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Message: <blockquote data-quote="firehorse" data-source="post: 3479823" data-attributes="member: 10399">The group found a 10' thick wall of ice plugging the entrance to the main hall.  Grendl relayed to the party at this point that he had heard from the kitchen slaves that the giants were going to feed an old dwarf to the dragon after dinner.  Deciding to burrow through the ice until only a thin sheet remained so that they could time their entrance with the delivery of the old dwarf, the party cast a Silence spell on Snizzlefritz the dire badger to keep his activities quite while he dug.Shortly after the digging was done, the giant chieftain could be heard entering the hall and depositing the old dwarf before going to bed.  The party melted the rest of the ice at this point to find a thick fog enveloping the old dwarf.  Fleck burst into the room intent on putting a stone cage he had fashioned and shrunk in the caverns around the dwarf and himself before the dragon could swoop in and eat him.  He quickly found that the floor was covered in ice, making it slippery for walking.  Fleck and Zerash both took flight while the others made their way slowly on foot towards the old dwarf.No dragon appeared for quite a while, even after Fleck dispelled the first fog cloud it had created.  It was shortly apparent that the dragon was waiting for the group to reach the old dwarf so it could create another fog cloud and use its ventriloquism spell to confuse its opponents and attack from the air with its breath weapon.  After the second fog was foiled by Fleck, the dragon cast its third fog cloud and attacked Zerash, who was hovering outside the cloud.  Using ventroliquism to distract Zerash, the dragon attacked viscously from behind and on its second pass, although being hurt by a blade barrier trap sprung by Zerash, was able to grab Zerash in one of its claws and clench him closely to its belly, face outward.  Dragging the helpless Zerash far above the hall floor, the dragon tore into Zerash mercilessly with its hind claws.  The party, now able to see with the combined winds from the hovering dragon and a clever use of telekinesis and a sheet by Fleck dissipating the fog cloud, could only watch helplessly as it seemed their saurian friend would soon meet his diety.Zerash's new juvenile dragon companion, Xinthandir, came to Zerash's rescue and, although unable to do any real damage, was able to distract the dragon enough for Zerash to escape.  Both Xinthandir and Zerash plunged to the ground as the large dragon now started to tear mercilessly into the smaller dragon.As soon as the large dragon landed, Fleck cast a Wall of Force over its head to prevent it from flying.  Now the party was in its element as the combined efforts of Zerash, Drack and Grendl tore the dragon to pieces in short order.Somewhat beaten and bloody, the party now faces an icy chamber with a crevice high above, obviously the dragon's roost, a carcass of a huge dragon on the floor lying in its own entrails and with a ring on one claw, and an old dwarf, somewhat recovered from the dragon's ability to strike fear into its enemies hearts.((1200 xp each, searching the dragon and its roost reveals: 3000 gp, 20000 sp, 12 diamonds worth 1000 gp each, a ring, and an intricately carved scabbard.))</blockquote>

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