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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Delemental" data-source="post: 3439289" data-attributes="member: 5203">Kyle acted early in the first round, and mazed Xerxes (I chose him of the two because I figured he'd have the lower Intelligence).  Then Meeranda used the decerebrate power on Kyle, and I rolled a freaking 3 on my save. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /> Then Xerxes turn came up right after that, and he rolled a 19 on his first Int check, so out he comes.  The stuff about Kyle's head exploding was just dramatic license - the power just teleports parts of your brains away, leaving you incapacitated and you die within 1d4 days unless you get a major restoration or better. The reason Tolly didn't try to heal Kyle mid-battle is that he didn't have a greater restoration prepared, but by the end of the battle he'd accumulated enough excess spell levels from the vortex that he could cast it 'spontaneously'.I swear, Kyle's going to develop a complex.  I think this is his second or third major conflict recently where he does down in the first or round.  I'd do a lot better if I didn't have to roll dice.   :\ I think that the outcome of the relics was very much up in the air.  I think that had we concentrated more on recovering relics, we might have walked away with a few more, but at the cost of getting pounded by the enemy.  As it was, they weren't easy to get a hold of, because the ritual was nearly done by that point anyway.  We knew going in that the outcome of the ritual was going to happen - after all it's sort of critical for the next stage of the campaign.  Our actions did alter the final result - Silko's homecoming won't be quite the triumph that was planned - but we knew as players that there was no way for us to stop the ritual, unless we wanted to make this the last battle of the campaign and end it here (which was a choice offered to us, BTW - we chose to keep going).Oh, and Xerxes is dead.  He was at -14 hp after Autumn's last attack (an Elder Mountain Hammer strike, I recall), and Arrie simply hit him with one of her three attacks in the next round, the other two going to the agile loper.  Sorry, guess I was a little too vague there.  I just assumed everyone would understand that if Ariadne runs into something that needs killing, she doesn't leave the job unfinished.</blockquote>

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