So... what happened to Durkon's Scroll?

[MReav]

This comic (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0634.html) has the fiends claim Durkon had a Scroll of Resurrection for just such an emergency. But since Scrolls don't need casting time (beyond a standard action) or material components, was it simply another lie the fiends told V?

Or since scrolls of that nature are useful, Durkon was simply going to cast it the normal way?

No doubt that will irritate V.

And since V cannot use Wish, since to Resurrect someone that was requires him to use a divine spell, V's just going to suck it up... or remind Durkon about the spell.

[SPoD]

That comic says that Durkon has a scroll of Sending, not Resurrection.

So...yeah.

[MReav]

But all Raise-style spells have a casting time of at least one minute any that can do so on an incomplete corpse need 10.

Oh well, just another way that plan would have been made of fail :smalltongue:

[Kaytara]

The fiends mentioned two spells (both, incidentally, with a 10-minute casting duration) and when they got to Sending said not to worry because Durkon has been saving a scroll. So yeah, they lied.

It doesn't really matter, though. Whether Durkon would have been able to cast the spells quickly enough is entirely academical due to the fact that he wasn't anywhere near the fleet while V was being tempted. He had already left the boat "days ago" at that time. So those details were all just part of a larger lie.

All it really tells us is that V's decision in accepting the bargain was definitely the right one, as far as saving the family goes - just for the wrong reasons. But that seems to be a running theme for Vaarsuvius lately. Helping the Azurites was just the same way.

[David Argall]

Durkon was given a scroll of Sending because we had just been shown that Sending had a long casting time, which made the already implausible fiendish plan look downright hopeless. So by giving him that scroll, the plan was moved back to the not-outright impossible column.
So this was a message to the reader, not a lie by the fiend.