My players found the secret room with the altar to Adimarchus, and so the character with the smoking eye template understood he can use a wish in this room.
They have been thinking of different uses for the wish.
Cancelling the ritual: I think it can't work, it's far beyond the power of a wish to chance to much things affecting different people.
Wishing to be in the ritual room (because they know they're short on time): I think it could work, travel anywhere is part of a wish and wish can bypass some spells like mind blank, so it could bypass the capacity of the Tree of Shackled Souls to block divination.
What do you think ? For those who have played this adventure, what your characters have done with this wish ?
Using a wish to cancel the ritual just seems to be begging for the DM to use the clause in wish where you interpret it in the most literal manner possible. Yea, the ritual didn't work but <insert horrible horrible events> did happen! Good job heroes, you broke the Prime.
Using the wish to get to the Tree seems okay. But do they have the means to stop the ritual? So even if they defeat the cagewrights there, they've gotta figure out how to stop the Tree still.
Yes I agree.
They have found the collar in Moltenwing's treasure, but didn't find yet enough info on it.
Ok, they decided to continue to explore a little and encounter Shebeleth who told them they were too late. They fought him but took a serious beating because they were low on spells. So they fled to rest. Now it's too late and the portal opened. They decided to use the wish to make it close. I think it's really above the guidelines of the spell, so I send the wisher into the future (and just him), when the portal has been finally closed by some epic adventurers. The player understood quickly he was sent in time, and want to try to come back. I told him it is going to be very difficult. He plans on tracking Celeste, hoping that she can do something, and since he saved her, he hopes she will try.
Since Celeste is a servant of Tenser according to the Age of Worms AP, I think it might be possible for a such mighty wizard to send him back in time.
What do you think ? Should it be possible ? Does a wish should be enough of more ? Another thing to do ? Ideas ?
Thanks in advance.
Oh and by the way, since the wish is available only to a character with the smoking eye template, he was the only one of course to have it. So to release Adimarchus in Asylum to fight him for good, it's going to be problematic.