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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JustKim" data-source="post: 3062750" data-attributes="member: 5478">My favorite aspect of D&D is the monsters. My favorite monsters are dragons. I use dragons often, and I put a lot of love into every one. Out of probably a hundred different varieties of dragon I have, I have always had a fondness for blue dragons. My most recent blue dragon was Cacocoruscate, a mere hatchling who the PCs first met in their very first adventure. The PCs slew Cacocoruscate's brothers, but these things happen and she was willing to overlook that. It helped that she knew where her brothers' hoards were. Unfortunately for the PCs, they took a piece of Cacocoruscate's treasure as insurance and broke their promise to return it.The PCs traveled hundreds of miles and amassed a dozen levels. They acquired a castle, wooed the local nobility and laid down their roots. They hired enough guards and soldiers to shoot a flight of dragons out of the sky. Cacocoruscate didn't stand a chance against them, but the people of their village were easy prey.Cacocoruscate spied on the PCs for months, watching who in the village they met with and who they befriended. She targeted an old gypsy leader named Branek, who looked after the sick younger brother of a PC. One night while the old man was watching the livestock, Cacocoruscate imitated the sound of a stray sheep to lure him away from camp and subdue him in the hills.She lamed the old man and took him to a disused gallows at a forgotten crossroads, and tied him there with a complicated array of ropes, weights and traps. When Branek was too hoarse from calling for help to warn the PCs, she left an easy trail for them to follow.The PCs were there that evening, nose studiously to the ground observing where Cacocoruscate had pressed Branek's shoes into the soil. When they found the gallows, they gathered around to cut Branek down, literally racing one another to be the one who rescued him.Cacocoruscate burrowed up from the ground and breathed a bolt of lightning through Branek, through the ropes, and through a couple of PCs for minimal damage. They yawned.Then the ropes burned through, and a chain reaction was started. The unraveling framework of Cacocoruscate's trap filled the area with blinding fog, flying blades and rolling cabers. Old Branek was launched into the air. Out of the fog and over the chorus of PCs running around, waving their arms and attacking inanimate objects, Cacocoruscate snatched up the old man and flew with him into the hills.While the PCs emerged from the fog, Cacocoruscate came blazing back through, breathing lightning on the weakest members and sending the spellcasters on the defensive. The archer got some good hits in, and Cacocoruscate landed to reveal her secret weapon: a shard of the Mirror of Opposition, a single-charged relic otherwise identical to the game-breaking magic item of the same name.Cacocoruscate stood boldly with the cloth-wrapped bundle of the shard as the party descended on her. They knew of the Mirror's power and how to avoid its effects, so she would have to wait until they were close. She held an action to activate the shard when the barbarian came within range, and when he did, Cacocoruscate threw aside the cloth, confronted the hulking half-orc with his reflection, and mouthed the command word..Nothing happened. Another PC had cast silence on a rock at Cacocoruscate's feet just before the barbarian's action. Dumb luck had prevented her from speaking the command word. Cacocoruscate tried to retreat, but she had made a grave error. In another six seconds she was a pair of dragonscale boots waiting to be made.Cacocoruscate did get her revenge, however. The PCs later used the shard against a BBEG who was a good queen possessed by an evil spirit. The shard duplicated the one whose reflection it bore- the good queen- and inadvertantly doubled their handful when a second evil queen arrived on the scene. It was very nearly a TPK.</blockquote>

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