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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6281223" data-attributes="member: 4937">New plot:The Efreeti Lord is too powerful to defeat directly only because his spirit reforms on this plane 24 hours after being defeated.  Martek was able to defeat him repeatedly, only to have him return the next day. Martek was able to devise a ritual that would permenently banish the Efreeti from this plane when he was defeated.  However, performing the ritual required his full concentration and was lengthy, and the Efreeti Lord always showed up and ruined it.  He could not both defeat the Efreeti and perform the ritual at the same time; thus, Martek was forced to imprison the Efreeti Lord because 1000 years ago, he had no one of sufficient puissance to defeat the Lord while he was performing the ritual.  He tried to summon the Djinn Lord to serve in that capacity, but the flighty bombastic Djinn Lord proved to be worse than useless because of his misplaced sense of fair plan and chivilry prevented him from cooperating with anyone in defeating his ancient enemy.  It had to be solo or not at all, and of course neither could actually defeat the other without help.  However, when Martek sealed himself in time, he arranged so that anyone able to retrieve him would also be sufficient to help him (hense all these puzzles).  Thus, when the PC's wake him up, his new plan is to go to some ritual place in the desert (suitable for a boss fight) where they can perform the ritual of banishment.  When they get there, Martek buffs the PC's (and himself), and starts to performs the ritual.  Naturally the Efreeti Lord shows up, the PC's fight off the CR 20 Efreeti Lord and his summoned normal Efreet minions in a lengthy video game style boss fight, ultimately defeating him and saving the day.  Martek gives everyone a cookie.BONUS ALTERNATE ENDING: If the PC's confront Martek about the fact that this is all actually his fault because Martek was messing around with epic binding spells designed to bind the Efreeti lord to his service and it backfired (binding the Efreeti to this plane instead), Martek fesses up and promises everyone a second cookie if they don't blab that to everyone.</blockquote>

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