Wonderland - Jags

Deeper Mysteries - Chessboards
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That may be so—but there are some claims to the contrary as well.
Usually only the reflected room appears in the “Mirror Maze”—but
in some cases an entire Mirror-Land house has existed mimicking the
reversed architecture on the other side (including things out of sight of
the mirrors). Often these “mirror lands” indicate a dark sense of humor
at work and some of these are even inhabited by full-time “guests” who
alter things quite substantially on their side (the differences are only
visible during Episodes, of course).
Furthermore, those who have wandered the Maze more deeply have said
that they believe there are actual destinations that exist within it, apart
from things on the actual Chessboards themselves. These reports are
unreliable as wandering in the maze for long periods of time tends to
wear on one’s sanity.
Getting Lost
You usually needn’t fear “getting lost” in the Maze. Most people only
encounter it when they have
Name: Looking Glass Maker Unknown
PHY 14 STR 20 BLD 09 STA 15-
REF 20 COR 22 REA 20 AGI 20
INT 14 RES 14 MEM 14 WIL ??
DP 300 Minor Major Critical
Wounds -1 : 20
To Hit 20-
To Be Hit -10
Armor 6/9
Damage Total
Description: A bipedal machine about six feet tall that seems to have biological components,
the Looking Glass Makers are enigmatic. The statistics given here are an estimation based
on conjecture and reports: no one has ever captured one or even really engaged in combat
with them for any period of time. They seem to be related to the firmament of reality in some
fashion, constructing the Linear Maze and its environments (mostly when no one is watching).
Their disposition is remote. They do not communicate (in general, reports otherwise are not
especially credible). There are stories of them “leading” people into darker and darker recesses
of the Linear Maze and stories of them leading people out or constructing a door that will
allow them to exit safely. Many people who are well traveled in the Linear Maze consider them
an omen of strange things to come (which, in Wonderland, is saying something).
Time Warp: The Looking Glass Makers can warp time. Sometimes, when sighted, they seem
to be “spinning material” out of thin air at a leisurely rate, other times, they seem to blink in
and out of existence. Most strangely, when encountering them, the perceived time one spends
watching them can be extremely long while the actual time is only seconds (one can watch
them construct a room like special-effects people doing set-dressing on a movie set and take
what seems to be a languid hours—but as soon as the watcher realizes they’ve been staring,
only seconds will have passed for the Looking Glass Makers to put the entire room together).
In combat, the Looking Glass Maker can take a Short action to vanish or move wherever it
wishes. When attacked it can take a Short Defensive action to remove itself from the path of
the attack. They seem to be able to disappear at will even from within closed containers.
Destruction and Construction: As a Short action the Looking Glass Maker can disassemble
or assemble anything. There are no known limits on this ability. They have been known to
be agents of Twisting travelers in the Linear Maze, taking them apart and putting them back
together again.
an Episode and when you do
that, it usually leads you to
your destination. On the other
hand, those who can open it
themselves (through rituals and
Insights and things like that)
and explore it may have a very
different experience. In those
cases it is possible to become
lost (although, thankfully,
the maze doesn’t shift on a
constant basis: indeed, some
people in the real world who
are experienced enough travel
through it as a matter of
course).
Society
The Society of the Linear
Maze is mostly that of the
Train Station. Most people
are transient and those who
are not are lost. Starvation is
mostly suspended in the Maze
(oh, you get hungry. You get
thin—but, usually, you don’t
die). There are reports of,
for example, mirror-world
video stores with Shadows (or
other things) inside renting
backwards-running parodies
of real movies for whatever