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<blockquote data-quote="Noltelix" data-source="post: 2366536" data-attributes="member: 32952"><p><strong>A Dragon's Humiliation</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span style="color: DarkRed">Rabirius, A Dragon's Humiliation</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span style="color: DarkRed">We have gone to the moathouse just north of town to investigate the suspected cult presence in the area. Our questions regarding Villaeus were answered when we found him in the jail of Duvik's Pass (again). I helped him escape, but I don't think we'll be seeing much more of him until we return to Kerrak, if then.</span></span></p><p></p><p>Our investigation of the mill proved fruitfull. We managed to take one prisoner as well as confiscate a note implicating the moathouse as a hideout for cultists. Unfortunately the mill caught fire during our operation and though it was contained, much of the town's supplies went up in the blaze. While interrogations were underway, we discovered the perpetrator to be something more then human (a tiefling), using masking magics to maintain a facade of normalcy. It was then, in the jail, that we found and freed Villaeus (I turned him into a mouse and carried him out). The Tiefling gave up little information, except for informing us of our pending consumption by the Elemental Elder Eye, so we set out to check out the moathouse.</p><p></p><p>Firanus recruited a Hellic knight to aid our cause (he could do much to aid his own cause by putting down the bottle). Without Villaeus, an extra sword arm was a welcome sight to my eyes, so I was glad to have him along. We set out for the moathouse but stopped about a mile short as night fell, thinking to rest and regain our strength before tackling the crumbling keep. Our night was anything but peaceful, though, as before too many hours had passed we were beset by a most fearsome creature. Baying a frightful howl as it flew nearer, the majority of my companions forgot themselves and fled the beast, leaving myself and Firanus alone with the monster. The Yeth Hound (Firanus later identified it for us) landed in our camp and went straight for Firanus, scoring a direct hit and knocking my friend to the ground. next he came to me and though I managed to get a spell off (my most potent damaging spell, Thundering Palm), the crazed hound was undaunted, biting fiercely at my ankles and tripping me up as well. Firanus was slow to get up and I tried desperately to squirm away from the thing, fearing this may be my end, trying and failing several time to get another spell completed to fight back (it had little trouble hitting me and was making spellcasting rather difficult for me). I finally hit it, clearly wounding it badly and Firanus was at last up, waving his Ranseur about wildly trying to hit the thing to finish it. He missed several times, finally managing to sink the heavy blade deep into flesh...MY FESH! It seems I am perpetually the target of my own companions as well as my enemies. The last thing I saw was a flash of fire as Firanu's charged weapon exploded into my stomache. I drifted into unconsciousness fully expecting not to come back and wondering why the stupid mage hadn't dropped his damn ranseur and simply blasted the beast with one of his Firebolts, which surely would have finished it many seconds earlier (and kept me alive as well).</p><p></p><p>When i awoke to the tending of Shane I was amazed to hear that tho I had lost consciousness, I had managed to hold onto some measure of life. Luckily he easily healed me (I did not need to be raised). When I looked across the camp at the body of the Yeth Hound (with evidence of severe frost burn on its back), I saw under it the body of Firanus and easily guessed how he had met his end, figuring as well that Shane had returned to finish the monster just as it was finishing off Firanus. As has become the standard, we gathered what belongings we could, and used a portion of Firanus' pocket money and used the combined worth to reincarnate him. Just like Villaeus, he came back as a human (we have been getting quite lucky with that spell). We moved off the road and spent to rest of the night in relative peace, though we were all a bit shaken. In the morning, we found on our way to the keep an old man, who warned us of a dragon (the size of a warhorse) who had taken up residence in the place. Thusly warned, as we neared we prepared to face such a creature as best we could. I cast a spell of courage over the party (in case the dragon prove too fearsome for anyones nerves as had the Yeth Hound), as well as enchanting Shane's bow with the power of wind (so that he might save his spells for healing).</p><p></p><p>It did not take us long to locate the monster. We found it inside the central building, up in the rafters of the roof. I quickly cast a spell of elemental protection on myself, and spread out from the group, thinking to draw the dragon's breath weapon my way. The dragon, Ushetramon by name we found out, moved quickly to attack the knight of Helios that had accompanied us, dispatching him in only a few quick seconds. I pounded him with a particularly powerful Vortex, turning the beast’s eyes my way. He loosed a crackling bolt of electricity, which was absorbed by my energy buffer, confounding the dragon. His frustration was furthered when his attacks against Shane were foiled by the patented “Shane Shield 2.0”. We brought the dragon too its knees, prompting it to beg for mercy which we granted, and allowed it to slither off in disgrace. The knight of Helios was raised (predominantly with his own equipment), but without his arms and armor, he was not the most useful party member.</p><p></p><p>The way clear, we descended into the lower corridors of the complex, encountering 2 gnoll guards from which we learned some things about the dungeon. We found a hiding mage in a side room who explained a bit more about the makeup of the dungeon (the clerics of the Elemental All Seeing Eye being holed up due to the dragon). Judging the room to be safe (the mage had been hiding for several days), we decided to rest there. In the morning the knight of Helios left for Duvik’s Pass with the mage and the rest of us continued onward into the depths of the moathouse.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span style="color: DarkRed"> - Rabirius, entry the Fifth</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Noltelix, post: 2366536, member: 32952"] [b]A Dragon's Humiliation[/b] [FONT=Book Antiqua][COLOR=DarkRed]Rabirius, A Dragon's Humiliation[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Book Antiqua][COLOR=DarkRed]We have gone to the moathouse just north of town to investigate the suspected cult presence in the area. Our questions regarding Villaeus were answered when we found him in the jail of Duvik's Pass (again). I helped him escape, but I don't think we'll be seeing much more of him until we return to Kerrak, if then.[/COLOR][/FONT] Our investigation of the mill proved fruitfull. We managed to take one prisoner as well as confiscate a note implicating the moathouse as a hideout for cultists. Unfortunately the mill caught fire during our operation and though it was contained, much of the town's supplies went up in the blaze. While interrogations were underway, we discovered the perpetrator to be something more then human (a tiefling), using masking magics to maintain a facade of normalcy. It was then, in the jail, that we found and freed Villaeus (I turned him into a mouse and carried him out). The Tiefling gave up little information, except for informing us of our pending consumption by the Elemental Elder Eye, so we set out to check out the moathouse. Firanus recruited a Hellic knight to aid our cause (he could do much to aid his own cause by putting down the bottle). Without Villaeus, an extra sword arm was a welcome sight to my eyes, so I was glad to have him along. We set out for the moathouse but stopped about a mile short as night fell, thinking to rest and regain our strength before tackling the crumbling keep. Our night was anything but peaceful, though, as before too many hours had passed we were beset by a most fearsome creature. Baying a frightful howl as it flew nearer, the majority of my companions forgot themselves and fled the beast, leaving myself and Firanus alone with the monster. The Yeth Hound (Firanus later identified it for us) landed in our camp and went straight for Firanus, scoring a direct hit and knocking my friend to the ground. next he came to me and though I managed to get a spell off (my most potent damaging spell, Thundering Palm), the crazed hound was undaunted, biting fiercely at my ankles and tripping me up as well. Firanus was slow to get up and I tried desperately to squirm away from the thing, fearing this may be my end, trying and failing several time to get another spell completed to fight back (it had little trouble hitting me and was making spellcasting rather difficult for me). I finally hit it, clearly wounding it badly and Firanus was at last up, waving his Ranseur about wildly trying to hit the thing to finish it. He missed several times, finally managing to sink the heavy blade deep into flesh...MY FESH! It seems I am perpetually the target of my own companions as well as my enemies. The last thing I saw was a flash of fire as Firanu's charged weapon exploded into my stomache. I drifted into unconsciousness fully expecting not to come back and wondering why the stupid mage hadn't dropped his damn ranseur and simply blasted the beast with one of his Firebolts, which surely would have finished it many seconds earlier (and kept me alive as well). When i awoke to the tending of Shane I was amazed to hear that tho I had lost consciousness, I had managed to hold onto some measure of life. Luckily he easily healed me (I did not need to be raised). When I looked across the camp at the body of the Yeth Hound (with evidence of severe frost burn on its back), I saw under it the body of Firanus and easily guessed how he had met his end, figuring as well that Shane had returned to finish the monster just as it was finishing off Firanus. As has become the standard, we gathered what belongings we could, and used a portion of Firanus' pocket money and used the combined worth to reincarnate him. Just like Villaeus, he came back as a human (we have been getting quite lucky with that spell). We moved off the road and spent to rest of the night in relative peace, though we were all a bit shaken. In the morning, we found on our way to the keep an old man, who warned us of a dragon (the size of a warhorse) who had taken up residence in the place. Thusly warned, as we neared we prepared to face such a creature as best we could. I cast a spell of courage over the party (in case the dragon prove too fearsome for anyones nerves as had the Yeth Hound), as well as enchanting Shane's bow with the power of wind (so that he might save his spells for healing). It did not take us long to locate the monster. We found it inside the central building, up in the rafters of the roof. I quickly cast a spell of elemental protection on myself, and spread out from the group, thinking to draw the dragon's breath weapon my way. The dragon, Ushetramon by name we found out, moved quickly to attack the knight of Helios that had accompanied us, dispatching him in only a few quick seconds. I pounded him with a particularly powerful Vortex, turning the beast’s eyes my way. He loosed a crackling bolt of electricity, which was absorbed by my energy buffer, confounding the dragon. His frustration was furthered when his attacks against Shane were foiled by the patented “Shane Shield 2.0”. We brought the dragon too its knees, prompting it to beg for mercy which we granted, and allowed it to slither off in disgrace. The knight of Helios was raised (predominantly with his own equipment), but without his arms and armor, he was not the most useful party member. The way clear, we descended into the lower corridors of the complex, encountering 2 gnoll guards from which we learned some things about the dungeon. We found a hiding mage in a side room who explained a bit more about the makeup of the dungeon (the clerics of the Elemental All Seeing Eye being holed up due to the dragon). Judging the room to be safe (the mage had been hiding for several days), we decided to rest there. In the morning the knight of Helios left for Duvik’s Pass with the mage and the rest of us continued onward into the depths of the moathouse. [FONT=Book Antiqua][COLOR=DarkRed] - Rabirius, entry the Fifth[/COLOR][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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