Boneclaw, the Lich That Gets Hands-On

I put my Eberron campaign on hold until the holidays are over. In the meantime I offered my players a casual, no strings attached, campaign of epic fantasy set in Theros. Last week they encountered their first villain, a boneclaw named Polocho.

Polocho made his debut when his master, his former apprentice, blew up the PCs with a glyph of fireball. While they were tying up the kid, Polocho walked his bone claws out of a window of the adjacent building and grabbed the cleric and wizard. Then he shadow jumped to the building across the street, giving the wizard several new holes. By the time the party reached him, Polocho just dropped the wizard off the building, teleported again, and ran off, daintily picking up his master along the way.

My players, being the masochists that they are, loved this. Now they are torn between giving a fruitless chase, investigate the burning mage's house, or cheese it since the guards are on the way.