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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bob Aberton" data-source="post: 245598" data-attributes="member: 1518">Adventurers are so annoying, aren't they?I mean, not only do they try to sneak off with one's hard earned retirement money (cant keep raiding forever, can I?), but, worse still, they get bleed everywhere .  I mean to say, if they're going to go through all the trouble of breaking into my lair so I can kill them, they could at least have the decency not to get blood all over my cave...When I count my treasure, I generally take the coins and gems out of the chests.Then, when I hear of adventurers coming near, I fill the chests with, yes, you guessed it, STIRGES!! Just as heavy as gold, and its soo funny when they open the chest, I laugh just imagining it.  About 5 or 6 stirges to a chest, and about 10 to a bag is about right...Then, of course, in my real lair, I have a pool of water, which I breath in to fill the room with steam.  This has the advantage of blinding the adventurers and burning them as well.Naturally that dragon sleeping there isn't the real me...it's just an illusion.  The real me awaits in the darkness of the cavern ceiling, so I can surprise them.And the final touch?  Well, its one I'm very proud of.  The gold is all in loose coins and gems, you see.  This reduces movement to one quarter, and it is so funny to watch the pathetic "dragonslayers" slipping and stumbling over the coins, blundering through the steam in an attempt to reach the illusionary me, while the real me waits up in the roof of the cavern, to blast and burn them.  Regrettably, most adventurers have the idea that they are better flyers than me.  Fortunately, I have a magic of my own that is able to dispell other caster's magics...I always place a couple such traps on the ceiling, just in case, and I can always cast more.  When the adventurer's finally manage to get to the illusionary me, I swoop down, snatch one in my jaws, breath on him, and fling him away.  I generally save this treat for the wizard.  This is usually enough to kill any weakling mages...Then, using my breath, I melt the gold coins.  Such a waste, but I can always break them apart again when they are cool...and is hilarious to see the 'dragonslayers' drowning and burning as they fall into the gold.From there, it is a straight on fight to the finish, although if I am loosing badly, I have 20 or 30 escape routes known only to me...and my children and wife always wait in the next room.</blockquote>

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