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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 6094720" data-attributes="member: 1165">There could be a five minute "break" between phases as the first form "phases out" (is removed from play) and while it's taking 5 minutes to transform, the PCs can take a short rest. (It'll be funny if they don't. Really.)The world should return to normal if the PCs do something about it. So that means toss in a skill challenge, which the PCs might leave until after the battle.Just to let the PCs know they're in the Far Realm, you could include a "corrupted space" hazard. Nonaberrant creatures in the hazard suffer an attack each turn, which can do anything from turn them into a foaming mass of tentacles, to force them to attack allies, to grow extra eyes and gibber with insanity, etc. For ease of use, all of these could just be a daze effect, with random flavor text. The PCs might have to face a skill challenge within that space to reverse the transposition.Here's a quick list of them that I saw in the Monster Vault:Beholder gauth (5th-level elite artillery)Carrion crawler (5th-level skirmisher, and they go up many levels from there)Neo-otyugh (11th-level soldier)I wonder if there are aberrant templates or themes you can add to monsters. For instance, pseudonatural is really easy. Just copy the True Strike power (minor action, +5 to next attack roll) and the elemental resistances (5/tier) and away you go.The Monster Vault's human entry probably has everything you need, except the bartender. NPCs like "bandits" can be leveled up and reskinned to represent, say, hunters.</blockquote>

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