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Meanwhile Volcifar, still invisible, heads into the other secret corridor. There is an alcove near the end that opens into nothing, and a door. Locked. Volcifar tries to pick it and fails, so he decides to do a little searching, and finds a secret door in the alcove, and it opens into the library from before. No one is here now.
Alzar, delayed by about 15 minutes, is running out. It looks like the area around the room is denuded people, probably warned about the attack in the crystal room. Alzar heads back up and hears some people in the final corridor he needs to go to. He grabs the Crystal ball and uses it again (3/day normally) to spy and sees an ambush being prepared for him by about 5 clerics and 15 fighters. They are waiting in the hallway just east of the main sanctuary, where the party awaits, the alarm has not reached. They are on both sides of the hallway, so he can’t go invisible and slip through or drop another jelly bean as a distraction and move behind it. Hmm…
He is still invulnerable. He should be for another 15 minutes or so. He can be the diversion. He silently orders his familiar to lead the party to the door. Most of the priests have melted from the main sanctuary, there is one acolyte left. (Alzar sees through his familiar’s eyes) He grabs his staff and leaps into the hallway and shouts out. The fighters and priests charge him and after a few rounds, realize they can’t wound him.
Meanwhile the jackal has led the rest of the party past the back door and down the corridor where Volcifar waits.
In the confusion, Alzar slays a few fighters, and shrugs off some spells like Hold Person (with the Ring of Free Action still on). They realize they are losing, so they back off, and Alzar charges the group that’s between him and the party. They back off and retreat into the sanctuary, and he moves past them and opens the secret door and moves down quickly. He gives a vial of acid to Tolvar to use and stays in the back, keeping his distance.
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