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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6977324" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Assuming the winged demons are playing it smart (e.g. not getting within teleport range), then if she's caught out in the open, I narrate the end of the combat and move on. &quot;Deirdre the Marilith dies like a many-armed pincushion, shrieking curses upon her murderers.&quot; If the demons (are they PCs or NPCs?) think to check the body, they may realize that she's actually only feigning death (Deception check) but actually has 40-50 HP left. This isn't true of course if they kept on shooting her &quot;corpse&quot; to bits after her &quot;death&quot;. If they do keep shooting her, then after three or four hits (when she's down to 20-30 HP) she switches to (almost-certainly-futile) maledictions, bluffs, and threats. &quot;By the Threefold Flame I curse thee! Slay me now and thy flesh shall rot from off thy very bones within the fortnight, and my shade consume thy soul to rise again!&quot; Etc.But of course I wouldn't put myself in that situation as a DM, because I foresee it soon enough to revamp Mariliths before it occurs, e.g. by actually giving them a death curse and/or improved movement capabilities or at the very least a magical item or two. Something that would allow them to actually dominate other demons effectively.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 6977324, member: 6787650"] Assuming the winged demons are playing it smart (e.g. not getting within teleport range), then if she's caught out in the open, I narrate the end of the combat and move on. "Deirdre the Marilith dies like a many-armed pincushion, shrieking curses upon her murderers." If the demons (are they PCs or NPCs?) think to check the body, they may realize that she's actually only feigning death (Deception check) but actually has 40-50 HP left. This isn't true of course if they kept on shooting her "corpse" to bits after her "death". If they do keep shooting her, then after three or four hits (when she's down to 20-30 HP) she switches to (almost-certainly-futile) maledictions, bluffs, and threats. "By the Threefold Flame I curse thee! Slay me now and thy flesh shall rot from off thy very bones within the fortnight, and my shade consume thy soul to rise again!" Etc. But of course I wouldn't put myself in that situation as a DM, because I foresee it soon enough to revamp Mariliths before it occurs, e.g. by actually giving them a death curse and/or improved movement capabilities or at the very least a magical item or two. Something that would allow them to [I]actually[/I] dominate other demons effectively. [/QUOTE]

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