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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goddess FallenAngel" data-source="post: 3063955" data-attributes="member: 11434">SHORT FORM1. Yup. Name of Vashinekerim2. Great Wyrm Silver, Alignment: CE (see long form)3. Rather a surprise, we thought we were going after a white4. Chief villain5. Sort of...LONG FORMIt was a high-level campaign in 2nd Ed AD&D Forgotten Realms. We were, oh, 15th level or so. We were looking for an artifact – a set of ancient swords which was required to fulfill a prophecy and save the world from Tiamat and her consorts. So, it was (at least in the main part), a dragon-hunting campaign.We tracked down one of the swords in the lair of a white up near the Great Glacier. On the way, we ran into a couple of silver dragons (in human form) who were looking for their uncle and mentor, respectively. He had apparently vanished with his hoard about 3 months ago. We promised to keep a lookout for him (they were working for the Church of Bahamut, like we were) and let them know if we heard any rumors.We reached the Great Glacier and talked to the local tribes to try to get more info. We heard that the dragon that used to reside there had recently been in a battle with a larger dragon – also white-ish in color (these were peasants; they had no clue about different dragon colors, just knew both were light white-ish. Whites turn almost light grey with age, so the confused reports and the distance they were seen at made us think they were both white). The tribe didn’t know who had won, but the battle had been about 2 months ago.We didn’t much care. After all, we were prepared for a white dragon. One is as good as another. Whomever won would still probably have the sword in his hoard.So, we tromped up there and snuck into the lair… only to find a silver (wearing a very ostentatious crown). We were startled, but tried to converse with him. It didn’t work. We ended up fighting him… totally unprepared, as silvers have different weaknesses than whites.We did manage to drop him to negative hit points finally… (with much damage to the party). That’s when his contingency kicked in and he teleported away.We got the sword, and hoping he had died, went back to get healed/raised/etc. We stored our shares of the hoard in the town we were using for a base of operations.A month later in campaign-time, that town was attacked and razed to the ground. We did a divination and found that it was a great wyrm silver dracolich.Uh-oh….Unfortunately, after that the DM moved and we couldn’t continue the game. He has said that Vash would have been a reoccurring villain, though. Basically, he had accepted a ‘gift’ from a group of ‘adventurers’. They were actually members of the Cult of the Dragon, and it was a custom Helm of Opposite Alignment. After it had a chance to work, they came back and tried to deal with Vash, but he wasn’t interested yet. The helm apparently also had a contingency that would teleport him to their lair when he was dying, thus why he vanished after we defeated him. They made their offer again, and this time he accepted... and came after us for revenge.</blockquote>

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