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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LordVyreth" data-source="post: 1821341" data-attributes="member: 9626">Proof of PowerDespite the unusual events seen here so far, the party chose to rest in the town, and prepared to continue their journey the next day.  However, when they were getting ready to leave that morning, they had another unexpected guest.  A strange half-dragon, half-orc came running up to them.  “Wait!” he said.  “Me am Keth, from Drag…Drago…”    “Dragovigis?” Tal supplied helpfully.    “Yeah, that place.  Me heard of you getting kicked out, so me decided to leave too and help friend…friend…”  He started to say as he pointed frantically at Err.    “We just call him Err,” Danae said, realizing that Keth here was apparently suffering the same intellect loss that Err was, but to a slightly lesser degree.  But only very slightly.    “Well, we can use all the help we can get, so you’re welcome to come along,” Tal said, after Galeron and Thorrun did the standard alignment check and found him to be safe.  “But we’re going someplace very dangerous, so you might not be safe.”    Keth nodded enthusiastically.  “Me not care.  Me want to help still!”    And so, Keth joined Tal, Robin, Danae, Galeron, Thorrun, Sinael, and Err on their quest to rescue Tsine and Elayna.  However, their trip only now got dangerous, for they had to leave the protection of the Methosilang tunnels, and travel across the surface, and through orc empire territory!    The first two days, nothing uneventful happened.  However, on the third day, just as they began the day’s journey, they heard an unmistakable sound no more than a couple hundred feet above their heads.  A dragon’s roar, and by the sound of it, it was a big one!  To make it worse, they still couldn’t see it, suggesting that it was invisible.  To make things even worse still, in response to the roar, four more dragons responded to the roar, and began flying in very fast from behind nearby hills.  They were soon surrounded by an entire flight of dragons!    By the looks of, there was a white, red, black, and blue dragon, leaving only a missing green to have one dragon of each of the major chromatic dragon types.  Of course, there was still the invisible dragon to worry about, and it likely completed the set.  The party was quick to respond, especially Sinael, who used the opportunity to run and hide!      The rest of the party was a little more courageous.  Danae and Tal prepared utility magic as Keth moved up to take a defensive position, just in time for the blue to arrive.  It landed right next to Keth with a crash, and bit hard into him.  Robin started firing at the blue while Err ran up to help Keth and Thorrun started to run around the field, healing anyone who needed it.  Finally, the other dragons arrived.  The White landed and stung Err and Keth with its freezing breath, while the Black flew past Tal, taking a large chunk out of him with his teeth as he went, the Green lost his invisibility by breathing on Thorrun and Galeron, and the Red, oddly enough, remained high in the air and cast a defensive spell.  Galeron quickly healed many of the injured party members, and the party prepared for a long fight for their lives.    But the fight rather quickly proved far easier than they expected.  The red was the first to fall, which led Danae to theorize that it was actually the youngest of the dragons.  Regardless, she quickly took advantage of her massively increased powers to literally shatter a solid chunk of the creature’s body using one enhanced cone of cold.  A bit of magic from Tal and a few arrows from Robin, and it was all over for the beast.  The blue didn’t fair much better.  Though it fought well and was able to give Keth a number of serious wounds, the combined might of the hulking half-dragons, a k a ERR and Keth, was just too much, and it was cut down so fast it didn’t even have time to realize how outmatched it was and flee.    Despite losing 40% of their strength, the remaining three dragons pressed on.  The black dragon closed in to breath on the party, but by now they had mostly realized the situation and scattered, preventing the dragons from inflicting serious damage on them.  The green and white dragons landed to continue fighting their foes in the meantime.  The white dragon was the next to fall to Danae’s terrifying power of the art, as she pummeled him with four direct hits with flaming meteors.  Again, it took just a bit of help from Tal and Robin to finish it off.    Now, the dragons were truly afraid, but they chose to remain and fight for now.  The green dragon didn’t last much longer than its kin.  It was the next target of both Err and Keth, and even Sinael finally developed the courage to return to the fight and help, which he did with great success by grabbing the distracted dragon’s neck and furiously hacking at it to “slit” its throat!    This left only the black, who saw the writing on the wall and turned to leave.  It was too late, however.  Keth and Err got parting shots on the great beast as it lifted off the ground, and it was peppered with magic by Danae, Tal, and by arrows from Robin as it fled, causing it to come crashing to the ground a few hundred feet away.  The party had won, and without any serious losses, but they had to get away from the bodies and quickly, before their presence was noticed by the dead “scouting patrol.”    OOC Notes: Well, if I wanted to know how tough the party had become, this was a good way to find out.  None of the dragons were Snatch-sized, and their main goal was eliminating the threat, not carrying them off one at a time anyway.  That being said, they were all in the CR 14-17 range, and the party itself was only 17th level on average, so I thought a flight of dragons would be more of a threat.  Well, I end up catching up with the party’s actual level of power pretty soon, so don’t worry, heh.</blockquote>

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