So I got to thinking and thought I would ask. If you grab the skull early, opening up the way to Zuggy, and kill her without finishing the Temple or the Nodes, can you then go back to finish them?
Yes, as long as you are using Co8 or Temple+ extra content (ie. Verbonc). But...iirc some stuff will be change when Zuggy is killed, such as 4th level Hedrack (and battle) is gone. The nodes don't change at all. ________________ Edit: I can't remember if the factions also abandon the temple. Maybe. It might have been that the only mobs left are those not affiliated with a faction.
I did indeed mean Nodes, but I guess my inner child decided to thumb its nose at that idea. Good point about Hedrack and the possible Iuz beat down.