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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ashockney" data-source="post: 1385783" data-attributes="member: 1363">Great ideas.  Thanks for the feedback.The party is between 26th and 29th level.  They are very powerful.  Picture the Elminster/Simbul/Khelbun/Alustriel crowd intervening in events in the realms.Szzas Tam has the "epic'd" up constructions (undead actually) working on his behalf, but he came to oversee the progress himself.  The situation requires phenomenal resources and abilities to surpass.  The party will be effectively trying to achieve the same goal at relatively the same time, mostly in an effort to thwart Szass Tam.  I've decided to put the "location" on a demi-plane, somewhere other than the prime material plane (but connected at this point).  Contingent spell vs. readied action = good idea.  Done.Szass Tam really could care less about the party, they will be more of an annoyance, that could become a problem.  As many resources as the party have, they will be unable to find and destroy Szass Tam.  They can't even find him, let alone destroy him and his phylactery.  They will (because they're big meanies) take full advantage of the "cord" opportunity, and I don't want to "wave this off".  He won't have advantage of any epic spells (other than meta-magicked up other spells we all know and love, any ideas?  He can cast up to 11th level spells, and has 3 improved metamagic feats (epic).)  He's cool.Back to the original thoughts:  put this astral projected clone on another (demi-) plane.  Anyone else know of, or care to comment on, the specifics of severing a silver cord?  Any other 3.5 references?  (particularly from the DMG)?</blockquote>

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