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Message: <blockquote data-quote="azhrei_fje" data-source="post: 4069517" data-attributes="member: 12966">I was avoiding getting into too much detail as there may be players here that are going through this module.But suffice to say that the ethereal jaunt wasn't needed to escape per se, but only to get around the blade barrier and the forcecage that were blocking her exit.  Once she got to another level of the tower, it was easy for her to get all the way to the second floor and rather quickly.  However, the players didn't know this.  One of them obviously felt that it would have been out of character to dismiss the EJ spell.  (How can a player know what is out of character for a BBEG that they've only heard about?  Oh, and they saw a couple of dead female humans staked out on the BBEG's bed, bodies wrapped in the black silk sheets and pretty badly mutilated.  This is all they know about the BBEG.)I guess my problem is a player who assumes that the BBEGs motivations must be the same as theirs.  This BBEG still had 36 hp (out of 140+ or so), so leaving at the point she did was not due to low hit points on her part -- it was because she no longer had a minion in the room to help take some damage and she felt it was wiser to flee than to stick around.  (She had already heal'd his butt once and she wasn't going to do it again!)</blockquote>