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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1328147" data-attributes="member: 5171">PS: Possible note from RBDM... how does time work on the plane of shadow?  What if the Shadow Dragon had an artifact that caused time to work differently... say, for each round they spend in the lair, a day passes in the outside world.  The ticking time bomb becomes a much, uh, loomier threat when instead of "Yeah, we'll go back and fight, heal ourselves the day after, and have only lost one day... not even that, if we can heal and still teleport."Note: The dragon could be using this in combination with other artifacts that gather energy from dying creatures.  The artifacts are planted in graveyards, and the dragon is siphoning off the energy to grow stronger.  It's taking too long, though, so he used the time-artifact to slow down time in his lair, so that he can sit around and plan and scheme and let the energy gather a lot more quickly, from his point of view.  He doesn't have any long-term plans.  He just wants to get powerful enough to evolve into something nastier.Killing the dragon is still a perfectly viable option, of course (the complaints about them not having the In-Char knowledge to know all Shadow Dragon weaknesses notwithstanding), but it's now just a wee bit more risky.</blockquote>