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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(contact)" data-source="post: 1174677" data-attributes="member: 41">This fight was orignally slated to take place in the middle of the battle between the young regent and the Southern rebels rallying around the Baron Butrain.  The scene was to be a running spell-duel with the powerful enemies while all around mid-level knights were slaughtering each one another with sword and lance-- the tension would be to see if the PCs could act . . . in . . . time . . . to save the young regent from Piscean's machinations without killing a half-dozen of Butrain's closest allies!  Sounds like fun, right?Of course, they could also (in between dealing with improved invisible undead beholders) determine the course of the battle, and seat the king of their choice on the throne.Well, they ignored my set up, chose to abandon the young prince to his fate (reasoning no doubt that people that stupid have it comin'), and decided to Turn the Tables (TM) by setting an ambush of their own for a change.  All-righty.So the bad guys I'd plotted to make up two or three waves in one long over-encounter wound up being a single fight.  And it didn't take long to get ugly.Fortunately for the Liberators, I am a dumbass.-----Credit Where Credit Is DueThe core of this particular batch of baddies is the brain-child of Incognito, who sent me a band of assassins many, many months ago to use as part of this sub-plot.  Since then, I tweaked them a little (and underplayed them to be sure), but I sure can't take credit for them.  P-kitty was also kind enough to share the undead beholder I'm sure you all remember reading about way back in the day.  So . . .Incognito built:  The harpy bard, the medusa assassin, and the mummy cleric.Piratecat built:  The undead beholder.  (And Zeflen from Calbut, although the story hasn't caught up to him yet).I built:  Ivid III, the mirror master (from Monte Cook's Book of Eldritch Might I) the balor (he was a custom job b/c the 3.0 version was just. too. puny.  for my purposes) and the two goons.The ice-imp was taken from WotC's website.-----Maybe after the end of the fight is posted, I'll post the baddies in the rogue's gallery.  In the meantime, if you want stats for them now (coughkidcthulhucough) and you have my email already (coughkidcthulhucough) then just holla.</blockquote>

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