Man, I wish things had gone for that one extra round. Then everyone would have gotten to participate, and the demi-lich itself would have been less crap-your-pants scary. Alas, the timing of combat is impossible to predict. :/

This is the second campaign I've been in where we've gone epic (I think the Guardians now official count because our ECL is two levels higher?), and I would *not* want to run this kind of combat myself.