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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3975422" data-attributes="member: 3448">The following day, we entered  the area immediately around the dragonhold.  We noted many undead, and small groups of black eums marching in tight military groups, armed with bronze weapons.  They paid us no attention at all.  A few of them looked us over, but after one glance at the undead with us, they ignored us.  We continued marching in to the dragonhold.  About mid-day, we approached the fortification.This dragonhold was more massive and more heavily developed than Dragonhold Clawfast had been.  The hold itself was built of huge stones, many cemented in place, with battlements, an enormous gate, desultory groups of slaves, and small groups of black eums here and there.  They also had some preparations for defensive alerts, including a gong system to alert the keep during an attack.  In addition to the more usual creatures of chaos, Sideh spotted a group of things that at first glance he takes to be rills, simple little waves in the dust, but one of them moved directly against the wind.  He pointed them out, and we all stared carefully, eventually identifying three total and agreeing that they were clearly acting as entities, not natural phenomena.  Our best estimate was that they were small corrupted elementals-- more likely a sign that the dimensional walls are starting to break down, rather than actual servants of the dragon.  We carefully planned a route to avoid them.  By the time we circumvented them, it is clear that the eum patrols also avoid them.As we approached the fortification, we noticed another difference from Dragonhold Clawfast.  There were no masses of weak creatures:  a few goblyns, but not any meaningful number, and no trueborn or pureblood at all.  In fact, the undead may be the most significant armed force, with orders of magnitude more than at other dragonholds.  Many of the undead were intelligent; they seemed to assume that Spring was a specter, and they deferred to his precedence.  Out of the army of undead as a whole, we identified mostly skeletons, greater skeletons, and monster skeletons, with a small number of specters.  There were regrettably few zombies, ghouls, or other flesh-based undead, rendering our bonewater dust largely useless.We also saw a small band of lamia, with a priestess wearing a headdress and led by a huge woman on a large horse, heading off to the northwest.  This could only be a chaos champion and her warband-- more than we could likely handle, and in any event not part of our objective.  We found an area sheltered by a small hill, mostly out of view, and huddled to plan.[End Session 4]Since this is a short post, here's a bonus sidebar on eums:</blockquote>

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