Quote Originally Posted by Gitman00 View Post
so it would be interesting if Xykon ends up getting killed in this dungeon. He would return to his phylactery to regenerate, which means he would discover Redcloak's deception. One of two things could result:

A) Xykon kills Redcloak, making Jirix the high priest, and he might be more open to Durkon's offer.

B) Redcloak flees after Xykon discovers his treachery, and being out of options, he goes to the OotS chastened and more open to negotiating.*

*I recognize that these are longshot possibilities, as the logical thing for Redcloak to do if Xykon gets killed is to destroy the phylactery before Xykon can regenerate and kill him.
Well, that would be three things that could result, counting RC destroying the phylactery.

But actually, there's (at least) one more.
Sure, Xykon will be fifty shades of mad once he finds out about RC's switcheroo. But both RC and Xykon have invested a lot in The Plan and have been reluctant to abondon it. So it's not unthinkable they will continue their colaboration. They won't trust each other but what else is new?

As for the other threat: Why would Xykon or RC suspect the MitD to be behind the sabotage of their quest when they know perfectly well that there's a bunch of people out there trying to foil their plans? There's no indication (that I'm aware of) they ever figured out MitD's friendship with Mr. Stiffly. Which would be the only reason why he would sabotage Team Evil.