Leopold has a pocket dimension that he can access through touching the shadow of sentient creatures that have recently consumed or created a recipe from Leopold’s Splendid Cookbook. Leopold will only approach a creature to enter his pocket dimension if it is separated. An unwilling creature can attempt to perceive Leopold as it approaches with Leopold attempting to cast planar travel to flee and hide his involvement. A creature that has recently consumed Leopold can enter the pocket dimension by touching the shadow of the host creature. If Leopold is in the pocket dimension he will become hostile. The Pocket Dimension counts as a Lair and grants Leopold Lair actions.
The pocket dimension otherwise works similarly to rope trick. The room is lined with plush silk and gruesome trophies. On a polished bones sits a scrying device consisting of a carved skull filled with exquisite wine. An animated flayed hand with tendons nailed taught to the table scrawls away at parchment producing leaflets containing copies of Leopold’s Recipes. Hanging on the walls are meat hooks, cleavers and an assortment of pots and pans polished to mirrors. The pots and pans have each a tongue and an ear attached via a meat hook. Sometimes a fractured image of a hag will peer from the mirror and become visible. An assortment of silk purses containing anatomically correct meat puppets of various animals and humanoids sits at the floor.
From this pocket dimension Leopold can watch and eavesdrop on an area 35 ft from the creature under any lighting conditions. Leopold will occasionally manipulate a meat puppet to control the creature effected in minor ways although they easily break and will require Leopold a great deal of time and items of value to make a new one. Leopold will occasionally discretely slip useful items into a meat puppet which may include a transcribed recipe, healing potions, currency or other useful items. After 72 hours or the death of the creature hosting the pocket dimension these items will reveal themselves to be illusions and fall apart into a mess of bood, mud, entrails, and live worms and leaches.
After a week, or the death of the creature hosting the pocket dimension, Leopold will be cast out as a cloud of smoke and forced to reveal himself. He will attempt to escape and have until the next full moon to corrupt another creature and renter the shadow dimension. If he fails, he will be summoned before the coven to be caged, beaten and starved for three moons before being sent back to the mortal planes.
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