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[Akura]

I saw a bunch of discussion on the GitP forum about why Xykon doesn't simply Polymorph himself in to a living creature to experience taste. Oddly, nobody seems to have thought of the simple solution: Xykon simply doesn't know Polymorph.

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Sorcerer's known spells are fixed once learned, and, barring Xykon having taken the Spell Knowledge epic feat(learns two more spells of a single spell level), the most 4th-level spells a Sorcerer can know is four.

According to what's visible in #670, Xykon's 4th-level spells are Animate Dead, Greater Invisibility, Resilient Sphere, and Stone Shape.

Also, Liches can only be polymorphed by themselves, so if he can't cast the spell himself, he can't get someone else to do it either.

[Frumple]

Couldn't that be bypassed with a wand or... whatever? There's probably ways to get temporary access to the spell or relevant spell-like ability.

[Rolan7]

I think a wand would technically work if Xykon was using it, but that seems weird.  A scroll would make the most sense and should be easy.

[scriver]

Power Word: Taste?

[Mathel]

What I don't get is why the group doesn't just teleport or something like that past the threads. Alternatively, they could try Sunny's eye on them, see if they dissolve.

[Lord Shonus]

They have one full mage. Who explicitly can't cast the Teleport spell because it is in a barred school.

[Akura]

Anti-magic doesn't work on things that are actually divine in nature(except divine spells cast by mortals). Also, you probably don't want to dissolve the very fabric your universe is made of. Especially when said fabric is also what imprisons a being capable of erasing souls and killing gods.

[Culise]

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Fair.  But I was referring to the story that Soon saw his love taken by the snarl threads...  supposedly (people are suspicious of the crayon accounts for good reason).  If so, I would expect him to be the one to warn people away from touching them.

Also the odd way she puts it, that both Dori and Liri told her *separately*, makes me paranoid that this is a clue of some sort.

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Also worth remembering that Soon kicked her out fairly unceremoniously without even listening to her, per her own words.  He may not have known that the threads were still popping out even after the gates were sealed, especially since his gate was both the smallest and furthest away from any anchors, and even if she had mentioned the name, he may not have drawn the link between this static-seeming mesh and the very proactive tentacles we saw both in the flashbacks and pouring out of the desert portal.  Given that she says that they were popping up while they were building the gate and she was warned separately by Dorukan and Lirian, I suspect this only occurred during and after that building process and not earlier while the Order of the Scribble was still together: if they had still been together to identify these threads and talk to each other, Dorukan and Lirian would probably have made the warning together at the same time.

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[Mathel]

And walkways without railings are even worse than regular walkways.

If there is a railing, it is likely somebody will be thrown over it.
If there isn't one, than there is a good chance the walkway will be destroyed.


Still, I find one thing weird:
Why are they going to the gate in the first place?

They want to stop Xykon, I get that. But there are exactly two places they know he will have to pass through to get to the gate.
1. Final Dungeon entry
2. The Gate room

They are going to the gate room, but really there is nothing they can do there that they can't do in the Final Dungeon Entry room. The only difference is, that if the fight happens in the Gate room, the Gate could get destroyed as collateral damage.

[TD1]

I say Bal, you say?

[Akura]

Roy: "Nothing good ever happened on a walkway."

Yeah, well, tell that to Kandro.

They are going to the gate room, but really there is nothing they can do there that they can't do in the Final Dungeon Entry room. The only difference is, that if the fight happens in the Gate room, the Gate could get destroyed as collateral damage.

I believe the plan is to let the dungeon stuff soften Xykon's team up before engaging.

[Mathel]

They are going to the gate room, but really there is nothing they can do there that they can't do in the Final Dungeon Entry room. The only difference is, that if the fight happens in the Gate room, the Gate could get destroyed as collateral damage.

I believe the plan is to let the dungeon stuff soften Xykon's team up before engaging.

That might work. But going by previous cases of somebody fighting Xykon in a Gate room, it is not worth the risk.

In all three cases, the gate was destroyed as a result, after all.

[Egan_BW]

Perhaps Serini was smart enough to put a dedicated boss fight room right in front of the actual gate room, as the only entrance to the gate room?

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