currently me and my players are playing through legacy of fire. we are right at the end of book 2 "house of the beast".
the party so far has been doing really well, they used the salamander tunnels in the set piece to sneak into the lower levels,got to the carrion king without setting of an alarm and the took him out. however one character died, which just happened to be the mold speaker. after the king died zayifid in his gnoll form offered the deal to get the scroll in the lower levels. it would have worked too but the druid was using detect magic at the time scoping out the magic gear everywhere and noticed the illusion aura on zayifid they fought him and defeated him but zayifid escaped. the PCs then decided to grab the dead comrade and beet feet back to kelmerain. they then decided to travel all the way to Katapesh to get there fallen compatriot raised and buy and sell stuff. tried to get them to go to soulku which was closer but one of the PCs has the campain trait tha gives him the 10% discount in the night stalls so they were dead set on going.
my first question is how does dying affect the mold speaker. is she still the mold speaker or did she loose that from dying
my 2nd problem is what to do with zayifid. according to "the king is dead" side bar on page 36 he takes control of the clan and uses them to find the hidden passage and the scroll which they do in a day or 2. the PCs are gone for 3 weeks... 2 weeks travel there and back and then a week in the city buying, selling, and getting things made. not sure what happens when zayifid gets the scroll. does he open it right away? does he know how to open it? should i still let the PCs think that he doesn't have it, have them explore the tombs underneath and find nothing, or a fake scroll with a magicmouthed quipy message from zayifid. or just have him be skulking about waiting for the PCs to explore the lower reaches knowing they will come back and do the work for him (essentially ignoring the sidebar)