Plus, making a phylactery takes a few months (by the written rules, at least). Xykon would be pretty vulnerable. And, of course, preoccupied with making a new phylactery.

I love how OotS is always so unpredictable. In this situation both destroying the phylactery and using it to blackmail Xykon have their theoretical advantages, but the best course of action depends on a number of factors we couldn't possibly predict. Not that the theoretical best course of action is necessarily even the one any character will be taking at any given point.

Define irony at the fact that Redcloak lost his eye like his brother...

Define irony at the fact that Redcloak lost his right eye.

I don't think that's what irony is, guys.

It's a reference, maybe symbolic, but not ironic.

He could always cast Regenerate and have his eye regrown. It's only a Cleric 7 spell (so Red Cloak would have to be a level 13 Cleric which I am pretty sure he is by this point). Plus I haven't read Start of Darkness or anything but I wonder where Red Cloak's "Word of Recall" spell took him?

He can cast it, it was actually mentioned in SoD.

X, not Z. Zs are for sissies, in Xykon's own words.

Yeah, it's the same in OotS. That's how long the first one took.

It really is, actually, just not if you have lots of hit points and a good Fort save. O-Chuul happens to have plentiful amounts of both.


If what I think is going to happen, V might actually get out of this one alive.

There needs to be a word for this particular kind of not-ironic symbolism. I'd swear there's one already and I just can't remember what the fuck it is.