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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Swarmkeeper" data-source="post: 8154867" data-attributes="member: 6921763">BBEG plants guard who BBEG knows will help the PCs escape.  Why?  Because guard has been informed that BBEG intends to form an alliance with another slightly less powerful entity.  A slightly less powerful entity for whom the guard once worked - and despises - because of horrible treatment.  Slightly more horrible than he currently receives under the BBEG.  If the two were to form an alliance, he feels the horrible treatment would increase exponentially, and he's almost to retirement age and hoping to earn his full pension and not be subject some weird imposition brought about by the alliance.  Being that the party could not beat the BBEG, perhaps, posits the guard, they could beat the other slightly less powerful entity, thus foiling the BBEG plans and helping out said guard.  Of course, they need to make the escape look good and he encourages them to give him a good knock on the head.PCs recover their gear, escape, engage and defeat other slightly less powerful enemy and, shortly thereafter, plot twist!  They learn that the BBEG wanted the slightly less powerful entity dead anyway and have unwittingly done the BBEG's bidding.</blockquote>