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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 200909" data-attributes="member: 114">At last an update!Nearly half a mile away, Dala and Syl see what looks like half a mountain side of snow hurtling down the valley towards them. They scramble for cover and avoid most of the damage. Then they set off across the fresh snowfield to the lip of lovers look, to find their buried comerades.As they near the location, they hear a familiar sound – the rising shout of K’tans concussion power, and a fountain of compacted snow blowing away from him. They help dig the others out, and after some rudimentary first aid they look over the cave mouth – now blocked with snow. Dala whips out his burning hands wand and starts to carve a way through the snow, whilst the others stand back. After a few rounds he is through, and beyond the cave is an icy, sparkly wonderland.As a preparation, Dala gets out a scroll of Fire Shield, and tries to cast it upon Trajan. Much to his surprise, he finds himself wreathed in warm orange flames! Hesitantly, they step forward… K’tan and Syl bring up the rear, while Anne-Marie, Lysander and Trajan press forward, and Dala angles to the side. He is the only one who is keeping on his feet in the icy cavern, as the others are slipping and sliding as if the floor had been greased.Rounding the corner first, Lysander sees the dragon waiting – and a cone of freezing breath engulfs him. He decides to press an attack forward towards the dragon, while Annee-Marie helps Trajan to his feet and attempts to gain a flanking position. Dala catches the dragon in a blast of lightning, then starts to pepper it with magic missiles.The action is fast and furious. Trajan attempts to get around the side of the dragon and is caught a mighty blow by its tail, and is smashed to the ground, bleeding. Lysander cuts the dragon badly but in return faces a full attack for his troubles, and the whirl of claws, wings and teeth hurts him badly – he decides that he can’t back down from it and remains toe to toe with the young adult dragon, cutting it twice more. The dragon then takes advantage of its tremendous natural weaponry  and putting additional power into its attacks the two claws rip away the last of Lysanders vitality and one wing slashes around and gashes his neck – Lysander falls to the ground dying.Meanwhile Syl is attempting to creep around to Trajans body, to stop him bleeding to death, and Dala and K’tan continue to pour magical power towards the dragon, who decides that those magic missiles are just a bit too stinging, particularly in its current wounded state. The dragon charges towards Dala who makes a futile attempt to dodge, and its jaws close on his arm – and the resulting fiery backlash from the fire shield strips the skin from the dragons face and boils its eyes in their sockets!A few seconds a spent surveying the carnage in the cavern – blood and draconic bile mingled everywhere – then the effort to keep Trajan and Lysander alive kicks into action. Fortunately both survived killing blows by the grace of Asura, and the party huddle together around a fire near the mouth of the cavern to watch the final rays of sunset shine along the gorge. Making every effort to keep the wounded warm and alive, a fitful night is passed, and refreshed in the morning both Jazumai call upon the power of their god to heal the worst of everyones wounds before the party slowly and carefully make their way back to the village with their trophies of war. – the skull of the white dragon and the odds and ends which were found in its meagre hoard… some of which lead to surprising conclusions...</blockquote>

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