Battling Elminster (Without Camp Shenanigans), a Guide

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The Nine Hells Run Challenge:
1) Honor Difficulty
2) No long rests that restore anything (Also no restoration pods, re-speccing to restore spells, long rest potions, etc. Doing a rest for purely story advancement is fine, as long as it doesn't actually restore any hitpoints, spell slots, or other resources. Likewise re-speccing is ok as long as you waste an appropriate number of spell slots and hitpoints afterward so that you haven't gained anything)
3) No heal potions for the party (And no Elixir of Half-Elven Healing or other potions that act like super healing potions)
4) Fight every enemy, the hard way! (Resolve every encounter with combat, seek out and fight every available enemy in every area. No using dialogue options to divide-and-conquer enemy forces and turn them against each other, fight the hardest possible groupings of enemies together
5) No reviving dead party members
6) Camp party members don't help (No having party members in camp cast heal spells or buffs or things like that)
7) No cheese/exploits (For example, no carrying barrels around from room to room, no abusing stealth mode for endless free hits with the enemy being totally unable to respond)
8) No wrong class/level scrolls (Can't cast from a scroll unless it's on your class spell list, and you have a spell slot of appropriate level, like in 5E)
9) No save-scumming

0:00 Warnings, Consequences, and Rewards
2:02 Elminster's Spells and Defenses
5:34 Prepping & an Initiative Trick!
7:15 The Battle

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