Malacarus hits the thing with a massive wave of necrotic energy, weakening it severely.
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0-mage hand, prestidigitation, ghost sound, detect magic, disrupt undead
1-ray of enfeeblement(2), mage armor*, charm person, silent image, unseen servant, shield(2),
2-blindness/deafness, mirror image(2), command undead (2), hideous laughter, detect thoughts(2),
3-dispel magic, suggestion, fly, nondetection, ray of exhaustion, displacement(2),
4-enervation, greater invisibility(2), dimension door(2), scrying, phantasmal killer, animate dead,
5-magic jar, teleport, dominate person, persistent image, overland flight, telekinesis, contact other plane,
6-greater dispel magic, create undead, flesh to stone, true seeing, mass suggestion, (2 expended)
7-quickened displacement(2), project image, waves of exhaustion, reverse gravity, limited wish (1 expended)
8-(2 gone), polymorph any object (2), discern location, summon monster VIII, quickened enervation,
9-gate, time stop, shapechange, dominate monster, weird, astral projection.
Malacarus has 142/144 hp
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OOC: Waves of exhaustion, no save exhaustion. I figure the thing is big enough that I can just catch it in the cone and leave everyone else out of it.