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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 466625" data-attributes="member: 463">Into the Dosk HeightsAt the ruins of Dendridi Village the party rendezvoused with the Avorrals, who had tracked Wormscather to a volcanic cavern high in the Dosk Heights. From there they headed south-east up a steep glen, camping at the entrance of Vorloth's dungeon. Entering the high mountains Xyzzy, Lilliana, Orstadt and one Avorral flew on towards the dragon's lair, while the other Avorral returned to Dendridi with the horses and Ori's corpse, and the remainder of the party trudged on afoot through the mountains, entering a sinister valley of bones. The flying party spotted great Snow Eagles in the distance, which came close to inspect them, then a pair of wyverns attacked from out of the setting sun. Xyzzy and co fled down into the clouds below. The wyverns followed, but one, was blasted by cold-cone and lightning bolt, swiftly slain, the other disappearing into the murk. Eventually they reached the ice plain before the dragon's lair, and camped there within an igloo. The foot party passed a dark cave, reached the Giant's Head Bluff beyond the valley of bones, then fought and killed two trolls that sought to make a meal of them before rendezvousing with the second Avorral. Looting the cave they took the trolls' treasure. A week's hard travel through the snowy mountains followed, rarely making more than five miles a day. Up perilous cliffs, along narrow paths and across glacial plains they trekked. The Thrinian cleric Erlin was lost crossing an ice crevasse, but eventually the rest of the party reached the glacier beyond which lay the mountain of the dragon. Negotiating their way past a hill giant and his goblin hunters, they approached the igloo of Xyzzy and co, but spotted four strange shaggy-pelted white forms on the ice around it. Aos went forward and attempted to negotiate with them, but the Yetis charged forward and attacked, badly wounding him as he tried to flee. Things might have gone badly for him, but Lorne struck swiftly from behind, killing three of the beasts with deadly blows, while Sigurd ran forward to dispatch the last, and Xyzzy, emerging from the igloo, blasted it with magical bolts. The party rested overnight in the expanded igloo, and the spellcasters prepared their magic for next day's battle... *Ribbit*From the dragon's cave, a hundred feet above the ice plain, a clear stream tumbled down the cliffside into a pool of unfrozen water upon the ice. Xyzzy magically transported some of the group up to the cave, while the others climbed up more laboriously. Lilliana summoned a celestial lion and sent it ahead. Reaching the end of the tunnel it immediately activated the dragon's Shrieker fungi around a pool, beneath a 30' cliff. Xyzzy, heavily warded, proceeded down the cave, and the dragon's fiery breath blasted him from a lava-tunnel atop the cliff. The fire enveloped him but left him unharmed. The party advanced to do battle, the Avorrals dispelling the dragon's protective wards while the warriors attempted to climb the cliff. Wormscather quickly killed one Avorral then took flight, great wings buffeting Orstadt as it swooped past, heading out of the cavern. Orstadt wheeled and swiftly shot off two 'polymorph' spells. Somehow the second spell penetrated the dragon's innate resistance - and suddenly a very annoyed frog plummeted down the cliffside to the ice plain 100' below! The party followed swiftly, Aos executing a flashy dive into the pool, within which the dragon-frog had taken refuge. The group were unwilling to let it go. After much debate, Xyzzy hit upon a brilliant plan - while 'detect magic' revealed the frog's location at the bottom of the pool, a simple 'mage hand' spell levitated it from the depths, and held it helpless while the warriors dispatched the foe. Dying, Wormscather returned to dragon form, crumpled upon the ice. The party had triumphed.</blockquote>

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