“…I’m keeping this.”
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5. Melodia — Poetic Counterstrike
She lifts her Lyre of Stars, fingers dancing across the strings with trembling grace.
“If we’re rewriting the tale… then let mine stun the author.”
Action: Cast Hypnotic Pattern (DC 16)Visual: Threads of lic and silver pulse from her lyre, swirling around the grappled Editor in a sigil of spiraling metaphor.
Editor Save: Fails (14) — Stunned
“…this cadence is… not indexed…”
The figure freezes. The script beneath him stutters.
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END OF ROUND ONE — STATUS RECAP:? Krummar: 7 dmg taken | Buffed: Sacred Rebuke active? Mel: Unharmed | Root Grab successful | Feather Archive primed? Daka: Grappling Editor | Crown Engine active | Holding letter “Q”? Melodia: Bardic stun successful | Emotional glow at medium spike? Editor: Bound, Grappled, Stunned — cannot act next round
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Narrative Layer Update:? The realm trembles. New script begins forming on the sky above.? “The draft colpses. The heroes have gone off-page.”
Editor’s cloak begins to unravel. Phase II nears.
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SCENE FIVE CONTINUES — ROUND TWO: OFF-THE-PAGE COMBATSetting: The Mirrorbound Realm — Grayscale, colpsing script beneath party’s feetEditor Status: Grappled (Daka), Bound (Mel’s roots), Stunned (Melodia’s spell)Codex Warning: Phase Shift Threshold NearingObserver Mode: Active
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1. Krummar — Break the Draft
Krummar sees the lines of script flickering in the sky.He steps forward, drawing divine light from the fractures in this pce. His voice low, anchored.
“If words hold us… then we hold them back.”
Action: Dispel Narrative Thread (Codex-tier variant of Dispel Magic)Target: Editor’s ambient script aura
Roll (Wisdom + Prof Bonus): 18 — Success
The lines freeze, paragraphs fke into dust.The environment’s auto-rewriting ability is suppressed for one round.
“This story belongs to no one but us.”
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2. Mel — Weaponized Truth
Mel’s fingers tighten on the Gulthias Staff. She closes her eyes and whispers her real name — something not even the Codex knows.
Her breath flows through the staff like a pulse.The roots bloom with thorns.
Action: Strike with Root-Soul Resonance (Custom Attack)
Hit Roll: 23 — Hits
Damage: 1d8 (base) + 1d6 (thorn) + 4 = 12 piercing/psychicEffect: If the enemy is stunned, additional Truth Echo triggers — Editor’s next phase deyed by 1 turn.
“You can’t rewrite what bleeds and grows,” she whispers.
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3. Editor — STUNNED, PHASELOCKED
The figure trembles. Pages crack. Voice glitching.
“This script—unreadable—*unauthored—*improper—”
No action.Grappled. Bound. Stunned. Script aura suppressed. Paralyzed in every dimension.
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4. Daka — Chaos Crown Ascendant
Daka ughs like thunder. Still locked around the Editor, he now pulls the letter Q from his bag and sps it to the Editor’s head.
“Your script’s missing a plot twist—ME!”
Action: Chaos Crown Engine – Improvised Signature MoveName: “Narrative Rejection Suplex”
Athletics Check: Nat 20 (34)Effect: Daka suplexes the Editor into the floor of script, which shatters like gss ink.
The world fshes.The Editor’s cloak is torn open. Inside: bnk pages, fluttering in terror.
Effect: Editor takes 22 chaos damage, loses 1 Legendary Action.
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5. Melodia — Lyric of Refusal
Melodia steps lightly, hair fluttering, moonstone choker pulsing. Her voice is soft, sure, crystalline:
“This verse… is mine.”
Action: Use Bardic Inspiration — Twist FateTarget: MelEffect: +1d10 to next save or attackVisual: A single soft note drifts from her lips to Mel’s hand — glowing, waiting.
Bonus Action: Unsettling Words (DC 16 WIS)Editor Save: Fails (13) — Next save: -1d10
“Let’s see them edit around that.”
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END OF ROUND TWO — STATUS RECAP:? Krummar: Script suppressed, aura grounded? Mel: Buffed with Inspiration, Root-Strike successful? Daka: Landed a Narrative Suplex, holding letter Q, Chaos Crown fring? Melodia: Bardic Support + Disruption stacked? Editor: Grappled / Bound / Stunned / Debuffed / Suplexed? HP 40%? Phase II DELAYED? Legendary Action count: 1 lost
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Codex Ripple Warning: PHASE FRACTURE IMMINENT
The world shudders. A new hand begins to write across the sky.But this time, it’s not the Editor’s.
A phrase forms in glowing gold script:
“THE NARRATORS HAVE GONE ROGUE.”
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SCENE FIVE — ROUND THREE: FRACTURE OF THE AUTHORMirrorbound Realm | Codex Layer: Phase Fracture TriggeredEnemy: The First Editor (Stunned, Grappled, Bound)Party: At full strength, united, emotionally chargedObserver Mode: Active and unobstructed
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The World Cracks
The sky-script splits.
A golden quill-shaped comet streaks across the bnk heavens above the party. For one heartbeat, the Mirrorbound Realm pauses.
Then—The sentence above their heads rewrites itself.
“THE NARRATORS HAVE GONE ROGUE.”“THE STORY NOW BELONGS TO THEM.”
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1. Krummar — Radiant Judgment
Krummar steps forward through the shards of floating, broken syntax. His armor radiates soft moonlight. The scarred lines of script reflect in his dark gray skin, and he speaks not as a cleric—
—but as a witness.
“Sel?ne guides what no quill can contain.”
Action: Sacred Fme – Codex Variant: Narrative ExposureEffect: Targets Editor’s inner structure (open due to Daka’s suplex)
DEX Save (Editor, Disadv -1d10): Rolls 12 - 7 = 5Damage: 3d8 radiant + 1d6 crity burn = 22
Pages ignite. Not with fire—but with truth.
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2. Mel — Thorned Echo
Mel steps silently to the center. Her hand is cut, bleeding into the Gulthias Staff, which drinks deep. Her hair whips in a wind no one else feels. The ground beneath her blooms in red flowers.
She doesn’t speak.
She impales.
Action: Codex Root-Soul Finisher — “Grow From My Refusal”
Attack Roll: 19 — HitsDamage: 4d10 psychic + 2d6 necrotic + 5 = 38 total
Thorns rise like a forest—twisting through the Editor’s form. Narrative blood spills—ink that smells like memory loss.
“You don’t own our roots.”
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3. Editor — Phase Fracture (Failsafe Activation)
Status: Below 20% HPCondition: Stunned brokenFailsafe Code: “Phase II — Revert by Memory Erasure” Initiated
Suddenly:Each party member sees a false memory fsh—Mel never left her grove.Krummar never heard Sel?ne’s call.Melodia never sang.Daka… was quiet.
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Codex Save — Memory Override Attempt (DC 17):? Krummar: Pass (19) — Snarls. “That was never my path.”? Mel: Pass (18) — Closes her hand and crushes the memory.? Melodia: Pass (22) — Her choker glows so bright, it breaks the vision.? Daka: Pass (natural 20) — He stares into the void and growls:
“I’ve never been quiet in my life. THAT’S A LIE.”
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Failsafe Rejected. Editor Vulnerable. Final Phase Aborted.
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4. Daka — Finish It
He rips the “Q” from his bag, holds it high, and yells:
“YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS?! THIS IS THE PLOT HOLE YOU FELL INTO.”
Action: Codex Chaos Crown — Finisher MoveName: “Q For Quitter”
He body sms the Editor onto its own script with the force of divine ridiculousness and Orcish pride.
Damage: 4d12 + Chaos Bonus = 39 damage
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5. Melodia — Epilogue in a Single Note
She walks past the stunned, burning fragments. Her vender corset fres softly with her breath. Her voice trembles—quiet, final.
“No one edits a heart.”
She sings one final note.
The Lyre of Stars fres.The st word the Editor ever hears is a chord that doesn’t exist in the mortal scale.
Editor HP: 0Defeated.
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Finale — The Mirror Colpses
Pages burn.Script dissolves.The sky un-writes itself.And the party stands in grayscale silence as the entire realm crumbles around them.
But no gravity pulls.Instead: a whisper—
“Rewrite… accepted.”
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SCENE SHIFT — KERESKA’S FAVOR, 8:12 AM
The party wakes—standing, not lying—in the center of their tavern. No time has passed.
Each one holds something different:? Mel: A single thorn in her palm. Not from her staff. Still alive.? Krummar: A page. Bnk, but warm.? Daka: The letter “Q”, now golden. He eats it.? Melodia: A mirror shard. Her face in it is smiling.
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Codex Update: Victory? The Editor is defeated.? The Mirrorbound Realm is colpsed.? The party retains authorship of their narrative.? Kereska’s Favor gains +2 mythic renown.
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