Question about Sammadar in Impossible Eye


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My PbP group has reached area B1 in Impossible Eye. There they find the remains of the Efreeti Sammadar, who had made it past the Get of Iblis only to meet his doom here. He is hanging upside down by iron chains.

My question is, how did he die?

It seems like he was overwhelmed by a bunch of fire elementals, 20 in all ranging from Small to Elder. But Efreeti are immune to fire. They live on the Plane of Fire after all. So the only thing that would hurt him is the large fountain. But the elementals are afraid of it as well and won't go near it (save the Elder, but only to commune with Shazathared). Maybe they captured him and threw him in? But how would they capture him and if they did, how did they get him back out to hang upside down? Maybe ran out of provisions and starved to death? But as an Outsider, they do not need to eat.

I'm asking because my players are trying to determine the cause of death. I can only assume that he did not fight the elementals but instead was too eager about his prize of Shazathared and she managed to hill him despite her confinement. Then the Elder elemental was able to drag him to safety before hanging him upside down.


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The immunity to fire certainly would have helped Sammadar in a battle, but fire elementals don't just deal fire damage with their slam attacks. If we assume for the sake of argument that Sammadar was a by-the-Bestiary efreeti (AC 25, 95 hp) and compare stats, that elder elemental would have needed natural 1s to miss with its slams. If Sammadar got himself blindsided, that one elemental could have put him down in as little as 3 rounds, even without its burn special attack.

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Also, the Get of Iblis would have attacked him with fury. Even though he made it past it, the Get probably weakened him quite nicely in time for the fire elementals to come along.

Cause of death:
Trauma inflicted by the Get and Fire Elementals (not all damage is fire typed as pointed out by John)

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