[andrewas]

Melissan teleports out of the Throne to deal with me, who just shut off the Essence Flow.

With a shout of "You shall Suffer"!, she is slightly disconcerted when Andrew sprints forwards and dives flat. the blast from the 16 Skull traps behind her, detonated by Andrew, severley injures her, and (more importantly) disrupts her Time Stop! From then on, it is a simple matter to finish her, with only a pair of bone golems (half-dead from the blasts) and a shadow slayer (vorpal hit took care of that) to prolong her life, however slightly. except she refused to fight me to the death, and teleported back to the throne, opening another essence flow.Enter the Ice Prince, Chorax.

for the record, i have me (fighter), minsc, imoen, jaheria, nalia and aerie. despite the high proportion of (allegedly)low-power characters, i have not had any massive problems thus far - forgetting to take the proper spellsets notwithstanding)