I hope I'm doing this justice...
> Hanging out in the undead continent-spanning metropolis
> Party wizard Gemariah sees ancient tome about the Philosopher's Stone in the museum
> Is a transmutation specialist, begins plotting
> Gets arrested testing a teleport item, locked in antimagic
> We bail him out
> His raven familiar had escaped its cell, summoned spiders, and ordered them "kill everything that isn't Gemariah"
> In common
> Gemariah immediately re-arrested with 10X the bail
> Powerful noble (quest giver) pulls strings for us to get charges dismissed
> Gemariah "goes shopping"
> We hear bits and pieces of the heist, most of it handled by PMs. Our characters hear distant sirens.
> "Can a will-o-wisp pick things up?"
> "I cast rope trick..."
> "What's the magic mouth even do"
> "The only reason that worked at all was the grease spell."
> He plane shifts from the rope trick dimension to the other half of the world
> Hides in another rope trick, reads book
> Liches and death lords *gate* in
> "GEMARIAH STONESHAPER, YOU ARE WANTED FOR HIGH TREASON AND GRAND THEFT"
> "Who is this Gemariah Stoneshaper you speak of?" *becomes a beholder*
> Suppresses the rope trick with antimagic eye, shunting everybody out
> Teleports away
> Casts rope trick again, and grease, and obscuring mist. Resumes reading. As a beholder.
> Liches and death lords gate in *again*
> They slip on the grease
> Shunted out by antimagic again
> He casts a fireball into his own antimagic, which works because evocation
> The grease ignites
> They manage to terrify him with an aura
> "okay" *teleports away again*
He's still totally going to die but I love how much rage he's inducing in authorities. The true measure of a character.
Oh he teleported to the base of a villain we made peace with. Who's pissed as hell but maybe this will actually work.
(meanwhile the party is being tazed and interrogated by undead police. Fortunately we have no idea what he did)
...
> villain washes his hands of the situation
> Gemariah casts stone to flesh on the villain's floor
So tempted to play an arcane spellcaster next
Edit: He's in the ethereal realm with the antimagic beholder gaze. They have ghost-touch weapons. Their weapons are rapidly flickering between magic and suppressed, and can't hit him when they're in his gaze.