Scry-and-die: You use scrying spells to spy on your target, prepare accordingly, teleport directly to it and blast away, ideally the scrying gives you all the edge you need. And it might have if V hadn't skipped the scrying part. Xykon is giving him more credit here than he deserves.

He spent several months making it into his phylactery while trapped underground. And then Redcloak threatened him with it later.

He knows it's his phylactery.

Only if O Chul actually escapes with it. I don't think he can replace it unless it's destroyed. Otherwise, it's pretty much going to be the same situation as Start of Darkness. "Go ahead and destroy it. That is, if you can before I snap your neck." Although with Xykon's high level spells depleted, O Chul might actually have that one in a million chance here (it'd be much better if he were fully equipped). Unfortunately; one in a million chances are for PCs.

No, I meant Redcloak would be pretty screwed, depending on where he recalled himself. And I think Aerozord was talking about O-Chul. :p

Blah blah blah

Look, I can't be bothered with actually knowing what you people are talking about. I'm important. I do important things. I can't waste all my time figuring out what I'm actually responding to.

You're cute when you lie.

The holy symbol is a divine focus so is necessary for a lot of cleric spells but si also fairly easy to replace. It needs to be a symbol of whatever god you worship so unless Redcloak gets his spells from Xykon he's not in much trouble.

The whole reason this is going on is because Xykon is too busy with V. Sure, he might feel something once O-Chul destroys the phylactery, but it's a perfect opportunity.

O-Chul has the phylactery. O-Chul is a fairly hardy paladin. Xykon is damaged and without a healer AND doesn't seem to know O-Chul's there.

O-Chul is also completely unarmored, using an improvised weapon, and doesn't have the fort save to reliably resist paralysing touch, which is an innate Lich ability - if a Lich touches you, you take cold damage and roll a fort save.

let me check to make sure I understand the situation. If O-Chul does destroy the phylactery, that has no effect beyond making Xykon vulnerable to perma-death