Hold on. If she's casting a spell while I threaten her, don't I get an attack of opportunity? If my AOO hits her, and I can knock her out, or kill her, then her spell won't go off, right? Party would then be safe, yes?<br/><br/>I do agree with the others, though; I feel like the difficulty level was spiked pretty high for this encounter, like it was planned for the full party (with the warlock, and the... barbarian, I think it was?), and never modified to take into account that they were no-shows. I feel like this is a strike, but generally stick by a three strike rule, whether I'm playing or GMing... but if two people do decide to drop, I don't think the game can go on.