grumbles
There is a recently-deceased Str 33 Ancient black dragon that would disagree with Xykon on whether or not you can lose true power from failing saves or not.
Of course, Xykon does have that most important buff spell, Protection Via Plot, running full-time. A shame it doesn’t work against dramatically pissed-off full-BAB types.
Are elves immune to the Lich’s paralysis?
As far as I know, yes.
I think those who theorized that this part would end with the phylactery being stolen as opposed to outright destroyed may have something here.
OTOH, who knows what’ll happen in the merry chaos that’s about to follow.
No, they’re not. Two possibilities:
Xykon isn’t choosing to use his “paralyzing touch” attack at the moment (he has to actually choose to use it, simply touching someone isn’t enough)
V succeeded at his Fortitude save to resist the paralysis.
Just *ghoul * paralysis, AFAIK
Looking back, I see that everything since 625 has pretty much been continuous action. We’ve had thirty-three strips now that have essentially taken place in under an hour.
Does this mean the strip is zipping along at high speed or has it slowed down to a crawl?
Bahaha! Nice joke. Heehee, a wizard succeeding at a Fort save, too funny…
Hey, some wizards can reliably make Fort saves. You know, Dwarf wizards with their Con bonus and racial-
Oh, yeah. Elf.
Well, what kind of ability is it? If it’s a low-level spell, than-
Oh, a Supernatural ability. That scales with the HD of the user. How many?
Huh. OK, Fucking Lots divided by two…mmm.
Well, it’s not like the user of the ability has an abnormally high Charisma score, is it?
Yeah, Xykon’s killer-poke-of-death got O-Chul first try. V has no chance. Roy probably has no chance, come to that.
As V verified, waaaay back in #107.
Hey, there’s a 20 on every die. 
This is V.
Someone filed all the ones-digits off of the double-digit numbers on V’s d20 during the last arc.
Amen to that, and critical hits. My favorite Cleric got wa-a-a-y in over her head with a guy who never missed. By the third round she was down to about 20% of her Hp but rolled a 20, 19, 20 and dropped him. She grew very fond of that +3 Staff of Striking.
Xykon’s amulet is mighty handy on his belt, there.
Vaarsuvius didn’t use another color crayon for those?
Just brainstorming here. But we’ve established that O-Chul understands the importance of the phylactery and now knows he is unable to destroy it by any means he has at hand. And it’s been established that O-Chul has befriended the CitD and the CitD has shown a readiness to eat virtually anything.
Can you see where I’m going with this? O-Chul throws the phylactery to Monster-san and has him eat it. This way the phylactery may not be destroyed but it’s useless to Xykon - resurrecting inside the CitD’s stomach is not an option. (We’ll assume for the sake of argument that the CitD is something that Xykon is unable to kill and cut open to retrieve the phylactery.)
This would also tie in Xykon’s hypnotic command. Now he’d have a motive for making Redcloak betray him just as a means of getting the CitD to spit out the phylactery.
It’s 1. What the point of throttling someone with your bare hands if you don’t get to enjoy his struggles?
I think it’s safe to say they’d just wait for him to pass it or induce vomiting. They’ll probably find a few gold pieces and scrabble tiles in the process.
Or, maybe the CitD CAN destroy it, by biting down on it. “Here, chew on this morsel my friend !” * CRUNCH *
Yes, there are a few of us here to whom that’s meaningful.
I’m not old enough of a grognard to have personal experience of those, but I do understand the reference.