What Happens When Demons Die?

[Shemeska]

I'd have to read my books again, but I thought part of it had to do with the method used to travel the planes. Plane hopping methods that involve traveling the Astral Plane involve leaving behind your real body and reconstituting a new body from the substances of any visited plane. Thus if your new body dies, you generally just wake up in you original body.

I've pulled this trick on my PCs before. I had a minor archfiend astrally projecting from Carceri. While on the astral she hopped into a color pool back to the Gray Waste to manifest a surrogate corporeal body there and promptly planeshifted that new form to where she faced the PCs. With some losses they defeated her, only to have her wake up in Carceri and repeat the trick minutes later as she planeshifted back in, slowly clapping to congratulate them.

*grins at the rat bastardry*