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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3605096" data-attributes="member: 3448">[Session 3][I joined this session late, so I only have basic information about our travel into the Shadowlands.  The party consisted of Spring, Durak, and Cilorean, with Konrad joining partway through.  The party was given two ounces of bone water dust, an extremely powerful dessicant that kills almost instantly.  The Hasturs make it a grain at a time, using the resources of entire circles, so the amount we were given represented a substantial investment of psionic resources in our group.  We were also given a barrel of skin, in case we needed it.  Our mission was to head across Caldefor to one of the dragonholds that the Shadow uses to secure its side of the Shadowline and to use the bone water dust to destroy the army at the dragonhold.  By the time I got to this session, we had reached the dragonhold and were hiding in a rope trick, while Spring scouted the enemy army (using his undead status as cover.)  We had previously learned of a lord named Bastion, who held a manor near the coast of Caldefor.  Lord Bastion was a vampire who had served the Grand Count of Caldefor before the invasion and continued to serve the Grand Count as a minion of Shadow after the invasion.]As we peered out at the enemy army, we saw a wide range of different troops.  There were a large number of eums; many undead--mostly unintelligent, but with a handful of free-willed undead as leaders; many demons, ranging from the relatively insignificant rutterkin up to some powerful demons; a host of trueborn, although fewer of them than the other major components of the army; and a tribe of goblyns, although they were camped up on a nearby hill instead of with the army proper.  And, of course, there were the dragon caves:  six great caves leading into the face of the hill.  Taken as a whole, the army would be far beyond our capabilities if we did not have the bone water dust.After an extended period scouting, Spring returned to the rope trick and reported to Sergeant Cilorean.  He had been within the dragon caves themselves.  While six black dragons, including a wyrm, made their lairs within the complex, only one dragon was currently present.  She seemed to be a scholarly sort, more interested in studying her scrolls than in leading the army.  The dragon was also freakishly meticulous--a trait all the more unusual in a servitor of chaos.  Moreover, while the absence of the wyrm lowered the value of our target, it greatly increased our likelihood of success.  Spring also reported that the dragon caves contained a black eum with strange silver tracery on its chest.  That eum spotted him and had almost created a serious problem, although ultimately it did not.I explained based on my studies that the black eum was probably one of the eums with a direct connection to Gnnnnst.  Most such eums are powerful witchdoctors.  He would certainly be another threat for us to watch.</blockquote>

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