In the castle, I just went and picked up the Flametongue sword and Cadorna and then entered the castle proper. Cadorna was helpful by providing the password, and I didn't have to fight once in the castle. This time, I hadn't bothered to find the maps from Kovel Mansion because my maps from before are good enough. To my surprise the fake Tyranthraxus wasn't in the room that leads to the real Tyranthraxus; I wonder what caused that.
The final fight was nasty, as usual. I remembered getting good results against the fighters with lightning bolts, so I had prepared with them. Not really a good idea, since that exposed my magic-users, and even though I won, the party was in no shape to fight Tyranthraxus after that. On the second try, I instead peppered the air with stinking clouds and hold persons, with enlarged or ogre-gauntleted characters hacking at the fighters that weren't paralyzed. The result was pretty good, with only Ardhiel getting hit:
Tyranthraxus itself would have been really tough to defeat if he hadn't been so darned stupid. I managed to get my group around him and away from the wall so his lightning breath would only hit one person once. He began by breathing on Ardhiel, who was predictably killed (he failed his saving throw, so healing him at the end of the first fight wouldn't have helped). But then on later rounds he just kept breathing at Ardhiel's corpse, which of course had no effect. I just thanked my luck and hacked him to bits:
I still remember the first time I defeated Tyranthraxus. When I got to this stage, I got pretty scared about what was going to happen:
But of course that didn't last long, and soon my party was in the civilized section of Phlan:
A bit unfortunate that Ardhiel lost a point of constitution because resurrection wasn't available at the temple, just raise dead. And of course it's ridiculous that all the characters now have something like 160000 XP when Gabrielle, Janna, and Daenerys maxed out their levels at around 40000.
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