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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 3183127" data-attributes="member: 1288">Wow. I knew that encounter could prove surprisingly dangerous, but it never occurred to me she might take out a whole party. Then again, it's entirely possible that the groups I've run for--and for whom I've run similar encounters--are just more paranoid than most in terms of the precautions they take.Sorry the encounter's caused you so many problems, Thomas. The way I see it, you have a few options for fixing things in the context of the adventure.1) As someone else suggested, maybe the coup-de-grace was with a nonlethal weapon. If Junda felt she had a good chance of taking the whole party, it's certainly possible that she would try to keep them alive so Balthus could find out what they knew, or if they'd already found either the princess or the ring. The PCs could awaken tied up somewhere, and forced to find some means of escape, with a team of Balthus' agents about to arrive any moment.2) You mentioned your PCs are the agents of a 12th-level bishop. Perhaps one of his other operatives finds them and raises them, or maybe Father Barclay learns who they work for, and he contacts the bishop to request aid, or at leats some scrolls of raise dead. The PCs are now weaker than they were, and they are further in-debt to the bishop and/or Father Barclay, but they can continue. In fact, you can use this as an additional plot point. Why did the bishop have them raised, instead of just using new operatives? Have the PCs already accomplished something of vital import? Does it have to do with the Oinodaemon's curse on Listonshire? Or is there some other goal--either here in this adventure, or later in your campaign--that the bishop or Father Barclay has in mind?3) It's possible to continue the adventure with a brand new group of PCs. Maybe now, in addition to everything else they have to accomplish, part of their job is to find the bodies of the old PCs and use more speak with dead scrolls to learn what happened to them, and what (if anything) they'd already accomplished in their efforts. Not every group would enjoy this sort of thing, so it might not be right for you and your players, but it could be interesting.</blockquote>

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