Shattered Kingdoms

On a constructive note, some comments about this script/fight.

1) Her script echoes appear to hint that it is sort of reflecting damage back at you. This is however very much NOT the case, so...the echoes are basically a lie, and it leaves players without even a clue as to how they're supposed to over come it. My evidence for it not actually reflecting damage, is that we recently tried this with just a Priest/Paladin pair, with the priest in the second row doing nothing, and the paladin up front with a shield and no weapon equipped (doing no damage at all). After something like 10 rounds of combat (with again, doing next to 0 damage to Somnium), somehow the script still instantly obliterated both of us. I'll post that separately, just for science.

tl;dr Her script echoes really need to be updated to reflect whatever is actually going on, so people can actually 'plan' on how to deal with this NPC and not just flail at her and hope to get lucky.

2) She does a /massive damage script/...and then still throws scripted damage spells out at anyone who survives that initial burst of damage? (It outright killed a human mercenary.) As seen in the log, Halerad dies to the scripted Acid Blast after the actual script, and Liliana gets hit with Acid Blast & Magic Missile after surviving the script too. That's ALL in one instantaneous burst. It's a little much, especially when the players have 0 information to work with regarding the mechanics of the 'time stop' script.

As the Outer Planes KD, I'm disinclined to undo the design intent of other builders or to reduce challenges in general. I'm more inclined to get rid of any bugs, and make sure all the loot you get is sufficiently cool, appropriately updated, and useful, with respect to the challenge level it takes to acquire it. Regarding Somnium, I have added additional loot to the Tower of Time, and I probably have room to add a little more here and there. Seeing as how Somnium has been rolled many times in the last few years, it stands to reason that she's not too over-the-top and that the loot is pretty worth it. This is not even mentioning the Adventurer's Guild loot, which must be considered pretty useful, since it's always getting used.

Seeing as how these endgame bosses have been beaten quite a few times each lately, by several different groups (though still nobody has found or beaten the Frozen Wastes final boss or all of the loot in that zone), I'm more inclined to make newer, harder bosses with new loot with fun features (at least what I consider to be fun, barring any specific feedback for the types of stuff people like best) rather than tone down the difficulty of existing areas and bosses.

On that note, and getting a little off-topic, there are quite a few Outer Planes expansions with preposterous challenges, new loot and entire quest chains that went in months or even years ago that people have yet to find. This may be a result of people kind of autopilot navigating zones that they have been going to for years, not expecting there to be an exit that wasn't there five or ten years ago.

Random note, on the matter of bugs.

Is there any way for the dreamscape 'corpse teleport' script thing to be updated to actually work mid-combat?

As far as I can tell, the script actually codedly picks up corpses and drops them somewhere else. It /appears/ to no longer work most of the time, since unless you are completely alone, when you die, there's still combat going on, and the wizinvis NPC or whatever can't pick up items during combat. It was made before that code change.

IDK.

Pretty sure that bug was fixed several months back.