Indeed, @Aubrey, that one!
anyway....
....
WoW!!!!!!!!
I've done it!!! The Eclipse party is defeated!
FIVE attempts needed....
But without cheese absolutely, and,
WITHOUT CASUALTIES!!!Only Immie a bit wounded, just a bit...
Surely I've been lucky with timings and such...
Being warned by Sola that they would come at night outdoors,
I allowed myself some buffing with long-duration spells:
Stoneskins, Prot. from Evil 10 radius, Prot. from fear...
Also I changed Tashia Chain Contigency with 2 Abi + Prot Magical Weap.
on enemy sight (I don't like such "preparations", but it was needed...)
I knew what to expect from what I had already read, still,
the first attempts ended in two seconds with my party slaughtered
and Eclipse at FULL strenght!
Really scaring... all chunked like insects...
Then I understood that, for instance, Jaheira could only retreat.
No way for her Ironskins to protect her... better to flee.
Also kept together the party suffered too much from the initial Dragon's Breath.
So: battle starts, Jaheira retreats. Tashia is a bit aside, her Chain
kills some shadows, plus she gets Prot.from Magical weapons..
She starts Imp. Alacrity.
My char (cleric/thief) is "in charge" to make some steps forward and
attract the Dragon's Breath, while the others try to stay clear... I have
some nice fire-resistance gear, and couldn't do much more, anyway.
I have also a stoneskin thanks to the Gargoyle Boots, but it won't last long..
Immie plainly casts Teleport Field, by Alson's suggestion!
,
then goes invisible again with the Staff.
Sola casts something and engages an enemy.
Luckily they head towards Tashia... she's protected..I don't know if the Remove Magic
hit her, maybe she was out of range, or maybe she won the check... she's high in
level... Alacrity comes, so she casts Spell Immunity:Abjuration, and 4 Remove Magic
on the enemies, "crossing" somehow the areas.
ONLY THEN she casts Greater Malison and a couple of Slow
and Glitterdusts, otherwise these would have been dispelled by her own Remove
Magic!!!Then she continues with Dragon's Breaths, and Planetar, leaving ONE 9th level spell,
I want another alacrity...
Just in time I remember Total Eclipse is coming! So she casts another
Prot. From Magic Weapons.
Perfect timing (fewhh..), they strike at her and waste attacks, sparing
my PC!!! Sola casts Prot. From Magic Weapons too, when time flows again
finally Tashia's spells trigger!
At least one of them dies, the Druid IIRC (what a chaos...), they're cursed,
maybe slowed, who knows, I know only that I manage to survive, thanx to Teleport Field
too!
For sure I see the Sorcerer who tries to kill the Planetar I directed to her!
This until Tashia casts Alacrity again... this time I "Improved Haste"
all my party!!!! Then go for Abi's...
Also she unloads her Spell Trigger, which already had, triple Chain Lightning...
I survive another Total Eclipse, my PC has conveniently used a Mislead Scroll
(this I consider a fine use of UAI, without duplicating items...)
Jaheira enters the fight now from afar, with BloodBane and Whirlwinds..
the Planetar dies by Energy Blades or something, so Immie casts hers!
They all die by my fury, the Sorceress tries to kill the second Planetar but
now I can focus on her with the entire party, dispel and kill!
In the same moment her protections are taken down the Planetar scores a vorpal,
thus sparing her 2 or 3 seconds of suffering!!