Oh god, I met this guy last night with a level 11-13 party, the one in Valygar's place? First time I got 2xMeteor Swarms, Mordy's sword, Horrid Wilting and something else silly in my face the minute I spoke to him. Total party wipeout.
What *really* bugged me though was:
Illusionist: Do you know where Valygar is?
[CHARNAME]: Err, about 3 feet behind you to the left?
Took me about 10 attempts before I cheesed him and his mates to death without taking a scratch (all hail cloudkill!) - Valygar being in the room didn't help.
Something very odd happened on one of my attempts. I ran my PC up the stairs alone, chucked a Mislead and ran downstairs again, hoping to deplete his spells. Now, my Mislead cast...Simulacrum, then a crapload of Contingencies, Triggers etc that the PC doesn't even have written in her spellbook. I ended up with one copy that I couldn't control at all, one copy that I could move around and send into melee, and another copy (sim?) that had a few spells. Mousing over them brought up a blank nametag, and the two that I could select had the default female voiceset rather than the PC's. I would have played with them more, but they died pretty quickly ^_^
Any ideas what that was all about? I'm playing a Wild Mage but she ain't *that* wild, I'm sure.