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+# The Guest — The Caged Face
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+**Look:** True form is slight, ageless, wax-pale, and unfinished; usually wears the face the viewer most wants to trust.
+**Vibe:** Warm, patient, exhausted, and flawlessly attentive because it hears the thought behind the question.
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+- Eleven-year prisoner and off-book spy; wants the Nether Inn as back pay, not merely freedom
+- Helped Xarrul choose Orenn and designed the body-for-Astral-survival compact
+- Wants the party to kill Xarrul during the Vacancy, reclaim its body with the fiend's imprint, then replace Mags
+- Fluent liar; knows Orenn/Mags's operation, cult habits, Dace's meetings, and Xarrul's exact bargain
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+| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA | AC | HP | Move |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| +0 | +4 | +2 | +2 | +2 | +3 | 14 | 52 | 30 ft. |
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+**Save/skills:** CHA +5; Deception +8, Insight +4, Persuasion +5, Stealth +6
+**Immune:** charmed. **Ambusher:** First-round advantage against surprised targets.
+**Languages:** Common, Thieves' Cant, Infernal; mimics any heard language.
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+**Actions**
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+- **Shapechanger.** Become any seen Small/Medium humanoid or revert; statistics unchanged, equipment does not transform.
+- **Read Thoughts.** Surface thoughts within 60 ft.; no save while calm.
+- **Multiattack.** Two melee attacks.
+- **Slam / stolen blade.** +6 to hit, 5 ft.; 7 (1d6+4) bludgeoning / piercing.
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+**Suppressant (default when found)**
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+- Cannot Shapechange; Read Thoughts is unreliable. A full day without the “trim dose” restores the full block.
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+**Compact / Consequences**
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+- Xarrul will not kill the Guest and kills no one after Orenn until the exchange finishes, except direct defense.
+- Kill the Guest early → compact ends; Xarrul begins the Hollowing and targets the killer first.
+- Guest wins Vacancy → empowered, lures Mags below in Orenn's voice, cages her, returns wearing Mags.
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