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<blockquote data-quote="Omand" data-source="post: 8155029" data-attributes="member: 14344"><p>Lots of good ideas already given to you.</p><p></p><p>One thought for consideration, might the BBEG be curious on who pointed the PCs in his direction? If he has many plans in motion and was not previously aware of the PCs until they invaded the complex he might be paranoid and think that one of his rivals (or worse, some unknown power) knows more about his operation. He wants/needs to keep the PCs alive to find out what they know and who sent them. All of the protests from the PCs that they do not know what he is talking about only fuel his paranoia as it is proof that they must be lying and holding out on him.</p><p></p><p>Drow are often spun as slightly paranoid due to the highly chaotic nature of their society and the huge amount of backstabbing and betrayal that takes place.</p><p></p><p>With a smart wizard, but paranoid drow, he might even figure that zone of truth used on the PCs does not reveal the truth because someone even more powerful is trying to knock him off and conferred a special protection on the PCs.</p><p></p><p>If your PCs clue in on this paranoia they may create their own avenue of escape with no errors at all in the prison design.</p><p></p><p>Just a few thoughts for you.</p><p></p><p>Cheers <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Omand, post: 8155029, member: 14344"] Lots of good ideas already given to you. One thought for consideration, might the BBEG be curious on who pointed the PCs in his direction? If he has many plans in motion and was not previously aware of the PCs until they invaded the complex he might be paranoid and think that one of his rivals (or worse, some unknown power) knows more about his operation. He wants/needs to keep the PCs alive to find out what they know and who sent them. All of the protests from the PCs that they do not know what he is talking about only fuel his paranoia as it is proof that they must be lying and holding out on him. Drow are often spun as slightly paranoid due to the highly chaotic nature of their society and the huge amount of backstabbing and betrayal that takes place. With a smart wizard, but paranoid drow, he might even figure that zone of truth used on the PCs does not reveal the truth because someone even more powerful is trying to knock him off and conferred a special protection on the PCs. If your PCs clue in on this paranoia they may create their own avenue of escape with no errors at all in the prison design. Just a few thoughts for you. Cheers :) [/QUOTE]
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