NPCs say the darnedest things

Reffed good games this weekend. The AD&D game on Saturday was a high point. After a lot of travel, the adventuring group made it to 1 [of 2] spots that would be major battle sites.

This one was a temple run by a [priest] lich of Bane that had been 'invaded' by demons [plot is that demon gates are spawning all over] - but the demons have thought the lich is on 'their side' because Bane is an evil deity. The adventurers show up, the priest/lich says 'well it's about time' - asks for their courtesy to let an 'old man get a prayer off'. The group lets him do his prayer [as do the demons]. The prayer is a specially researched battle prayer that [in effect] helped the adventurers - and then the lich took his goldems and retired to the sidelines and [mostly] stayed out of the battle. Big fight, adventurers win and their leader [Gilrandir] goes over to the lich.

This is where I ended up going 'bwah' [because I had back story and dialogue prepared for this] - because the lich looks at this elf priest and +actually+ said, "So you've got a mace of disruption. Well, I've got a head. What are you waiting for?"

[The lich's curse didn't allow him to NOT dodge, but Gil still did manage to hit = and he succeeded in the disruption.]