Ok last night we reached the conclusion of the Skinsaw Murders and my party had a rough time with the Scarecrow in the Shadow Clock. I had alot of fun making the stairs and adventure in themselves almost along with the falling bell my players really were getting excited. Right after the defeat of the shapechanger guys I had Xanesha make a villan's entrance by bursting through the ceiling where the players were at. The party only had one front line fighter who got critical chunky salsaed on round 2 for something like 75 damage. The surviving players were scrambling around yelling at each other in character to collapse the floor under her until they recognized the fly spell. In the end they took her down with a combined effort and a lot of luck. As she was escaping the party cleric who never enter's combat ran up and inflicted wounds on her. Just gotta say it was an exciting game.
My Campaign's fight with Xanesha was equally exciting. Involved a chase over the rooftops from her lair back to the Skinsaw Cult HQ and a roof top fight. After killing the Desna cleric, Xanesha attempted a retreat but was Critically Hit by the Fighter. Card from Crit Deck was Decapitate. And then the city guard showed up...
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My party is about to deal with her. In my campaign, the PCs have just learned that they are former agents of Karzoug, and have been either survived or have been reborn over the course of the 10,000 years that the Runelord has been "asleep."
At first, they thought they would play along, and try to glean what information that they could, but when it came down to it, and some greedy souls presented themselves to to be "harvested." There was some hesitation...
Now they need to decide what they are going to do. As does Xanesha, who once idolized the heroes when they were the heroes of the Nation of Greed, must also decide what she will do with them!
It's turning out nicely, but honestly, I don't know what will happen next... this will bear much thought over the next week!
I like her as a character, and she has really emerged as a personality that may be recurring, if she doesn't get killed in the aftermath of last week's session!