While Ganeth retrained at the Wind Temple, Silvana made a trip to the grey-elven forest and picked up a batch of special leaves to use as a basis for G's new body. Though she'd taken the precaution of working through live grey elves and keeping Plant Dude out of the loop, Nomistrus' true seeing still spotted some Chaotic Neutral leaves with a Haj-like signature in the pile. Naturally, these were weeded out, and by the time Ganeth had returned from the Icelands, the Crystal Cocoon, the special snows, and the inspected leaves were all ready to go.
After making still another save (despite a big penalty), Ganeth managed to lie down in the holy sludge. As he was doing this, Silvana and Beeel saw strange flames appearing in his eyes, and just before G dipped his head into the muck, a double-barreled black/red fiery gaze attack (with astral projection) shot out at Silvana (who MRed it). Beeel got the cocoon's lid down, but the astral flames grew brighter and spilled out through the cocoon.
The creature was still somehow attached to Ganeth, and he realized he could exert some influence over its actions, provided he didn't try to make it do anything too obviously stupid. (G's side of the will vs. will battle was based on a d20 roll modified by his level and reaction adjustment.) He decided that having appendages appearing for a segment and then vanishing was not a good thing, so he coaxed the creature into fully materializing (to press the prey, naturally).
The creature manifested as a red/black scorpion surrounded by flames, attacking with four pincers and two stingers. Eyes randomly appeared and shifted around on its head, but no gaze attacks were forthcoming. (Rahul later revealed that the creature needed a full turn to warm up its heavy-duty gaze of ultimate doom.)
After hearing some claws bounce off Silvana's stoneskins, Ganeth's next suggestion was to focus on Silvana's head (it's unarmored, right?), figuring the -8 called shot plus the stacked magical protections would extend Silvana's stoneskins. Unfortunately, by the time the suggestion had taken hold, the creature's other claws had MRed the stoneskins and one of the pincers had sliced off Beeel's arm...
Eventually the heroes did enough damage to knock the creature unconscious. Silvana used a dispel evil and got rid of a scorpion and the fire shield, leaving another creature lying there with its funky eyeballs. Beeel and Silvana outpaced its regen and drove it incorporeal, and Nomistrus sucked the creatures' energies (dark astral fire) into a special bottle (smoked glass with silver and cold iron bands, activated with an abjure).
About half an hour later, the holy water burned Ganeth down to 0 hp, and he made one last penalty save to stop himself from bolting. Nomistrus handed Silvana a long crystal rod and told her to focus on it while stirring the slush. It drained away her priest spells (but not the mage spells transferred from Stealth), and G's body broke into little chunks. Oddly, G remained conscious through the process, though he passed into a meditative state of mind.
The next day, Silvana finished dissolving Ganeth's body into random organic goo, and Nomistrus reattached Beeel's arm. A week passed without further incident, and Beeel was released from inner sanctum guard detail.
Ganeth's regrowth is expected to take about 18 weeks, giving the rest of the party lots of time to get into trouble...