OK, what I have is my main guy, Marcus, is locked in a cage in a Thalmor prison by my main antagonist Aerandil. The player has to escort my 3rd guy Valerius to the prison. Valerius must give himself up as ransom to free Marcus. So you enter the prison and I have a little scene where Aerandil taunts Valerius into attacking him. In the scene I currently have I used a UseWeapon package for Valerius to attack Aerandin, and in the next phase I have a UseMagic package on Aerandil for him to cast a Paralyze spell targeted at Valerius. All of that is currently working (sort of) but I'm wondering if there is a better way to initiate the combat and have Aerandil use his Paralyze spell outside of doing it in a scene?

The problem I'm running into is that once he is hit with the Paralyze spell, I need Valerius to STAY down from there on out. The premise is that it's also a life draining spell that will kill him in a minute or two. But after he's down, the rest of the guards attack and the player has to kill them all and release Marcus from the cell. Marcus will then go to Valerius for their final words and Valerius dies.

I think I have most everything figured out other than the initial combat start between Val and Aerandil and how to keep Valerius on the ground once he's down.

How would you guys go about this? Thanks!