"So you want to replace me?"

It looks at you again, mirroring your face perfectly except for those details.

"I want get out of here. Get below the lake."

"Would me swimming to the bottom of the lake help you get out? Yes or no"

He leans his head to the side.

"Swimming to the bottom of the lake. Yes. Get want below."

"Ok, O wish I knew what I was looking for."

I'll jump in and start swimming to the bottom. using my light to look around for whatever it is.

You dive to the bottom, and the reflection follows. Not too deep, not far off the shore at all is a golden ring. The reflection points to it.

"Over here."

I go to the ring and pick it up and then head back to the surface and the Island.
"Here you go."
I'll try to hand the ring to the reflection.

It steps away from you, parrying your hand clumsily. It points at you.

"Magnus. You want. Get." It points to the exit. "Go."

"You want me to take it with me? ok, but will you be able to come out too?"

It goes thoughtful. You notice your reflection has a silvery undertone to it.

"No. Go, take. You not want. Take, not want."

"... Ok I don't really want it but I'll take it with me. I wonder if it does something.
Ummm... Which way do I go to get out?"

Your reflection points to the exit, the way you came in.

"Go. Do not want something. Take, but do not want."

"You don't want me to wear it?" ok. I guess I'll see you later."

I'll push the boat the way I came in and then start walking when I get to the shore.
I'll try reading the structure of the ring to see what it does.

You get a sinking sense of isolation, of desire, of overwhelming NEED. A need to escape. The person this was meant for was meant to end those needs. You sense the shadows pulling around it, and you feel as if the darkness itself were watching you, and studying you right back for your purpose.

Some kind of oath is written on it in a foreign language, the same script Mentat used on his prayer strips, but different somehow. More sinister, like they will shift if you look away from them.

I put the ring securely in my pocket. My gut is telling me this thing is Very Dangerous.
This thing of on the same level of evil as The One Ring from Lord of the Rings. As distasteful as carrying something like that is, I Can't let it fall into the wrong hands. I also need to work out how to destroy this thing.

I'll continue to walk out of the cave.

You realize at this point you have not slept for some time, and that you are really tired.

OOC: Until you get rest, you are taking some nasty penalties.

Let's see if I can find any real wood to build a fire with.(I'm staying near the cave.)

If I gather enough wood, I'll try to start a fire by rubbing two sticks together.

I'll build a wind block at the mouth of the cave with snow.

I'll go to sleep

Your measures are sufficient, and you sleep soundly.

You awaken to the sounds of marching on the ground. You have less of a sense of agitation, but you have the impression it won't take much to reset that back.

Well great.
I'll get up and wait to see if the fae try to come in.
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After some time, a team of ten creatures you recognize as goblins manage to dig the snow aside. Upon seeing you, they shriek in terror, drop their shovels and run back to the rest of the force you hear camped not to far outside the mouth of the cave. You hear Cloaked Riddle speak.

"Hero, I know you are there. I also know that tunnel network extensively, and you will not escape from me easily in there. Step out, so that you. May. Die." He slows on those last few words.

I'll walk on out

"Ha. Your funny Hidden Riddle or whatever you are calling yourself now. I can rip apart you and your army so just run away before you really annoy me."

He steps forward, radiating white light, and beside him walks Tree-Rider, who shrugs as he speaks. "What can I say? My role is one of the traitor, and we sealed our deal over some delicious rabbit stew. I never realized why you enjoyed it so much!"

Riddle looks at him while raising his bejeweled staff. "And now you shall receive a traitor's reward!"

He strikes the screaming Tree-rider down with a single blow, but through your chi sight you see his life essence consolidate and fly off to reform elsewhere.

"Now that his role in our tale is finished, we shall focus on ours." He smiles malevolently at you. "I can see your essence patterns, and you are perilously close to unraveling yourself. You can just barely contain the power you have. And I don't think that trinket that reeks of our primordial foes will do anything to save you from me."

He spins the staff with what you can see is an inhuman level of skill. "Attack me, if you dare."

I'll focus my chi into Iron Skin Technique.

I'll enter into the Hero style I developed before.
I'll fight defensively to ward against his inhuman skill.

When I do strike I'll use the perfect attack I developed and I'll send in a pulse of calcifying chi to kill the chaos in his body.
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As your body enters the Iron Skin technique, the world warps around you, sending out a pulse that would have terrified every animal within three hundred feet of you with its unnatural presence, had any been available. As you shift into Hero stance, a swarm of enraged spiders bursts from the world around you, and attempt to fix the hole in reality. All of them.

On the plus side, you see Cloaked Riddle go down before you are subsequently buried in a wave of enraged pattern spiders.

OOC: Sorry, but I got a rather nasty random roll. On the plus side, you've learned a new martial art, a new magic technique that will only blow up if you overuse it instead of whenever it feels like it, and you have replaced a power limiter with the One Ring. If Oak allows it, I have your next world planned.

Sigh. I was hoping to last longer in this world.