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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3654361" data-attributes="member: 3448">I can verify the next series of events.  The glabrezou and Spring left the command tent.  Spring led them on a circuitous route through the camp, never approaching the rope trick.  He also used his incorporeal nature to lead the glabrezou literally through some of the troops.  General Asbog quickly eliminated the troops that showed insufficient alacrity in making way for him.  As they traveled through the camp, the dragon--a black dragon roughly the size of the one we saw a great bronze destroy--winged out of her cave, with the black eum flying behind her with a staff in its hands.  [When the dragon received the message, she refused to touch it, because it had been held by a ghoul, but she had a goblyn servant read it for her.  She was greatly angered by it, but thanked the ghoul for the great service it had rendered and “rewarded” it as best she could:  with a fireball that ended its accursed existence.  She then gathered up the eum, who referred to her as “aunt” and asked if a confrontation was wise, but reluctantly accompanied her, and headed out to discuss matters with the glabrezou.]The dragon greeted the glabrezou, although somewhat imperiously.  His response was most aggressive:  I believe his exact words were, “Get out of the way, you crazy old witch.  I’m on my way to do something.”She then responded in kind, insulting the general and accusing him of breaking the chain of command and trying to keep arcane spell books away from her.  Their posturing and insulting continued for some time, until finally the dragon marched up to General Asbog and slapped him across the face, drawing a fair amount of blood.  Spring flew directly upwards in response to this, getting as far away from the battle as he could as quickly as possible.  By this point, the vrock had emerged from the command tent, and four took to the air, while two remained on the ground.With a horrified expression on his face, the general called out, “You have seen this insult!  Will you allow a power of the Abyss to be insulted by this power of dirt?”  He then attacked the dragon with both claws, and the battle began in earnest.Upon hearing General Asbog’s words, the vrock began dancing, forming their circle in the air and on the ground.  The rutterkin and other lesser demons began fleeing, seeking to get as far from the battle as they could.  Meanwhile, the eum, still flying, raised its staff, apparently planning on aiding the dragon, but one of the flying vrocks broke from the circle and pounced on the eum before it could unleash any magical power.</blockquote>

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