My PCs just finished the stairs of the moon and were hot on the trail of Auren Vrood. He has been watching the party with scry and invisible outsiders so he knows what they are capable of.
My party likes to fly in on the druid and skip everything and deal with the BBEG first. AV cast planar ally several times and had a lot on air elementals over the city used a scroll of control weather to make it foggy if you are more then 100 feet of the ground.
The party see this looks for another way to bypass encounters and realizes that the druids new elemental form has earth glide and bag of holding IV can hold the rest of the party. Life bubble took care of the rest. The sneak into the basement the Vrood had prepared as a trap with could kill and wall of earth but that does nothing to them except trigger the alarm spell.
The druid goes up the tower and spot now distant flying invisible vrood from the top of the tower. Vrood see this but really wants to get his buffs up so casts and goes higher. Sorc casts glitterdust and rogue shoots him. Cleric casts fly on cavaliers mount. The druid turns into terridon and chases down the blind glowing wizard and grapples him. Cav charges and Vrood crumples.
Lesson is that you should cast eyebite before buffs.
Should have had him just run away and buff up and comeback on the party.
Wizards really need to know that peaple are coming.
