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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vorput" data-source="post: 2947857" data-attributes="member: 35874">Alright, the long and short of it is the queen of the land who we were wokring for turned out to be a prophet* of the evil gods- who ended up betraying us, killed our prophet*, gave the invading orcish army a secret way into the city, slaughtered our ranger, and <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=":)" />  <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=":)" />  <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=":)" />  <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=":)" /> ing ate my familiar Nivee- an albino hawk of the noblest origins.Grrr...  So anyway, the queen's handmaidens turned out to be succubi in disguise, who revealed themselves during the betrayal.The party members that escaped consist of:Myself, an Air Genesai Diviner 5 (going for alienist).A Dwarven fighter 6.A Human mercenary (fighter/rogue mix) 6.A grey elf bard 6.The queen is still hunting for us, so our plan is to escape to the elemental plane of air (my character's father is a Holy liberator Djinni who owns a small estate there).  We're going to bring with us a Conjurer 9 who'll hopefully help us out.  Once there, we want to use lesser planar binding to bind one of the queen's succubi and force information out of her- in exchange for her life**.  Our plan is to kill her either way, but we hope that with a few potions of glibness (or just by relying on the bard and merc's good bluff skills)- she won't know that.My question is, how do we gurantee that once the circle is broken when we attack the succubi- that she won't be able to teleport to safety.  Obviously getting the jump on her will be beneficial (succubi aren't big on HP)- but how can we insure that she won't just teleport to safety?  The diagram itself will be protected with the spellcraft sigils, and hit with a scroll of dimensional anchor to insure she doesn't escape while in it.  The only fear I have regarding the circle itself is that opposed charisma check... but assuming we win that- what other precautions/strategies should we take/make?Vorp*- In this campaign, spontaneous spellcasters are extraordinarily rare, and are gifted with such gifts by the Gods during times of upheavel in the land.**- We're also considering REALLY bluffing, and having a large gem on hand- and trying to convince her we're capable of casting 'Trap the soul'... possibily an even more terrifying concept than just death.PS:  You know, in retrospect- this may have been better posted in the rules forum, could an admin move it there if he stumbles across this? Thanks!</blockquote>

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