The goal was to find out if the minion was killed at then end of the monologue, since the party has been invested in thinking that the minion was the BBEG.
Well that didn’t go as planned.
Edit: Apparently posting images is down at the moment, so had to troubleshoot.
The idea is that the party was seeing the event as a remote viewing… the minion was the person that they ‘thought’ was the BBEG until his boss showed up. The idea was that they were going to watch him get beat down while the boss was monologuing and only at the end it didn’t matter if he lived or died. I was really trying to ratchet up the bosses evil meter. I had measured out the rolls so that there would have been a 50/50 shot of him being dead on the 3rd roll, but crit’d the 2nd roll.