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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Seravin" data-source="post: 3658836" data-attributes="member: 6783">Lots of things happened that were interesting for me at this point.The players had asked for additional help so they could rescue the Duke and the priestesses at the same time.  After some discussion they said they wanted eight extra people - which would be the maximum affected by Jared's heroes feast spell.  They were also open to running the helpers.This let me highlight how powerful their normal characters were as compared to the next highest group of people that were on hand (average of 8th level).  It also allowed me to use lower level minions that could still challenge the new group of characters and not strain my sense of credibility; I didn't want a lot of higher level minions running around.Jared's player surprised me.  I expected him to summon an angel and had suspected a planetar.  I had not expected two of them.  As a point of interest, planetars each have 14HD and cast spells as 17th level Clerics.  The party was 12th level.Fortunately I had time to think about this and eventually decided that I wasn't going to stop him.  He had not abused the spell in the past, had worked hard to come up with alternative payments other than straight cash (had actually paid more than was strictly necessary in fact), and for him this would be fun.So instead I came up with two things.  The first was the conditions of the angel's involvement.  I wanted the party to have some impact on the upcoming fight, and a single planetar would have wiped the floor with just about everything that I had documented to date.  The party wouldn't have had to do much other than watch.The second was that I finally committed to Aruk's devilish aide.  Imtithal was a Schrodinger monster to this point; he was only going to exist if the party was having too easy a time of it, and even then I was thinking a Cornugon or some such. As a side note, though it was never touched on, I like to think that small house they gathered in became a shrine of some sort; though the idea makes me feel sorry for the owners.</blockquote>

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