| Jaymotu |
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I had my entire party fail the save and were on their way to a TPK. I left it as a cliff hanger and contacted a friend who used to DM and he gave me some sound advice.
He said, "Fey are weird and have motives that are very different from what we may expect, so make up something weird that they want and will exchange the party for."
I felt that they should definitely have some penalty for the situation so it didn't feel like divine intervention and cheapen things.
The party had saved the life of Tiressia and her lover Falchos and it had become common knowledge that she now served the PC's as a lookout.
The Dancing Lady has been outcast from the first world and has been seeking a way home and needs to sacrifice a good fey to complete the ritual to send them home. She trades the PC's lives for the life of Tiressia. Tiressia volunteers herself to be sacrificed for two reasons. To repay the life debt and to give the evil fey a way home so they would no longer prey upon the innocent people of the Narlmarches.
This left them without their +2 stability and feeling crappy for her death, but alive and moving forward. Since then, they have been much more careful about preparing before entering places.
So, in my opinion it turned out pretty well.