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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gorgon Zee" data-source="post: 6263160" data-attributes="member: 75787">*** FINAL BATTLE INTERACTIVE SPOILERS ***Confirmed. My 20th level drow bard started the final encounter by teleporting halfway across the map, dominated two of the three main enemies (a slaad and a mind flayer, I think) and then teleported another 12 squares to sit on Cyric's throne, where she ordered her new army of males and monsters around. After a short battle, Cyric arrived and started being significantly annoying, but eventually he was defeated.Amusingly, my bard was using a starting power, Blunder, just to move Cyric into the path of my pet slayer male PC, and the damage was enough to take him out.Shortly after, a priest of Amaunator turned up and offed Cyric. Actually it might have been Ammie himself as I think he transformed into Lathander as he did it (softer, warmer and with added glow effects). That eliminated the spellplague. Mystra came back and there was the giant sound of 5 years of story being shredded and dumped in the trash.My drow promptly abandoned the realms and headed back down to the Underdark. Sighing.---------------The funniest part of the BI was the reason that the adventurers decided to do the second part.So, you are fighting all manner of wannabe baddies (Order of Blue Flame, Netheril, usual suspects) when a voice starts whispering in your head that you should go free Cyric from his prison because that would be a good thing to do. No hint as to who is sending these messages. So the BI group was asked would they go do this? Of course, they said "sure", because it could not *possibly* be a trick of the Prince of Lies to go whispering lies in you ear. It MUST be Mystra, who is dead.I mean, there's an element of "must keep implausible plot afloat" that is necessary in any game, but when the BI judges specifically ask if you want to believe the whispers, it seemed so unlikely that anyone actually would agree! But ... we did.I'd like to have known what happens if you do the obvious thing and say "hell no, we should stop Cyric escaping".  If anyone knows, I'd be REALLY interested.---------------We all knew though what was coming. Not a huge surprise. It would have been nice to have had maybe some ability to affect anything. I believe even the entire epic campaign's result was reversed so as to fit the required plot (the BI narration implied it strongly, but I haven't played the epic campaign, so cannot be sure). There was a definite "end" feeling as comments like "I'll spend it now as this is the last adventure I'm playing" and "I don't really care if we all die" were common.* finis *</blockquote>

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